"Woman-and-pitcher" vase with ivy and olive wreaths, in white and white flowers on neck. Cyprus, 400–323 B.C Currently in the Met museum...
Ivy is an evergreen plant so leaves can be seen at any time of the year. Which is why Dionysus wears a wreath made of ivy. You know, Dionysus, the god of rebirth of nature, whose original celebration, the Rural Dionisia, took place in mid winter...
Do you see how the ivy wreath that Dionysus wears around his head has darker dots, which represent ivy fruit...
Interestingly, Ivy flowers in September to November, after the grapes are harvested, and its fruits ripen in November to January...So the ivy fruit season spans the whole of winter. The time of Dionysus...
Interestingly again, olives ripen and are picked from November to January too. Again spanning the whole of winter...I talked about this in my post "Abduction of Persephone"...
Winter which is the rain season in Cyprus. You know the time when your water jugs and your water cisterns get refilled...When ivy and olives fruit ripens. And when Dionysus brings the rebirth of nature...
If the year is divided into sacred and profane halves, which half is winter and which half is summer?
ReplyDeleteIf the year is divided into female and male halves, which half is winter and which half is summer?
The year isn't divided into sacred and profane halves...And weather the half is male of female, that depends on the climate...Check this out https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2018/02/yin-and-yang.html
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