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Indian History

IndianHistory0

Share and RT this thread.. Many people mistakenly think "dasas" "dasyus" of the Rigveda were dark-skinned aboriginal "dravidians" –– this is definitely not true. Most philological research suggests they wer

Folk Horror Magpie

folkhorrormagpi

Okay it’s time to get acquainted with the Yule Goat. Originating in pre-Christian Scandinavia and the Germanic pagan tradition, the last batch of wheat of the harvest was designated ‘Julbocken’,

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

I get a lot of questions about #Navalny. I am not the world's leading expert on the man, but I can answer most of them with enough veracity.Specifically:"Is it true

Candela ✟☀️✟

gjrt888

Horned gods in European folklore/mythology Pan was a Greek god of shepherds and flocks, & mountain wilds. He has the hindquarters, legs, & horns of a goat. He is

Candela ✟☀️✟

gjrt888

Some of the ghosts, cryptids, gnomes, demons, and other spiritual entities from the folklore/urban legends of the Mediterranean María Cuchilla is said to be a condemned spirit of a young

Wendy Siegelman

WendySiegelman

Revealed: Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow runs the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) which has donated $3.3 million to a Russian evangelical org with close Kremlin ties, an @openDemocracy

L for linguist

l_linguist

In Hungarian the signs (csillagjegyek = star signs/Marks) are: Kos Bika Ikrek Rák Oroszlán Szűz Mérleg Skorpió Nyilas Bak Vízöntő Halakhttps://twitter.com/SDLJames/status/1356627211449679875 #Turkish/#Turkic speakers, can you

🏹 Aallontie

armas_aallontie

Thread on Finno-Hungarian relations during the interwar period. 1/15 In 1919, Finland and Hungary found themselves in a similar situation. Both countries had just fought a war and were failed

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

As promised, thread: “Does it mean there will be no gifts this year?” by Jakub RozalskiThis painting depicts 3 little carolers stumbling upon Krampus killing Santa...I love this image...Because it

Dr. Rachel Schine

RachelSchine

In medieval Arabic chronicles, the ethnicity of qiyān (enslaved entertainers) is often unstated unless the woman becomes an umm walad (mother of an owner's child), at which point it still

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

#FolkloreThursday Thread: Serbian/Croatian proverb: "Who doesn't get smoked, doesn't get warm". The proverb simply states the fact that from the moment people started using fires inside roofed dwellings, the inside

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/19Long, long ago there was a people that lived someplace in the steppes of Eurasia who spoke a language linguists call, quite unimaginatively, the Proto-Indo-European tongue or PIE. Here, we're

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

OlufemiOTaiwo

actually let me just get this out of the way. Overall, the broad points we made (largely ignored in this response) are:1) the racial capitalism argument that racism plays a

Dear Heart❤

TashRoyale

Some Horrifying Mythical Creatures You Didn’t Know AboutA THREADPontianakThis is from Indonesian mythology and the word literally means “woman who died in childbirth”.They are beautiful pale skinned women, who prey

Seventh Row

SeventhRow

One of our goals at Seventh Row is to be a resource for all things Canadian cinema We've been told we've gotten readers/listeners in Canada and out excited about

PuntitePundit

PuntitePundit

An important piece of Somali history that shall be preserved, a thread on one of the most prominent #Somali thinkers & scholars, Yaasiin Cismaan Kenaadid, the son of Cismaan Yusuf

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