#World Cultures

[susanontherocks]

I’m taking pottery lessons right now… and my teacher said “the kiln gods are being kind to me right now.” And that made me stop and think. Is there a god of pottery? I tried to look it up but it’s hazy.

In Ancient Greece, Athena was apparently the goddess of crafts, which is a bit vague. Hephaestus was the god of sculpting, but that’s not right either.

In Ancient Egypt, I found Khnum who made the other gods and humankind on his potter’s wheel.

I found two other gods of pottery in cultures I don’t know: Lianaotabi and Panthoibi.

But I wasn’t able to find anyone else. Pottery being such an important part of daily life all around the world, it seems like there would be more. Does anyone know of any other gods of pottery?

Edited: removed incorrect/inaccurate descriptor for Lianaotabi and Panthoibi peoples. Apologies, I found them through a random google search for “pottery gods.”

#pottery #world cultures #gods #god of pottery #curiosity

[phoenixyfriend]

I'm sure there are others, and some that have very fine distinctions (like, I didn't actually bother differentiating d͡ʐ and dʑ, even though they are two distinct letters and sounds in my first language, they just get lumped in with "g as in ginger"), but hopefully most readings fall into one of the four camps above.

Tell me in the tags your culture of origin and if that influences your reading!

In my case, I'm Serbian-American and read the letter J as a Y sound unless I have context suggesting it should be something else. It meant that while reading Eragon, I was pronouncing Ajihad's name as Ayee-hahd until I got to the glossary at the very end and saw the "AH-zhi-hod" entry.

#pronunciation #phoenix polls #polls #letters #words #world cultures #culture

[useless-catalanfacts]

Sawing off Old Lady Lent’s first foot. Reus, Camp de Tarragona, Catalonia.

In Catholicism, Lent is a period of 40 days where believers are not supposed to eat meat, luxurious products, and they must follow abstinence rules. In the Catalan Countries, Lent is personified in Old Lady Lent (in Catalan, Vella Quaresma), and old woman with 7 legs. She usually holds a salted cod and a vegetable basket (usually chards), which are two of the most characteristic Lent food products. Similar personifications exist in other Mediterranean cultures, for example in Greece.

Why does she have 7 legs? Because she is a calendar. Lent lasts for 5 weeks, so the tradition is that every week we cut off one of her legs. In the end, when she's left with 2 foot, Lent is about to end.

Though nowadays it’s not common at all to follow the religious restrictions for Lent, the tradition of Old Lady Lent is still followed by children. Schools, children’s social centres, some family homes, and other places where there are children hang up an image of Old Lady Lent and every week they meet to remove one leg.

(In my school, the legs were socks and each one of them had sweets hidden inside them 🤭)

Photo by Ajuntament de Reus.

#quaresma #tradicions #reus #catalunya #fotografia #lent #cultures #culture #calendar #world cultures #photojournalism #photography #travel #traditions #folk culture #february #march #southern europe #ethnography #ethnology

[er-cryptid]

Ethnocentrism

-- assumption that one's own culture is correct or superior

-- other ways of living are seen as wrong or ignorant

-- combated by cultural relativism

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[samoililja]

Here is a separate version of the infograph I made correcting the misinformation spread by a popular tumblr post captioning the below pictures as "Mongolian archer"

If you come across that post I would appreciate it if you'd reblog this along with it or the version below this so we can finally dissolve the misinformation perpetuated by the original post.

#image description in alt #finland #china #archery #mongolia #mongolian archer #misinformation #warriorwomen #zhang jingchu #world cultures #finnish #chinese #movie #suomitumblr #anti-asian racism

[weirdfact]

#maps #weird #weird facts #world cultures

[mbrainspaz]

It's tragic that we don't just sing while we work anymore. I mean, I do, but my coworkers give me weird looks.

#singing #world cultures #i like to sing #the human condition

[coolbeansnico]

INTRO POST BCS WHY NOT!!

