anus - In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus (Latin: Ianus) is the god of beginnings and transitions,[1] thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past. The Romans dedicated the month of January to Janus. Source: Wikipedia
God Janus
God Janus
Katsina janus terracotta head, Nigeria. ca. (500 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.)
Janus-head flask, 1st century A.D., eastern Mediterranean. Glass, 3 7/16 in. high. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003.474
A bronze as from Canusium depicting a laureate Janus with the prow of a ship on the reverse
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (/ˈdʒeɪnəs/; Latin: Ianus, pronounced [ˈjaː.nus]) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, doorways, time, and doors,[1] and by of gates, doors, doorways, passages and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past. It is conventionally thought that the month of January is named for Janus (Ianuarius),[2] but according to ancient Roman farmers' almanacs Juno was the tutelary deity of the month.[3]
Janus presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. The doors of his temple were open in time of war, and closed to mark the peace. As a god of transitions, he had functions pertaining to birth and to journeys and exchange, and in his association with Portunus, a similar harbor and gateway god, he was concerned with travelling, trading and shipping.
Janus had no flamen or specialised priest (sacerdos) assigned to him, but the King of the Sacred Rites (rex sacrorum) himself carried out his ceremonies. Janus had a ubiquitous presence in religious ceremonies throughout the year, and was ritually invoked at the beginning of each one, regardless of the main deity honored on any particular occasion.
The ancient Greeks had no equivalent to Janus, whom the Romans claimed as distinctively their own.
The Romans dedicated the month of January to Janus. Source: Wikipedia
Interesting, to look into the future and past at the start of a/ each new year.
Hocus Spocus Pilatus Pas.
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God Herakles
Early Depiction of Herakles with club and lion skin Etruscan 500-400 BCE Bronze
cast bronze figure of the hero god Heracles with his club seated on a lion. Hellenistic kingdoms of Bactria or Gandhara in C. Asia or India 100 BCE-100 AD
Statuette of Herakles, 250–150 B.C., Sikeliote (Sicilian Greek).
This evocative Gandharan statue, is likely of Vajrapani in the guise of Herakles. Vajrapani was one of the traditional protectors of Buddha and was often depicted as a muscular unkempt figure. As Greek culture pervaded the region, Vajrapani and Herakles (Hercules) became indistinguishable. Height is 43 cm.
Cypriot Herakles-Melqart 5th cent.BCE limestone from Cyprus Museo Baracco,Rome
Limestone Herakles Period: Archaic Date: ca. 530–520 B.C. Culture: Cypriot Medium: Limestone Dimensions: H. 85 1/2 in. (217.2 cm)
Head from a statue of Herakles, from Cyprus, Cypro-Archaic II Period (limestone) Creator Cypriot, (5th century BC)
Wk 10 Farnese Hercules, Glykon of Athens, early third century statue based on the Weary Herakles by Lysippos, 320 BCE
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Herakles with the Apples of the Hesperides Roman 1st century CE from a temple at Byblos Lebanon
Herakles fighting Antaeus
Hercules (Heracles), Roman statuette (bronze), 2nd–3rd century AD, (Römmermuseum, Weissenburg).
Mulato or Black Julia daughter of Emperor Titus
Mena: I this the Black and Mulato looking Herakles from Cyprius are the original one. The European looking Herakles are copy or restore (code word for turning Black people statue into White people) dating from the European colonial era.
Herakles-Melqart, Early 5th century. BC, Cyprus. Limestone The limestone statuette of Heracles- Melqart, from the early 5th century B.C., is a sign of the religious and cultural contamination that occurred on the island of Cyprus between oriental gods (Melqart was worshipped in the Phoenician world) and figures from Greek mythology, such as Heracles.Provenance: From Cyprus Inventory: Inv. MB 63 MUSEUM OF ANCIENT SCULPTURE BARRACO, Rome
This Herakles look like a copy or restoration ( turning it White people) dating from the colonial era.
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A black Heracles vs the equally Black Busris the evil Kemitic Pharaoh and his henchmen.
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Mena7: Thanks for the Katsina Terracotta Janus. I can now picture the evolution of the Greek Janus from the Katsina Janus.
All the Greek & Roman Gods are ultimately evolved from the interior of Africa.
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Here is another Katsina Janus, for auction. It shows the transition from Female to Male
Goddess Isis Fortuna Statuette of Isis-Fortuna, Roman, 2nd century, Bronze, 19 c
Goddess Isis Fortuna
Goddess Isis Fortuna "The Egyptian goddess Isis was adopted into Roman religion in the first century A.D. This statuette portrays Isis combined with Fortuna. She wears the elaborate headdress of Isis, a lunar disk between horns or feathers, and the front of her long dress is tied in a knot on her chest, the so-called Isis knot. She also holds the usual attributes of Fortuna. The rudder in her right hand and the cornucopia in her left arm is a symbol of abundance and prosperity." Getty Museum.
Goddess Isis Fortuna
X.3.15 Pompeii. Picture of Isis Fortuna with horn of plenty and sistrum and with a foot on a globe. To the right is Hesperos and left is Helios or Harpocrates - Helios. The painting of Isis-Fortuna (MN Inventory 8836) was found in 1847
The goddess Fortuna, holding a cornucopia and rudder, looks down upon a naked man crouching between two bearded serpents; the words CACATOR CAVE MALV[m] ("Shitter, beware of evil!") are painted above the man. The museum tag identifies the goddess as Isis-Fortuna-Demeter and the man as Harpocrates, but most interpreters think that the man is defecating and the goddess and serpents are apotropaic symbols. Naples, National Archaeological Museum
Isis-Fortuna. This statuette of Isis displays her in a Hellenistic robe. She has a combination of cow horns, sun-disk, and ears of corn as a crown on her head, a cornucopia and a ship's rudder.The cornucopia connects her to the goddess Fortuna, and the ears of corn to Demeter. The rudder stresses the aspect of Isis as patron of navigation, called Isis Pelagia. 1st-2nd century (Roman)
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A Roman Bronze Figure of Hermes, circa 2nd Century A.D.
Hermes with baby Dionysos, bronze nude statue - from Roman period, circa 2nd c. AD
A ROMAN BRONZE MERCURY CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF MERCURY 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE MERCURY CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Ancient Roman figure of Mercury, with his winged helmet and marsupium/money bag. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Hermes staff. Greek. Early 5th century B.C.
Mosaic of Hermanubis, a hybrid of Anubis and the Greek god Hermes (or the Roman Mercury). In the Ptolemaic period (350–30 BCE), when Egypt became a Hellenistic kingdom ruled by Greek pharaohs, Anubis was merged with the Greek god Hermes, becoming Hermanubis. The two gods were considered similar because they both guided souls to the afterlife.
Hermes (/ˈhɜːrmiːz/; Greek: Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology, the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia, and the second youngest of the Olympian gods.
Hermes is considered a god of transitions and boundaries. He is described as quick and cunning, moving freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine. He is also portrayed as an emissary and messenger of the gods;[1] an intercessor between mortals and the divine, and conductor of souls into the afterlife. He has been viewed as the protector and patron of herdsmen, thieves,[2] oratory and wit, literature and poetry, athletics and sports, invention and trade,[3] roads, boundaries and travelers.[4]
In some myths, he is a trickster and outwits other gods for his own satisfaction or for the sake of humankind. His attributes and symbols include the herma, the rooster, the tortoise, purse or pouch, winged sandals, and winged cap. His main symbol is the Greek kerykeion or Latin caduceus, which appears in a form of two snakes wrapped around a winged staff.[5]
In the Roman adaptation of the Greek pantheon (see interpretatio romana), Hermes is identified with the Roman god Mercury,[6] who, though inherited from the Etruscans, developed many similar characteristics such as being the patron of commerce
Mercury (/ˈmɜːrkjᵿri/; Latin: Mercurius [mɛrˈkʊr.jʊs] About this sound listen (help·info)) is a major Roman god, being one of the Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves; he is also the guide of souls to the underworld.[1][2] He was considered the son of Maia and Jupiter in Roman mythology. His name is possibly related to the Latin word merx ("merchandise"; compare merchant, commerce, etc.), mercari (to trade), and merces (wages); another possible connection is the Proto-Indo-European root merĝ- for "boundary, border" (cf. Old English "mearc", Old Norse "mark" and Latin "margō") and Greek οὖρος (by analogy of Arctūrus/Ἀρκτοῦρος), as the "keeper of boundaries," referring to his role as bridge between the upper and lower worlds.[citation needed] In his earliest forms, he appears to have been related to the Etruscan deity Turms; both gods share characteristics with the Greek god Hermes. He is often depicted holding the caduceus in his left hand.
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merchant/marchand/market is also boundary, since formal trade occurred at borders/bridges/puntos/pitla(spiderwebs), not within them (where gift exchange was informal).
A Mearc/boundary was a day's march/marchant.
Mercury's caduceus/kerykeion/winged staff originally was probably a punt pole for propelling a coracle/roundshield.
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God Jupiter
God Jupiter
God Jupiter
God Jupiter
God Jupiter
Jupiter Temple
Jupiter is the supreme god of the Roman pantheon, called dies pater, "shining father". He is a god of light and sky, and protector of the state and its laws. He is a son of Saturn and brother of Neptune and Juno (who is also his wife).
The Romans worshipped him especially as Jupiter Optimus Maximus (all-good, all-powerful). This name refers not only to his rulership over the universe, but also to his function as the god of the state who distributes laws, controls the realm and makes his will known through oracles. His English name is Jove.
The largest temple in Rome was that of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill. Here he was worshipped alongside Juno and Minerva, forming the Capitoline Triad. Temples to Jupiter Optimus Maximus or the Capitoline Triad as a whole were commonly built by the Romans at the center of new cities in their colonies.
His temple was not only the most important sanctuary in Rome; it was also the center of political life. Here official offerings were made, treaties were signed and wars were declared, and the triumphant generals of the Roman army came to give their thanks.
Other titles of Jupiter include: Caelestis (heavenly), Lucetius (of the light), Totans (thunderer), Fulgurator (of the lightning). As Jupiter Victor he led the Roman army to victory. Jupiter is also the protector of the ancient league of Latin cities. His attribute is the lightning bolt and the eagle is both his symbol and his messenger.
The Romans regarded Jupiter as the equivalent of Greek Zeus, and in Latin literature and Roman art, the myths and iconography of Zeus are adapted under the name Iuppiter. In the Greek-influenced tradition, Jupiter was the brother of Neptune and Pluto. Each presided over one of the three realms of the universe: sky, the waters, and the underworld. The Italic Diespiter was also a sky god who manifested himself in the daylight, usually but not always identified with Jupiter. Their Etruscan counterpart was Tinia.
It was once believed that the Roman god Jupiter (Zeus in Greece) was in charge of cosmic Justice, and in ancient Rome, people swore to Jove in their courts of law, which lead to the common expression "By Jove," that many people use today.
Iron Age Silver valkyrie with Asian slanted eyes found in Denmark.Black Goddess Valkyrie with slanted eyes.
God Thor
he Norse god Tyr and Fenrir, from a Viking carving from eighth century Sweden. Tyr sacrifices his hand to entice Fenrir wolf into bondage: the warrior often gives profoundly of himself to secure the safety of the community he is sworn to defend.
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PHANES was the primordial god (protogenos) of creation in the Orphic cosmogony. He was the generator of life--the driving force behind reproduction in the early cosmos. Phanes was hatched from the world-egg, a primordial mix of elements split into its constituent parts by Khronos (Chronos) (Time) and Ananke (Inevitability).
Phanes was the first king of the universe who handed the royal sceptre over to his daughter Nyx (Night), who in turn handed it down to her son Ouranos (Uranus) (Heaven). It was then seized by the Titan Kronos (Cronus), and afterwards by Zeus, the ultimate ruler of the cosmos. Some say Zeus devoured Phanes in order to absorb his power and redistribute it among a new generation of gods--the Olympians he would sire.
The Orphics equated Phanes with the elder Eros (Desire) of Hesiod's Theogony. Phanes also incorporated aspects of other primordial beings described by various ancient writers such as Thesis, Physis and Ophion. Phanes also echoes the figures of Metis (i.e. Thesis, Creation), the goddess devoured by Zeus, and Tethys, nurse of all.
Phanes was described as a beautiful, golden-winged, hermaphroditic deity wrapped in the coils of a serpent. His name means "bring to light" or "make appear" from the Greek verbs phanaô and phainô.
