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Mappa Dan

@mappadan.bsky.social

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Home of my thoughts about archaic maps and mappae mundi, reconstructions and snaps people have taken of them, and my own redrawings. Third party stuff is believed to be in public domain. Copyright applies to own work.

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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 7h

Vive Eve! If only in the mitochondrial sense.

Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 7h

Are we really meant to approve of obedience and scolding conformity?

I think Eve did the right thing by choosing the fruit and sharing it with Adam. It makes her lively, independent and glorious.

Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 7h

Personally, I prefer the innocent and disobedient Adam and Eve. They behaved with freedom and curiosity, unchecked by rules they did not understand and were not made to. I feel sorry that they were expelled from Eden and I don't feel any sympathy for the harsh judgement that was made against them.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Sep 28

I hand over an invisible ‘Tree Of The Day’ award to the most charismatic tree I see on each of my walks. Here are just a few past winners of this esteemed but still largely unknown prize.

An angry man with branch hands pretending to be two conjoined Sycamore trees.

A tree on Exmoor which has some fucking stories to tell even though it doesn't go around shouting about it.

A tree on Dartmoor which, though old, is still quite cheeky, and likes using its branches to sneakily tickle cattle, ponies and people when they pass it.

A tree which is so endlessly proud of the village where it lives that it stands constantly at the edge of it, constantly welcoming everyone who arrives, with a wave and a smile.

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 8h

Samhain, the thinning of the veil between the living and the spirit world. The beginning of the darker half of the year. The light this morning was lovely shortly after sunrise here in Glastonbury. #samhain

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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 1d

There's really a place called Merrivale?

This isn't the Shire or Narnia?

Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not so knowledgable about these other crucifixions.

I'm sure their contemporaries knew that major figures like Peter and Paul were put to death.

But as far as I have read them, a lot of the delayed hagiographical martyrdom stories look a bit fanciful as history to me.

Again, no expert.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 2d

"For one night only I'll let you out." 😈😈😈😈
#Halloween
BL Cotton MS Nero C IV; the Winchester Psalter; f.32r

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d

Gold bracelets of King Ramesses II. Decorated with two little duck heads. 🦆 🦆 😍

Body lapis lazuli. Dynasty 19. Reign of Ramesses II, 1279-1212 BC.

Found in a hoard of jewels, gold and silver plate, during railway construction at Tell Basta (Bubastis) in 1906. NMEC, Cairo.

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My photos show two gold bracelets, each formed by two semi-circles connected by a hinge and a clip. They have rich granulated ornamentation in a series of geometric patterns. The upper part is decorated with relief heads of two ducks with necks bent forwards and resting on a single body created with lapis lazuli. The tail is decorated with small granules of gold. The cartouches of Ramesses II are engraved next to the fastener (not seen). Max diameter 7.2 cm. Dated Nineteenth Dynasty, Reign of Ramesses II, 1279-1212 BC. Discovered in 1906 with a hoard of jewels and gold and silver plate at Tell Basta (Bubastis) during railway construction works. On display at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 2d

The Persian army included soldiers from many nations of their empire. Herodotus recorded that an Ethiopian contingent fought with Xerxes at the Battle of Plataia, echoing the story that Memnon, mythical king of Ethiopia, fought against the Greeks at Troy. 🏺 2/

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Athenian alabastron depicting an Ethiopian in the Persian army

An Athenian white-ground alabastron (perfume flask) depicting an Ethiopian soldier in the Persian army. The Persian army included soldiers from many nations of the Persian empire. An Ethiopian conti...

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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 3d

Can't it be both?

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