Saturday, January 21, 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Eglé the Queen of Serpents
I noticed a possible connection between folk tales from Lithuania and Turkiye. I found these tales thanks to Pinterest.com
There seems to be a strong similarity between the Turkish story of the Shah Maran and the Lithuanian story, Eglé the Queen of Serpents.
Link to the Lithuanian story: https://europeisnotdead.com/disco/books-of-europe/european-fairy-tales/lithuania-egle-the-queen-of-serpents/
Link to Wikipedia page about the Turkish story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahmaran
I do not guarantee anything. I may or may not research this further. By the way, I am not afraid of snakes. Well, not very much, maybe just a little. Now that it is deepest winter, I can explore this subject without any worries. I'm curious enough to go on with this because the other day I noticed that the Yazidi peoples may still know how to use snakes as medicine ??? It was just a brief mention on a Wikipedia page about Yazidis.
Again, I am not a pagan. But I study pagan things (including Yazidi beliefs) because they are very ancient. I want to know what our earliest ancestors thought about.
There seems to be a strong similarity between the Turkish story of the Shah Maran and the Lithuanian story, Eglé the Queen of Serpents.
Link to the Lithuanian story: https://europeisnotdead.com/disco/books-of-europe/european-fairy-tales/lithuania-egle-the-queen-of-serpents/
Link to Wikipedia page about the Turkish story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahmaran
I do not guarantee anything. I may or may not research this further. By the way, I am not afraid of snakes. Well, not very much, maybe just a little. Now that it is deepest winter, I can explore this subject without any worries. I'm curious enough to go on with this because the other day I noticed that the Yazidi peoples may still know how to use snakes as medicine ??? It was just a brief mention on a Wikipedia page about Yazidis.
Again, I am not a pagan. But I study pagan things (including Yazidi beliefs) because they are very ancient. I want to know what our earliest ancestors thought about.
Fairy tale origins 1000's of years old... BBC
Found an article I like on the BBC: 'Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say.'
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35358487
I want to look into the past to a time when humans maybe lived sustainably.
Another page that I find very interesting: 'Unlocking the Voynich Manuscript: Spinning, Hulda, and the Voynich' by Claudette Cohen
http://voynichbirths.blogspot.nl/2015/09/spinning-hulda-and-voynich.html
Today, I do not have anything really new and exciting to offer. Maybe I can just write about why I spent most of the past year exploring the Goddess Embroideries. I decided that I am not a pagan. But I research pagan stuff because I am an environmentalist.
Oh, I'm bogged down with all the things I want to say. I'm likely to repeat myself because I can not remember what I wrote before. If you think that I am excentric, weird, then you need this list of books to see where I am coming from:
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Dancing Goddesses by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Sacred and Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Pharmakopoeia by Dale Pendell
Ornamental Ironwork by Susan and Michael Southworth
But wait, there's more! I just found something new. I'm going to blurt it out before checking to see if it is correct. Yay! I found somebody on Pinterest who translated pagan symbols from Lithuanian to English (I should credit them by name here.). So, one of the symbols is called Juma and it translates as Harvest. I remembered that in Turkiye, one of the days of the week is called Cumartesi. So I looked up the days of the week in Turkish again. I found that Friday is Cumar, and Saturday is Cumartesi. The letter C sounds like J in Turkish. So, Friday might translate as Harvest Day; which would give us Saturday as Second Harvest Day.
But I do not have a dictionary that can give word origins in Turkish. I could ask my Turkish friends, maybe on Facebook.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35358487
I want to look into the past to a time when humans maybe lived sustainably.
Another page that I find very interesting: 'Unlocking the Voynich Manuscript: Spinning, Hulda, and the Voynich' by Claudette Cohen
http://voynichbirths.blogspot.nl/2015/09/spinning-hulda-and-voynich.html
Today, I do not have anything really new and exciting to offer. Maybe I can just write about why I spent most of the past year exploring the Goddess Embroideries. I decided that I am not a pagan. But I research pagan stuff because I am an environmentalist.
Oh, I'm bogged down with all the things I want to say. I'm likely to repeat myself because I can not remember what I wrote before. If you think that I am excentric, weird, then you need this list of books to see where I am coming from:
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Dancing Goddesses by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Sacred and Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Pharmakopoeia by Dale Pendell
Ornamental Ironwork by Susan and Michael Southworth
But wait, there's more! I just found something new. I'm going to blurt it out before checking to see if it is correct. Yay! I found somebody on Pinterest who translated pagan symbols from Lithuanian to English (I should credit them by name here.). So, one of the symbols is called Juma and it translates as Harvest. I remembered that in Turkiye, one of the days of the week is called Cumartesi. So I looked up the days of the week in Turkish again. I found that Friday is Cumar, and Saturday is Cumartesi. The letter C sounds like J in Turkish. So, Friday might translate as Harvest Day; which would give us Saturday as Second Harvest Day.
But I do not have a dictionary that can give word origins in Turkish. I could ask my Turkish friends, maybe on Facebook.
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