Thread: A woman buried around 700BC in the grave 15 from Marvinci-Lisičin Dol cemetery near Valandovo, Macedonia, was not an ordinary woman...

These are beautiful artist depictions of what the woman, believed to have been a priestess, looked like...

She was buried with so-called Paeonian ritual bronzes. She was also wearing a long belt chain, at which end hang a miniature pyxis (jar) shaped like opium poppy bulb, with bird protome (handles). The jar which, based on the organic matter found inside of it, contained raw opium

What is very interesting is that the chain on which the opium jar hang, was attached to two sickle knifes...

Two more sickles hanged from her belt attached to two shorter chains. One of them with what looks like a lion chasing bull scene (???)

Official interpretation of all these sickles is that "These might be sacrificial instruments but also symbolic tools for harvesting, i.e. ultimately symbols of fertility..."

I don't think so...

This amazing looking thing is an old traditional opium poppy bulb scaring sickle knife with a goat horn handle from Central Asia...Amazing looking thing...

This thing is an old traditional opium harvesting sickle knife from Central Asia...

So harvest indeed, but not of wheat. Of poppies... https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/986530090623356928

In my article about the link between ancient gods and opium poppies, I explained that there is a link between bulls, gods and poppies. Because the poppy harvest in most parts of Eurasia starts in Taurus... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/05/poppies.html

You know when yesterday I wrote about crazy smiling people and bulls on the brooch from Sicily...Maybe everyone was so happy not because the grain harvest was starting, but because they were all stoned on freshly harvested opium...Harvested in Taurus... https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1308869457410953222

Now to me this is actually the most interesting bit...The priestess was buried around 700 BC wearing massive disc belt (left)...This is traditional female dress from Macedonia, early 20th c AD...With the same massive disc belt...(right)

Sources:
https://www.academia.edu/35096698/Connecting_Elites_and_Regions_Perspectives_on_contacts_relations_and_differentiation_during_the_Early_Iron_Age_Hallstatt_C_period_in_Northwest_and_Central_Europe
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278820370_Sotto_la_protezione_delle_Eliadi_La_collana_della_Tomba_660_di_Megara_Iblea
http://periodica.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/fab/FAB_01_(2006)/FAB%2001.12.%20Bouzek,%20J.%20-%20Macedonian%20Bronzes%20%E2%80%93%2030%20Years%20Later.pdf
https://www.academia.edu/36790097/Makedonische_Bronzen