where is the potter, and the buyer and seller of pots?

"Of course this 'sheen of antiquity' of which we hear so much is in fact the glow of grime. In both Chinese and Japanese the words denoting this glow describe a polish that comes of being touched over and over again, a sheen produced by the oils that naturally permeate an object over long years of handling— which is to say grime."

[anthonycolonthree]

(guy who's not getting anything done voice) I need to learn every skill and all information

[abandonedandurbex]

Silk-Cotton Tree Growing on the Roof of Ta Prohm Temple (Angkor) Siem Reap, Cambodia [2304x3072]

[lionofchaeronea]

If anyone's feeling sad today, here's a newly discovered species of octopus. Found in the waters off the Galapagos Islands, this little critter can fit in the palm of your hand.

[cennet-ul-meva]

Cappadocia, Türkiye

[shadeslayer]

Separating The Chaff (2012), by Shan Goshorn (Cherokee)

Many tribes share this functional shape, called a winnowing or sifter basket. The basket is filled with cracked grains and when gently shaken, the large weave at the base allows the larger husk or shaft to drop below while retaining the desirable kernel. These splints are printed with illustrations and text from 1960‘s reference books about Indians. This is the way that American students learned about Indians when I was in school- information that still seems to be currently taught to children around the world about Native cultures today. This basket is meant to show that Indian people need to actively decide how we want to portray ourselves; we need to actively filter through the misperceptions and untruths.

from Shan Goshorn's website (emphasis added)

[cultofthewyrm]

by Hazem Ameen

[postarcadian]

re: adaptation and the supposed “purity” of the original work it’s complicated right. and ultimately I think that whether classicists like it or not, it’s just the nature of the beast that (a) the texts we study have been and continue to be radically readapted and reinterpreted and we can have strong opinions about which adaptations we like or don’t but it’s just the nature of a 2000+ year reception tradition to produce variance, and (b) the texts we study are much more a scholarly construction, and authorial intent far more difficult (and ideologically suspect) to try to recover, than is true of, say, a 19th or 20th century novel. which is to say that it’s one thing to say that Fennell’s Wuthering Heights misunderstands Charlotte Bronte’s novel and something quite different to say that Nolan’s Odyssey misunderstands “Homer’s” epic, because the latter is responding to another 2500 years of a reception tradition that in some sense is not entirely or even primarily about the Odyssey as a poem in Ancient Greek. this is not to take a stand on either one as an ideological project or whether either is a good film (I am reserving judgment but strongly suspect that neither is) but to say that I think that whatever the Odyssey is on a conceptual level is much less singular and well-defined than what Wuthering Heights is, if that makes sense

[postarcadian]

basically what I’m getting at here is that “Homer” or “the classical” is not a real, tangible, solid thing out there in the world that can only ever be correctly or incorrectly interpreted. it’s an ongoing process of cultural conversation and production and assignment of value judgments that operates across thousands of years of accreted meaning, and the impulse to see an adaptation or interpretation you don’t like for ideological or aesthetic reasons and immediately claim that it’s a misinterpretation of the Original Text is a kind of rhetorical dodge

[marysmirages]

The spirit of ancient battles (2026)

A pastel version of the 2015 work of the same name.

[friedredclay]

Clarinetist Polo Barnes (& wife), New Orleans, USA, June 1971. Val Wilmer.

[memories-of-ancients]

Stamp seal, Indus Valley Civilization, 2600-1900 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[celestial-fang]

Instead of the new dogshit Odyssey film you should watch Iphigenia (1977). It’s made by actual Greek people and focuses on a mother-daughter relationship to explore how women are sacrificed by powerful men in times of war. Also the main actress has the face of an angel 🙏 the whole movie is available on YT with English subtitles.

[trangoldin]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[kuttithevangu]

I love “Guy who doesn’t know which of two men is his father but knows he hates them both” he’s going next to the date-swallowing woman in my canon of Talmudic characters

[creekfiend]

i suddenly have a very good idea for a mama mia remake

[softness-and-shattering]

Who is the date swallowing woman, I dont think Ive encountered her.

[kuttithevangu]

When you’re proposing marriage to a woman, she is betrothed to you if she accepts a gift. This gift can be food of a certain bulk. The rabbis therefore invented a woman who just keeps eating the dates you hand her so fast that they never add up to the amount that constitutes betrothal

[softness-and-shattering]

What can I say, she hungy and she doesnt want to marry you 🤣🤣🤣

So the food is measured in bulk and not uh pruta-value? Thats so interesting.

[kuttithevangu]

It might actually be value, it’s been awhile since that tractate…

[kuttithevangu]

Thanks @hydrogenperfoxide for tracking down the date-swallowing woman:

Kiddushin 47a:1 | Sefaria Library

The mishna taught that if she ate the dates one by one their value is not added together only if he said to her that she is betrothed: With

[shamashreshusur]

[shadeslayer]

its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being

[shadeslayer]

i like that ppl r thinking abt town names and things thats very good to be aware of but just to be clear this is actually specifically about other things actually, the things everyone but those looking up their nation forget about

sequoyah was the man who created the tsalagi syllabary before it was ever a tree

if i try to look for apparel or crafts to show off my chickasaw pride, i get results for chickasaw plums which is just a specific species of plum before i get results about human beings

others have mentioned if they google their nations name they get boot companies before their nations website!

theres a tweet that still haunts me that was about a Quirky Quasi American Restaurant in europe or somewhere that was being funny by being cowboy themed and their steaks were named after native american nations. even outside the usa we are nothing but literal dead meat for others consumption

"blackhawk" "apache" - fuck theres a whole wikipedia page for the way weve had our names used for weapons used to colonize and kill us and others!

yes talk about town and location names but you need to look farther than that. it gets so much worse, i promise

[h-o-m--e]

[smsomah]

Bedouin woman of Palestine. Scanned from the book The World of Allah; 1983; David Douglas Duncan