Phanes[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Φάνης, genitive Φάνητος),[1] or Protogonos (Greek: Πρωτογόνος, "First-born"), was the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life, who was introduced into Greek mythology by the Orphic tradition; other names for this Classical Greek Orphic concept included Ericapaeus (Ἠρικαπαῖος or Ἠρικεπαῖος "power") and Metis ("thought").[2]
In these myths Phanes is often equated with Eros and Mithras and has been depicted as a deity emerging from a cosmic egg, entwined with a serpent. He had a helmet and had broad, golden wings. The Orphic cosmogony is bizarre, and quite unlike the creation sagas offered by Homer and Hesiod. Scholars have suggested that Orphism is "un-Greek" even "Asiatic" in conception, because of its inherent dualism.[3][4]
Time, who was also called Aion, created the silver egg of the universe, out of this egg burst out the first-born, Phanes. Phanes was a uroboric male-female deity of light and goodness, whose name means "to bring light" or "to shine"; a first-born god of light who emerges from a void or a watery abyss and gives birth to the universe.[5]
Many threads of earlier myths are apparent in the new tradition. Phanes was believed to have been hatched from the World-Egg of Chronos (Time) and Ananke (Necessity or Fate) or Nyx in the black bird form and wind. His older wife Nyx (Night) called him Protogenus. As she created nighttime, he created daytime. He also created the method of creation by mingling. He was made the ruler of the deities and passed the sceptre to Nyx. This new Orphic tradition states that Nyx later gave the sceptre to her son Uranos before it passed to Cronus and then to Zeus, who retained it.
According to Aristophanes, whence he is called Eros, he was born from an egg created by Nyx and placed in the boundless lap of Erebus. After which he mates with Chaos and creates the birds.[6] This passage seeks to demonstrate that the birds are considered older than all other living creatures, even older than the other gods.
The "Protogonos Theogony" is known through the commentary in the Derveni papyrus and references in Empedocles and Pindar.
According to Damascius, Phanes was the first god “expressible and acceptable to human ears” (πρώτης ητόν τι ἐχούσης καὶ σύμμετρον πρὸς ἀνθρώπων ἀκοάς ).[7]
Another orphic hymns states:[8] "ὄσσων ὃς σκοτόεσσαν ἀπημαύρωσας ὁμίχλην πάντη δινηθεὶς πτερύγων ῥιπαῖς κατὰ κόσμον λαμπρὸν ἄγων φάος ἁγνόν , ἀφ ' οὗ σε Φάνητα κικλήσκω." "You scattered the dark mist that lay before your eyes and, flapping your wings, you whirled about, and throughout this world you brought pure light. For this I call you Phanes.".
The Derveni Papyrus refers to Phanes:"Πρωτογόνου βασιλέως αἰδοίου∙ τῶι δ’ ἄρα πάντες ἀθάνατοι προσέφυν μάκαρες θεοὶ ἠδ̣ὲ θέαιναι καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ κρῆναι ἐπήρατιο ἄλλα τε πάντα , ἅ̣σσα τότ’ ἦγγεγαῶτ ’ , αὐτὸς δ’ ἄρα μοῦνος ἔγεντο.” "Of the First-born king, the reverend one; and upon him all the immortals grew, blessed gods and goddesses and rivers and lovely springs and everything else that had then been born; and he himself became the sole one"[9]
Dionysus of the Orphic tradition is intimately connected to Protogonos. In the Orphic Hymn 30, he is given a list of epithets that also allude to Protogonos: "πρωτόγονον, διφυῆ, τρίγονον, Βακχεῖον ἄνακτα,ἄγριον, ἄρρητον, κρύφιον, δικέρωτα, δίμορφον" "Primeval, two-natured, thrice-born, Bacchic lord, savage, ineffable, secretive, two-horned, and two-shaped"[10]
In the Orphic tradition, Dionysus-Protogonos-Phanes is a dying and rising god. Eusebius tell us the story of his death and recreation. The Titans boil the dismembered limbs of Dionysus in a kettle, they roast him on a spit and eat the roasted “sacrificial meat”, then Athena rescues the heart (that still beats) [11] from which (according to Olympiodorus[12]) Zeus is able to recreate the god and bring him back to life. Kessler has argued that this cult of death and resurrection of Dionysus developed the 4th century CE; and together with Mithraism and other sects this cult formed, were in direct competition with Early Christianity during Late Antiquity.
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Aion (god of eternity) on Globe. Relief from the Villa Albani,
Aion God of Eternity
This image is from a "floor mosaic from a Roman villa in Sentinum (today Sassoferrato in Umbria), ca. 200–250 CE."
Mosaic floor depicting Aion and Tellus in richly-patterned framing (Glyptothek, Munich)
Aion (Greek: Αἰών) is a Hellenistic deity associated with time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe, and the zodiac. The "time" represented by Aion is unbounded, in contrast to Chronos as empirical time divided into past, present, and future.[1] He is thus a god of eternity, associated with mystery religions concerned with the afterlife, such as the mysteries of Cybele, Dionysus, Orpheus, and Mithras. In Latin the concept of the deity may appear as Aevum or Saeculum.[2] He is typically in the company of an earth or mother goddess such as Tellus or Cybele, as on the Parabiago plate
Iconography and symbolism[edit] Aion is usually identified as the nude or seminude youth within a circle representing the zodiac, or eternal and cyclical time. Examples include two Roman mosaics from Sentinum (modern–day Sassoferrato) and Hippo Regius in Roman Africa, and the Parabiago plate. But because he represents time as a cycle, he may also be imagined as an old man. In the Dionysiaca, Nonnus associates Aion with the Horae and says that he:
changes the burden of old age like a snake who sloughs off the coils of the useless old scales, rejuvenescing while washing in the swells of the laws [of time].[4]
Drawing of the leontocephaline found at the mithraeum of C. Valerius Heracles and sons, dedicated 190 AD at Ostia Antica, Italy (CIMRM 312)
Detail from the Parabiago plate depicting Aion; Tellus (not shown) appears at the bottom of the plate, which centers on the chariot of Cybele The imagery of the twining serpent is connected to the hoop or wheel through the ouroboros, a ring formed by a snake holding the tip of its tail in its mouth. The 4th-century AD Latin commentator Servius notes that the image of a snake biting its tail represents the cyclical nature of the year.[5] In his 5th-century work on hieroglyphics, Horapollo makes a further distinction between a serpent that hides its tail under the rest of its body, which represents Aion, and the ouroboros that represents the kosmos, which is the serpent devouring its tail.[6]
Identifications Martianus Capella (5th century AD) identified Aion with Cronus (Latin Saturnus), whose name caused him to be theologically conflated with Chronos ("Time"), in the way that the Greek ruler of the underworld Plouton (Pluto) was conflated with Ploutos (Plutus, "Wealth"). Martianus presents Cronus-Aion as the consort of Rhea (Latin Ops) as identified with Physis.[7]
In his highly speculative reconstruction of Mithraic cosmogony, Franz Cumont positioned Aion as Unlimited Time (sometimes represented as Saeculum, Cronus, or Saturn) as the god who emerged from primordial Chaos, and who in turn generated Heaven and Earth. This deity is represented as the leontocephaline, the winged lion-headed male figure whose nude torso is entwined by a serpent. He typically holds a sceptre, keys, or a thunderbolt.[8] The figure of Time "played a considerable, though to us completely obscure, role" in Mithraic theology.
Aion is identified with Dionysus in Christian and Neoplatonic writers, but there are no references to Dionysus as Aion before the Christian era.[10] Euripides, however, calls Aion the son of Zeus.
The Suda identifies Aion with Osiris. In Ptolemaic Alexandria, at the site of a dream oracle, the Hellenistic syncretic god Serapis was identified as Aion Plutonius.[12] The epithet Plutonius marks functional aspects shared with Pluto, consort of Persephone and ruler of the underworld in the Eleusinian tradition. Epiphanius says that at Alexandria Aion's birth from Kore the Virgin was celebrated January 6:[13] "On this day and at this hour the Virgin gave birth to Aion." The date, which coincides with Epiphany, brought new year's celebrations to a close, completing the cycle of time that Aion embodies.[14] The Alexandrian Aion may be a form of Osiris-Dionysus, reborn annually.[15] His image was marked with crosses on his hands, knees, and forehead.[16] Gilles Quispel conjectured that the figure resulted from integrating the Orphic Phanes, who like Aion is associated with a coiling serpent, into Mithraic religion at Alexandria, and that he "assures the eternity of the city.
Roman Empire This syncretic Aion became a symbol and guarantor of the perpetuity of Roman rule, and emperors such as Antoninus Pius issued coins with the legend Aion,[18] whose female Roman counterpart was Aeternitas.[19] Roman coins associate both Aion and Aeternitas with the phoenix as a symbol of rebirth and cyclical renewal.
Aion was among the virtues and divine personifications that were part of late Hellenic discourse, in which they figure as "creative agents in grand cosmological schemes."[21] The significance of Aion lies in his malleability: he is a "fluid conception" through which various ideas about time and divinity converge in the Hellenistic era, in the context of monotheistic tendencies.
9 Muses
God Eros Pella Museum
God Serapis Agathodaemon
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Goddess Kore, Kar
West African face God Mithra and the Zodiac
God Mercury
Roman Empress Domitian as Goddess Ceres
Odysseus
Minautor, Apis, Wall Street bull
God Vulcan
Roman Genius
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She Wolf feeding Romulus or Remus aka Constellation Gemini
Greek God Apollo
Goddess Hygeia, Getty museum
Roman Sun God
Roman Celestial Globe
Roman Zodiac Globe
Chinese Celestial coin
Minoan Analogue computer
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Zodiac
Apollo Sun God Zodiac
Zodiac, the day of the week and Sexagram
Early Medieval Jesus Zodiac
Roman plate with sign of the Zodiac
Triple Goddeses Spain Roman Mosaic
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interesting look at zodiac and calendar
Here is ancient European Seasonal Wheel calendar, it might be origin of Swaztika:
Beth Alpha Synagogue Zodiac
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Nice post Deden
Triple Goddeses Spain Roman Mosaic
Roman Men crushing grapes Merida
Beth Alpha Synagogue Zodiac
Altar of the Twelve Gods. Made of marble and decorated with the zodiac signs
Astrology sri lanka zodiac
Man with signs of the zodiac on his body, Egerton 1486
Zodiac man: UB Heidelberg Cod. Pal. germ. 291 - digi.ub.uni-heide...
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Mappa Coeli with 1 signs of the Zodiac from Tetrabiblos of Ptolemaios
The zodiac is the circle of twelve 30° divisions of celestial longitude employed by western astrology and (formerly) astronomy. The western zodiac is centered upon the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year. The paths of the Moon and visible planets also remain close to the ecliptic, within the belt of the zodiac, which extends 8-9° north or south of the ecliptic, as measured in celestial latitude. Because the divisions are regular, they do not correspond exactly to the boundaries of the twelve constellations after which they are named.
Historically, these twelve divisions are called signs. Essentially, the zodiac is a celestial coordinate system, or more specifically an ecliptic coordinate system, which takes the ecliptic as the origin of latitude, and the position of the Sun at vernal equinox as the origin of longitude.
Name The English word zodiac derives from zōdiacus, the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek zōidiakòs kýklos (ζῳδιακὸς κύκλος), meaning "circle of little animals". Zōidion (ζῴδιον) is the diminutive of zōion (ζῷον, "animal"). The name reflects the prominence of animals (and mythological hybrids) among the twelve signs.
Usage The zodiac was in use by the Roman era, based on concepts inherited by Hellenistic astronomy from Babylonian astronomy of the Chaldean period (mid-1st millennium BC), which, in turn, derived from an earlier system of lists of stars along the ecliptic.[1] The construction of the zodiac is described in Ptolemy's vast 2nd century AD work, the Almagest.[2]
Although the zodiac remains the basis of the ecliptic coordinate system in use in astronomy besides the equatorial one,[3] the term and the names of the twelve signs are today mostly associated with horoscopic astrology.[4] The term "zodiac" may also refer to the region of the celestial sphere encompassing the paths of the planets corresponding to the band of about eight arc degrees above and below the ecliptic. The zodiac of a given planet is the band that contains the path of that particular body; e.g., the "zodiac of the Moon" is the band of five degrees above and below the ecliptic. By extension, the "zodiac of the comets" may refer to the band encompassing most short-period comets.[
Early history
Wheel of the zodiac: This 6th century mosaic pavement in a synagogue incorporates Greek-Byzantine elements, Beit Alpha, Israel.
Zodiac circle with planets, c.1000 - NLW MS 735C Further information: Babylonian star catalogues and MUL.APIN The division of the ecliptic into the zodiacal signs originates in Babylonian ("Chaldean") astronomy during the first half of the 1st millennium BC, likely during Median/"Neo-Babylonian" times (7th century BC).[6] The classical zodiac is a modification of the MUL.APIN catalogue, which was compiled around 1000 BC. Some of the constellations can be traced even further back, to Bronze Age (Old Babylonian) sources, including Gemini "The Twins", from MAŠ.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL "The Great Twins", and Cancer "The Crab", from AL.LUL "The Crayfish", among others.
