Pinar S. 🦦
@pinars.bsky.social
Used to be a Byzantinist, now an independent researcher, potter, part time translator and interpreter &person of leisure. Posts on history, art, archaeology, nature, mythology, folklore, the occult, books, language, καὶ τὰ ἕτερα. Team Oxford Comma.
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Spooky Advent Day 2: It's Sheridan le Fanu's spectral-simian-manifesting beverage-putter-offer of a novella, Green Tea
December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Spooky Advent Day 2: It's Sheridan le Fanu's spectral-simian-manifesting beverage-putter-offer of a novella, Green Tea
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This evening’s Advent treasure is a Comma Butterfly Fairy, resting on a curl of hop vine — the plant her young depend upon.
I love how butterflies carry their stories in partnership with the plants that raise them.
A touch of true magic from the wild world meeting the soft magic of fairytale. #Fairy
I love how butterflies carry their stories in partnership with the plants that raise them.
A touch of true magic from the wild world meeting the soft magic of fairytale. #Fairy
December 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This evening’s Advent treasure is a Comma Butterfly Fairy, resting on a curl of hop vine — the plant her young depend upon.
I love how butterflies carry their stories in partnership with the plants that raise them.
A touch of true magic from the wild world meeting the soft magic of fairytale. #Fairy
I love how butterflies carry their stories in partnership with the plants that raise them.
A touch of true magic from the wild world meeting the soft magic of fairytale. #Fairy
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#FairyTaleTuesday 🎄🐈⬛
Ever wonder why cats are mischievously drawn to Christmas trees?
Maybe it's the call of the Yule Cat, a mischievous spirit from Scandinavian folklore, enticing them. Whatever the reason, cats are purr-fectly captivated by the twinkling lights and festive vibes! #YuleTreeandCats
Ever wonder why cats are mischievously drawn to Christmas trees?
Maybe it's the call of the Yule Cat, a mischievous spirit from Scandinavian folklore, enticing them. Whatever the reason, cats are purr-fectly captivated by the twinkling lights and festive vibes! #YuleTreeandCats
December 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday 🎄🐈⬛
Ever wonder why cats are mischievously drawn to Christmas trees?
Maybe it's the call of the Yule Cat, a mischievous spirit from Scandinavian folklore, enticing them. Whatever the reason, cats are purr-fectly captivated by the twinkling lights and festive vibes! #YuleTreeandCats
Ever wonder why cats are mischievously drawn to Christmas trees?
Maybe it's the call of the Yule Cat, a mischievous spirit from Scandinavian folklore, enticing them. Whatever the reason, cats are purr-fectly captivated by the twinkling lights and festive vibes! #YuleTreeandCats
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Fabulous piece à propos of Buried Treasure’s release of Rupert Hine’s original soundtrack to Jerzy Skolimowski’s The Shout.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
From The Shout to Bait: Listening to the Sound of Movies about Sound | The Quietus
Darran Anderson tunes in to the sound of movies about sound, from The Shout to Bait, via Berberian Sound Studio & The Conversation.
thequietus.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Fabulous piece à propos of Buried Treasure’s release of Rupert Hine’s original soundtrack to Jerzy Skolimowski’s The Shout.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find.
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find.
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
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The Second Window. Once upon a time, there was a green-eyed Tabby Cat who ran a bookshop by the Christ Church gate of Canterbury Cathedral. It was a marvellous place, four stories high, with treasures on every shelf & free buttered toast, plum cake & hot sweet tea for all who visited.
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Second Window. Once upon a time, there was a green-eyed Tabby Cat who ran a bookshop by the Christ Church gate of Canterbury Cathedral. It was a marvellous place, four stories high, with treasures on every shelf & free buttered toast, plum cake & hot sweet tea for all who visited.
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For folk magic is often a serious of fragile truces with the land, a series of appeasements made to nature’s legion of spirits. The cunning folk are diplomats to enfolding otherworlds. Few in the Foreign Office could match their skill. - Dr. M. Benn, 1981 lecture at Woden College, Weychester
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For folk magic is often a serious of fragile truces with the land, a series of appeasements made to nature’s legion of spirits. The cunning folk are diplomats to enfolding otherworlds. Few in the Foreign Office could match their skill. - Dr. M. Benn, 1981 lecture at Woden College, Weychester
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In ancient Mesopotamia, astronomers needed to know the moon’s position, even on a cloudy night.
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
In ancient Mesopotamia, astronomers needed to know the moon’s position, even on a cloudy night.
