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Ancient history, particularly the mysterious and anomalous bits
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Details of the pressblech foils used to decorate a 7th century sword scabbard found in a male burial at Gutenstein, Baden-Wurttemberg,, Germany. It depicts a were-wolf warrior of Wotan.

This is a copy held at the Landesmuseum in Stuttgart. The original was (like many other early medieval treasures) looted by the red army from Berlin in 1945 and is now held in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

Photos by Matt Bunker
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Importance of snakes in Illyrian-Albanian culture

1.Snake symbolism was confined to southern Dalmatia where illyrians lived.

Source:- The Great Illyrian Revolt: Rome's Forgotten War in the Balkans, AD 6–9
By Jason R. Abdale


2.Greeks called Illyrian folks as Serpents.

Source:-The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History, Volume 3
By Banier (M. l'abbé, Antoine)


3.There is a tale among Albanians once a person saved life of a snake in reward his father gifted him a gemstone

Source:-The Boke of Duke Huon of Burdeux: Done Into English and Printed by ..., Volume 4
By Early English Text Society


4.Albanians consider killing snakes as sin

Source:-https://news.1rj.ru/str/vigigogifigigit8g/154

@illyrianometer
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The Chemical Muse - D.C.A. Hillman.pdf
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The Chemical Muse : D. C. A. Hillman
Copper_from_Michigan_in_the_Mediterranean_20210407110047.jpg
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Evidence of North American copper used in the ancient Mediterranean
The_Immortality_Key_The_Secret_History_of_the_Religion_With_No_Name.pdf
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A solid book detailing how the ancient Greek mysteries of Eleusis almost certainly used psychedelics in their rituals, which may have influenced early Christianity.
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India and Sri Lanka Used to Be Connected By Land
https://redd.it/1lyylja
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