Babylonian astronomers at some stage during the early 1st millennium BC divided the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude to create the first known celestial coordinate system: a coordinate system that boasts some advantages over modern systems (such as the equatorial coordinate system). The Babylonian calendar as it stood in the 7th century BC assigned each month to a sign, beginning with the position of the Sun at vernal equinox, which, at the time, was depicted as the Aries constellation ("Age of Aries"), for which reason the first sign is still called "Aries" even after the vernal equinox has moved away from the Aries constellation due to the slow precession of the Earth's axis of rotation.[7]
Because the division was made into equal arcs, 30° each, they constituted an ideal system of reference for making predictions about a planet's longitude. However, Babylonian techniques of observational measurements were in a rudimentary stage of evolution and it is unclear whether they had techniques to define in a precise way the boundary lines between the zodiacal signs in the sky.[8] Thus, the need to use stars close to the ecliptic (±9° of latitude) as a set of observational reference points to help positioning a planet within this ecliptic coordinate system.[9] Constellations were given the names of the signs and asterisms could be connected in a way that would resemble the sign's name. Therefore, in spite of its conceptual origin, the Babylonian zodiac became sidereal.[10]
In Babylonian astronomical diaries, a planet position was generally given with respect to a zodiacal sign alone, less often in specific degrees within a sign.[11] When the degrees of longitude were given, they were expressed with reference to the 30° of the zodiacal sign, i.e., not with a reference to the continuous 360° ecliptic.[12] To the construction of their mathematical ephemerides, daily positions of a planet were not as important as the dates when the planet crossed from one zodiacal sign to the next.[13]
Hebrew astrology Knowledge of the Babylonian zodiac is also reflected in the Tanakh, but is the first recorded astrological division into 12 constellations, elaborated on in the Talmuds, books of the Midrash Rabba, and other minor works. E. W. Bullinger interpreted the creatures appearing in the book of Ezekiel as the middle signs of the four quarters of the Zodiac,[14][15] with the Lion as Leo, the Bull is Taurus, the Man representing Aquarius and the Eagle representing Scorpio.[16] Some authors have linked the twelve tribes of Israel with the twelve signs. Martin and others have argued that the arrangement of the tribes around the Tabernacle (reported in the Book of Numbers) corresponded to the order of the Zodiac, with Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, and Dan representing the middle signs of Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, and Scorpio, respectively.Such connections were taken up by Thomas Mann, who in his novel Joseph and His Brothers attributes characteristics of a sign of the zodiac to each tribe in his rendition of the Blessing of Jacob.
Hellenistic and Roman era
The Babylonian star catalogs entered Greek astronomy in the 4th century BC, via Eudoxus of Cnidus.[17] [18] Babylonia or Chaldea in the Hellenistic world came to be so identified with astrology that "Chaldean wisdom" became among Greeks and Romans the synonym of divination through the planets and stars. Hellenistic astrology derived in part from Babylonian and Egyptian astrology.[19] Horoscopic astrology first appeared in Ptolemaic Egypt. The Dendera zodiac, a relief dating to ca. 50 BC, is the first known depiction of the classical zodiac of twelve signs.
Particularly important in the development of Western horoscopic astrology was the astrologer and astronomer Ptolemy, whose work Tetrabiblos laid the basis of the Western astrological tradition.[20] Under the Greeks, and Ptolemy in particular, the planets, Houses, and signs of the zodiac were rationalized and their function set down in a way that has changed little to the present day.[21] Ptolemy lived in the 2nd century AD, three centuries after the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes by Hipparchus around 130 BC. Hipparchus's lost work on precession never circulated very widely until it was brought to prominence by Ptolemy,[22] and there are few explanations of precession outside the work of Ptolemy until late Antiquity, by which time Ptolemy's influence was widely established.[23] Ptolemy clearly explained the theoretical basis of the western zodiac as being a tropical coordinate system, by which the zodiac is aligned to the equinoxes and solstices, rather than the visible constellations that bear the same names as the zodiac signs.[24]
Hindu zodiac The Hindu zodiac uses the sidereal coordinate system, which makes reference to the fixed stars. The Tropical zodiac (of Mesopotamian origin) is divided by the intersections of the ecliptic and equator, which shifts in relation to the backdrop of fixed stars at a rate of 1° every 72 years, creating the phenomenon known as precession of the equinoxes. The Hindu zodiac, being sidereal, does not maintain this seasonal alignment, but there are still similarities between the two systems. The Hindu zodiac signs and corresponding Greek signs sound very different, being in Sanskrit and Greek respectively, but their symbols are nearly identical.[25] For example, dhanu means "bow" and corresponds to Sagittarius, the "archer", and kumbha means "water-pitcher" and corresponds to Aquarius, the "water-carrier".[26]
Middle Ages
Middle Ages
Angers Cathedral South Rose Window of Christ (centre) with elders (bottom half) and Zodiac (top half). Mediaeval stained glass by Andre Robin after the fire of 1451 The High Middle Ages saw a revival of Greco-Roman magic, first in Kabbalism and later continued in Renaissance magic. This included magical uses of the zodiac, as found, e.g., in the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh.
The zodiac is found in mediaeval stained glass as at Angers Cathedral, where the master glassmaker, André Robin, made the ornate rosettes for the North and South transepts after the fire there in 1451.[27]
Early modern
The zodiac signs in a 16th-century woodcut
A volvella of the moon. A volvella is a moveable device for working out the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, 15th century
17th-century fresco, Cathedral of Living Pillar, Georgia of Christ in the Zodiac circle An example of the use of signs as astronomical coordinates may be found in the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1767. The "Longitude of the Sun" columns show the sign (represented as a digit from 0 to and including 11), degrees from 0 to 29, minutes, and seconds.[28]
The zodiacal symbols are Early Modern simplifications of conventional pictorial representations of the signs, attested since Hellenistic times.
Twelve signs Main article: Astrological sign What follows is a list of the twelve signs of the modern zodiac (with the ecliptic longitudes of their first points), where 0° Aries is understood as the vernal equinox, with their Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Babylonian names (but note that the Sanskrit and the Babylonian name equivalents (after c.500 BC) denote the constellations only, not the tropical zodiac signs). Also, the "English translation" is not usually used by English speakers. The Latin names are standard English usage.
God Mithra
Goddess Aphrodite
17th-century fresco, Cathedral of Living Pillar, Georgia of Christ in the Zodiac circle
Southern hemisphere constellations from a western scientific manuscript c.1000
Islamic Zodiac
Sala Bologna Zodiac, Vatican
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Cathedral Santa Maria Annunziat, Otranto, Italy. Brown and Black Italians working.
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God Atlas lifting the Zodiac Globe
In Greek mythology, Atlas (/ˈætləs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας) was the Titan god of endurance and astronomy,[1] condemned to hold up the sky for eternity after the Titanomachy. Although associated with various places, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa (modern-day Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia).[2] Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia[3] or Clymene.[4] He had many children, mostly daughters, the Hesperides, the Hyades, the Pleiades, and the nymph Calypso who lived on the island Ogygia.[5] According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod Atlas stood at the ends of the earth towards the west.[6]
In contexts where a Titan and a Titaness are assigned each of the seven planetary powers, Atlas is paired with Phoebe and governs the moon.[not in citation given][7]
Hyginus emphasises the primordial nature of Atlas by making him the son of Aether and Gaia.[8]
"Atlantic Ocean" means "Sea of Atlas", while "Atlantis" means "island of Atlas".
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Mena, Atlas mountains were called in Berber/Amazigt "Dyris" per Strabo.
During the Black Sea deluge 7,700 years ago due to Oceanic sea level rise from post-Ice Age melting; the Atlantic Ocean flooded the Black Sea, likely producing the various flood stories (Noah, Atrahasis, Atlantis, Yima, Manu, Duecaleon and other hero tales).
It is possible that Atlas & the pillars of Hercules were actually at Bosphorus strait in east Iberia (per one Roman travel writer), and in west Iberia(Spain, Morocco) and rock of Gibralter.
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Three Black Romans crushing grapes
This mosaic most be a copy because in the original mosaic from Shutterstock those two Romans have curly hair and brown skins
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Medusa coin
Medusa coin
Medusa coin
Medusa coin
n Greek mythology Medusa (/məˈdjuːzə, məˈdʒuː-, -sə/, US /məˈduː-/; Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress")[1] was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with a hideous face and living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazers on her face would turn to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto,[2] though the author Hyginus (Fabulae Preface) makes Medusa the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto.[3] According to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on an island named Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BCE novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth, as part of their religion.
Medusa was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon[4] until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.
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A ROMAN BRONZE BUST OF HERCULES CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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Mercury (Hermes), Roman relief (marble), from Herculaneum, 1st century AD?, (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples).
God Hercules/Herakles
Roman guilt bronze bust of Hercules, 2nd Century AD Roman bronze balsamarium in the form of a herm of Herakles wearing the lion’s skin draped around his shoulders, his head surmounted by a fillet with floret remaining on one side, eyes inlaid with gold or electrum. 1st-2nd Century AD
A ROMAN BRONZE HEAD OF HERCULES, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE HERCULES | CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE VENUS | CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
A Roman Bronze Figure of Isis-Aphrodite, Syria, Circa 2nd Century A.D.
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A Roman bronze figure of Aphrodite Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE VENUS - CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Aphrodite from Myrina, Asia Minor, 1st century A.D.
Goddess Isis Ptolemy Egypt
ROMAN BRONZE APHRODITE (VENUS), 1st century A.D.
1st century BC-1st century AD, Herculaneum, bronze with copper and silver jewelry and inlays, 17.5 cm. Venus (Aphrodite). Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli,
Statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand, Early Imperial, Augustan, late 1st century B.C. Roman Bronze
Apollo, Roman statuette (bronze), 1st century BC, (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
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ROMAN BRONZE NUDE ISIS-APHRODITE Wearing a headdress centering a plumed lunar disk between Hathor horns; flanked by grain ears atop a uraeus circlet all upon the back of a vulture. In her left hand she holds an apple and in her right she holds a bird. 1st-2nd Century AD
A ROMAN BRONZE VICTORIA CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE MERCURY CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Roman bronze Victory (Nike). 1st - 2nd century AD.
A ROMAN BRONZE ISIS-FORTUNA CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE VENUS GENETRIX CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE JUPITER CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN BRONZE MINERVA CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Roman Bronze Statuette of Sol Invictus, 2nd-3rd...
Roman, bronze, 8 1/2 inches high, circa first half of the first century A.D.
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Roman bronze with silver inlays statuette of the god Mars Ultor. 2nd-3rd century A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE BUST OF MARS CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE MARS ULTOR CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
A Roman bronze Harpokirates, circa 1st- 2nd century A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE MERCURY CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
A STATUETTE OF VENUS H. 23.5 cm. Bronze, hollow cast Roman, 2nd-3rd cent. A.D.
Portrait Statuette of the Greek Orator Demosthenes (early Roman copy of bronze portrait statue), 100 BC-100 ADSculpture, StatuetteGraeco-Roman, 1st century BC-2nd century AD Roman period, Early to Middle Imperial, c. 31 BC-AD 235
A ROMAN BRONZE POLYTHEISTIC FORTUNA CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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Bronze Figure Roman 1st Century AD Found Verona, Italy
Roman bronze figurine of Pan. 1st – early 2nd century CE
Bronze Statue of Dionysus - circa 120-150 AD, from Roman period - at the Pallazzo Museum, Terme
A ROMAN BRONZE JUPITER - CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Mercury (Hermes), Roman statuette (bronze and silver), 1st century AD, (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore).
Roman Bronze Figure of Silenus 17519 Culture : Roman, Roman Imperial Period : 1st century B.C.- 1st century A.D. Material : Bronze
The stunning life-sized statue of the Roman god of war, Mars at the Yorkshire Museum in York
bronze statue of Mars was found in southern Turkey and dates from the Roman era. classic.cca-roma....
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Bronze Statuette of a Draped Female Figure, perhaps Nyx. Roman Empire (Place created). Date: 1st century B.C.
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The Graeco Roman statues and reliefs prove to me that the Ancient Greek world and the Roman Empire was a multi racial or many races society. Black people, Brown people, White people were part of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome and Italy.
Some of the Graeco Roman statues in their original form looks more like Black and Mulato people but because of modern Western museum restoration that tend to make the broken noses, chins and hairs of the statues looks more like modern White European the statues looks like Octoroon mulatoes and White people.
