An angel

@another_barbara alerted me to this cave painting from the La Pileta Cave, Province of Malaga, Andalusia, Spain, dated to c. 20,000BC...

She said: "...There is a mention of an early idea of an angel, but I bet @serbiaireland knows better 😇"

I didn't at first, but now:

After quick googling this is what I found out:

This is where Malaga is on the map. It lies at the bottom tip of the Iberian peninsula...

It also lies on the main bird migration route between Europe and Africa. Every autumn, between Jul/Aug and Oct/Nov, millions of birds fill the skies over Malaga heading south...And they did too at the time when the people painted the bird man on the walls of the La Pileta Cave.

The last birds to migrate are the most spectacular: Vultures. Today, they gather in the skies of Andalusia in their thousands and are a spectacle not to be missed. At least according to this page...

During Palaeolithic there were probably hundreds of thousands, or more vultures circling over the heads of the Malaga cave painters, right at the time when the first rains arrived to the region. Well if the climate was in anyways similar to the today climate.

I talked about migratory birds as animal calendar markers in many of my posts...

Interestingly in Mesopotamia vultures are linked with storm, rain gods...I talked about this in my post "Eagle dance"...

Eagle dance...

Montenegro 1963AD

Syria, 1800BC

Eagle (vulture) couples dance above the mountains at the beginning of their mating season, which coincides with the beginning of the rain season in Fertile Crescent...

I also talked about this in my post "Kassite seal with Apkallu", about this Kassite seal (18th-12th centuries BC) from Syria. National Museum of Damascus...

And in my article "Judgement of the birdman"...

So I wonder...

You also might find this interesting...Article "Pero" (feather), in which I proposed that the root of the name of the Slavic thunder god Perun is "pero" = feather, which would make Perun = Feathered one, and not from PIE perkwus, meaning "oak" or "mountain". Zeus, Jupiter, Perun were all linked to eagles. Why?

And I want to thank @another_barbara for alerting me to this amazing rock painting of a (maybe the earliest) "bird man", "eagle man"...vulture turned storm/rain god???

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...

Mountain god with streams

Fragments of an ivory frieze, representing a "mountain god with streams, surrounded by trees". Middle Assyrian Period (14th century BC.). Found in the New Palace of Assur. Vorderasiatisches Museum of Berlin...

Who is this "Mountain god"? And what is really depicted here?

Let me try to explain:

Remember this:

Why did so many Mesopotamian "Supreme" gods have an attribute "The Great Mountain"? Cause they all wanted to be Enki...But there is only one Enki, who is (in) Abzu, "place that is a big mountain"...All the others are just imposters...I talked about this in my post "The great imposter"...

So this is Enki, the god who is simultaneously said to "rule Abzu" and "to be Abzu", Abzu being the source of Tigris and Euphrates"...

I talked about this in my posts "Problems with Abzu", "Shamash young and old", "When Utu steps up into heaven"...

In them I explained that because the source of Tigris and Euphrates is in the mountains north east of Mesopotamia, Abzu is described as a mountain...

You can see that on both depictions, there are two jars in the sky pouring water and two jars in on the ground gathering water. What does this mean?

I already talked about this in my post "Water basin from Assur" about the 7th century BC basalt water basin from Assur, Iraq. Pergamon Museum, Germany...

Basically he two jars in the sky are clouds, and the two jars on the ground are human water receptacles... And Enki, who is (in) Abzu, is the intermediary...

I also talked about this in my post "Kassite seal with Apkallu", about this Kassite seal (18th-12th centuries BC) from Syria. National Museum of Damascus...

And in these posts I also explain the meaning of the fish men, if anyone is interested...

Oh, and the two trees on the ivory freeze...They are the trees of life. Life which exists in Mesopotamia because of the grace of Enki, who is (in) Abzu...

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...

Happy to see you

3000 year old petroglyph "of a man running away from a big snake". It is one of the many Rock carvings in Tanum, Sweden. 

I would strongly disagree with the interpretation. Here is why:

Does this man really look like he is running away from the snake? Of course not. He is not running away from the snake. He is welcoming the snake...

Why would he do that?

Cause of this:

Snake is a pure solar animal. It is in our world when sun is here (day, hot half of the year) and it is in the underworld when sun is there (night, cold half of the year)...I talked about it in many of my posts...

Snakes appear in the spring, with the sun...That's probably the sun above the snake...

And the man is welcoming the return of the sun and the snake, happy that the winter has ended and that the world had survived...Cause sometimes it doesn't...

Sometimes the sun and the snake go away and don't come back...For a very very very very long time...

That's it. 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...