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oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: Scheibenschlagen (Disc beating) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScheibenschlagenThe "disc beating" is a fire ritual in which burning wooden discs are hurled into valleys from hill or mountain sides...The ritual is performed

Lوra

holylandsalt

Since many of you had no idea, here is a thread about Maronites in Palestine and the holy land. Maronites in Palestine are a mix of indigenous people who lived

EHS

EcclesHistSoc

Alright, folks, let's talk a little bit about why late medieval vernacular #hagiography is an intriguing bundle of unanswered questions. Buckle up for provenance, #fragmentology & textual shenanigans! 1/ Much

Vandana 🇮🇳

1967Vandana

A flood of memories of our visit to Leh..in 2012..the second picture clicked by my daughter was published in the EVS book of NCERT..with due credits to @anindit28 ...Ladakh is

Jay Hulme

JayHulmePoet

People often compare great churches, to boats. It's an ancient idea, in fact, it's what gives the big part of the church where people sit its name. The Nave. It

Professorheychey

heychey

So I just realized it was 23years ago this week when I landed in Tel Aviv for my very first super solo road trip. I was there about a (Jerusalem,

Chris Heaney

chrheaney

Fascinating historical science, twice over—how Native peoples over millennia engaged in sciences of agricultural experimentation and exchange on a hemispheric scale. Corn didn't just radiate out from Mexico; it returned

Notes from Verona

rick_hough

Deciding to escape from Verona for the day, our objective was Fontanellato, a small town in north western Italy, approximately 20 kilometres west of Parma. Fontanellato is home to the

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ChrisKhach

1) Let’s talk about #Nakhichevan - a lost homeland. 2) The the name "Nakhichevan" in #Armenian literally means "the place of first descent", a Biblical reference to the descent of

Thomas de Waal

Tom_deWaal

1 A THREAD about Kelbajar. Today was billed as a momentous day for Kelbajar region with Armenian forces scheduled to withdraw from lands they have held since April 1993 +

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

OwsWills

On a tiny island at the western fringes of Ynys Môn, encircled by the Irish Sea, in the silhouette of the mighty Wicklow Mountains, sits a landmark.A beacon to the

Ana Mardoll

AnaMardoll

Ok, so here's the deal: - My work computer is broken. - Tech support is massaging it with healing oils or something. - I have to "stand by" to reboot

Bêyøñder

Beyonder_Dk00

Buddhism and Defence: (A Thread)The bramanical Historians and Hindutva writers always Spread false History that in Buddhist time India was prone to Foreign invasions to defame Buddhism India known as

Cavid ⛧

cavidaga

Yesterday @eminmilli wrote about the possible restoration of "Caucasian Albanian Church" and @Tom_deWaal commented there that "I'm afraid there is almost no C.A. heritage apart from a few fragments in

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Thread with excerpts from Edward Watts’ “The Final Pagan Generation” Gradually, then Suddenly Young pagans and Christians saw theirs as a defining struggle of their era. The older pagans, having

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

The Buddhist site of #TapaSardarBuddhist sanctuary rises on a hill which dominates a vast portion of the Dasht-i Manara plain Ghanzi #Afghanistan. The excavation of the site, carried out by

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