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Etruscan bronze statue of the winged Vanth; angel of the hades holding a serpent, circa 300BC British museum
Canaanite God
Etruscan satyr drinking cup, 6th-4th centuries BCE. Bad pun alert: "Another Satyr Tea Night and I ain't got no body..."
A bronze fountain head featuring a satyr, found in the unique unisex Suburban Baths which were built close to the walls of Pompeii and which boasted a heated swimming pool.
Bust of Silenus that once adorned a Roman dining couch 1st century BCE-1st century CE Bronze with traces of silver inlay by mharrsch, via Flickr
Archaic Roman Empire art from Greece, a bronze lamp base with hooded Silenus. 50 BCE - 50 CE.
Bronze statue of Bacchus from Pompeii, 2nd century BC
God Asclepius
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Roman bronze Silenus balsamarium, 3rd-4th century A.D. 10 cm high. Private collection
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Roman Bronze Applique Bust Of Sol Invictus
Roman medallion of sun god Roman period sculpture, I-IIIth century AD, round applique medallion, image of sun god Sol Invictus, divinity or deity in high relief
Bronze high relief, radiated bust of Sun God Helios - 1st-2nd Century AD, Roman imperial period - at the J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World
Sol Invictus of Antioch of Pisidia at Archaeology Museum of Yalvac near Konya, Turkey. Sol Invictus (Unconquered Sun) was the Roman state-supported sun god created by the emperor Aurelian in 274 and continued, overshadowing other Eastern cults in importance, until the abolition of paganism under Theodosius I. By far the earliest appearance of an inscription linking the unconquered emperor with the sun is the legend on a bronze phalera dated by its style to the second century, in the Vatican .
Sol/Helios original God of the Sun
Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun") was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire and a patron of soldiers. In 274 the Roman emperor Aurelian made it an official cult alongside the traditional Roman cults.
Black basanite disc with a bust of the god Helios-Serapis. Late second-century. British Museum, London.
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Sun God Apollo
A ROMAN BRONZE BUST OF ROMA CIRCA LATE 3RD CENTURY A.D.
Roman god Sol Indiges
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Three dogs in one... The God Serapis and His Consort Isis with the Three Headed Dog Cerberus
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Isis, Roman statue (marble), 2nd century aD, discovered in Naples (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Black Roman God known as Hermes. He was also known as a patron of poetry.
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Bronze statute of Winged Goddess Nike - from Etruscan culture, circa 4th c. B.C
Flamen (Roman priest), head of Roman sculpture (marble), 3rd century AD, (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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Mars. Marble relief. Head: 2nd century CE. Bust: 16th century. Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps
Mars was the Roman god of war (equivalent to Ares in Greek Mythology) and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome. He was the most prominent of the military gods worshipped by the Roman legions
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KORÉ À LA COLOMBE. Grande statuette représentant une koré debout sur une base. Elle est vêtue d'un long chiton couvert d'un himation plissé dont elle saisit un pan de la main gauche; de la main droite, elle tient une colombe à hauteur de la poitrine. Sa coiffure, formée de longues parotides, est ceinte d'un polos. Terre cuite orangée. Art Grec, fin du VIe siècle av. J.-C.
Goddess Aphrodite, worshiped as Isis in ancient Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 BC, terracotta polychrome
Sheela-na-gig
Medieval shield-na-gig
This 'Yonitrantric' figure of Kali in menstrual flux is like a handsome, well-carved sheela-na-gig. cf Ballinderry Castle It was, however, carved in the 17th century. Could the influence have travelled from Ireland to India ? Kali is the (currently impotent!) goddess-challenger of demonic testosteronic madness. Similar wooden figures of the 17th and 18th century depict goddesses giving birth.
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the "Piraeus Apollo" in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus (Athens). This is an archaic-style bronze (ranking among the very few such bronzes survived till us) dating from the 6th century BC, possibily from the years 530/520s BC
Head from the Statue of the Young Bacchus; Unknown; Roman E [IMG][img] [IMG]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/23/e1/5c/23e15c0adeee98c3bffbfb607935e8db.jpg [/img][/IMG] Aphrodite Greek, Tanagra, 250 - 200 B.C. Terracotta with polychromy H: 10 11/16 in. 55.AD.7[/IMG] mpire; first half of 1st century; Bronze with silver.
Figurine of Isis-Aphrodite anasyr(o)mene ("revealing the womb").Greek, East Greek,Hellenistic Period,3rd–2nd century B.C.In Hellenistic and Roman times,Aphrodite's identity was often fused with those of Egyptian fertility goddesses:Isis, Hathor and Bubastis.This figurine represents Isis-Aphrodite anasyromene or Isis-Bubastis.She lifts her short-sleeved tunic to reveal pubic area and wears elaborate kalathos-shaped headdress,reminiscent of those worn by Cypriot Aphrodite.
STATUE OF EPONA, GODDESS OF HORSES, ARTIFACT UNCOVERED IN FRANCE, GALLO-ROMAN CIVILIZATION. Statue of Epona, goddess of horses, artefact uncovered in France. Gallo-Roman Civilisation. Alise-Sainte-Reine, Musée Alesia (Archaeological Museum)
Isis-Aphrodite Roman, 1st century BC- 1st century AD Christie’s
Fragment with the head and torso of a Roman statuette of Venus. Bronze.
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Sumerian star map from Ninive 3000 BCE / Pearl-Nautilus
Aztec Sun Stone from Aztec Empire dated 1512. One of great wonders, in museo de Antropologia, Mexico city
Aphrodite Greek, Tanagra, 250 - 200 B.C. Terracotta with polychromy H: 10 11/16 in. 55.AD.7
A GREEK TERRACOTTA APHRODITE TANAGRA, CIRCA LATE 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
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mena why are you posting so many unpainted sculptures in a thread called "Brown, Black and White" ?
why are these colors mentioned if we are looking at so many sculptures which are unpainted, just the natural color of the stone not intended to represent skin tone?
why isn't the title just >>
" Graeco Roman Gods and Goddesses" ??
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Lioness you are right I could have name this thread Graeco Roman Gods and Goddesses but I wanted to point out that the Graeco Roman civilization was inhabited by people of the Black, white and Brown races that is why the gods and Goddesses looks like Black, White and Brown people.
Mike III website Real history World Wide have a good teaching on race that say that there is only one race on planet earth the Black race. All the other races are subset of the Black race that has evolved because of their isolation and the climate.
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Busto in bronzo di Diana saettante rinvenuto nel Tempio di Apollo a Pompei, oggi nel Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. 4895).
Diana as an Archer (Diana Saettatrice) -- Roman art, bronze manifactured between 100 BCE and 79 CE, on display at Museo Nazionale Archeologico of Naples, Italy.
Marble relief of the Three Graces. Marble. 2nd century CE. Inv. No. L.2013.17. New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Giant at the Bath, Pompei, Italy Copyright: Terez Anon
Ancient Greek mosaic recently uncovered in Zeugma, Turkey, 2000 years old.
Celtic Gneiss Stone Figure of a Goddess, perhaps Brigantia, 200-300, stone from Outer Hebrides. A mother, warrior, virgin, hag, conveyor of fertility, giver of prosperity to the land and protectress of the flocks and herds. Tied to the land whose features seemed to be manifestations of her power. When no longer venerated, converted into local nymphs, guardians of wells, or supernatural hags, conferring benefits/evils. Celtic goddesses remain traceable in local saints and spirits of
Head of a Priest Syria 150-250 CE Limestone Dallas Museum of Art
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Antinous as Aristaeus, god of the shepherds and cheese-making, bee-keeping, Louvre Museum, Paris
Pillars of Hercules in Ceuta.
Head from statue of Herakles (Hercules) Roman 117-188 CE from villa of the emperor Hadrian at Tivoli, Italy. Portland Art Museum
Pompeii. Isis Statue | Temple of Isis. Isis (Ancient Greek: Ἶσις, original Egyptian pronunciation more likely "Aset" or "Iset") is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature and magic.
Bronze Apollo with Lyre. Pompeii, House of Apollo
statue of Hekate, Three Graces - Metropolitan Museum
Hecate circa 3nd century AD, at the museum of J. Eisenberg.
God Atlas
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the dancing Satyr, bronze statue from the House of the Faun at Pompeii
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Thank you very much for the brilliant photos.
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Christianity Judaism Islam Astrology & The Dead Sea Scrolls 01/11/12
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“If you make people think they will love you but if you really make them think the way I do then they will hate you” Take a chance on your spirit, claim the undiluted truth, Claim God’s cosmic Divinity, think outside of the controlling religious, scientific and news-media matrixes in charge of the media!
Archaeologists find ancient ASTROLOGICAL floor mosaic! Time to expose the truth about a cosmic God!
The Pope is being enthroned under the authority of the Zodiac.
The sign of Leo is directly above the Pope’s head. Leo rules Fame/France/Italy/Light/Love Kings and the throne.
The Vatican council explains the procession of the Zodiac to the Pope.
Why this Pope would chose the ARIES sign of his nativity to make coins?
Prehistoric Australian astrological rock showing the Pleiades or seven sisters.
VATICAN S CEILING LOADED WITH ASTROLOGY SIGNS!
During the last centuries of the Piscean Age, all religious authorities, including the Jewish and Christian authorities have had trouble explaining why astrology was removed from their religious traditions. That fact that astrology was previously an integral part of both Judaism and Christianity is simply irrefutable.
The Muslim flags represents the moon and the stars and this design speaks of a long gone Universal cosmic God removed from the world. There no denying Astrology had played a crucial role in ALL disappeared civilizations such as the Incas, the Sumerian, the Atlantis etc. The fact is; Astrology, since the beginning of time has preceded the Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious young and deadly history …
I am sure many of you heard of the “Dead Sea Scrolls” and today, the Israeli Antiquities Authority have released images of the Dead Sea Scrolls. But the religious and scientific controlling matrixes are not offering the public with the crucial fragments proving UFO and the direct relationships between Astrology and religions because it would uncover the tampering of the cosmic work of Jesus and the 12 Apostles.
Note, 12 signs of the Zodiac, 12 hours of the day, 12 months of the years, 12 sins, 12 jury etc. there is a cosmic order (God’s will) directly speaking through the zodiac and this was the legacy left by the “Three Wise Men/ET’s” bringing cosmic consciousness to a young Jesus and his spiritual ministry.
UFO”s Are Very Real – And So Is The Legacy! – What Did They Do To Me?
“God created the stars and the heavens for more then the sake of beauty, he gave them to us for interpretation so you may lead a safer more productive life.” Do you know that all Popes of the past were taught Astrology by the Vatican council?
Remember the 2013 Scorpius Dragon is another of God direct celestial order and DEMAND all TRUTHS to be exposed! And if you were “born” into Christianity like me do not forget those Bible verse! Did you check the 2014 Arian Draconis yet? If you do, you will realize how much of the news I already predicted and what is yet to come to the world…
“I will talk to you, you won’t hear me! I will present myself to you, you won’t see me!
Because they are seeing, they see not; and hearing, they hear not; neither do they understand the voice of heaven.” – Matthew 13.13
Is God Really Asleep?
READ MORE ABOUT THE BIRTH OF ASTROLOGY
One must be curious learn and become cosmic conscious to hear and see God in action through his celestial designs to be permitted the Golden Keys of divine wisdom.
Deciphering the cosmic hieroglyphs accurately and offer unarguable predictions is as complex as practicing Egyptology but with me as your teacher, you can perform as good as I do! “Four blood moons” April 15/16/17 and 23/24/25 2014 Cardinal Grand Cross Predictions.”
And NO you are not going to hell, you are already on HELL in your fears and cosmic ignorance! God rewards me daily for reading / speaking and translating his celestial Divinity through my Cyber Cosmic University. Your hijacked spirit is trapped in Man’s religious folly doctrines and science who has lost the spirit does not speak of God’s cosmic Divinity.
Looking and explaining the pictures;
The Pope is being enthroned under the authority of the Zodiac.
The sign of Leo is directly above the Pope’s head. Leo rules Fame/France/Italy/Light/Love Kings and the throne.
The Vatican council explains the procession of the Zodiac to the Pope.
THE ILLUMINATI WILL NOT TEACH YOU THIS ON “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” BUT ONLY WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW! YOUR SPIRIT HAS BEEN HIJACKED FOR CENTURIES ITS NOW TIME FOR YOU TO OWN YOUR SALVATION, COME TO THE LIGHT AND REALIZE THE CELESTIAL REALITY OF A COSMIC GOD OR “OUR FATHER IN THE HEAVENS…”
Update 10/13/2014 Archeologists find ancient floor mosaic
Hermes is the God of communication or Mercury representing the sign of Gemini!