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
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2 Dec: In #Norse lore, Frigg watches over marriage, fertility & motherhood. When her son Baldr fell to a mistletoe arrow, she knelt beside him in grief. Her tears touched the bare sprig that struck him, and each drop turned into a white berry—a reminder to cherish those we love.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
2 Dec: In #Norse lore, Frigg watches over marriage, fertility & motherhood. When her son Baldr fell to a mistletoe arrow, she knelt beside him in grief. Her tears touched the bare sprig that struck him, and each drop turned into a white berry—a reminder to cherish those we love.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Advent is my favorite time of the year exactly because of this.
#AshmoleanAdvent Day 2: A Bronze Stag 🦌
This Roman bronze brooch in the shape of a stag would have been used to fasten a shawl or cloak.
This brooch was once decorated with bright multi-coloured enamel which was very popular in Britain and France during the Roman period.
🦌 AN1927.418
This Roman bronze brooch in the shape of a stag would have been used to fasten a shawl or cloak.
This brooch was once decorated with bright multi-coloured enamel which was very popular in Britain and France during the Roman period.
🦌 AN1927.418
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Advent is my favorite time of the year exactly because of this.
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Mamdani posts a photo of himself on a picket line supporting labor and the top dozen replies are all people yelling at him for not using alt text.
Love this place.
Love this place.
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Mamdani posts a photo of himself on a picket line supporting labor and the top dozen replies are all people yelling at him for not using alt text.
Love this place.
Love this place.
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Broke: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, it’s an action film
Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film
Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film
Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema trips
When Macaulay Culkin recently said he didn’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas film – wading into one of pop culture’s most heated holiday debates – he was booed by a live audience.
But it looks like the British people are behind the actor, with a survey revealing that Home Alone is the UK’s favourite festive film, while Die Hard has officially been voted not a Christmas movie. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Broke: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, it’s an action film
Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film
Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film
Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
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Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
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👀 Grosvenor Museum #Chester
Antefix fragments with LEG XX & decorated with a boar, symbol of the Twentieth Legion Valeria Victrix.
The museum believes V. V. stood for Valiant and Victorious, probably awarded to the legion after they helped defeat #Boudicca AD61
#Roman #Archaeology
#TilesOnTuesday
Antefix fragments with LEG XX & decorated with a boar, symbol of the Twentieth Legion Valeria Victrix.
The museum believes V. V. stood for Valiant and Victorious, probably awarded to the legion after they helped defeat #Boudicca AD61
#Roman #Archaeology
#TilesOnTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
👀 Grosvenor Museum #Chester
Antefix fragments with LEG XX & decorated with a boar, symbol of the Twentieth Legion Valeria Victrix.
The museum believes V. V. stood for Valiant and Victorious, probably awarded to the legion after they helped defeat #Boudicca AD61
#Roman #Archaeology
#TilesOnTuesday
Antefix fragments with LEG XX & decorated with a boar, symbol of the Twentieth Legion Valeria Victrix.
The museum believes V. V. stood for Valiant and Victorious, probably awarded to the legion after they helped defeat #Boudicca AD61
#Roman #Archaeology
#TilesOnTuesday
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The first day of my Nature-inspired Advent Calendar…
tiny candlesnuff candles, each held in a campion seed-head candlestick.
Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) is said to be bioluminescent — lit by the light of the moon, no matches required.
A quiet start, glowing softly at winter’s threshold.
tiny candlesnuff candles, each held in a campion seed-head candlestick.
Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) is said to be bioluminescent — lit by the light of the moon, no matches required.
A quiet start, glowing softly at winter’s threshold.
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The first day of my Nature-inspired Advent Calendar…
tiny candlesnuff candles, each held in a campion seed-head candlestick.
Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) is said to be bioluminescent — lit by the light of the moon, no matches required.
A quiet start, glowing softly at winter’s threshold.
tiny candlesnuff candles, each held in a campion seed-head candlestick.
Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) is said to be bioluminescent — lit by the light of the moon, no matches required.
A quiet start, glowing softly at winter’s threshold.
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“I enjoy the way that by contrast blogging, once daringly futuristic, now seems quaintly retro—a bit like one of those early TGV prototypes from the 1970s.”
