Ahura-Mazda in a circle "worshiped" 🙂 by two rampant horses, below a flying sun disk with tail and streamers. Impression of the stone seal of Ellil-mukîn-aplu son of Nasir. 413 BC. Image and description from the Penn Museum...
What does this really mean?
The natural breeding season of horses starts in Apr/May and ends in Sep/Oct and is marked by wild stallion fights for mares...
The horse fertility is governed by the sunlight and peaks on summer solstice. I heard summer solstice was a big thing for sun worshipers....
Hence solar horses all over Eurasia...
Articles about solar horse (equid):
Iran "Water carrier equid", "Dioscuri plate from Iran"
Mesopotamia "Shamash playing with the solar horse", "Sun god from Tell Brak"
India "Hayagriva"
China "Longma", "Three legged crow", "Mythical beast from Xian"
Levant "Alexamenos graffito", "Goddess on a horse", "Unicorn"
Europe "Archaic rider", "Beotian solar pyxis", "Pegasus and chimera", "King John", "The horseman"
So prancing ponies under the sun disc...Interesting...
To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…Then check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am way way behind...
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