“Indeed those who pretend to be the experts are the least informed on the topic they are all cursed to uncover!” Dr. Turi
HERMES Messenger of the gods, God of trade, thieves, travelers, sports, athletes, and border crossings, guide to the Underworld or Gemini! My Cyber Cosmic University is dedicated to bring back the true identity of all cosmic Gods Hermes Ingenui Pio-Clementino Inv544.jpg Hermes Ingenui (Vatican Museums). Roman copy of the 2nd century BC after a Greek original of the 5th century BC. Hermes wears his usual attributes: kerykeion, kithara, petasus(round hat), traveller’s cloak and winged temples. The oldest archaeological remains of this church was obviously BASED on Astrology principles and this is why you SEE the SIGN of PISCES and mosaics of God’s of antiquity on the floor… but science lost the spirit a long time ago and have no clue of the meanings of the signs, the belt of the Zodiac and Astrology.
Note Pisces is ruled by Neptune, this planet rules drugs, alcohol, deception, illusion, gas, the Middle East, the poisoning of the body (drugs) and the mind (religious poisoning), all places of confinements, asylums hospital churches, synagogues, temples and JAIL!
Sedona, Arizona is a definite draw for non cosmic conscious cults leaders
Yes the jail was built upon the foundation of the older church of the world because its all about energies that attracts each others… There are NO accidents only cosmic circumstances unknown to science and 99.09% of the world… Ain’t you glad you have Dr. Turi to get you closer to God and the truth?
Read more about Pisces and read about the WORSE manifestation of Neptune the ruler of this sign swimming downstream.
In 1939 some information were still available and published explaining the direct relationship between the ancient art and the Bible.
Why this Pope would chose the ARIES sign of his nativity to make coins?
They are great truths, which are taught from the position, symbols, and names of the heavenly bodies. When God created and set them in the firmament of heaven, he said, in Gen. i. 14, “Let them be for signs and for seasons.” The very same people or the Illuminati “Church Inc.” now own power over humanity and will make sure you never find bout the truth. And this is why you made the right decision to join the Cosmic Code.
This Cosmic Code newsletter is loaded with information much too valuable to offer it for free to the general public, thus I hope my VIP’s will find my work beneficial as I guide them into the reality of a despicable manipulating news-media…
They are great truths, which are taught from the position, symbols, and names of the heavenly bodies. When God created and set them in the firmament of heaven, he said, in Gen. i. 14, “Let them be for signs and for seasons.” The very same people or the Illuminati “Church Inc.” now own power over humanity and will make sure you never find bout the truth. And this is why you made the right decision to join the Cosmic Code.
This Cosmic Code newsletter is loaded with information much too valuable to offer it for free to the general public, thus I hope my VIP’s will find my work beneficial as I guide them into the reality of a despicable manipulating new-media…
Gen. i. 14 is very clear and therefore, “They (heavenly bodies, Moon, sun and the stars) were conceived by the Creator to be used as signs (that is things to come/predictions) and for specific cycles (periodicity).”
Nothing can be more articulated in reference to this biblical passage from God. The heavenly bodies contain not only a specific Revelation (predictions) involving “the things to come” to be learned in the “signs” of the Zodiac, but also in reference to the “appointed” times in his unyielding celestial will.
The bearing of the sun, moon and distant stars are so organized that towards the end of a specific period in time they “divinely” proceed, almost exactly in the same position, in harmony with each other around the earth. Consequently, we have seasons and Eclipse Cycles on a regular base.
· Gen. xviii. 21: “At this set time in the next year…” · Gen. xviii. 14: “At the time appointed I will return.” · Gen. xvii. 2: “At the set time of which God has spoken.”
In the old days, Astronomy, commingled with Astrology. The Babylonian libraries refer to the following – Isaiah, xlvii. 13, “Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now thy astrologers (wise men), the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up.” The tremendous astrological work of the Babylonians accommodates seventy tablets, and was gathered by the command of Sargon of Agade, thirty-eight hundred years BC. This is referred as the “Illumination of Bel.”
This celestial memorandum were made daily in high towers called “Ziggurats.” Those cleverly, built lookouts were erected in all large cities and their “celestial” narration were sent regularly to their Masters, for further explanations, before reaching the King. Well before we were able to do so, the “wise men” calculated eclipses and heavenly motion. They also knew about the sun spots and all known comets.
Incredibly, my now deceased friend Zacharia Sitchin, was one of the rare scholars able to do accurate Babylonian tablet translations, he reported a full scale of our solar system, including, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, well before the first telescope was invented. The Babylonians were the creators of the Zodiac, and in the British Museum, (Fifth Creation Tablets) there are clay tablet fragments of two planispheres, with incredible figures and astrological calculations impressed on them. Incidentally, the months were named after the signs of the Zodiac.
It reads as follow:
“Anu (God), made excellent the mansion (i.e. the celestial houses) of the great gods (twelve Greek mythology gods) in number (i.e. the twelve signs or mansion of the sun).” “The stars he placed in them. The lumasi (i.e. groups of stars or figures) he fixed.”
Note: Babylonian Life and History – Fragments of these colored glazed bricks are to be seen in the British Museum.
“It must never be forgotten that the Babylonians were a nation of stargazers, and that they kept a body of men to do nothing else but report eclipses, appearances of the moon, sun-spots, etc., etc.”
~ Dr. Budge
Australian Original Astronomical rock Engravings will Rewrite World History
Aboriginal Rock Art - Astronomy
ITS ALL IN THE STARS AND ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS KNEW ALL ABOUT IT!
Read another good article for you there!
Shameful Cover-up We Are Uncovering
Another friend, Dr. Alan Albert Snow, in his work entitled “The Horoscopes in the Dead Sea Scrolls Cover-up” , notify us that an outrageous mind control involving the Dead Sea Scrolls’ documentation is taking place. Dr. Snow is an authority on the scrolls; he is also a fighter for the truth and will expose it all to the world. This great scholar was asked to participate in my infomercial and I had his precious permission to print the following. I classify him as an “awakener,” a man of truth, who is willing to put a bitterly fight for the cause and I personally believe that his message is quite important to every one of us.
Political schemes and cover-ups are insignificant as compared to what he will divulge in this book. People flinch when astrology is being mentioned or remotely involved with the scrolls; others shake their head in disbelief, that this vital historic revelation is being held back on the theory fit only for scholars and not for the masses. It is world-shaking news of spectacular importance. It is building up serious steam and will soon explode. It is a form of manipulation, a cover-up that we are discovering; it is offensive from these “educated scholars” to believe that we, the regular people, cannot deal with this well, kept, secret study.
The fact is, a few of the self-styled scholarly selected elite, dictate to the rest of us about Religion, Astrology and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Well, I have news for you, the new age of Aquarius (Astrology) has taken over your deceiving, secretive, religious agenda, reflecting your ignorance and in time true wisdom will be practiced by all and accepted as the true light. I am like Dr. Snow and many others smart soul concerned with the facts and willing to continue uncovering, this shameful religious and political cover-up. Let the mental-tottering, religious-oriented scholars wheeze, sneeze and mutter; as they will.
“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
They will be forced to give up their suppression of the role of Astrology in the Scrolls making up the essence of all religions. Special censors and mental snobs of the academic world; as you turn the page to all courageous men’s exposing the truth like I do, you may begin to shake your head and really worry as your own very security and deceiving foundations will scramble to ruins. Never forget that when you control someone’ source of information (including fears of hell) you can easily control that person’s life and this what the church did for centuries.
Time are changing fast and combined with the current Scorpius Dragon, New Age Leaders (I am one of them blessed with real prophetic/cosmic wisdom and may be one of the “The Majestic Twelve?” One thing is sure we are all dedicated to enlighten the world to a new cosmic light where our work will, in time bring love, education, respect and peace upon this world.
All erudite free thinkers like Sitchin, Dr. Snow myself and truth seekers alike all over the world are working hard to open up a new way of thinking in order to further your spiritual freedom and I am proud to be one of them. Dr Turi Beyond 2012
VATICAN S CEILING LOADED WITH ASTROLOGY SIGNS!
Here is another “Vatican Seal” with the Papal Dragon.
******* READ THE POWER OF THE DRAGON *******
Church painting of ‘The Dragon’ which is consuming the life of man.
Church in Europe
Vatican Painting of a Dragon
Gregorian Calender at the Vatican.
Floor in Vatican
God Creates the Zodiac
Fear of Astrology
Christianity has a long-induced fear of Astrology. First, it is important to mention that in Persia, Zoroaster founded an idealist religion that strongly influenced Christianity and favored Astrology. The Magi, in the biblical sense of the term, were its priests. Around the 17th century, a rabbi named Bachai drew the condemnation of the Christian world for placing the Son of God under the influence of the stars.
Yes this is why two thousands years later so many of you react the same way because of the induced fear of going to hell if you try to deal with God openly and use his power.Man was made at the image of God, he made man at HIS image, thus you own Divine powers but one must “Ask and you shall receive!” All you need to realize now is that; knowledge is power ignorance is evil and why the Illuminati do NOT want you to know because SHARING POWER IS LOSS OF POWER! To this day, I can not believe people would crucify me for offering them the true face of God and power!
“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.” Matthew 7:6 and this is exactly what the world has done to me since 1991 when I started my God given mission to free humanity from fears and ignorance and reinstate God celestial Identity and legitimacy.
Like the wise Magi, he innocently worked out Jesus’ horoscope offending the Church bringing thousands of innocent erudite men and women to burn at the stake in the process. Since then, devoted Christians have developed an induced subconscious fear of “God” and are neutralizing their own intellectual potential needed to understand and realize the unyielding will of the Creator, throughout the subtle dynamics of the Universe or what I refer as “The Cosmic Code.“
If they could simply accept that God is the Ultimate Creator and they are the children of the universe, their inner fears and lack of cosmic consciousness would change into useful cosmic knowledge and pure wisdom. Man did not create the heavens instead in the name of power the “Church Inc.” began controlling vital information and the spirit of God or Jesus initial Ministry to introduce humanity to “Our Father in the Heavens” was lost, translated, arranged, edited as a form of mental manipulation to steer you away from the truth. This ultimately transformed into nowadays scientific community refusing God’s divinity. They truly believe it is only through rational, logical thinking, testing and through the desiccation physical matters they will one day own the “scientific” answers for everything. The sad reality is there is no room for the spirit of God and is cosmic essence is now laughable, unreal, the product of imagination and deceptive archaic religious information… Exactly as planned by the Illuminati who still OWN this power for themselves…This is why a handful of very wealthy people who have access to such rare information use it daily and YOU are laughing at me promising me eternal hell?
“Millionaires do not use astrology, billionaires do!”
J.P Morgan
The Illuminati “Church Inc. hold not only your body mind and spirit but an unimaginable massive wealth, allowing them for centuries in an army of of religious men imaginative folly to write books creating/controlling and promoting over 875 different religions and all of today’s world’s “accredited” Colleges and Universities. In fact there is not a single financial endeavor the Vatican is not involved with and this is why I wrote ******************
For centuries the dreadful imaginative fears fulled by cosmic ignorance, resulted in losing the celestial spirit of God, stimulating endless religious wars and today’s “academical” chaos plaguing this world where children are molded into monsters and decimate each others.
God created those stars as a Divine order, a Heavenly scheme, and Unique program blessings/cursing all his children and these stars above are much more than heavy rocks made of fire, ice and gas.
“The Stars are composing God’s Heavenly Eternal Melody and this Divine Order lie overhead, far from all religious books mandated by men.”
~ Dr. Turi
From the mid-17th century when the mounting of scientific prevalence commenced, man began to think of himself as being more important than the Creator himself.
With his new logical / rational / scientific perception of the Universe we live in, the lost souls and their telescopes became today’s “new scientists’ critical minds, rejecting God’s celestial will and his subtle cosmic manifestations. Over the last century science began pouring out critical judgments against Astrology, through a politically oriented church, then finally astronomy and Astrology split from each other. Since then the battle to destroy and ridicule the mother of all sciences intensified but the art survived with gifted people born with a superior intelligence and higher intuition. Just because there is a big difference between education and intelligence!
It is important to mention that ancient astrological clay tablets were stolen and used by those early scientists (astronomers) to accurately predict the time of an eclipse. Thus, astronomy is nothing more than a by-product of a much older science called Astrology used widely in all disappeared civilizations and used 4 century before the birth of Christ in the Middle East!