Hi I'm Nico :]

I'm autistic, trans and queer and my pronouns are he/it

Fandoms: Good Omens, Moomin, BBC Ghosts, The Mighty Boosh, Doctor Who, What We Do in the Shadows, Horrible Histories, Yonderland, The IT Crowd, Ride The Cyclone, Percy Jackson, Britcoms, so many others tbh

Oh n I love movies especially rom coms, coming of age and indie shit

Other interests: Mythology, world cultures/geography, queer, film, art and fashion history & analysis, vampires, music, poetry, humanity in general and anthropology

Fav music artists: The Cure, David Bowie, HOZIER!!

I'm also a bit obsessed with dilfs..

I'm very opinionated at times but I promise I'm open minded and not trying to argue, I'm always down for constructive criticism or healthy debate and I love getting other people's perspectives (as long as ur not rude or a bitch abt it ofc)

Please use tone tags

I'd prefer not to share my age, but please know I am under 21, so keep that in mind, and don't be a creep. But please don't patronise me 😃👍

Anyways bmf if: We have the same interests, you think im cool, ur chill idk 🤷

Buh byeee!!

#good omens #moomin #bbc ghosts #the mighty boosh #doctor who #what we do in the shadows #the it crowd #percy jackon and the olympians #britcoms #mythology #cryptids #world cultures #geography #queer history #film history #film analysis #fashion history #poetry #the cure #david bowie #hozier #actually autistic #david tennant #michael sheen #noel fielding #horrible histories #snufkin #vampires

[lesewut]

"I spoke to a man who has been to hell."

“World-Travels - Contributions to the Country and Nations, III. Volume ” by Prof. Dr. Phil. Wilhelm Joest. Published 1895 in Berlin by Imberg & Lefson. Three volumes with thirteen plates and one card. The book is devided in four parts: The Ainu - Siberia - Habit of Eating Lices - Eau de Cologne Drinking

Travel reports from the past are combining cultural aspects with the feeling of trippin' into history. Suddenly all the bygone events are relatively vivid through your inner eyes, the native folks that were rare at that time, are nowadays forgotten, but brought to live through words. Sometimes those ethnic minorities are all of a sudden submerged, without a hint, lost without trace and if they enter again the earthy stage, they kind of seem half mystified. It is also not really possible to tell how many assimilated with the local society, in fact, it will often stay a guessing like speculation, when it comes to the knowledge of the own ancestry. Which is also again a sign, that all kind of man-set-borders can be crossed... Nevertheless, it is always a gain to read about less known folks and cultures. The human history is full of interesting cultural habits and the many aspect that influenced the customs, practices and traditions.

In this travelouge Prof. Joest is presenting the Ainu (or Aino, Utari) Folk. With caution should some parts been read, but according to my reception, even if some statements are shining with social darwinian interpretation, it really surpised me, that the description of the Ainu Folk as "more European" than "Mongolian" looking has evidences from the newest research results: It is not clear how and why, but it seems that the Ainu were not an homogeneous group (less than usual in tribal unions) as they have reached "Japan", 14,000 years before the Common Era. Despite the descriptions, Prof. Joest is critisising researches of using his findings, as their own (documents he published, where integrated as own research and development. So allegations of plagiarism is not a phenomenon of modern times. And the accusation goes on in the report about Siberia. George Kennan, an American explorer, who was noted for his travels in several regions of the Russian Empire, wrote about Siberia in three volumes.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Prof. Joest is criticising Kennan's lack of authenticity, comparing his report as "speculative backstairs of the novelist" and that the representation were hyperbolic. Through the distortion of events, Kennan would "blurring of the reader's judgement". The used sources are questionable, the interviewed persons, used as "key witnessess" (mostly young political prisoners of female gender) are giving incorrect information to awake (false) sympathy. What is very notable, is that Prof. Joest is frequently using the term "Russophobia" to describe the motivation of Kennan. In the way of presenting the prisoners as "innocently locked in" and "in other circumstances, they would have been appreciative for the fatherland", the report of Siberia turns fastly into a scarestory. And still today, the collective memory is getting shivering fit, when thinking about this ice desert, known for forced deportations and gulags.

