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oldeuropeanculture 32 min
Strathmartine stone and the reverse and obverse of the Balluderon stone from James Skene sketch album, page 15. c. 1832. A very interesting legend linked to these stones and the stones imagery can both be decoded using Slavic mythology...
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oldeuropeanculture 43 min
Odgovor korisniku/ci @stonedcartman @porbotialora
Believe or not I didn't research Baba Yaga :) too many things to do not enough time. But considering that she is The Hag, The Old Witch, yes, she fits into the picture...
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oldeuropeanculture 2 h
In the Balkans shepherds used to pray to Baba (Mother Earth) stones (rocky crags, exposed bedrock) for good weather. Rocks were seen as body of Baba (Mother Earth, Yin) who was also seen as the source of cold, wet (bad) weather. More:
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oldeuropeanculture 19 h
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ticiaverveer
Not much respect for the old things even at that time...
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oldeuropeanculture 22 h
Stone rosette from the time of the emperor Ustinian, found in Nemanjin Grad (Nemanja's Town), the ruined fortress above Podgorica, Montenegro, legendary birthplace of Stefan Nemanja, who founded the Serbian Nemanjić dynasty in the 12th c.
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @LMSChairman
Priest was originally supposed to teach by example...
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
Which is why large boulder mortars were moved to churchyards where a lot of them were turned into holy water fonts. Well they already were seen as such before Christians appropriated them...I wonder if Christian stone fonts developed from stone mortars...Bread of life anyone???
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
Which is why rain water, water that comes from heaven, accumulated in bedrock mortars was also holy and was used in religious, especially healing ceremonies...
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
Large bedrock stone mortars were communal tools. Once made they could last for generations. This definitely made them special in the eyes of the farmers who used them. These mortars, being permanent in the impermanent world, must have eventually become holy...
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
We know this from ethnographic records. This includes tools used for ploughing, sowing, harvesting, grinding grain and making bread. They all had religious significance and were seen as possessing supernatural powers...
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
This stone from Latvia is called "Lielais Daviņu Akmens" which means great stone of giving, offering, great altar. It seems that the stone was linked to harvest rituals. For the farmers, anything to do with sowing, harvesting, grinding, eating grain had religious significance...
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
These stone mortars were considered holy not just in Ireland and Scotland. In South Baltic region they were buried in the house foundations to protect the household...
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
The fact that the same kind of stones like Bullaun stones (pounding stones) were in Scotland used as mortars means nothing in Ireland. The Irish are different... 🙂 I wrote (an unpopular) article about Bullaun stone being mortars few years ago
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
Well, maybe not a confusion. In Ireland these kind of stones are called Bullaun stones. And there they are "definitely not mortars"...They are holy stones used for blessing and cursing. And when they get filled with rain water, the water acquires miraculous healing properties...
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
One example of a knocking stone at the old St Macarius chapel site of Mackrikil near Dailly in Ayrshire has a prominent cross carved on one side. Locally it was known as the 'font' and that indicates an understandable confusion with a stoup used to hold holy water for baptism...
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
A large pot-shaped cavity known as "knocking well" was cut into exposed bedrock or boulders. Grain was then poured into the cavity and pounded with a rounded stone or with a hardwood (oak) mell... These were basically bedrock mortars...
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @serbiaireland
They were once used by every farming household and abandoned examples are still to be found in Ireland, the Highlands and the Western Isles and remained in use in remote areas until the 19th century...
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Thread: Knocking stones, or Clach chnotainn in Scottish Gaelic were exposed bedrock stone or boulders with a pot-shaped concavity cut into them used for husking and pounding barley and other cereals before the introduction of other methods of milling grain...
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"Celtic" cross seal from Margiana Archaeological Complex, Bactria (region that straddles modern-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C.
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @BruceSba48
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