Yes and this is why the Magis were plotting the stars pointing out the birth of a spiritual Leader and the beginning 200 years ago of the Age of Pisces! Again read************* Back home in France, we had “La Guerre De Cent Ans” or three hundred years of religious wars all over Europe, whereCharles Martel stopped the Muslim invasion a Poitiers! In the process millions of people lost their lives fighting their imposed religious differences while the Papal real motive with the “Conquistadors” was gaining more artifacts more gold, more power and more real estate. Here in the United States, real “spiritual” progress has been very slow but steady with each passing generations and with the explosion of technology the Church is losing its monopoly and dictate what the Pope is working overtime a losing battle against the new Age of Aquarius on Twitter! But the fact is, while I have been on the internet since 1991 and well before the Pope, the minuscule amount of smart curious people will never replace the billions of lost cosmic unconscious, spiritually abused souls to join him there…
If we are to avoid falling right back to the Dark Ages the reader must realize why bringing back God’s celestial divinity and replace accepted religious doctrines is the only way out for humanity to stop the current wave of terrorism.
The tremendous impact of Pluto (re-birth) in Sagittarius (religions) played its part last few years and now in the sign of Capricorn (governments) it is reshaping politics and power. And this includes science and man’s understanding of our relationship with the old scriptures, the Dead Sea Scrolls and its direct relationships with astrology. Pluto moved from Scorpio to Sagittarius on November 11th, 1995. Constrained to face the horrible consequences of his own destructive behavior, instinctively man turns to religion for spiritual comfort. But in Sagittarius, Pluto (fanaticism) did promote a disturbing wave of religious fanaticism. In the U.S, the slow start of Pluto’s impact (death) in Sagittarius (the books/religions/the bible) has shocked the world with some religious fanatics committing serious crimes against humanity, clinics and abortion doctors.
Many of them are still in jail and must pay the ultimate price for their destructive behavior. Some Middle Eastern residents then began shocking the world, with an endless wave of suicidal bomb attacks on major European (London attack) and American cities (911) and many other places in this world (India). The “contract” they sign with their manipulators, before blowing themselves up (surrounded by the greatest number of innocent victims), promises “the martyrs” 20 or more virgins after an immediate entrance to paradise!
After the painful passage of Pluto (expiration) in Sagittarius (religions), in a few years from toady, the world will be ready for a more balanced universal religion based upon humanity reconnecting with God’s celestial Divinity. The well adjusted, Uranian preachers, will teach a higher expression of God and the stars found in all the religions of the past. These advanced teachers of light will introduce a new and improved image of a God, free of fear and full of love and attention and I am one of them!
These futuristic, “religious leaders” will combine their unique cosmic wisdom with a more comprehensive, scientific understanding of the manifestation of the Creator, throughout the Universe and the stars. Then man will soon have to accept the reality of our interstellar brothers already inbreeding chosen souls like Dr. Turi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2pz_fwus5o
Make sure to also read – Is God Really Asleep?
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I agree with you!!! David Icke should not take other people’s research and claim credit for it and etc.!!! I do believe WE ALL have to READ and RESEARCH ALL Information out there and etc.!!! I did notice in the video that he did not mention your work and etc.. Which he should of. I saw a Documentary on A and E, Titled: “Astrology: Secrets in the Stars”. In this Documentary, they looked into what was known as the Star of Bethlehem. The Star that the 3 Wise men from the East followed to find Jesus.
They said that the Astrologer / Astronomer, Kepler theorized that in 7 B.C., that there was a Conjuction of Jupiter and Saturn which made it look like a New Star or something. The Astrologer on the Show said that from this Conjuction of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces. That Astrologers at that time would of figured that Pices Ruled Judea. And Saturn signified the Jews. And Jupitar signifies Kingship.
THEREFORE, the King of the Jews is Being born in Judea. And this is why the 3 Wise Men went to Israel.
Astrologers did a Birth Chart for August 22, 7 B.C.. They said that Every Planet is in it’s own sign. The sign that they naturally rule. THEREFORE, a person born on this Date would have an Extraordinary Birth Chart. That this person would have a Major Impact on Humanity for Centuries to come!!!
Do you think that this is true, that Jesus was born on August 22, 7 B.C.???!!!
Thanks George
DT – David is a very competitive insecure soul born in April under the constellation of Aries with his Sun sign in Taurus (like Hitler and “Bernie” Madoff and they behave that way because the stars do not lie! The key words for a negative Aries is MYSELF, ME and I FIRST! They are totally consumed with themselves and very greedy/selfish – read Dr. Louis Turi | Aries when my website us up and running again.
Yes you are speaking the truth – Not sure knowing that paper and pen were not invented yet, your guess is as good as anyone else offering a different date…All I know for sure Jesus was the leader of the Age of Pisces an age made up of deception and illusion resulting in total chaos on earth and the loss of the spirit of God two thousands years later. I am here to introduce the year of Aquarius and its incredible potential…
Blessings
DT
“Life is not a game of chance: the Creator did not put us where we would be the sport of circumstances, to be tossed about a cruel fate, regardless of our efforts to save our world.”
~ George B. Emerson
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Aphrodite statuette from Myrina, 2nd century BC
The worship of Cybele was originally centered in Phrygia (central Turkey), where she was known Kubaba or Kybele. The Romans formally adopted her worship in 204 BCE, when they brought a statue representing her from her main shrine in the Phrygian city of Pergamum back to Rome. This statue, from a site in Anatolia dating to the eighth or early seventh century BCE, depicts the Phrygian goddess with two youthful attendents playing a flute and harp.
Gold statuette of Aphrodite, 100 A.D., Benaki Museum of Greek Civilization.
the god Jupiter in Baalbek
Jupiter_Heliopolitanus_Louvre. Iupiter Heliopolitanus (Iupiter from Heliopolis, today Baalbek, Lebanon) is the ancient Roman form of the Syrian weather god Baal Hadad.
Baalbek, also called Heliopolis, is a spectacular archaeological site in northeastern Lebanon. From the 1st century BC and over a period of two centuries, the Romans built three temples here: Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus. The best preserved temple at the site is the Temple of Bacchus built in 150 AD. The ancient Roman temple was dedicated to Bacchus. Today, it is one of the top tourist attractions of a Roman tour in Lebanon."
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Flying Nike (Victory) Greek East Greece Hellenistic Period, 2nd century B.C. Myrina, Aeolis, Asia Minor
Terracotta statuette of a woman holding a baby Period: Late Hellenistic Date: 2nd–1st century B.C. Culture: Greek, Asia Minor, Myrina (?) Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm) Classification: Terracottas Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 Accession Number: 74.51.1729
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Hand of Sabazius Bronze House of Magic Rites, Pompeii Nestled in this hand is Sabazius, god of fertility, surrounded by symbols of regeneration — pinecone, snake, bird, nursing mother. The fingers form a gesture of blessing. Worship of Sabazius probably came to Pompeii with gladiators from Thrace, a region north-east of Greece.
Late Roman Empire. "The Emblematic Hand of the Mysteries. A hand covered with numerous symbols was extended to the neophytes when they entered into the Temple of Wisdom. An understanding of the embossed upon the surface of the hand brought with it Divine power and regeneration Therefore, by means of these symbolic hands the candidate was said to be raised from the dead."
Greek, 4th century BC. Votive relief to the Chthonic Hermes. Relief. Found: Samos.
Greek, 4th century BC. Votive relief to the Chthonic Hermes. Relief. Found: Samos.
Young Heracles strangling snakes. Face of a silver tridrachm (Reverse side: bee) (394-391 BCE) Diameter 2.35 cm - Weight 11.4 g British Museum, London, Great Britain
Bronze votive relief for Jupiter Sabazios showing the god with sceptre and patera in a naiskos, 2nd-3rd century A.D.
Each of these artefacts from the forthcoming British Museum exhibition in London, 'Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum', tells a…
The Capitoline Triad - Juno, Jupiter, Minerva, found in the lararium of Casa degli Amorini Dorati, Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
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ROMAN BRONZE LAR, SACRIFICING The protector of the Roman family standing in a graceful attitude, holding a libation bowl and cornucopia, and wearing high boots, wind-blown tunic, narrow belt, and mantle with long zigzag folds falling in front, his thick wavy hair spiraling from the crown and surmounted by a wreath, the eyes recessed. Very fine style. 1st-2nd Century AD
RISD Museum: Unknown artist, Roman. Household god (lar), late 3rd century-early 4th century. Bronze. Width: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 inches) maximum. Anonymous gift 62.061
A genius of the paterfamilias from a Roman Lararium (household shrine) from Boscoreale, Italy 1st century CE | von mharrsch
ROMAN BRONZE VOTIVE PLAQUE OF VULCAN, GOD OF THE FORGE. Standing nude within an aedicula, or shrine, with arched pediment supported by columns. In his right hand he holds a hammer about to strike and anvil atop an altar; in his left a pair of tongs. 2nd-3rd Century CE
Epona wordt in de mythologie echter niet zozeer in verband gebracht met landbouw, maar ze wordt beschouwd als de Keltische beschermgodin van het paard. Op de afbeeldingen welke van haar bekend zijn wordt ze steeds afgebeeld met een of meerdere paarden waaraan ze haar naam paardegodin te danken heeft. Dodecaeder.nl
Artemisa Efesia Fecha: Siglo II a.C. Museo: Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles Grecia.
Nehalennia
Nehalennia, Celtic Goddess is revered in lower Rhine regions and the North Sea coast of the Netherlands. She is the Goddess of seafarers.
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Arianrhod (ah-ree-AHN-rhohd), Arian meaning 'silver', and Rhod meaning 'wheel' or 'disc'. Celtic Moon-Mother Goddess.
Epona is a Gallo-Celtic goddess who made her way into the Roman pantheon, where she was worshipped as the protectress of horses and foals. Shrines were found in almost every stable. It is thought that in early times, she was believed to be an incarnation of the Divine White Mare. Epona was originally a great nature-mother goddess of her own right. Without a husband or children she lived as the virgin self-producing Great Mother.
Artemis of Ephesus, Naples, Italy. Alabaster and bronze. Roman, second century CE.
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Statue of Diana of Ephesus (100-300 d.C.) #Historia
Lady of Auxerre, statue of goddess or kore, ca. 6650 все. Limestone, approx. 2 1 high. Louvre, Paris. Female Figure Kültepe; Karum Kanesh Ib, ca. 1800-1700 B.C. (Bruce White; Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Turkey)
Minoan: Snake Goddess, from the palace at Knossos. c. 1600 BCE. Faience, appx. 13 1/2 " H. Archeological Museum, Herakleion. Aside from images of bulls, the only obvious deity we have from ancient Crete is the so-called Snake Goddess, perhaps an Earth Goddess who is holding two snakes in her outstretched hands - she is shown with aflounced skirt, and open bodice (evidently standard among Minoan women), and a dove perched on her head which signifies her being divine
Bronze figure of Athena, Greek.
Fragment of an altar to Silvanus roman god in Pannonia – Hungarian National Museum – Silvanus istennek szentelt oltár, Pannonia – Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Lapidárium
Hadrian as Pontifex Maximus, Capitoline Museum
Augustus as Pontifex maximus
While we saw the above image a few weeks ago due to its frequent confusion with Asklepios, today we celebrate it as the image was intended:…
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1st century AD. Jupiter Heliopolitanos. Temple of Jupiter at Baalbeck
Mithras and the zodiac, Between the columns a representation of Mithras' rock-birth. In his l.h. the youthful, naked god carries a globe and with his upraised r.h. he supports a circle, on which six signs of the Zodiac. Aries-Taurus-Gemini-Cancer-Leo-Virgo. In the four corners, which are left open by the circle, are the busts of the four Winds: Zephyrus and Eurus ; Notus and Boreas : On the rock a raven, serpent and sitting dog, all three of them raising their heads towards Mithras.
Stone relief from Housesteads showing the birth of the god Mithras from an egg – the symbol of eternal time/ English Heritage/Great North Museum.
Mithras wearing a Phrygian cap, a serpent and a small dog helping Mithras as he kills a sacred bull. Roman Mithraism: a secret religion based on Mithra or zoroastrian god a rival to early Christianity.
HISPANIA ROMANA Zervan Cronos - Escultura romana, Mérida
Taurochtony, sacrifice du taureau pascal
Sol Invictus, Oil lamp, Tróia, Portugal
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Votive plate for the African god Saturn , sitting between Sol and Luna , 3rd AD
ol Invictus, le dieu sauveur(Sôter en grec, Salvator en latin) romain., Helios des grecs, Sol Invictus Heliodromus Soter, tient le bâton magistral de l' Aéon. entouré du serpent mystique de la sagesse. Il est auréolé de sa couronne solaire à sept rayons.
The Mithraic/Greco-Egypto-Roman God Aion. ―Source: Google Images
Zurvan-Akarana, Lord of Boundless Time (Mithraic Aion; Aion-Aionios)
Sol et Saturne , sacrifice de l agneau. -Phoenicien.
