European Tribalism - Mythology, European culture, survival

2022-04-24 15:49:56 Everything prepared!

This year we will add 4 hens and a rooster to our lifestock.

Let's see how this will work out.

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2022-04-23 14:58:15 On gardening (2)

Last year I showed you how to build a raised bed for your garden.

Today we planted many strawberries into one of them.

Grow your strawberries next to onions, they work good together!

#diy

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2022-04-23 12:09:23 Byzantine gold bracelets with pearls.
6th century A.D.

Currently in Varna Archeological Museum, Bulgaria.

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2022-04-22 14:12:42 Don't you just love it, how 'scientists' can tell exactly how a mummy died 10.000 years ago, but when thousands of babies die during their sleep within 48 hours after an injection they suddenly have no clue? Open / Comment

2022-04-21 17:37:49 Scythian wood vessel with golden tag. Found at the Filippovsky burial mound.

4th century B.C.

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2022-04-21 12:37:21 Library of the St.Florian monastery close to the city of Linz, Upper Austria, Austria

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2022-04-21 10:40:40 Comic from 1892.

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2022-04-21 00:06:48 How to grow garlic

There are hardneck and softneck varieties of garlic, find what works best in your planting zone. Plant in the fall, just before the ground freezes. Cover with leaves. In very early spring carefully rake leaves off as soon as they thaw and have dried out a bit.

Garlic will grow through the summer. Water if there is a dry spell. By late summer or early fall they need to be harvested when the plant is 2/3rds brown. If you let the garlic completely dry before harvest the cloves start to separate and they spoil easier.

Dry bulbs in a shaded spot with good air circulation. Store hanging in mesh bags, or braided together, out of direct sunlight. Keep enough of the bulbs to break into cloves for fall planting.

Go through the bulbs occasionally and throw out any that have gone bad or are starting to discolor; which won't be many. Never eat any discolored garlic.

Plant cloves pointy end up. It is obvious which end is up if you are breaking them off of a bulb.

#food #survival

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2022-04-20 06:45:02 On fairy tales (2)

A widely known fairytale is the one of Hansel & Gretel. The two children have poor parents, so the whole family suffers from hunger. In desperation the parents abandon their children in the forest.

While they stumble through the woods, they meet a woman, who turns out to be an evil witch. Why she lives alone in the woods can be speculated, but maybe she was expelled from 109 villages.

The witch first seem to help the children, but plans to eat them. Hansel is forced to eat a lot in a cage, while his sister is threatened to work for the witch.

Ultimately it is shown that the witch is not an evil genius with an IQ of 120, but she is fooled easily into a fiery death in an oven.

The children find many coins and gems in the witches house, which from now on help them to survive.

What can be learnt from this fairytale is discussed a lot, but the depictions of the witch and her house are obvious.

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2022-04-19 20:32:16 On swastikas (14)

Germanic wooden chair from Lower Saxony. 4th - 5th century A.D.

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