I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
Two posts back, 'Cybele' , I left off with Pine Cones...in my reading I keep coming across a giant bronze Pine Cone in front of the Vatican, which in Old Rome was at the Temple to Isis, and I think it was a fountain...
temple rome isis pine cone fountain
The giant bronze pine cone (Pigna) once decorated a fountain in Ancient Rome next to a vast Temple of Isis. There water flowed copiously from the top of the pinecone.
Pigna (rione of Rome)
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and there's this:
A thyrsus or thyrsos (Ancient Greek: θύρσος) was a wand or staff of giant fennel (Ferula communis) covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae and always topped with a pine cone.
Thyrsus
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There's a Staff of Osiris too, which I can find only one representation of from Ancient Egypt...on top of the Staff is a Pine Cone, or what looks to be a Pine Cone, and entwined around the staff are two Cobras...I've looked at a a lot of ancient Egyptian pics, and don't really recall seeing Pine Cones...the new age fringe sees them everywhere!...but the ones I find curious are the Sumerian ones...
Inanna Pine Cones
The fruit is usually rather large and plump and sometimes looking like a pine cone. The fruit as a pine cone was its most popular depiction even unto the Greeks and Romans.
The Tree of Life
Inanna would seem to be the goddess that the Romans took from the mid east, where she was known as Inanna, and re named Cybele by the Romans...
Inanna
Inanna; Akkadian: Ištar; Unicode: U+12239) was the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and warfare, and goddess of the E-Anna temple at the city of Uruk, her main centre.
Inanna
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I've happened on Inanna before in the blog, maybe old Tree in the Door...there's this charming image of her with two owls, and her feet are bird's feet.
And the Pine Cone...things...are often held by those Eagle headed humans with wings, one on each side of the Tree of Life...these winged figures may be the cherubim, and the Anunnaki, and why we should all wear tin hats!
I dunno...it gets to be a slog when archaeological finds meet modern interpretation...we just have no idea really how the ancients regarded these things!...but, the artists themselves will have made into their art multiple meanings...the Last Supper by De Vinci, and the art of Durer, are full of compositional symbolism, sacred geometry...artists, ancient and modern, do that a lot, and just why, I have no idea...
I wonder if the Romans brought the bronze Pine Cone from Egypt, and if the Staff of Osiris is just a one off depiction...or even fake...
hmmph...too many puzzles!...but in my reading I came across this:
The Warka Vase is a carved alabaster stone vessel found in the temple complex of the Sumerian goddess Inanna in the ruins of the ancient city of Uruk, located in the modern Al Muthanna Governorate, in southern Iraq. Like the Uruk Trough and the Narmer Palette from Egypt, it is one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture, dated to c. 3200–3000 BC.
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The Warka Vase is a carved alabaster stone vessel found in the temple complex of the Sumerian goddess Inanna in the ruins of the ancient city of Uruk, located in the modern Al Muthanna Governorate, in southern Iraq. Like the Uruk Trough and the Narmer Palette from Egypt, it is one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture, dated to c. 3200–3000 BC.
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| “ | As they struggled to lift a large object wrapped in a blanket out of the boot, the American guards on the gate raised their weapons. For a moment, a priceless 5,000-year-old vase thought to have been lost in looting after the fall of Baghdad seemed about to meet its end. But one of the men peeled back the blanket to reveal carved alabaster pieces that were clearly something extraordinary. Three feet high and weighing 600lb intact, this was the Sacred Vase of Warka, regarded by experts as one of the most precious of all the treasures taken during looting that shocked the world in the chaos following the fall of Baghdad. Broken in antiquity and stuck together, it was once again in pieces.Warka Vase |
The fruit is usually rather large and plump and sometimes looking like a pine cone . The fruit as ay have speculated that the cone shaped fruit is a sponge for the purpose of sprinkling holy water on the tree, a type of ritual cleansing. The fruit is sometimes called a pine cone as it sometimes has been depicted by the artists of their time. The picture farthest to the left shows the fruit as this so-called pine cone. We know that the genii is picking the fruit of immortality to put into his pouch. The illustration second to the left is an example of the stylized vine-tree rendering of the Tree of Life. It clearly shows the fruit drawn as a pine cone.
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