#FolkloreSunday Autumn is chestnut time! Here in #Galicia, chestnuts are closely related to veneration of the dead. For example, children make necklaces with "zonchos" (chestnuts cooked with their skin) that they wear on All Saints Day. 🎨 Artwork by Víctor Rivas.

A rosette from the Tell Brak, Eye Temple 3300-3000 BC

Good morning. Sheep in the snow. "Sheep in Winter Grass," by Arthur Koopmans

For good night. Great pic from another great hiking thread from this great account...

Just do it...Greek sling bullet, Hellenic period...

Symbols of prehistoric Mesopotamia Goff, Beatrice Laura Download Link: mega.nz/file/MNRUibSA#… #mesopotamian #hethitisch #sumerian #akkadian #assyrian #mesopotamia #babylonian #cuneiform #astronomy #akkad #semitic #languages #language #books

The Tribute of the Three Cows, the oldest treaty still in force in Europe, may have started as a sanction for supporting the invasion of the Cimbri in 125 BC labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/09/the…

Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Flock of sheep with shepherd in the snow by Anton Mauve

Just before the rains arrive to Mesopotamia, the rains that end the drought, the arrows start shooting from the sky announcing the arrival of the Sky/Rain god...: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/02/invisi…

Inanna, whose appellation was "wild cow", is "associated with cattle and particularly calves"...A depiction of the Inanna's nuptial hut as a calving hut, on a carved stone vase, from Khafajah. Why? From "The woman of the apocalypse" article: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/06/apocal…

Who's this? A vailed person sitting on a swan shaped chair... 4th quarter 6th century BC. Place of creation: Athens. Place of discovery: Tanagra. Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Louvre. collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl0…

Lion Head, 6.6 cm long, Baltic Amber, 15th-14th century BC, from the Royal Tombs of Qatna, Syria. National Museum of Damascus. Thanks to Gabriella Brusa-Zappellini for the pic and info. Good night...

Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Winter Sheep by Teresa Tanner