1/2 In Egyptian #mythology, the god Gengen Wer, which translates to 'Great Honker', is a goose who laid the cosmic egg from which hatched the sun god Ra.
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2/2 The top half of the egg became the sky & the bottom the earth, separating yin and yang. As Pangu grew, he pushed them further apart. When he died, his body became parts of the earth, moon, wind and sun.
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1/2 In Chinese #mythology, chaos created a cosmic egg which was balanced with the principles of yin and yang. From this egg the hermaphrodite giant Pangu hatched.
🎨George Frederick Watts
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2/2 They circled the egg in serpent form until breaking into earth and sky. The egg hatched the hermaphrodite primeval deity Phanes, who in turn created the other gods.
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1/2 In Greek #mythology, the Orphic egg was created from the union of Chronos, (time), and Ananke, (necessity or inevitability).
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Easter eggs, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `An old Welsh story describes the eggs of the swan as being hatched by thunder and lightning, and, in common with other nationalities, the people believed that the bird sang its own dirge.
A swan's egg —because of […]
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Easter eggs, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `An old Welsh story describes the eggs of the swan as being hatched by thunder and lightning, and, in common with other nationalities, the people believed that the bird sang its own dirge.
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4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Wednesday
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🌿🪦🌿An old Welsh superstition warned against uprooting Periwinkle flowers growing on a grave - the desecrater risked being haunted by the spirit of the buried person, or plagued by terrifying dreams every night.
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Obverse of a Cotswold Cock type Iron Age coin depicting a Moon head with pellted crescents for hair, cut out by 1. Neu-Kelte from The Portable Antiquities Scheme - The Trustees of the British Museum, (FindID 621103), CC BY-SA 2.0
Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., www.cngcoins.com, Celtic Stater Armorica Moon Head, cut out by 1. Neu-Kelte, CC BY-SA 3.0
#LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The lunar standstill occurs every 18.6 years, when the moon reaches its maximum swing away from the ecliptic. While plenty of research has been done on lunar extremes at Stonehenge and Caillinish, relatively little is known about […]
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Obverse of a Cotswold Cock type Iron Age coin depicting a Moon head with pellted crescents for hair, cut out by 1. Neu-Kelte from The Portable Antiquities Scheme - The Trustees of the British Museum, (FindID 621103), CC BY-SA 2.0
Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., www.cngcoins.com, Celtic Stater Armorica Moon Head, cut out by 1. Neu-Kelte, CC BY-SA 3.0
#LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The lunar standstill occurs every 18.6 years, when the moon reaches its maximum swing away from the ecliptic.
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A cemetery in Stull, Kansas is said to contain a gateway to hell, where the Devil can enter our world twice a year, on Halloween and the spring equinox. On those days, people walking in the cemetery have reported growling noises and being grabbed by ghostly hands. #LegendaryWednesday
The Return of the Sun Serpent is a spring and autumn equinox phenomenon at Chichén Itzá, Mexico, where the illusion of a serpent appears on the El Castillo pyramid. This represents the Mayan serpent deity, Kukulcán, returning to bless either the spring planting or fall harvest. #LegendaryWednesday
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Welsh Dragons emerge from hibernation around the time of the spring equinox [Alban Eilir] after slumbering throughout the cold dark days of winter ...
🎨Keli Clark
Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, marks the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere. The symbol of the ram has been tied back to Dumuzi, the Sumerian god of fertility, agriculture, shepherds, and farmers, who spends winter in the Underworld. #LegendaryWednesday
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#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `Holme II is centred on two #oak logs laid flat. Adjacent to Holme I, the ring is dated to the same year.
For Holme II University of Aberdeen researcher Dr David Nance points to legends of ‘sacred kings’ described in […]
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Image is from the "Tacuinum Sanitatis," a medieval handbook on health.
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Newgrange is aligned with the rising sun on the Winter solstice, Carrowmore visitor centre; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#LegendaryWednesday: `Some form of religious and ritual astronomy undoubtedly played a major role in the design and location of the Irish passage-graves. Stone and chalk balls are a kind of neolithic artefact commonly found in the chambers of these monuments […]
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Newgrange is aligned with the rising sun on the Winter solstice, Carrowmore visitor centre; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#LegendaryWednesday @LegendaryWedne1: `Some form of religious and ritual astronomy undoubtedly played a major role in the design and location of the Irish passage-graves. Stone and chalk balls are a kind of neolithic artefact commonly found in the chambers of these monuments.
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#LegendaryWednesday According to #Mythology Pan is dead, however this can be refuted by his attendance at the New York Doll's Halloween show at the Waldorf Astoria, 1973. There was a riot before the Dolls hit the stage so its possible it might have been down to Pan's presence.
A Quichua ritual, where two women are standing before one another in the middle of a circle of people, one chanting one listening, while both hold a bowl that burns with coals and wheat.
Called Mushuk Nina by the Quichua of Ecuador, this Spring Equinox Festival represents the beginning of the Andean New Year, a time for purification and renewal, time to plant seeds for the future, both physically and spiritually. #LegendaryWednesday
While it looks like women doing yoga on Teotihuacán's Pyramid of the Sun, they are actually stretching their arms to the sun and asking it for energy. Each one wears white, save one in pink pants and one with a pink sweater around her neck, and all wear hats. The edge of the temple has orange tape to prevent them from falling.
At the spring equinox, Teotihuacán swells with visitors, coming to seek the old Aztec gods for health and vitality. This is an attempt to honor indigenous ancestors and their astronomical prowess: many buildings line up with the equinox exactly. #LegendaryWednesday
The rocky area around Loughcrew Cairn, showing covered in grass where rocks do not make shapes like circles or potential descents beneath the cairn, or the massive cairn of piled rocks.
Loughcrew Cairns' T-cairn lines up with the spring equinox, much as Newgrange at Bru na Boinne lines up with the winter solstice. Many suggest the Irish may have had a spring equinox festival, potentially informing the timing of St. Patrick's Day #LegendaryWednesday
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#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `The circle „Holme I“, consisting of an upturned tree-stump surrounded by 55 closely fitted #oak posts, was originally built on the saltmarsh away from the sea and specialists estimate it to have been built of timbers dating […]
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#WyrdWednesday @WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `The circle „Holme I“, consisting of an upturned tree-stump surrounded by 55 closely fitted #oak posts, was originally built on the saltmarsh away from the sea and specialists estimate it to have been built of timbers dating from the spring of
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a painting of a group of young girls in filmy dresses dancing around in a forest
In a Russian tradition called "curling the birches" young women would set out with picnics and ribbons to decorate and celebrate the fertility of trees first budding in spring on a day called Semik. They would then send that energy into their own crops.
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🖼️Alphonse Osbert
