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Ancient history, particularly the mysterious and anomalous bits
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Reminds me of Caelus gripping the zodiacal wheel. Mithras appears to be doing the same here
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Relief panel showing two baboons offering the wedjat eye to the sun god Khepri, who holds the Underworld sign
400–200 BC
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Amulet of a winged goddess Nubian
Napatan Period, reign of Piankhy (Piye)
743–712 B.C. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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ATTENTION AUTISTS

can anyone read ancient greek and pls translate this for me??
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The text is all fucked up and it’s impossible to read clearly, but the reconstruction follows something like


being in the cave; then comes forth Hermes, beloved, since he lay with her lovingly; and he becomes the herald of the gods, ageless and immortal. And with Kelainoi Poseidon unites; from them is born Lykos, whom the father settles in the Isles of the Blessed, and makes immortal. And with Teugete Zeus unites; from them
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This is about what i expected
Genealogy of the gods, isle of the blessed, poseidon, checks out
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Its a fragment of Hellanicus' lost work on Atlantis
Library of Atlantis pinned «The text is all fucked up and it’s impossible to read clearly, but the reconstruction follows something like …being in the cave; then comes forth Hermes, beloved, since he lay with her lovingly; and he becomes the herald of the gods, ageless and immortal.…»
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I always love how the people in Mayan/Aztec codices look like lil simpsons cartoon characters
Codex Boturini, the top panel depicts the Aztec/Mexica emigration away from their original island home of Aztlan in the year 1 flint
Codex Azcatitlan depicting the same emigration out of the Island homeland of Aztlan
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The Woolly & Columbian Mammoth's range at their peak
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Glycon, the snake god, Late 2nd-century statue, National History and Archeology Museum, Constanta, Romania
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Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx, Assyrian, ca. 8th century BCE