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Entrance of the grotto at Posillipo, called Piedigrotta, reputed to be Virgil's tomb (1776–9) by Peter Fabris, from Campi Phlegraei.

Source: Wellcome Collection

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Coloured engraving based on Fabris' gouache

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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Parking Lots

What’s the most ridiculous hill you’d still die on? Creativity powered by caffeine and the daily prompts at ericfoltin.com. Because inventing my own ideas sounded like way too much responsibility. Some folks pick noble hills to die on. Justice. Freedom. The right to blast punk rock at volumes that make your neighbors file noise complaints. Me? I’ve apparently dedicated my life to defending the extremely controversial belief that people should return shopping carts to the corral. Yeah, […]

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Perun

In Slavic mythology, Perun is the highest god of the pantheon & the god of the sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility, & oak trees. His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris (the flower), eagle, firmament, horses & carts, & weapons (hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), & arrow).

The supreme god in the Kievan Rus’ during the 9th-10th centuries, Perun was first associated with weapons made of stone & later with those of metal. The Kievan Ris’ (a.k.a. Kyivan Rus’) was the 1st East Slavic state & later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. It encompasses a variety of peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, & Finnic.

The Primary Chronicle relates that in the year 6415 (907 AD) Prince Oleg (Old Norse: Helgi) made a peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire & by taking his men to the shrines & swearing by their weapons & by their God Perun, & by Volos, the God of cattle, they confirmed the treaty.

In 980, when Prince Vladimir the Great came to the throne of Kiev, he erected statues of 5 pagan gods in front of his palace which he soon thereafter discarded after his Christianization in 988.

Perun was chief among them, represented with a silver head & a gold moustache. Vladimir’s uncle, Dobrynya, also had a shrine of Perun established in his city of Novgorod. After the Christianization of Kievan Rus’ this place became a monastery, which continued to bear the name of Perun.

Perun was worshipped by the Varangian (Scandinavian) warriors hired by Oleg & Igor during the campaigns against Byzantium. In the treaty of 971, the Varangians reenforce with the Slavic deity, Veles.

When the arrival of Christianity, the old gods fared poorly amongst the Slavs. Grand prince Vladimir the Great, who had once been a very vocal & lavish patron of Perun, converted to Christianity.

In 988, the prince & his family & people of the Kievan Rus’ were collectively baptized. He ordered that the statues of Perun which he himself had erected formerly, be dethroned, torn down with great dishonor & dragged through the streets as they were beaten with sticks. The idols were then cast into rivers & not permitted to land on the shore. 3 of Vladimir’s sons are also recognized as saints.

In neopaganism interpretation, the struggle of St. George with the serpent is understood as the struggle of Perun with Veles, who stole cows from him.

According to the book Dezionization by Valery Yemelyanov, 1 of the founders of the Russian neopaganism, in the ideas of the “Veneti” (“Aryans”), there was a “trinity of three triune trinites”: Prav-Yav-Nav, Svarog-Perun-Svetovid, Soul-Flesh-Power.

In some currents, Perun may be the supreme patron god. Since 1992, the 1st neopagan Kupchinsky Temple of Perun has been in St. Petersburg.

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Formosan Funeral (1704) by George Psalmanazar, from An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa
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Source: Duke University Libraries / Internet Archive

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Miscellaneous subjects. Man standing in front of wagon drawn by two horses ca. 1920-ca. 1950.
Horydczak, Theodor, approximately 1890-1971
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.

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https://www.loc.gov/item/2019681125/

The image depicts a man standing beside a horse-drawn wagon, with another person partially visible behind the main subject. The photograph is in black and white, suggesting an older time period when color photography was not widely available or used for everyday scenes like this one.

The man at the forefront appears to be wearing traditional work attire from an earlier era: a wide-brimmed hat, long-sleeved shirt with suspenders, trousers tucked into boots, and possibly some form of vest. His facial hair is well-groomed, indicating that he takes care in his appearance despite likely engaging in manual labor.

Behind him stands the horse harnessed to the wagon, equipped with various gear for pulling heavy loads. The harness appears sturdy, suitable for farm work or transportation purposes from a time before motor vehicles became prevalent.

The background shows an outdoor setting possibly on a rural farm due to visible structures and vegetation that resemble trees and perhaps other farm-related apparatuses in disarray around them suggesting it might be harvest season when people were busy with their daily tasks. The photograph has a grainy texture, which is typical of older film photographs without modern processing techniques.

The image captures the essence of work from an earlier period, likely between 1920 and 1950 based on historical context clues provided in its description as well as by examining Horydczak's probab [...]

Title page illustration for *Mad Fashions, Od Fashions, All Out Fashions* (1642), from Mad Fashions, Od Fashions, All Out Fashions; or, The Emblem of These Distracted Times.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

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