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sol mithra luna
Banquet d'alliance divine de Mithra et Sol . La coupe de vin est auréolée elle représente le sang du sacrifice salvateur, un sangraal . La grappe de raisin entourée de 4 pains est posée sur un autel à jambes du taureau cosmique.
Luna (Selene), Roman relief (marble), 3rd century AD, (Terme di Diocleziano…
Aion (god of eternity) on Globe. Relief from the Villa Albani, period of Commodus (AD 180-93). Rome, Museo Torlonia.
Rising Helios", Votive relief marble - circa 2th c. AD, from Roman period - at the Metropolitan Museum
Relief of Sol invictus. Le soleil invaincu, dieu romain associé aux mystères de Mithra, le sauveur.(Soter en latin), son culte était permis aux femmes à la différence de celui de Mithra. L'empereur Constantin le célébra chaque dimanche jusqu' à sa mort.
Handle of a bronze volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) in the form of a Gorgon. Culture/period Western Greek. Date 500BC (circa). Made in: Taranto
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Female Figurine 23,000-21,000 BC Limestone
venus avdeevo statuette Avdeevo venus, the front view of one of the double venuses
The Losange Venus is made of green steatite.
1. Woman from Willendorf 3. Prehistoric 24,000 BCE 4. Carved from limestone colored with red ocher. 5. Found in Austria. 6. Now resides in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria 7. Example of attributes. 9. This is known as the most famous Paleolithic female figurine. The exaggerated attributes symbolizes high fertility which was a common subject for prehistoric sculptors.
Head of a woman known as the "Venus of Brassempouy" – Gravettian (c. 27,000 BC) Mammoth tusk. Brassempouy (Landes, Frances) Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales +5k boards
LARGE HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA DRAPED FEMALE dressed in a chiton. With her upraised arms she plaits a braid from which single strands remain on the inside of her left hand. On the right side of her head are attached numerous single locks. It now stands on a separately made square terracotta podium. Ca. 1st Century BC.
Roman bronze votive plaque of the nude Herakles.
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Sirena bicaudata
Siren / Origin: Italy / Date: ca. 1571-90 / Medium: Bronze / Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Melusine, kapiteel Porche du For, Notre Dame, Le puy
Bronze marble of Dionisos Sabazio - found Pompei, now at Archaeology Museum of Napoli
Agathos Daimon on a lighted altar and Agathe Tyche with cornucopia and a phiale. The relief, mutilated on the left side, may have decorated one of the niches carved into the rock in the so-called Templi Ferali of Akrai quarries (Palazzolo Acreide), where a particularly large number of dedications to the Agathos Daimon are found. 3rd century BC, Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”
Bust, ancient Roman, God Zeus-Sabazios, bronze, parcel-gilt, inlaid with silver and niello, ca. 180-200.
Unknown man, possibly of the imperial family, Roman bust (marble), 3rd century AD, (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Reperti archeologici
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Campana relief With Hercules fighting the Lernean Hydra. Roman, 50 BC-50
Campana relief with Hercules fighting the Nemean lion. Roman, 50 BC-50 Restored
Campana relief with Hercules fighting the Cretan bull. Roman, 50 BC-50 Restored
Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides, IV BCE. Catacombe di Via Latina, Grottaferrata (Roma). Culture roman christian
Fig. 15. Young Hercules. 4th Ce AD. Catacomb of the VIa Latina. Rome, Italy.
DEMETER / EARLY CHRISTIAN MURAL. Rome / Roma (Italy), Catacombs / Catacombe di via Latina, Cubiculum C, entrance. The goddess Demeter. Early Christian mural, mid–4th Century.
Fresco in Via Latini Catacombs (fresco). Paleo-Christian, (4th century). Il Parco Archeologico delle Tombe di via Latina; discovered 1857-58 by Lorenzo Fortunati; Catacomb of Via Latina, Rome, Italy. [Christian Roman ass burial chamber catacomb decoration decorative donkey early Christian emperor illustration illustrative male mural painting subterranean wall]
sufrió el martirio hacia el año 305 en la persecución de Diocleciano
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LAS PARÁBOLAS Y ALEGORÍAS DE JESÚS. | DON QUIJOTE, PREDICADOR Y ...
Oldest known Madonna and Child Jesus image from the Catacombs of St. Priscilla
Mother and child, Cubiculum of the Velatio (fresco), Catacomb of Priscilla, Roma
2nd - 3rd century depiction of Adam and Eve from Catacombs of San Gennaro (St. Januarius) Napoli, Italy
Samson and the Lion. Wall-painting, c. 350-400. Via Latina Catacomb, Roml
YperNoisis - YperNoisis
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The Hope Hygieia, goddess of health, feeding milk to a serpent 130-161 CE Roman copy of a 360 BCE Greek original unearthed in Ostia
Full length view of the Hope Hygieia, goddess of health, 130-161 CE Roman copy of a 360 BCE Greek original unearthed in Ostia
Bust of Jupiter Roman, Empire First - 2nd Century AD, after Greek model of the 2nd Half of the 4th Century. BC Bronze, hollow casting
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Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull, Roman, mid-2nd–early 3rd century A.D. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Under the new Bloomberg building will go a relic from AD240
3rd C. BCE. A common image in ancient Greece of a shepherd carrying a sheep over his shoulders, continued in roman art. Later co-opted by early christians as a metaphorical image of Christ in mosaics. Marble. Vatican Museum.
The Mysteries of Sabazios
Female figure, bronze, 2nd-3rd century CE, Heraclea Lyncestis.
Olokun is an Orisha in Yoruba religion, associated with the sea.[1]. It works closely with Oya (Deity of the Winds) and Egungun (Collective Ancestral Spirits) to herald the way for those that pass to ancestorship, as it plays a critical role in Iku, Aye and the transition of human beings and spirits between these two existences
Greek bronze figure of a centaur, Hellenistic Period, circa 1st Century B.C., 14 1/2 inches long
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Late Roman Bronze Bust of a Priest with Silver Inlaid Eyes | Bronze and sliver, 3rd-4th century C.E. Text and image from the website of the Miho Museum.
Terracotta figure of Aphrodite crowning a herm of Dionysos with an ivy wreath - 100 BC, circa from Myrina, now British Museum
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Hygieia, Roman statuette (marble), 2nd century CE, was the daughter of the god Asclepius, and Epione. She was the goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation. Hygieia and her five sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: Hygieia (goddess of health, cleanliness, and sanitation), Panacea (goddess of universal remedy), Iaso (goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (goddess of the healing process), and Aglæa/Ægle (goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment).
La déesse Hygie tient dans ses bras un serpent buvant dans une coupelle" - Copie romaine d'une statue originale grecque datant du IIIe siècle avant notre ère - Hygie ou Hygée, nom qui signifie "santé" en grec ancien, est la fille d'Asclépios, le dieu de la médecine, et d'Épione. Elle est la déesse de la santé, de la propreté & de l'hygiène.
Hygeia, ancient Greek goddess of health
Aesclepius
Asclepius - Greek God of Healing. Interesting to note the serpent on the staff, which is a common symbol on many ambulences today. Many believe the gods of myth owed their "magical abilities" to advanced knowledge in their field of study, like medicine
Greek God Zeus
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Dionysios decorated altar. 44-27 BCE From the excavations of the Roman theater. Museo Arqueologico de Sevilla,Spain
Maenad
Louvre CA6819. Women playing the aulos and the tambourine. Terracotta figurine made in Syria, 2nd–3rd centuries AD.
sis Drumming Romano-Egyptian terracotta figurine National of Classical Archaeology in Hungary
Carchemish, Southeastern Anatolia, Gaziantep (province) Date 2000 BC-1000 BC Baked clay female figure with tambourine Image via Layne Redmond archives
Woman Standing with Pomegranate, possibly the Goddess Persephone - terracotta and pigment from Cyprus, 480-450 BC - at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK
Figurine d'Eros musicien. Eros dionysiaque tenant la cithare et le plectre (stylet pour pincer les cordes) Hellénistique (tardif) : 4e quart 2e siècle av J.-C. // découverte : Myrina (site) (origine). Paris, musée du Louvre
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Groupe : Dionysos et Ariane. 1er siècle av J.-C., période hellénistique (323-31 av J.-C.) (Grèce). Paris, musée du Louvre
Terracotta figure of a woman (Persephone?) standing, weight on her left leg, wearing a chiton and himation, her left arm hangs by her side, her right hand (raised) holding a pomegranate, hair arranged in melon style with three large divisons on each side, wearing earrings, neck marked with 'Venus rings', wrapped in himation, holding a pomegranate. Pale brown clay, white coatin, red on hair, pink on face, rose-madder on chton, blue on himation and under pomegranate leaves, yellow on earrings.
goddess, probably Persephone on her throne in the underworld - circaa 480–460 BC, from Tarentum Taranto, now Pergamon museum, Berlin
Marble statue of a kore (standing maiden), fully draped and coifed found at Merenda, Attica 550-540 BC.
Asklepios was the Greek God of Medicine. This statue is housed in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. Asklepios was said to have been so powerful at medicine, "that he could bring the dead back to life".(www.theoi.com) Obtaining the ability to bring the dead back to life was a bad thing for Asklepios because once Zeus got news of this he killed Asklepios with a thunderbolt. +1.6k boards
Roman pandura, from a Sarcophagus with weddeings of Cupido & Psyche, end of 2nd century C.E. from San Cesareo in Palatio, Rome (British Museum)
Cybele playing
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Interesting art forms some of them definitely depicting people and ideas from Black African cultural themes.
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coin showing Roman Temple Roman coin showing Temple
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Lasa (patera support), 300-280 BCE, Etruscan, bronze with silver inlays
Turan, the Etruscan goddess of love holding a perfume flask, ca. 350-300 BCE
Cautopates statue, found in the Mithraeum I at Stockstadt, Saalburgmuseum, Saalburg Roman Fort, Limes Germanicus, Germania (Germany) 260CE. Cautes and Cautopates are torch-bearers depicted attending the god Mithras in the icons of ancient Roman cult of Mithraism, known as Tauroctony. Cautes holds his torch raised up, and Cautopates holds his torch downward.
Cautes statue, found in the Mithraeum I at Stockstadt, Saalburgmuseum, Saalburg Roman Fort, Limes Germanicus, Germania (Germany)
Cautopates, Musee daquitaine 2nd – 3rd c AD. Inv.: 87.1.50 Cautopatès and Cautès were the two companions of Mithra, the god whose cult was extremely popular throughout the Roman empire from the 2nd century, and which disappeared during the 4th century due to competition from Christianity. This limestone statue discovered in 1986 in the Temple of Bordeaux presents Cautopatès in the usual style, dressed in oriental fashion like the god Mithra himself, with a Phrygian cap and cape painted in red.
tagaoth: A Roman bronze statue of Venus holding Eros and a pomegranate Looks like the Statue of Liberty busting a move.
From February 25 – March 6, Christie's Hong Kong is proud to present Statement Jewels, an online-only auction featuring an array of stunning diamond rings, elegant jadeite earrings, unique watches and more. Whether it's a Van Cleef & Arpels ring or a vintage Chopard watch, this collection features a number of conversation starters. With estimates starting at HK$2,000, there is an opportunity to acquire statement-making accessories that add a sparkle to any wardrobe.
A Roman Bronze Figure of Isis-Aphrodite, Syria, Circa 2nd Century A.D.
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From February 25 – March 6, Christie's Hong Kong is proud to present Statement Jewels, an online-only auction featuring an array of stunning diamond rings, elegant jadeite earrings, unique watches and more. Whether it's a Van Cleef & Arpels ring or a vintage Chopard watch, this collection features a number of conversation starters. With estimates starting at HK$2,000, there is an opportunity to acquire statement-making accessories that add a sparkle to any wardrobe.
Ancient & Medieval History — Roman Bronze Statuette of Sol Invictus, 2nd-3rd...
ROMAN BRONZE MITHRAS. Wearing a tall peaked cap with lappets, an oriental-styled short tunic, a long himation, and leggings; holding a patera. 1st Century BC/AD
Roman bronze statuette of Cautopates one of the two torch bearers of Mithras
Zeus Hurling Lightning Archaic bronze statue from Dodona, circa 530-520 BCE. Glypotothek, Munich. Photograph by Daderot, 2011.
Dionysos, Pan and a satyr; Roman Bronze figurines statue - circa 2nd-3rd CE, from Szomodor in Hungary, metal fitting of a chariot - at the National Museum, Budapest.