Due to lack of time an energy, I will present the following part in notes:

Correction & True Statements

-> Underground dungeons, blood on the walls and hard, forced labor

Kennan has never seen those underground dungeons - the blood is the result of bedbugs pressed to death by the prisoners - lack of work would be the reality (cf. Dostoevsky "The House of the Dead", do not want to tell too much, but for me Dostoevsky is the hero for the forgotten of society, he survived those horrors becoming a better human-being, washed in the same basin with the others and felt every distance too much, wanting to bridge with brotherhood, but Oscar Wilde drowned in the basin of his heavy narcissism...)

-> Overcrowded prisons

At this time, Europe had to struggle with overcrowded prisons and it can be seen as a fundamental problem (cf. Mazas Prison in Paris or Plötzensee in Berlin) - How often I had to think of Marx and how he emphasized the higher standard of living in the prison in comparison with the everyday life of the labouring poor (more space, food and warmth in the prison!) plus it was common, that Russian convicts were accompanied by the whole family...

-> Tolstoi is lacking pathos for the situation of the inmates

Kennan is contracicting himself, as he mentions "The Count apparantly did not even want to be charitable to men and women, whose actions he disapproved of." In addition, Tolstoi should not be count as a judge for morals :')

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Recommended travelogue about Siberia

Experienced traveller and with respects of Katherina II. "On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian lepus." by Kate Marsden

"Best book that was available about Siberia" wrote Prof. Joest about "Siberia" by Jadrinzew, translated by Prof. Petri-Bern

Well traveled pastor "Through Siberia" by Landsdell

Experienced and traveled extensively "Siberia As It Is" by Harry De Windt

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Side note:

The parts "Habit of Eating Lices" & "Eau de Cologne Drinking" has really frightened me, particularly the "creativity" of human to get intoxicated by alcohol, wether there are import bans or prohibitions, always are new ways found. First I thought, that the lices-theme would psychologically evoke itching, honestly it did, but it was nothing compared to the shocks I conquered with Eau de Cologne... You just can not imagine, what especially fine aristocratic women, used as gadgetry to get their dosis of alcohol. So many hidden alcoholics, trying to conceal their addiction and falling even deeper. Fake flowers with sprayers of alcohol, amputated fingers to hide little bottles in the gloves, walking sticks as movable bars... Fascinating and scaring at the same time!

#travelogue #reportings about travel experience #travel experiences #traveling in the 19th century #world cultures #Siberia #Ainu #cultural habits #culture #Kulturschock #antiquarian book #antiquarian #literary criticism #prison and inmates

[rarestrock56]

The beautiful scenery of Japan

Credits: Flashpacking Japan (1) / You Could Travel (2)

#japan #world cultures #travel #photography

[saxiquine]

Visiting the exhibition ”Viva Mexico” at the gothenburg Världskulturmuseum.

#me #sweden #gothenburg #museum #världskulturmuseet #world cultures #viva mexico #diademuertos

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

#tribus #ethnic #ethnology #people of the world #culture #americanpeople

[useless-catalanfacts]

La Patum 💥🧨 Berga, Central Catalonia.

Video by DailyCatalan (Instagram, Tiktok).

#la patum #patum #berga #catalunya #tradicions #culture #cultures #intangible heritage #heritage #travel #world traditions #world cultures

[53v3nfrn5]

The female goat herders of Hadhramaut, Yemen

Goat herding is traditionally done by females in Eastern Yemen. The women cover all their skin from the heat and sun, protecting themselves from dehydration and skin damage, the socks and gloves keep their hands and feet soft despite the unforgiving desert sun. The hat (made from dried palm leaves) besides being a drip by itself serves an important role, it insulates air on top of their head thus keeping it cool, besides providing the obvious shade. The layered clothing also helps with the desert changing mood, where it can shift from hot days to cold nights.

#hardhramout #yemen #aesthetic #goats #animals #culture #goat herding #women #desert #farmcore #interesting #working women #fashion #style #people #people of the world

[hobgobknowsbest]

#goblincore #goblin culture #goblin vibes #goblin community #local cryptid #dungeons and dragons #Real life magic #Be the light you want to see in the world #goblin mode #goblin things #goblin posting #goblin king #unintelligible goblin noises

[weirdfact]

#til #maps #weird facts #world cultures #oh hey! the US is in the orange