Daniel Gordon in the new piece in @frenchhistory.bsky.social celebrating ten years of the French History Network doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Daniel Gordon in the new piece in @frenchhistory.bsky.social celebrating ten years of the French History Network doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Blogging (French) history: conversations and reflections amongst historians
Abstract. In 2014, the French History Network Blog was launched with the aim of ‘connecting people and ideas’. Ten years later, it has shared hundreds of b
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“I enjoy the way that by contrast blogging, once daringly futuristic, now seems quaintly retro—a bit like one of those early TGV prototypes from the 1970s.”
Daniel Gordon in the new piece in @frenchhistory.bsky.social celebrating ten years of the French History Network doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
🗃️
Daniel Gordon in the new piece in @frenchhistory.bsky.social celebrating ten years of the French History Network doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
🗃️
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NEW EPISODE! Ghostly rabbits, witchy hares... Chris and Simon talk sheep-killing, human attacking, Roman-hating, bad-luck-bringing bunnies and speculate about why rabbits and hares so terrified our ancestors. Graveyard rabbits, Donnie Darko, Bunny Man and more. www.buzzsprout.com/1859647/epis...
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
NEW EPISODE! Ghostly rabbits, witchy hares... Chris and Simon talk sheep-killing, human attacking, Roman-hating, bad-luck-bringing bunnies and speculate about why rabbits and hares so terrified our ancestors. Graveyard rabbits, Donnie Darko, Bunny Man and more. www.buzzsprout.com/1859647/epis...
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Ainur's museum year Advent calendar starts today with this 12thC brooch and chain ensemble excavated in Latvia, Aizkraukle, now in the British Museum. The bird pendant looks familiar to fans of Permian and Iron Age Finnic and Baltic jewelry. Read more: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
December 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ainur's museum year Advent calendar starts today with this 12thC brooch and chain ensemble excavated in Latvia, Aizkraukle, now in the British Museum. The bird pendant looks familiar to fans of Permian and Iron Age Finnic and Baltic jewelry. Read more: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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Our Artist Advent Calendar begins today at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery with Arthur Hughes’ The Nativity, 1858.
Are you a chocolate advent calendar person, a picture advent calendar person, or one of the fancy beauty/homeware/perfume advent calendar people?
Are you a chocolate advent calendar person, a picture advent calendar person, or one of the fancy beauty/homeware/perfume advent calendar people?
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Our Artist Advent Calendar begins today at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery with Arthur Hughes’ The Nativity, 1858.
Are you a chocolate advent calendar person, a picture advent calendar person, or one of the fancy beauty/homeware/perfume advent calendar people?
Are you a chocolate advent calendar person, a picture advent calendar person, or one of the fancy beauty/homeware/perfume advent calendar people?
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Archaeology Advent Calendar Day 1
Terracotta bird-shaped vase, Cypro-Geometric III, ca. 850–750 BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.813
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Terracotta bird-shaped vase, Cypro-Geometric III, ca. 850–750 BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.813
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Archaeology Advent Calendar Day 1
Terracotta bird-shaped vase, Cypro-Geometric III, ca. 850–750 BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.813
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Terracotta bird-shaped vase, Cypro-Geometric III, ca. 850–750 BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.813
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Oh. My. Goodness.
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Oh. My. Goodness.
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
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In 1811, the same year novelist Jane Austen published Sense and Sensibility, #Sussex farmer George Tupper discovered this late #Roman floor @bignorvilla.bsky.social
It depicts Ganymede abducted by Jupiter in the guise of an eagle
📷 Sept 2014
#MosaicMonday
It depicts Ganymede abducted by Jupiter in the guise of an eagle
📷 Sept 2014
#MosaicMonday
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
In 1811, the same year novelist Jane Austen published Sense and Sensibility, #Sussex farmer George Tupper discovered this late #Roman floor @bignorvilla.bsky.social
It depicts Ganymede abducted by Jupiter in the guise of an eagle
📷 Sept 2014
#MosaicMonday
It depicts Ganymede abducted by Jupiter in the guise of an eagle
📷 Sept 2014
#MosaicMonday
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1 Dec: The ‘Christmas Rose’ or ‘Winter Rose’ (Helleborus niger) is one of the birth flowers of #December. An old legend says that when humankind fell from grace and Paradise lay shrouded in snow, the angels carried this bloom to earth as a sign of love and mercy. #Plantlore
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
1 Dec: The ‘Christmas Rose’ or ‘Winter Rose’ (Helleborus niger) is one of the birth flowers of #December. An old legend says that when humankind fell from grace and Paradise lay shrouded in snow, the angels carried this bloom to earth as a sign of love and mercy. #Plantlore
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Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December