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This large bronze bust, one of the finest of its kind, is a faithful replica of the famous cult statue in Alexandria, scupted by Bryaxis circa 286-278 B.C. Although the orignal is now lost, the pose can be reconstructed from depictions on engraved gems of the Roman period. The god originally held a scepter in his raised left hand, which is abbreviated in the present example by having the left shoulder raised. The Ptolemaic eagle, which the gems show to have adorned the pediment.
The god Baal
Bronze statuette of a satyr - 6th century B.C. - Etruscan
Statuette en bronze de Vénus - Römermuseum Augst
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Heracles - from Etruscan culture, 4th c. B.C
Hermes Kriophoros (Ram-bearer) Greek, Late Archaic Period, about 500–490 B.C. Votive statuette of Hermes holding a ram under his left arm. He is dressed in a short belted chitoniskos, small brimmed petasus, and laced boots with wings (endromides). The god stands frontally on an oblong plinth with his left foot advanced. Originally (now lost) he held the herald's staff (kerykeion, in Latin, caduceus) of the Olympian messenger in his right hand.
Statuette of Helios, the sun god. Roman Provincial , about A.D. 150–190. 18.9 cm (7 7/16 in.). Bronze
Anatomy lesson, 4th century wall painting, Catacombs, Rome, Italy Luke 8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad
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Roman pantheistic deity, circa late 1st-early 2nd Century A.D.
Ancient Roman Solid Cast Bronze Figure of Mercury (200 to 300 Europe)
first black chinese dynasty -
Attica (?), Afrodite in una conchiglia, Gesso policromo, Primo quarto del IV secolo a.C., Hermitage, San Pietroburgo.
a) funerary relief of the Gessii b) c.30-13bce c) marble d) Rome e) shows Gessia Fausta (liberta of Publius), P.Gessius (son of P. of Romilian tribe), P.Gessius Primus (libertus of P, firstborn son of GF & PG); depicted as a freed family (men in toga and cuirass, woman in shawl, married); another example of tomb being carried out according to someone's will (the son's), funded by someone else (the mother)
Ancient Art Week! Greek Coin Greece (c. 490 B.C.E.) Silver, 10 mm. The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
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Venus of Malta (4,500 BCE). The statuette is related to the worship of the goddes of fertility. Probably the woman asleep was a priestess who had to construe the will of the goddess from her dreams
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The picture is of a Roman Republic silver denarius. This was the dominate currency of Rome during the Republic. Astrologia, magia e alchimia - Le costellazioni del cielo boreale e i segni dello zodiaco, miniatura di Francesco Botticini, in Matteo Palmieri, Città di Vita, sec. XV.
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Europe and the Roman Empire was a continent and empire of many races. In this coin the woman in the front is a White woman. The Goddess on the back is a Black Goddess.
Dancing Satyr
The Archangel ivory is the largest surviving Byzantine ivory panel, now in the British Museum. Dated to the early 6th century, it depicts an archangel holding a sceptre and imperial orb.The archangel is usually identified as Michael, and the panel is assumed to have formed the right part of a diptych, with the lost left half possibly depicting Emperor Justinian (527–565), to whom the archangel would be offering the insignia of imperial power. Possibly, imperial workshops of Constantinople.
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Apollo (Kouros). 1st century BC or AD; bronze, copper, bone, dark stone, glass
crowned with the Julian star by the Divi filius Octavian.Octavian crowned all statues of Divus Iulius with the comet
Roman bronze Isis-Aphrodite with dove headdress, circa 2nd century AD.
God Zeus
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Coin of Augustus Caesar with crescent moon and star symbol like Islam.
Mithras with Sol. Dura Europos, Syria.
Harpocrat
God Mithra sacrificing the Bull or the Age of Taurus.
The Dionysian Mysteries - Dionysus crucified on a cross-tree as initiates take bread and wine ?
ésus tient le nouveau testament des 4 évangiles dans sa main gauche et désigne son alter ego de sa main droite dans le zodiac.Le Christ apollinien au centre du zodiaque (Illustration italienne du XI° siècle)
Aion the hand surrounding the sign of the fish, the vernal fish (spring) of the "Passage" ("Easter, Pesach, Pâchon"). . Aïon la main entourant le signe des poissons, le poisson vernal (printemps)du "Passage"("Pâques, Pessah, Pâchon") .
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Portrait of Zarathustra as depicted in a Mithraic Temple in Dura Europus (in modern Syria) in the 3rd Century AD.
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Clementia . Temple of divin Caesar and his effygy with crossed arms. Roman Temple with cross looking like a Christian cross inside
You decide - similarities in headdress of the Egyptians?
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The CIMRM 49 - Mithras with Sol. Dura Europos, Syria Explains a lot.
Christ du narthex hagia Sophia, proscynese de Léon vi le sage Xenm
The emperor Commodus portrayed as the god Janus ... Fitting for a man assassinated on New Years Day
Gold solidus of Emperor Justinian ii, the first ruler to strike coins showing a portrait of Christ, as seen here. Struck during his second reign, circa 705 - 711 A.D. From the Constantinople mint.
Gold Stater with goddess Athena - from ancient city Pergamon in Anatolia, circa 330-300 BC, Hellenistic period
Trinacria (Tiskelion)coin, Syracuse 317-310 BC
Owl coin I think its a tetradrachm owl coin.
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Mithras bull-slaying scene, marble, late 2nd - early 3rd century AD, Londinium, Roman London, Museum of London. The central medallion depicts a bull-slaying scene. Around the border are 12 signs of the zodiac. The sun ('Sol') and moon ('Luna') are depicted in the top corners, the two wind gods in the bottom. The inscription indicates that "Ulpius Silvanus, initiated into a Mithraic grade at Orange, France, paid his vows to Mithras". This was perharps by building a temple to Mithras in London.
Sculpture of either Castor or Pollux ('Dioscuri'), from near the site of the Temple of Mithras, 3rd century AD, Londinium, Roman London, Museum of London | The scuplture probably came from a temple or shirne dedicated to the Heavenly Twins ('Dioscuri'). It may have been in the area near the Temple of Mithras.
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Kore, circa 510 BC. Taken by the Acropolis Museum. Athens, Greece. S
Limestone statue of Herakles Cypriot, Classical, 2nd half of the 4th century BC Said to be from the temple at Golgoi
Winged Nike (Victoria), Hellenistic statuette (terracotta), 2nd century BC, (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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Boetian terracotta protome of a Goddess, 5th-4th century B.C. Wearing a polos whose bands fall down to her shoulders and a necklace with triangular elements, her hair arranged in an opulent, wavy coiffure, her visage presents an intriguing contrast between the classical coiffure and chin and her otherwise archaic facial features, 22.2 cm high. Private collection
Sicilian Head of Demeter or Kore Terracotta, circa 350-300 BC, in the Getty Villa museum
THE "KORE WITH THE EYES OF A SPHINX"_ Votive offering to Athena. Attic work in Parian marble. From the Acropolis of Athens, ca 500 BC. Athens, Acropolis Museum (by Metropolitan Museum Athens)
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Reddish marble carved votive relief of Selene: a female bust to the front in an arched niche, nose now missing, surrounded by a crescent on her head, seven stars in the field around and the signs of the zodiac in low relief; inscribed beneath with an unitelligible Gnostic formula Excavated/Findspot Argos 2ndC-3rdC British Museum All the beings of our world are, in the eyes of the Gnostics, the sediment of a lost heaven. — Jacques Lacarriere
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Etruscan Rython in the form of Charon (the ferryman of Hades), 4th century BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich. b
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED FIGURAL MUG Circa 430-420 B.C. In the form of the head of Io, the human female head with bovine ears emerging from beneath her wavy locks, which are parted at the center & tied in a top knot, with short curving horns protruding forth from the top of her head; vessel neck with & encounter between Hermes & a woman, perhaps Io, the god walking left but looking back, his caduceus in his right hand, wearing a mantle tied at his neck & high boots
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quote:Originally posted by mena7: Christ du narthex hagia Sophia, proscynese de Léon vi le sage Xenm
The emperor Commodus portrayed as the god Janus ... Fitting for a man assassinated on New Years Day
Gold solidus of Emperor Justinian ii, the first ruler to strike coins showing a portrait of Christ, as seen here. Struck during his second reign, circa 705 - 711 A.D. From the Constantinople mint.
Gold Stater with goddess Athena - from ancient city Pergamon in Anatolia, circa 330-300 BC, Hellenistic period
Trinacria (Tiskelion)coin, Syracuse 317-310 BC
Owl coin I think its a tetradrachm owl coin.
Interesting post.
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Photographic Print: Ebony March 1969.Probably that photography paint was base on a real Roman or Byzantine painting
Byzantine portrait of Jesus and 12 Disciples
Russian Icon of King Solomon
Statue of Roman Goddess
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ROMAN BRONZE SELENE, CRESCENT ON HEAD
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France, Compiegne, Sculpture representing Mercury with a stone hatchet France, Saint Germain-En-Laye, Musee des Antiquites Nationales (Archaeological and Middle Age Museum), Gallo-Roman art
Bronze statuette group of Herakles wrestling the giant Antaeus. Alexandria, Egypt 2nd-1st c. BCE Athens National Museum Egyptian Collection inv. 2548
Jupiter (Zeus), Roman statuette (bronze), 1st–2nd century AD, (British Museum, London).
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Circular antefix of a Gorgon's head, from Taranto, end of 6th century BC, Monsters. Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth Exhibition, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
Greek Canosan Medusa antefix, 4th century B.C. Polychrome Canosan antefix showing the facing head of Medusa with traces of original black, pink and white pigments surviving, the serpents particularly well represented, 21 cm diameter. Private collection
Roma, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia. - Antefissa con testa di Gorgone, fine del VI secolo a.C. Terracotta con tracce di colore nero, altezza 48 cm. Dal tempio del Portonaccio, presso Veio
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Giclee Print: Fictile Head Depicting Tinia, from Civita Castellana
Piping and Dancing Satyr, 300-100 BC Greece, Alexandria (?), 3rd-2nd Centuries BC
Bronze statuette of Aphrodite with silver eyes | Greek | Hellenistic | The Met
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Roman bust of Mercury on shield-shaped plate - at the Antikensammlung Museum, Berlin
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Statuette of Tinia Etruscan, 480 BC The J. Paul Getty Museum "This bearded man wears a tebenna, a semi-circular form of toga. He once held something in his left hand, which probably would have identified him. Lacking this object, his identity is open to question. He might be Tinia, the Etruscan equivalent of Zeus, the king of the gods;
Aphrodite agenouillée dans une coquille. Vers 300-275 av J.-C. Figurine. 3e siècle av J.-C., période hellénistique (323-31 av J.-C.) (Grèce). Paris, musée du Louvre. Aphrodite kneeling in a shell.
SHEELA NA GIG | Irish fertility goddess
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JESUS CHRIST Class I Anonymous Ancient 1078AD Byzantine Follis Coin CROSS
JESUS CHRIST Class A2 Anonymous Ancient 976AD Byzantine Follis Coin
JESUS CHRIST Class A3 Anonymous Ancient 1020AD Byzantine Follis Coin
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It looks like the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire minted coins of Jesus Christ with different racial phenotype to represent the Brown, Black and White population that lived in the Byzantine Empire.
Roman Bronze Figure of Priapus, 1st Century AD This beautifully expressive figure has a rich patina with fine anatomical details, including his characteristically over life-sized phallus. The deity exhibits an elegant counterpoised twist, his right...
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ronzo - Laodicea, Frigia (Turchia) (216-217 d.C. Caracalla) - Λ ΑΙΛ ΠΙΓΡΗC ACIAPXHC Γ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ // ΛAOΔIKEΩN / NEΩKOPΩN in un foro/agorà colonnato pieno di cittadini e soldati l'imperatore offre una corona - Münzkabinett Berlin
Aureo - oro - Roma (74 d.C. Vespasiano) - VES TA il tempio rotondo di Vesta con cupola, 4 colonne e scalinata e statue femminili - Münzkabinett Berlin
Bronzo - Perinthos, Tracia (Turchia)(198-217 d.C. Caracalla) - ΠΕPΙΝΘΙΩΝ AKTIA ΠYΘIA ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ due templi su podio in prospettiva, in alto due corone - Münzkabinett Berlin
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Sesterzio - bronzo - Roma (36-37 d.C. Tiberio) - tempio di Concordia con fronte esastilo e le statue di Mercurio (sn) e Apollo (dx) e sul frontone la triade Capitolina, Cerere e Marte - Münzkabinett Berlin
Buildings on Roman Coins
Asse - bronzo - Roma (22-30 d.C. Tiberio) - PROVIDENT altare con battenti chiusi - Münzkabinett Berlin
Gold coin - Panticapaeum (Crimea) (obverse) Head of Pan - (reverse) Horned griffin with lion’s head, holding arrow in mouth
