Why does everything we find in archaeology have to have some sort of sacred meaning? Why can't some of it just be a common doll, random bit of jewelry just because, or some assholes failed art project, or a toy? I mean are we going to find 1000's of Pikachu's across the globe in a thousand years and think the 90's-2020's were the high point of a Mouse Cult based around a Thunder god?
Forwarded from Pagan Places
Toros de Guisando
Discover this pagan place at https://paganplaces.com/places/toros-de-guisando/
#Paganism #EuropeanPaganism
Discover this pagan place at https://paganplaces.com/places/toros-de-guisando/
#Paganism #EuropeanPaganism
Forwarded from Old and New European Art and Aesthetics
Vercingetorix Throwing Down His Weapons at the Feet of Julius Caesar (1899). Lionel-Noël Royer (French, 1852-1926).
Forwarded from Old and New European Art and Aesthetics
Uranus and the Dance of the Stars (1823-1830). Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German, 1781-1841).
Hot Cross Buns are a traditional Easter Food as well as a Nursery Rhyme. They serve as a good luck charm for the remaining year and were hung especially by the Hearth or at times taken on sailing journeys for good luck. While Hot Cross Buns are now synonymous with Christian Easter, a similar cake was found in ancient Greece. It's appearance is also closer to a Solar Cross than the common Christian Cross, it also segments itself into four sections. Similar to the Equinox's and Solstices, separating out the seasons of which Ostara functions as a goddess of the Equinox. This becomes more likely when it is realized that cakes and pastries were traditional offerings at holidays such as mentioned in Solmonath by Bede or even today with Gingerbreads around Yule. -TAO
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The Saxons used to make buns decorated with crosses as offerings to their goddess Ostara at the beginning of spring. This was eventually Christianized as a Christian cross in a tale of a 12th century Anglican Monk inventing them in honor of Jesus. The bun than became popular and widespread under Queen Elizabeth I. Who banned them until Good Friday and around Christmas and Funerals as spiced cakes were considered to have magical properties and she feared their abuse.-TAO
For those who wish to try their hand, the recipe is all over the internet and seems easy enough to try. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/easy-hot-cross-buns-recipe
King Arthur Baking
Easy Hot Cross Buns
Classic hot cross buns, perfect for Easter.
Gonna try this out this year and see how well it works- TAO https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-vibrant-naturally-dyed-easter-eggs-holiday-projects-from-the-kitchn-112957
Kitchn
How to Make Natural Easter Egg Dye in Any Color (Using Things You Already Have at Home!)
Skip the food coloring and drugstore kits — and do this instead.
New Post up on Wylder Homes Project, from now on my longer lore posts will be on our blog-TAO
Forwarded from BC Neanderthal Mindset
There is an old tale goes that Herne the Hunter,
Some time a keeper here in Windsor Forest,
Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,
Walk round about an oak, with great ragg’d horns.
- The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare
Some time a keeper here in Windsor Forest,
Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,
Walk round about an oak, with great ragg’d horns.
- The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare