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Vila Wolf's Dyslexic Folklorist Ranting

@ladykrampus / ladykrampus.tumblr.com

Hmm... I've got a strange and bizarre mind. I know what you're saying, doesn't everyone on the internet? I can say this, I'm not for everyone. It was once said that I've got a razor wit, a dark sarcasm and one hell of a twisted sense of humor. I like horror, I am a folklorist and I smoke. "Let me share something with you, a secret, We believe what we want to believe....the rest is all smoke and mirrors." - Arnaud de Fohn Posts I've Liked
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wakeupslaves

never forget white people did nothing first neither the best, they sleep and eat false propaganda,

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wingleader

Ugh, why the shit does that have to turn into a race thing? Why does EVERYTHING have to turn into a race thing?

because white people have made sure that everything is about race

as proved by the fact that when you say explorer, you think of a bunch of white guys walking the world and discovering it ~exotic wonders~ even though Zheng He travelled through Asia, to the Middle East, and even East Africa. But you’d likely never heard of him before.

Same reason you never heard of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, an Arab traveller who, as early as the 10th century, went to the Volga area for diplomatic reasons. He wrote about it, much as Marco Polo would do later for his own travels, and is one of our sources on what viking were like (and by all accounts, he wrote about them more accurately than western scholars of the same period did)

Oh, or Ibn Battuta who travelled throughout Africa long before europeans did, and even went to Europe himself.

And that’s just some example of Muslim medieval travel writers

Everything is about race because white people keep telling everyone that their race is the only one who every got anything done.

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The Temple of Quechula was built in 1564 and abandoned in the 1700s because of a plague.

plague church emerges from the water.  totally cool.  normal.  not an ill omen or harbinger of doom at all.  happens ever y day

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pipistrellus

welcome back plague church

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elanorpam

it looks as surprised to be back as everyone else

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Cypriot Limestone Votive Pine Cone, Hellenistic, 3rd-1st Century BC

Pine cone symbolism is consistently found across many ancient cultures. The ancient Greeks and Assyrians viewed the pine cone as a symbol of masculinity because of its phallic shape. It formed the apex of the Greek thyrsus staff, which was associated with Dionysus and represented fertility and prosperity.  Assyrian winged deities with pine cones represented the power of regeneration and immortality.

As the emblem of Artemis, it represented feminine purity. It was also the emblem of the Roman goddess Venus (Aphrodite). And, from ancient Egypt on some of the papyri illustrating the entrance of the souls of the dead into the judgment hall of Osiris, the deceased person had a pine cone attached to the crown of his head, which is thought to represent wisdom and immortality.

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Ola Mildred Rexroat

Art by  A.O.M. (tumblr)

During World War II, over one thousand American women served as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).  WASPs flew domestic missions under US Army command, freeing more male pilots to serve overseas.  Stationed at 120 different bases, the WASPs ferried aircraft from factory to base, towed targets for live anti-aircraft artillery practice, and hauled cargo.  Over the course of the war, the WASPs logged sixty million miles of flying.  The program was disbanded in 1944 and although they were under Army command, the WASPs did not receive military benefits until 1977.  In 2009, they were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.  

Oglala Lakota pilot Ola Mildred Rexroat was was one of only five women of color to serve with the WASPs and the only Native American WASP.  Ola graduated from WASP training on September 8, 1944 as a member of class 44-7.  She spent four months towing targets at Eagle Pass Army Airfield in Texas.  After the war, Ola worked as an air traffic controller and served in the Air Force Reserves.  

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Europa the Nymph

This very rare electrum hekte is from the ancient city of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. It was struck circa 340 BC and portrays Europa on the obverse wearing a taenia. The reverse shows the profile of two boar’s heads confronting each other.

Europa was one of the many beautiful maidens abducted by Zeus. She was out in the field picking flowers with her friends when a white bull showed up. She climbed on its back and it ran away with her. Later she found out it was really Zeus and she bore him three sons: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon. When she married the King of Crete, he adopted them and they became Kings on their own eventually.

Source: nomosag.com
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Kris Dagger

  • Dated: 20th century
  • Culture: Javanese
  • Measurements: overall length 46 cm

The dagger has a sraight, pamor blade with double, undulated edge, engraved, pierced and gilt with the effigy of a dragon and floral motifs. The wooden grip is sculpted with a figure, brass mendak enriched with coloured stones. The wooden wrangka is carved with floral motifs.

Source: Copyright © 2015 Czerny’s International Auction House S.R.L.
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Egyptian Menat Necklace, Reign of Amenhotep III

Excavated from the Malkata palace at Thebes, dating to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, circa 1390-1353 BC. Made of faience, bronze or copper alloy, glass, agate, carnelian, lapis lazuli and turquoise.

A menat necklace consists of a heavy, keyhole-shaped counterpoise (menat) and many strands of beads. Although the necklace is sometimes shown being worn, it was more often carried by females participating in religious ceremonies. It functioned as a percussion instrument that was shaken to create a soothing noise that was thought to appease a god or goddess. In the New Kingdom the menat necklace and the systrum were attributes of women who held the title “Singer of Amun-Re.”

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