Thursday, April 20, 2017
Monday, April 17, 2017
Sirens
Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.
Odysseus and the Sirens, eponymous vase of the Siren Painter, c. 480–470 BC, (Greek vase, British Museum)
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Death in Archaeology
The death of Sarpidon New
York Metropolitan Museum , Wikipedia
The Orphic myth teaches that the soul with the birth goes
down to the material and sinful world as a divine foreigner. Enters to body,
what becomes the "sign" (“to sima”, means “to soma” means the body)
that is to say her grave. The soul however should be released from this prison,
so that to return again to her spiritual homeland. That is why the Orphics put
to the hands of deads small golden plates, to which they engraved the sign or
emblem of faith: "Aytar emoi gender celestial" that is to say,
I come from the ground, but my origin is celestial. The deads would show
this plates as a type. . passport, as soon as they would reach to the gates of the other world!
Figurine of a Mourning Woman7th century BC, Terracotta, H. 15.5 cm; Diam. base
9 cm
Crete, Cemetery of Arkades, tomb B
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Π 7995
The woman is depicted as sitting with hands on her head, a
typical gesture of female mourning that represents the ultimate expression of
anguish at loss of the deceased.
Figure of a Mourning Woman,
7th century BC, Clay, H. 31.5 cm, W. 12.5 cm
Santorini, Cemetery of Ancient Thera
Archaeological Museum of Thera, 392
"The rituals of death, the leading role played by women in them, and the
emotions that death arouses—above all the fear of death—have remained the same
from the first moments of human consciousness right up to our own day."
Read more: (in Greek)
http://www.egolpion.net/musthrio-thanatou.el.aspx
The oldest depiction of the soul, the tiny rider form
surrounded by mourners. Protoattiko cup with high foot from the Kerameikos of
Athens. 680 BC Ceramic Museum (1153).
Source: http://www.archaiologia.gr/
Read :
Ancient
theories about the Soul
The death of Sarpidon New
York Metropolitan Museum , Wikipedia
The Orphic myth teaches that the soul with the birth goes
down to the material and sinful world as a divine foreigner. Enters to body,
what becomes the "sign" (“to sima”, means “to soma” means the body)
that is to say her grave. The soul however should be released from this prison,
so that to return again to her spiritual homeland. That is why the Orphics put
to the hands of deads small golden plates, to which they engraved the sign or
emblem of faith: "Aytar emoi gender celestial" that is to say,
I come from the ground, but my origin is celestial. The deads would show
this plates as a type. . passport, as soon as they would reach to the gates of the other world!
Figurine of a Mourning Woman7th century BC, Terracotta, H. 15.5 cm; Diam. base
9 cm
Crete, Cemetery of Arkades, tomb B
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Π 7995
The woman is depicted as sitting with hands on her head, a
typical gesture of female mourning that represents the ultimate expression of
anguish at loss of the deceased.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
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