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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Mark O'Neill

Remember my post about the meaning of the symbol of Goatfish? Symbol for the wet season in Mesopotamia, which starts with rain, when goats mate, and ends with flood, when carps mate...

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Georgina Potter

#FolkloreThursday It is the family sagas that we hear while sitting on our parent's (grandparent's) knees that create our family roots and give us the sense of belonging...Hence Serbian expression "from knee to knee" meaning "from generation to generation"
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During the 3rd and 2nd c. BC they successfully fought Romans in the Balkans. https://t.co/2duhGtVdn3

Thread: Today I stumbled across this image with the caption "Palmer’s watercolour (1868, previously unpublished) of a two-headed bird and a stylised Frigatebird. Image: courtesy Royal Geographical Society with IBG"

It is interesting that the coat of arms of the dude whose name was "Hawk of May", had depiction of two headed hawk...A hawk couple caught in act in Apr/May, seen from below, looks like...

@RuthFCarden Irish wolfhound...

And dragon is just "an old snake", the symbol of the destructive sun's heat of the late summer which burns everything and brings drought...

https://t.co/zXL8JhuL9H

@TheOnionGoddess @TheAncientWorld Also, why is the figure standing "among lotus flowers"? This is standard depiction of lotus flowers from the period...So not sure how we can be so sure what we are looking at here?