Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))
Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
#Sculpture, Canopic Jar of Duamutef (c. 990-976 BC) #art #Egypt
A canopic jar lid with a representation of Duamutef, the jackal-headed son of Horus, protected the stomach of the deceased and was in turn protected by the goddess Neith.
It's so very depressing.
Mummy of a hawk (Asyut, Late Period (722-332 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
Mummy of a hawk (Asyut, Late Period (722-332 BCE))
Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
'You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife'
Lady with Bird (China, Central plains, Tang dynasty (618-906)) Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Lady with Bird (China, Central plains, Tang dynasty (618-906))
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Japanese carved brown wood image of a mermaid with sleeked back hair streaming behind her and a hand on her scaly tail.
#FolkloreThursday In Japanese folklore, eating the flesh of a ningyo, or mermaid, grants eternal life and youth. It was also said that Ningyo blood will cure any wound.
Boxwood ningyo netsuke, Tadayoshi, 19th century
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Okay so this is true *but* not in the way most people think. Antibiotic overuse is not “I had five ear infections in a year so I took antibiotics five times this year”
It’s
“Farmers feeding antibiotics to chicken to make them fatter and more profitable” and “labs dumping chemicals into the river”
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
Today's slime mould,Trichia crateriformis, which has opened up its top to release its spores (by a process known as circumsessile dehiscence!)
Here's a photo of the late Robert Duvall wearing cue cards on his body so that co-star Marlon Brando could see his lines during the filming of The Godfather.
A skeletal death dressed as a medieval jester stands by an open grave with the handle of a shovel protruding and a church in the background. Death holds a smiling human mask and his marotte lies at his feet.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #MardiGras Death as Jester, from Quarles Emblems, Charles Bennett, 1860
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Lifesize sculpture in the form of a horse created with red metal scarp materials in a gallery space
Happy #ChineseNewYear
The year of the #firehorse
Sculpture by U.S. artist Deborah Butterfield #womensart
Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.
66 years old going 66 mph.
No idea! I still want one.
It's Fingerbobs, isn't it? Yoffy was a clever one...
This is just lovely! Thanks for tagging me in!
@lilithepunk.bsky.social
This is the logo for the Happy Garden Podcast with Mollie and Darren. There is a carton version of Mollie on the left (long blond hair and wearing headphones), a cartoon fairy in the middle and a cartoon Darren on the right (brown beard and wearing glasses).
I might have gone off a bit on the fairies at the end of the garden... 🧚 But if you're into garden folklore, this episode of The Happy Garden Podcast might just be for you! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
#HouseholdLore #Gardensky #Podcast #Folklore #FolkloreSunday #Booksky
Theodor Kittelsen: The Water Sprite.A dark, misty pond with lily pads, reflecting trees, and a large creature with glowing blue eyes partially submerged, creating ripples in the water.
The theme for the hosted #FolkloreThursday 19th Feb is Water Spirits and Shape-Shifters: Creatures of Lakes, Rivers, and Seas! Our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at these times GMT:
9am-1pm
3.30-4.30pm
6.30-7.30pm
Don't forget to join us 1-2pm for: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-spir...
Still want one TBH.
🥳♥️
Black and white image of fanged, pop-eyed, horned, winged, skeletal demon holding a Friday 13 sign. Headed The Only Official and Accurate Picture of the "Friday Thirteenth" Jinx
Happy #FridaytheThirteenth ! The only official and accurate picture of the Friday Thirteenth Jinx.
( #PhantomsFriday for good measure.)
Chat, is this real? (But I'm asking a French cat and it pretends not to understand with Gallic insouciance.)
Midnight Mastermind questions scribbled over in green pen.
Had so much fun earlier this morning on Midnight Mastermind! Gave @ojborg.bsky.social the choice between questions on the folklore of the number 13 (given it's #fridaythe13th) and #ValentinesDay #folklore. He went the unlucky route...
Photo of two tiny mushrooms growing from a green, algae covered stick. The mushrooms are tan/yellow in colour with dark ridging on the caps.
Lichenomphalia umbellifera on an algae-covered stick. This species of mushroom is a basidiolichen lichen. Fungal hyphae integrate with algal cells, using the food produced by the algae through photosynthesis.
Newfoundland. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #algae
Largest shroom ~ 4cm high.
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
