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By the way so are the elephants https://t.co/Ew7tPTtctn

Now have a look at the figurine again... Is this really just a figurine of an ordinary woman with an extraordinary large "V", or is this a depiction of a fertile land between two great rivers? A "fertile mother earth"...

Dragon of a fire breathing variety, is just "an old snake", just a "snake that has looked at the sun for a long time"...Dragon is basically just a symbol of the late summer, the hottest and (usually) driest part of the year, the time of droughts...

Thread: In which I would like to again point at things hidden in plain sight...Around 435 BC, Greek sculptor Phidias made a giant seated statue of the sky and thunder god Zeus for the Temple of Zeus in Olympia...

So what about Samantabhadra's symbols? He rides on a white elephant...Guess who else rides on a white elephant? Indra, the thunder and rain god...Why? Cause Indian elephants mate during Indian monsoon season...
https://t.co/4wtZQ05Mrm

Thread: Let me introduce you to Samantabhadra, a bodhisattva associated with practice and meditation...Apparently a very important dude in Buddhism, whom I only met today for the first time...

Let's have a look at the symbols associated with Samantabhadra...

Interesting right? "The Bitch Of The Gods" helps Indra (the rain god) to recover his stolen cows (euphemism for rain clouds)...

BTW, Indra rides on a white elephant. Indian elephants mating season peaks in Jul/Aug, Dog Days, peak of the monsoon season...
https://t.co/4wtZQ0nnPW

This statue, dated to 2750–2600BC, was found in the Square Temple in Tell Asmar, Iraq. Most people talk about this statue's eyes. And cool eyes they are. But to me, the statue's feet are much more interesting. Here's why (animal calendar markers 🙂): https://t.co/Q06H5jXGnU

Thread: Yesterday, while I was writing my thread about animal calendar markers in Chinese legends about the Dragon-Horse, I came across this legend, also featuring a horse as an animal calendar marker: The legend about the Silkworm Goddess with horse's head...

It goes like this:

#FolkloreThursday "When Enki set sail...against the lord a storm...arose...The waves at the bow of the boat rose to devour the lord like wolves and the waves at the stern of the boat were attacking Enki like a lion..." Eeee what? Animal calendar markers... https://t.co/LWe0Slnytn