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"Boadicea and Her Daughters," bronze sculpture near Westminster Bridge in London, U.K. Sculpted by Thomas Thornycroft (1815-1885)
Photo by Paul Walter, 2013. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans
In case anyone missed it... Incredible stuff!
Snippets of the past—tiny cats, massive lakes, women ruling Iron Age Britain
Snippets—tiny cats, hidden lakes, and a powerful reminder (from a brilliant paper in Nature about matrilocal Celtic culture in Britain) that history is just a story—and the story depends on the bias of the storyteller.
Today I’ll focus not on the ugly news topics of the week but on fascinating bits of life in the past, in the form of massive hidden aquifers, cats small enough to curl up on your hand, and—saving the best til last—the proof that in Late Iron Age Britain, women ruled. Lets start with that aquifer. To quote from Live Science, “An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind on…
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Cool briton shit (pt. 2, customs)
Above is a depiction of briton Tattoos. The ink was colorful but blue was favored and made using blue dye from the woad plant. Unlike other tribes, the iceni would use both paint and tattoos before war and during rituals.
Men would often spike up their hair and use lime to dye it white.
This is a dobunni coin, they aren't used like our money as they're purely special tokens signifying an importance. They are earned. There was no money in the Iron Age. People were not paid with money for the work they did. People would swap what they made for something else. For example, a blacksmith could swap a tool they had made for food from a farmer. This type of trade is called bartering or exchange.
The battersea shield was used as an offering to nature itself, hence why there is no handle. Tribes would often sacrifice items with meaning to river streams of water, bury them in houses, or hide them.
The britons didnt have gods in the literal sense, but rather worshipped personifications of the natural world. They had priests, otherwise known as druids, who would help them lead ceremonies of worship. Druids wore necklaces, head wraps or jewelry, earrings, and rings to signal their status. Druids could also be men or women.
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Great Britain is a European island in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is the largest island in the world.
ARTHURIAN ─ “The Matter of Britain, or the Arthurian cycle, is a medieval European body of literature.” ─ Arthurian Information ─ Arthurian Sources ─ Arthurian Texts
CORNWALL ─ “The Cornish people are a Western European people. They are native to Cornwall.” ─ Cornwall’s Stones ─ Cornish History ─ Cornish Dictionary
ENGLAND ─ “The English people are a Germanic people. They are native to England.” ─ Middle English Literature ─ English Folklore ─ The English Renaissance
ICENI ─ “The Iceni, or Ecini, were a Brittonic people that lived from the British Iron Age to the early Roman era. They lived in modern-day Norfolk.” ─ Iceni Information
IRELAND ─ “The Irish people are a Western European people that share the Irish culture. They are native to Ireland.” ─ Irish Folklore & Mythology ─ Irish History ─ Irish Language
MANX ─ “The Manx people are a West European people that share the Manx culture. They are native to the Isle of Man.” ─ Manx Information ─ Manx History ─ Manx Language
ORKNEY ─ “Orkney, or the Orkney Islands, is a European archipelago. It is located in Scotland.” ─ Orcadian Information ─ Orcadian Culture & History
SCOTLAND ─ “The Scottish, or Scotch, people are a European people. They are native to Scotland.” ─ Scottish Folklore ─ Scottish History ─ Scots Language
WALES ─ “Welsh people are a Western European people that share the Welsh culture. They are native to Wales.” ─ Welsh Culture ─ Welsh History ─ The Four Branches of the Mabinogi
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GERMANIC NEOPAGANISM ─ “Germanic Neopaganism, or Heathenry, is a Pagan religion. It originated in Europe in the early 20th century C.E.” ─ Germanic Neopagan Information (in German)
*MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN ─ “The Middle Ages, or the Medieval Period, was a European period of time from the 5th century C.E. to the 15th century C.E.” ─ Medieval Culture ─ Pliny’s History of the World ─ Medieval Military History
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SWEDEN ─ “The Swedish, or Swede, people are a Germanic people. They are native to Sweden.” ─ Swedish Culture ─ Swedish History ─ Swedish Dictionary
* - The Medieval European period was not just a Western European period of time. It was also part of many other European histories.
Not quite a "head-canon," and not necessarily a theory, just an idea: the Mermaids in Mermaid Lagoon are the female equivalent of the Lost Boys. They were all once human girls, who traded their lives one Earth for Neverland.
Daphne
...did not look forward to her training as a priestess in Ancient Greece. She was one of the first girls to run off to Neverland.
Waterlily
..is an Oneida girl from Wendy's time period, who escaped one of the United States' infamous "mission schools" for a life of freedom as a mermaid. What happened to her family? Well that's part of why she's so cynical. ☹️
Estelle
... was an abused indentured servant in 1700s France. The unwanted child of an already large and impoverished family, her parents wasted no time renting Estelle out for labor. Abused by the drunken innkeeper she scrubbed floors for, and abandoned by her parents, she felt she had nothing to lose by moving to Neverland.
Song Yin
...was born to a noble family in China during the Song dynasty. Betrothed to a man old enough to be her father, Yin was all too glad to trade her bound feet for a pair of fins.
Tamara
...was an Iceni princess, and daughter of the warrior queen Boudicca. After the Romans conquered them, Boudicca took her own life, but reports of Tamara's fate been understated.
Delilah
....was bound for Jamestown in the early 1600s, to marry a man she'd never met. She changed course for Neverland.
Isolde
... doesn't miss being a scullery maid in a damp, siege-prone castle in the Dark Ages; but she did always admire the noblewomen's style.
Singrid
...was the illegitimate daughter of a Viking lord, and while not treated horribly, always felt unwanted and unimportant. But in Mermaid Lagoon, she feels like a princess.
Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay (1879 – 1969) - Boadicea, circa 1940, oil on canvas; Amazon,1939, pencil.
