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
THE TRICKS OF THE FAIRY CALLED GRIM
"I walk with the owl, and make many to cry as loud as she doth hollo. Sometimes I do affright many simple people, for which some have termed me the Black Dog of Newgate. At the meetings of young men and maids I many times am, and when they are in the midst of all their good cheer, I come in, in some fearful shape, and affright them, and then carry away their good cheer, and eat it with my fellow fairies. 'Tis I that do, like a screech-owl [119]cry at sick men's windows, which makes the hearers so fearful, that they say, that the sick person cannot live. Many other ways have I to fright the simple, but the understanding man I cannot move to fear, because he knows I have no power to do hurt.
My nightly business I have told,
To play these tricks I use of old:
When candles burn both blue and dim,
Old folk will say, Here's fairy Grim.
More tricks than these I use to do:
Hereat cried Robin, Ho, ho, hoh!" - Robin Good-Fellow: His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests
"I walk with the owl, and make many to cry as loud as she doth hollo. Sometimes I do affright many simple people, for which some have termed me the Black Dog of Newgate. At the meetings of young men and maids I many times am, and when they are in the midst of all their good cheer, I come in, in some fearful shape, and affright them, and then carry away their good cheer, and eat it with my fellow fairies. 'Tis I that do, like a screech-owl [119]cry at sick men's windows, which makes the hearers so fearful, that they say, that the sick person cannot live. Many other ways have I to fright the simple, but the understanding man I cannot move to fear, because he knows I have no power to do hurt.
My nightly business I have told,
To play these tricks I use of old:
When candles burn both blue and dim,
Old folk will say, Here's fairy Grim.
More tricks than these I use to do:
Hereat cried Robin, Ho, ho, hoh!" - Robin Good-Fellow: His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests