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Bison calves stand in Saskatchewan’s Wanuskewin Heritage Park, the first to be born in the the Archaeological Site and Cultural Centre in more than 150 years. Photo By WanuskewinHeritage Park
How Canadian Bison Have Been Brought Back From The Brink In Saskatchewan
In Saskatchewan’s Wanuskewin Heritage Park, bison are a vital piece of the indigenous cultural history and have been brought back from the brink to help rewild fragile grasslands.
— By Karen Gardiner | Published June 3, 2023 | July 29th, 2025
Dr. Ernie Walker has heard enough tired takes on Saskatchewan’s flat landscape. “A lot of people refer to the prairies as big and empty or useless,” he says, indignant, as he leads me around Wanuskewin Heritage Park, an archaeological site and cultural centre 15 minutes from the Saskatchewan city of Saskatoon. “That’s not it. What’s significant about the prairies is that it’s subtle.”
Standing under a big blue sky, amid dry rolling grassland that stretches uninterrupted all the way to the horizon, I think I understand the misconception: lacking mountains and with sparse trees, this isn’t exactly the type of landscape that wallops you with its dramatic features. But if there’s anyone who can convincingly argue for the value of this place, it’s Walker.
The park’s founder and chief archeologist, Walker has spent four decades with his hands in Wanuskewin’s dirt, turning up artefacts — including stone and bone tools, amulets and even gaming pieces — that have whispered to him stories of this land’s significance. Working here as a ranch hand in the early 1980s, he convinced his boss that the land had great archaeological importance. That slowly set in motion the park’s establishment, which involved a rare-for-the-time collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
“When visitors look at the landscape, I’m always interested in what they’re actually seeing,” Walker continues. “They need to know the story behind this place.” The story here is of 6,000 years of almost uninterrupted human occupation. That narrative was drummed into the land by millions of bison hooves until the animals met a violent end. But now, the bison are back and they’re writing a new chapter.
An abandoned building stands along the roads of rural Saskatchewan. Photo By Design Pics Inc, Alamy
A Place of Sanctuary
In the Nēhiyawēwin (Plains Cree) language, ‘Wanuskewin’ roughly translates as ‘sanctuary’. Lying at the fertile confluence of the South Saskatchewan River and Opimihaw Creek, it was a gathering place for the people of the Northern Plains — the Blackfoot, Cree, Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Nakota and Dakota — who all followed bison herds and found sustenance and shelter here. Before European settlement, this land was home to vast numbers of bison (also known as buffalo) and the multitudes of species they supported, from the insects that thrived in the bison’s manure and the birds that fed on those insects to the humans that were dependent on the bison’s meat and skin.
But then came catastrophe. Bison were deliberately slaughtered to near extinction, a tactic used by settlers to starve Indigenous people into submission. “Around 400 years ago, there were 26 to 30 million bison on the Great Plains in North America,” Walker says. “By the 1890s, there were just 1,200.”
With the bison and their way of life gone, Plains people were left with little choice but to sign Treaty Six, an 1876 agreement with the British Crown that opened up the land for European settlement and promised one square mile of land to every Indigenous family of five. They were then corralled onto reserves.
“What if I were to come to all of your houses, empty your fridges and say you guys have to move to the s****y part of town?” Wearing a fringed buckskin waistcoat adorned with beaded flowers, Jordan Daniels, a member of the Mistawasis Nêhiyawak (Cree) Nation, raises his voice above the prairie wind to ensure we understand the depth of his ancestors’ loss. I’ve left Walker for now and joined a small group along Wanuskewin’s bison viewing trail where we’ll see and learn about Wanuskewin’s reestablished herd.
“The bison were a central part of our existence,” Daniels explains. “We made our teepees out of them. They were a main food source. Everything we needed for sustenance came from these animals.” There was also an emotional connection. Many Indigenous people consider bison kin, and the animal is ubiquitous in Indigenous stories and art. “They played a central role in our beliefs and in our way of seeing the world around us,” explains Daniels.
Bringing back the bison to Wanuskewin was always the park’s founders’ dream. In 2019, the animals finally came home. Six calves from Saskatchewan’s Grasslands National Park established the herd, followed by an additional five animals from the United States with ancestral ties to Yellowstone National Park. The herd, which has grown to 12, is now helping to restore native grasses. North America’s grasslands are one of the most endangered biomes in the world and bison, a keystone species, can help restore balance between animals, land and humans.
While grazing, Daniels explains, bison’s hooves aerate soil and help to disperse seeds, and by wallowing (rolling around), they create depressions that fill with rainwater and stimulate plant growth and provide habitat for microorganisms, amphibians and insects. “They’re ecologically unmatched,” he says. “But, I feel, nothing outweighs the cultural factor of having bison back here.”
Daniels’ connection is intensely personal. He explains that his seven-times great grandfather was Chief Mistawasis, the first chief in Saskatchewan to sign on to Treaty Six. Before signing, Daniels says, Mistawasis “had spent his life living how our people have done since time immemorial, out on the plains hunting bison. And today, I’m able to look at animals that are genetically close to the ones that he’d have interacted with. It’s a very impactful and powerful thing.”
Tianna McCabe, a Navajo, Arapaho and Cree powwow dancer, explains the significance of her ornate regalia. Photo By Concepts/KareeDavidsonPhotography.Com
Happy To Be Home
Wanuskewin is about protecting the future as much as preserving the past. I meet with young Indigenous people who demonstrate aspects of their cultures, once suppressed, now thriving. Tianna McCabe, a Navajo, Arapaho and Cree powwow dancer, explains the significance of every fabric and colour of her ornate regalia before hopping her way through an Old Style Fancy Shawl dance, her feet landing with each staccato beat of a drum.
As the day eases into night, I follow a group to the top of a bluff to meet Métis chef Jenni Lessard, who’s prepared our Han Wi (‘moon dinner’ in Dakota language). As well as bison tenderloin, sourced from a nearby farm and seasoned with yarrow and sage, we eat pickled spruce tips and bannock bread with chokecherry syrup. Sipping wild mint and fireweed tea, we gather around a fire, rejoined by Dr Ernie Walker to hear “a miraculous story”.
Dezaray Wapass, a Fancy Shawl dancer, performs in Wanuskewin National Park. Photo By Concets/KareeDavidsonPhotography.Com
In August 2020, Walker was visiting the bison herd when he noticed a boulder protruding from a patch of vegetation the animals had worn away. Seeing a groove cut across the top of it and, brushing away the dirt, he spotted more cuts and realised what he was seeing was a petroglyph. The boulder turned out to be a ‘ribstone’, so-called because its engraved motifs represent bison ribs. Three more petroglyphs were later unearthed, as well as the stone knife used to carve them.
What the bison did when they uncovered those petroglyphs was to complete the story of Wanuskewin. “We’d always lamented that, here in the park, we’ve got [archeological sites like] buffalo jumps, teepee rings and North America’s most northerly medicine wheel, but we didn’t have any rock art,” explains Walker.
Wanuskewin is on the tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage designation. The discovery of the petroglyphs, Walker believes, has boosted its chances. He tells me: “The stones complete everything you’d expect to find on the Northern Plains, but you don’t usually find those things within walking distance of each other.”
Dressed in a white Stetson, blue jeans and cowboy boots, Walker retains the appearance of a young ranch hand but, after 40 years of arguing for this place, I sense he’s content to rest a little. “I’ve told this story many times before,” he says. Now, the bison have picked up Wanuskewin’s epic story and it’s time to let them tell it once again.
#Canadian Bison#Saskatchewan#Wanuskewin Heritage Park#Archaeological Site and Cultural Centre#Dr. Ernie Walker#Chief Archeologist#Nēhiyawēwin (Plains Cree) Language#Wanuskewin (Sanctuary)#Blackfoot Cree Ojibwa Assiniboine Nakota and Dakota#Jordan Daniels#Mistawasis Nêhiyawak (Cree) Nation#Indigenous People#Grasslands National Park#Tianna McCabe a Navajo Arapaho and Cree Powwow Dancer 💃#Old Style Fancy Shawl Dance 💃#Métis chef Jenni Lessard#Han Wi (‘Moon Dinner’ in Dakota Language)#Chokecherry Syrup#Petroglyphs#UNESCO World Heritage
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In 2014, while digging ground to construct the Number 7 line for the Chengdu metro, a 2300 square meter tomb with 13 graves was dug up near Mohechi (摩诃池), the former back gardens of the Prince's mansion in Sichuan (蜀王府). Of the 13 chambers in the tomb, most were single graves, and some had been plundered or were difficult to get to. Chamber #8 was found to have its seal still closed and in decent condition, with archeologists speculating that the area had been subject to earthquakes in the past, and robbers skipped over the chamber because they were afraid of the walls collapsing if the heavy stone door was moved. Chamber #8 was also discovered to contain two rooms and the engraving of a dragon and phoenix, indicating that whoever the tomb belonged to were of relatively high status.
While the royal mausoleum of the prince of Sichuan had long been unearthed, the new joint grave was originally thought to be the tomb of an aristocratic husband and wife, as the type of tomb was typical of a husband and wife pair. The area where the new tomb had been discovered was also known long ago as 公公坟 (the eunuch graves). Other tombs of court eunuchs buried around Chengdu had been discovered in 1953, 1955, 1956, 2003, 2005, and 2008.
At the same time, experts noticed that the porcelain relics buried in the Chamber #8 all shared an unusual characteristic: the male figurines had no facial hair. This led to the realisation that the figurines depicted eunuchs. Additionally, two stone tablets were eventually located which turned out to be the epitaphs for the graves, and which allowed the archeologists to confirm that the tomb did indeed belong to two imperial eunuchs from the Ming dynasty. Moreover, the tablets revealed that the eunuchs were named Wei Yu (魏玉, b.1470) and Ruan Ying (阮英, b. 1472). Both were born from poor farming families in Tongzhou (潼州; present day northern Sichuan province).
In the fourteenth year of Chenghua, there was a huge drought in the nation, so both children were sent by their families to become eunuchs in the palace as a means to survive. Being from the same area and around the same age, they would grow to become very close.
In the Ming dynasty, imperial eunuchs had great power, such that they were in charge of many government and even military affairs. Due to this, Wei Yu and Ruan Ying did not stay in Beijing to serve the emperor but instead eventually ended up as chief eunuchs in Shuwangfu, the center of government in Sichuan. Based on the epitaph and historical materials, historians concluded that Wei Yu and Ruan Ying did not necessarily overstep their power as is often the depiction of court eunuchs of the era, and in fact, they cooperated very well with the Zhu Chun, the prince of Sichuan and Hongwu Emperor's 11th son, assisting him to repair infrastructure and bringing prosperity to the people of Chengdu.
Wei Yu was favored by the prince for being clever and witty, and was bestowed the surname Shuang, so is also referred to in records as Shuang Yu (双玉). As Wei Yu's status grew, Ruan Ying's did as well.
In the 10th year of Zhengde (1515), having experienced some rough times, Wei Yu and Ruan Ying decided they wanted to be buried together and and obtained royal permission for it to be so. As they had no children, they were able to accumulate all their earnings (imperial servants were paid) and buy a plot of land. One year later, Ruan Ying passed away and Wei Yu had a tomb built with two rooms so that they could be buried together. Ten years later, when he passed away also, Wei Yu was buried with Ruan Ying, fulfilling their desire to be entombed together.
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https://www.sohu.com/a/413776430_120795605
https://m.thepaper.cn/yidian_promDetail.jsp?contid=3744568&from=yidian
https://www.toutiao.com/article/6706734279713358350/?wid=1705638571420
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#tried to find a better douyin to introduce/summarise the topic but some of them had really annoying voice overs lol#i think there is like a cctv type documentary about the dig with actual expert talking heads but i can't find the video online atm#anyway. it's really incredible to me that they even recorded their birth and death years like bro...so often these details are lost to time#but we know all these things about these two from 600 years ago :')#chinese history#video#douyin#tiktok#long post#同志历史
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Breathtaking New Frescoes Found at Pompeii
Stunning Roman frescoes have been uncovered by archeologists in Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD. Experts say the newly discovered frescoes are among the finest ever to emerge at the renowned archeological site.
The works of art line the high walls of what was once a large banquet hall. The walls themselves were painted mostly black, and the figures on the frescoes appear to emerge from the shadows. Site director Dr. Gabriel Zuchtriegel told CBS News partner network BBC News that the dark color was likely used to hide stains from the lamps that lit the hall after the sun went down.
"In the shimmering light, the paintings would have almost come to life," Zuchtriegel said.
Two pieces dominate the hall; one depicts the Greek god Apollo trying to seduce the priestess Cassandra. The second piece shows Prince Paris meeting Helen of Troy.
About a third of the "lost city" of Pompeii remains obscured by volcanic debris from the eruption almost two millennia ago. As scientists make new finds, they quickly move them to a storeroom to protect them from the elements.
The newly discovered frescoes, however, cannot be moved, so they have been protected with temporary roofing. Plaster glue is also being injected into the walls behind the artwork to stop them from falling down.
"We have a passion and a deep love for what we're doing, because what we're uncovering and protecting is for the joy also of the generations that come after us," chief restorer Dr. Roberta Prisco told the BBC, adding that the work was very stressful.
The dig site is much bigger than just the banquet hall.
Another fresco recovered from what was once one of Pompeii's grand properties had been on a ceiling, but it was smashed by the eruption that destroyed the city. Archeologists were able to lay out the pieces like a puzzle and recreate landscapes, theatrical masks, and Egyptian characters.
"This is my favorite discovery in this excavation because it is complex and rare," Dr. Alessandro Russo, co-lead archeologist on the dig, told the BBC. "It is high-quality, for a high-status individual."
In a bakery next to the grand property, the skeletons of two adults and a child were discovered.
Archeologists believe they may have been slaves who were trapped and couldn't flee the eruption, and were killed by falling stones.
"When we excavate, we wonder what we're looking at," co-lead archeologist Dr. Gennaro Iovino told the BBC. "Much like a theater stage, you have the scenery, the backdrop, and the culprit, which is Mount Vesuvius. The archeologist has to be good at filling in the gaps — telling the story of the missing cast, the families and children, the people who are not there anymore."
The team's discovery was just one of a number of recent revelations from the site, after they found other mythological-themed frescoes in early March and then, just weeks later, a construction site that was being worked on right up until the eruption.
The archeologists said near the end of March that they'd found a home construction project that was frozen in time by the eruption, with materials such as bricks and tools still piled up in the reception area of the home.
By Haley Ott.
#Breathtaking New Frescoes Found at Pompeii#Roman frescoes#Mount Vesuvius#ancient artifacts#archeology#archeolgst#history#history news#ancient history#ancient culture#ancient civilizations#roman history#roman empire#roman art
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Daily update post:
Tragically, an IDF helicopter attacked a building in Gaza that had Israeli soldiers inside. At least one of them was killed. I've heard people claiming that there's no such thing as mistakes or collateral damage, that if Palestinian civilians get killed, it's because Israel wanted that, but this is a reminder that mistakes DO happen, and that every army, no matter how good, will get some people killed that it never intended to. This soldier's family asked for his details not to be published. May his memory be a blessing.
Israel is going to open a border crossing into Gaza, which had been closed since the Oct 7 massacre and Hamas attacks on the border crossings, in order to make the entrance of humanitarian aid into Gaza even more efficient.
A man shot at a Jewish synagogue in the US last night, on the first eve of Hanukkah, while shouting "Free Palestine." If it's anti-Zionism, not antisemitism, why do these incidents keep happening?
We're hearing here in Israel more and more reports on canceled Hanukkah festivities and candle lighting due to different claims, but the bottom line remains heartbreaking no matter which excuse is used. The biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust led to further punishment of Jews.
Here's extra Hanukkah candles for all Jews out there, please know that here in Israel, we are always with you!
In NYC, a shop that's a part of an Israeli company decided to have a special sale to raise money for the Israeli rape victims of Hamas. Two of the shop's employees resigned. Reportedly, they're women. The Jewish community replaced them with volunteers.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a letter to media organizations, including the New York Times, warning them about their coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, since their reporters were "clearly embedded with Hamas."
For anyone who still doesn't understand why most Jews have been upset since Oct 7:
Following the discussion in congress about antisemitism, where the presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn couldn't bring themselves to denounce a call to genocide the Jews as harassment, Rabbi David Wolpe, a member of Harvard's committee to combat antisemitism, resigned, saying it became evident to him he couldn't help create the change he was hoping for.
I mentioned Gal Eizenkott in my daily update post yesterday, the 25 years old son of Israeli minister Gadi Eizenkott, the IDF's former chief of staff. Gadi is a part of Israel's war cabinet, the small team making the most essential decisions on the fighting. The IDF's spokesman, Daniel Hagari, mentioned yesterday that Gal didn't have to serve in this war, he volunteered to.
This is not that important in the larger scheme of things, but since I've shared vids of IDF soldiers helping Palestinians in Gaza, why not also one of IDF soldiers helping animals in Gaza? Especially since I love donkeys. They are SO sweet. Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza found, during a break, a donkey that was abandoned in a field, with its legs tied together by a rope. The soldiers set it free:
This is 68 years old Dror Kaplun.
He was believed to be kidnapped by Hamas. Last night, Israeli archeologists working on the scene of the Hamas massacre managed to find frgaments of his bones next to the fence of his kibbutz. He was the son of Holocaust survivors. His wife Marcel was also murdered. May their memories be a blessing.
(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)
#israel#antisemitism#israeli#israel news#israel under attack#israel under fire#israelunderattack#terrorism#anti terrorism#hamas#antisemitic#antisemites#jews#jew#judaism#jumblr#frumblr#jewish
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Today we venerate Hoodoo Saint Harriet Ross Tubman aka Black Moses on the 110th anniversary of her passing🕊
Whew! A legendary Freedom Fighter, Mama Moses wore many decorated crowns as a mammoth Abolitionist, chief Conductor on the Underground Railroad, an expert Hunte and Lumberjack, a Nurse, an armed scout & spy for the Union Army during the Civil War - becoming the 1st Woman to ever spearhead an armed military assault. Later, she opened her door to the elderly, sick, & disabled, and advocated for them until her death.
Born Araminta "Minty" Ross as the middle child of 9 siblings to enslaved parents on a plantation in Dorchester County, MD, she suffered a massive blow to the head that would spur a lifetime of seizures, headaches, deep slumbers, & visions. She went on to marry a "Free" man by the surname of Tubman & took on her mother's first given name, "Harriet". In 1849, her husband, parents, & siblings were set to be split up & sold off. Under the cover of darkness, she fled the plantation solo on foot and followed the North Star to escape the jaws of slavery by way of Philadelphia, PA. She'd survive13-19 rescue missions back into the Antebellum South, liberating over 300 souls, as the most infamous Conductor on the Underground Railroad who, over the span of a decade, had "never lost a single passenger", which dubbed her the nickname, "Moses". The bounty for her life maxed out at $40K. Freedom wasn't free & Mama Moses never hesitated to remind her passengers of that. She carried herbs to silence a crying baby and pulled a gun on any cowardly man who might give away their position.
"You'll be Free or Die. " - Mama Moses to her passengers on the Underground Railroad.
Venerated as a Hoodoo Saint to many, Mama Moses was a Seer, a Clairvoyant Dreamer, Dream Interpreter, a Revolutionary Conjurer Woman & Rootworker - born to parents of the same cloth. She received Divine messages & Ancestral knowledge/wisedom through prophetic visions & dreams. Mama Moses proudly attributed her unparalleled death defying success to her Divine guidance, Conjure, Rootwork, intuitive gifts & her faithful willingness to trust/follow them.
Folks have a tendency to grossly undermine, if not outright ignore, the significant pillars that Hoodoo Cosmology, Religion, & Tradition played in her life and in her fight for freedom. Recently, archeologists uncovered her "spirit cache" at her family's home in Maryland; these were some of the Blackbelt Hoodoo staples of her time including: glass bottles - for protection against evil spirits, a figurine made it iron nails - possibly a something akin to an Nkisi, a copper button, perfume bottle topper, and other red & blue items.
Mama Moses transitioned peaceful & free at her home/on her land in Auburn, NY where she is rests at the cemetery in Auburn, NY. She is still expected to be immortalized on the $20 bill USD, however that promise has yet to be met.
We pour libations & give Mama Moses her 💐 for her bravery & selfless service. May she bless the elderly, disabled, young, women, & Workers who seek/fight for freedom.
Offering suggestions: Milk, Apples, & Orange flowers
🌟 FINAL copies of The2023 Hoodoo's Calendar are available for purchase (once sold out, that's it)! Subscribe to the official e-newsletter for the latest updates & exclusive content access. https://thehoodoocalendar.square.site 🌟
#hoodoo#hoodoos#atrs#atr#the hoodoo calendar#rootwork#conjure#black Moses#harriet tubman#Hoodoo History#Hoodoo Saints
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Y’all I am So Excited about this. The Serpent Mound and the other Hopewell mounds are one of the few genuinely cool things about Ohio
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"In the past we might sometimes say 'Hopewell culture' or 'Hopewell people,' but what we really understand 'Hopewell' to be now is not a new peoples," explains Bill Kennedy, site manager and site archeologist at Fort Ancient Earthworks and Nature Preserve. "It's a new religious movement of people. It's happening all throughout eastern North America. It reaches a fluorescence, though, in southern Ohio that it doesn't reach anywhere else."
…Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee Tribe, who was involved in the earthworks nomination, also sees its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a step toward combating racist and ignorant stereotypes about his people and his ancestors.
"They're great civil engineers. They're artists, they're astronomers, mathematicians, and for my people, that's not the way that Shawnee people, or any Indigenous peoples in this country, are typically portrayed in media," he says.
In addition, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks address gaps in the World Heritage List identified by the World Heritage Committee. Specifically, a lack of sites representing pre-contact Indigenous American sacred architecture and sites that represent early understandings of science, culture and astronomy.
…Today no federally recognized tribes remain in Ohio. They were all forcibly removed in the 17 and 1800s. Yet it was their ancestors who created these massive feats of design and engineering.
Glenna Wallace is chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and has been active in the World Heritage process. She says inscription on the World Heritage List is part of her mission to teach people about the earthworks that her ancestors built.
She says their inclusion would not be an ending, but another beginning.
"Our people may have been forced away from that place, and they may have disappeared, but what they built, what they constructed, what their values were, that's still there and that should be protected," she states.
"That's the reason for World Heritage."
In becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site, Wallace says she hopes the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks will finally attain the reverence and respect they deserve.
See the linked article for more details!
#indigenous culture#native american art#Native American archaeology#Indian mounds#Native American mounds#hopewell#unesco#Shawnee
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Imagine archeologists in warframe acting like those aliens from extinct human posts, somehow finding random old world shit in the void or something.
Imagine them finding and watching/playing old action or sci-fi movies/games and being in awe of them. Especially movies/games with long standing series.
Imagine orokin elite showing them to their soldiers/dax (and later tenno) as examples of heroes/gods worshipped by the humans of the past.
Imagine them all naming themselves after action/sci-fi heroes the same way we name characters after people we think are cool, in order to invoke said characters power.
All this is to say, imagine some soldier/dax/tenno running around out there in the system calling themself Kratos while while fighting the grineer/corpus and some other completely random person is calling themselves Master Chief while burning through infestation on Eris.
#warframe#aka the origins of ripley's name#but also#your in-game nametag is canon and you cannot tell me otherwise.
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Pictorial artifacts dug up at Pylos, Mycenae, Tiryns, and other early Greek sites, like those found on the island of Crete, bear out Charles Seltman's observation that "men were but the servers of women." Women are shown driving chariots, leading hunts, occupying the best seats at the theater, presiding in the halls of justice, and receiving homage from men. On a gold signet ring dug up at Mycenae a woman is shown "raising an admonitory finger to a man standing before her." Archeologists label this lady "the goddess" but she bears none of the usual regalia of the Minoan-Mycenaean goddess—the long pleated skirt, the snake coiled round her arm, or the double ax. She is seated on a stool, her skirt is mini length, her arms are bare, and she resembles a modern woman "boss" rather than a goddess. The man she is reprimanding carries a long spear. Apparently he is a hunter or a warrior who has been derelict in his duty and has been "called on the carpet" by his chief.
-Elizabeth Gould Davis, The First Sex
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The human remains discovered at Jebel Sahaba, (a southern Egyptian site associated with the 15,000-year-old Qadan culture) had a cranial match to the Ashanti people of West Africa - as seen in this study below.
Why do the Ashanti people still dress this way?
Lets try and connect the dots here.
The Qadan culture is over 14,000 years old.
The human remains found in the Jebel Sahaba site (associated with the Qadan culture) showed cranial affinities to modern West Africans
Modern West Africans are STILL displaying cultural affinities to the Egyptian Pharaonic culture (which is merely a chieftainship).
If West Africans are from the prehistoric period associated with Qadan culture, and yet they STILL have the Pharaonic culture, the Pharaonic culture must be over 14,000 years old (seeing that the Qadan culture was also 14,000 years old).
The obvious answer is that the people of the Qadan culture started the Pharaonic culture but were absorbed by other groups carrying West Asian genes.
This invalidates the claim that the ancient Egyptian Pharaonic culture started in 3000 BC.
The Pharaonic culture (which is merely a culture of kingships and chieftainships) already existed throughout the agricultural tribes in Africa. Even the hunter-gatherer and proto agricultural tribes in Papua New Guinea who carry very old haplogroup C, show similar culture of chieftainship deep inside their jungles.
Most likely, in prehistory, these tribes found in the tropics used biodegradable materials to dress their chiefs and kings (as seen in the below image). Such materials can’t be unearthed in archeology if they’re already degraded.
Mainstream academia can only use guesswork. For all we know, those cultures of the tropics could have been around for tens of thousands of years, going back 40,000 years ago. But archeologists can never determine how long they’ve had the culture since all evidence is degraded.
Even now, the Sahara, where farmers once lived, is all but sand. Archeologists have no clue what happened during the periods of the green Sahara since all the evidence is gone.
The obvious answer is that all of these cultures could have existed in the tropics for tens of thousands of years. Mainstream academia has a long way to go when it comes to studying the history of the tropics. They have based all their studies in regions of the world with moderate climate. All they can tell us so far is a history that goes back to 11,000 BC, of which they always focus on the Middle East.
The culture and traditions of the tropics only arrived in Europe after a group of nomadic West Eurasians (linked to the ancestors of Berbers) migrated south at the end of the ice age and absorbed the tribes of the tropics who were crop cultivators and horticulturalists. The absorption created a mixed population similar to Ethiopians, who carried the E1b1b haplogroup into Europe and took the new culture and cultivation techniques back into Europe, which was later spread by the Anatolians.
The migrants also carried a new set of genes with an African MtDNA, as in the below.
#ashanti#african#africans#kemetic dreams#euraasians#sahara#western asia#north africa#north african#nile valley#hopi
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Rival archeologists Carter Hall and Shiera Saunders knew they had made the discovery of a lifetime when they unearthed twin sets of winged ancient Egyptian armor. They were more right than they realized. When a band of tomb-robbers tried to take the armor from them by force they felt uncharacteristically compelled to put it on, the better to defend themselves. To their amazement, the armor granted them a host of amazing abilities, chief among them flight. To aid them in battle, the helmets also granted them visions of the first people to wear them, husband-and-wife Egyptian warrior-priests named Khufu and Chay-ara of Thanagar.
Most amazingly of all, while the armor’s workings and the miraculous Nth metal they’re made of (so named because it seems to fit nowhere on the periodic table) defy modern science, mystical superheroes say they don’t seem to obey the rules of magic, either. What is the armor’s origin? Were the ancient Egyptians really blessed by the magic of the gods, or were they really visited by advanced ancient aliens? Which would be more unbelievable? Could Khufu and Chay-ara be Carter and Shiera’s past life? And what the hell is Thanagar?
Nth metal, properly utilized, can be used to manipulate the effects of gravity on whatever it touches. Thus the armor grants Carter and Shiera flight at incredible speeds, functionally imitates super-strength by decreasing the weight of whatever they carry or increasing the force behind their attacks, and comes with a matching axe and mace that hit way harder than weapons of their size should. The visions granted by the helmet allow them to tap into Khufu and Chay-ara’s reflexes and martial expertise, Buffy-style. In time these skills may become second nature to Carter and Shiera, as well. Also Nth metal is bulletproof.
#hawkman#hawkgirl#hawkwoman#dc comics#dcu#character redesign#character design#superhero redesign#superheroes#DCZ
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Videos to Watch if You Enjoyed "Cling Fast"
How Much Booze Did Medieval People Really Drink? - Dr. Eleanor Janega teaches us how to booze it up, White Horse-style.
Could You Make a Living in Medieval London? - Another great Eleanor Janega video about occupations, scandals, and the every day lives of every day folks in Medieval cities.
What Was Life Really Like For A Medieval Peasant? - the last of the Eleanor Janega videos about what kind of life Hob Gadling would have lived before he met his Stranger.
A Tudor Feast - domestic historians and archeologists Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Peter "Fonz" Ginn and Hugh Beamish - under the supervision of Marc Meltonville of Hampton Court Palace's Tudor kitchens - prepare and serve a tudor banquet at Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four
Who Do You Think You Are: Danny Dyer Learns Tudor Etiquette - A segment from the Ancestry.com series following actor Danny Dyer as he explores his royal roots.
Who Would Be King of England Today According to Henry VIII's Will? - chartmaker Matt Baker takes us through the royal family tree from Henry the Eighth to the present day, if his edict that the next monarch in the event that his three children (Mary, Edward, and Elizabeth) produced no heirs, then the crown should next fall to the children of his youngest sister. And not, as actually happened, go to James of Scotland.
Royal Myths: Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada - Dr. Lucy Worsley talks us through the propaganda and fibs that have sprung up around Good Queen Bess, and whether or not she really did declare that she had the stomach of a king.
Dancing Cheek to Cheek: The Devil's Work - Another great series by Dr. Lucy Worsley, chief curator of Royal Historic Palaces, but this time she's joined by Strictly Come Dancing's Len Goodman. They trace the history of dance in Britain, and this episode features some rowdy Medieval and Elizabethan numbers.
Turn Back Time: Tudor Monastery Farm - This series sees Ruth, Alex, and Peter return to the Elizabethan age, this time spending a year on a farm worked by peasants and serfs in service to the church.
The Tudors' Bizarre 12 Days Of Christmas Ritual - The Tudor Monastery Farm Christmas special.
Hardwick Hall: A window onto the Elizabethan world - Sheffield Hallam University gives a great look at Hardwick Hall (more glass than wall), the estate home of the wealthiest woman in Britain at the time, and the kind of place Hob would have aspired to build.
Tudor Food & Etiquette Explained in 14 Minutes - Quick and dirty explanation of where your napkin goes and who the 'chairman of the board' was.
Tudor Houses Explained in 10 Minutes - Not particularly engagingly presented, but a video chock full of visual examples of different kinds of Tudor houses and buildings.
Modern History: The Knight - Jason Kingsley introduces us to the concept behind Modern History and in particular their first series, “The Knight”. Jason has been fascinated by history his whole life, in particular the medieval period and the life of knights. (This is the first video of a playlist).
Royal Armouries - Elizabethan Swordsmanship - a demonstration by weaponsmasters at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. (I recommend turning on closed captioning for this one, as the sound was recorded live with no mics.)
Getting Dressed - Tudor Royal Household - a nice, even-paced and well produced video showing what it was like to get dressed in queen Katherine Parr's household.
Dressing Up a Tudor Man - my personal heroes at Prior Attire show us what the blokes were wearing at the time. Keep in mind that this is 40 years too early for Hob and Dream's disastrous Shakespeare-ruined feast. (I recommend turning on closed captioning for this one, as the sound was recorded live with no mics.)
And just for the fun of it:
Medieval Pickup Lines from the folks behind (I believe?) Whores of Yore, and Top Tudor Historian Rates Famous Movie Scenes, wherein Dr Nicola Tallis, British historian and author of three books on the Tudors, rates scenes from five blockbuster movies set in the Tudor period. (I love how scandalized she gets.)
If you want more, I really recommend anything at all featuring Doctors Lucy Worsley, Eleanor Janega, and Ruth Goodman (search their names on YouTube and you'll find a wealth of clips, full episodes, and even playlists.)
#Cling Fast#Losyark#J.M. Frey#Lucy Worsley#Ruth Goodman#Eleanor Janega#Tudor fashion#Elizabethan fashion#Tudor food#Elizabethan food#docudramas#educational docudramas#historics#tudor houses#elizabethan houses#Youtube#dreamling fic
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Watching Halo, Episode 5
Flashback time! Halsey and Keyes both on Eridanus II. Were they colonists? Stationed there? Why are they at the school? They just saw John, so clearly it’s too early to be school-shopping for Miranda’s sake. God, are they shopping for kids? Was Keyes in on it from the beginning? This school is supposed to be some idyllic Waldorf-style nature school, and I love that, but it is not OSHA-compliant.
Here in the present, they’ve set up a whole temporary base around the second artifact, which seems like an utterly terrible idea to me. Do you need this much crap to dig out one monumental rock and load it up? (I realize real scientists would want to study it in situ for 6000 years before moving on to step 2 and archeologists wouldn’t want to move it at all, but you have unstoppable aliens to deal with in this universe!) Also, was bringing Miranda out here a good idea? It seems contrary to giving her free rein while her mom is gone? I’m glad her dad’s on her side at least. John, you need to snap out of it, buddy.
Kwan and Soren stuck in the desert, bickering, when he handcuffs her and leaves her alone in the middle of the desert? Wtf, Soren?
Poor Miranda making good points and still getting sidelined by her mom and Adun the Creep. Kai is still the smartest person here. What DOES the Covenant want? I appreciate the shot of the little drone. It’s funny to think that those have gone from scifi to a toy people fly in their backyards in my lifetime. John the Master Chief spots Kai’s hair and knows what’s up instantly and is immediately an asshole about it. I adore Kai—she took one look at John removing his and instantly trusted it was a good idea, and more, it’s clear from her less-flat affect in ep1 that she’s always been closest to breaking free (even without a mystical connection to ancient alien tech). And she’s 100% dead on here, too- why the hell is she unfit, but he’s not? And good on Cortana for speaking up for her, too. John: “I can’t hear myself think.” Cortana: “I can and you’re not missing much.” HA.
I haven’t gotten into Makee’s alien politicking much, but it’s definitely interesting how they both seem to need her and yet distrust her at the same time. You raised her! But “corrupted/ going native” is a trope for a reason, I suppose. Or are there two camps of aliens here? Is she really the only being who can activate these things? Were there aliens who could do it but they’ve passed away, or is it a unique human ability? (Well, humans and whatever race created this stuff.) Where did the Covenant get its info about the tech to begin with? How accurate is what they think they know?
Kwan, meanwhile, is demonstrating her best feature—sheer determination. I cheered when she finally got free. But when is she going to go, stranded in the middle of the desert, presumably without supplies? (I mean, I assume she’s about to find the mystics, but that’s the meta-brain talking.)
Craaaaap, John’s confiding in Keyes, who immediately gives him a brush off with his “I’ll look into it personally” bs. Of course he goes straight to Parangosky and Halsey and backstabbing and manipulation ensue. They at least try to protect Miranda from all their dirty laundry, of course in a way calculated to piss her off. “Finally a parenting issue we can agree on”—what did that little jibe mean? It’s getting increasingly hard to picture Halsey as any kind of mother. Exactly what did she want to do with Miranda?
Using a laser on the artifact makes ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE, and then John just stops with a look? Is that what happened? Wtf. And of course the Covenant hear that. Great.
Just as I wonder what Miranda saw in the data, her dad walks in and takes her off the project. She immediately pegs that it’s his own dirty past that’s at stake, though how dirty I doubt she knows. Master Chief, who is at least somewhat less credulous than I gave him credit for, is getting suspicious as well. Aaaand apparently he believes in direct action, because he immediately heads over and touches the artifact. And finds out HALSEY KIDNAPPED HIM? WTF. (Is the plague story a coverup? Did she murder a whole colony to hide this???) Master Chief tries to kill her ass and I was hoping he’d manage it, but no, Cortana steps in. Rats.
A brief break back on Madrigal where Soren finds Kwan gone… and then she EMERGES FROM THE SAND AND TAKES HIM OUT. Go Kwan, that was so much smarter than just wandering the desert, well done!
The rest of the episode is the biggest battle yet. My notes just say “Oh crap OH CRAP” at the top. Seeing the ship crash was fantastic and a definite “You Are Ultra Screwed” moment. I of course laughed at Cortana giving Master Chief advice and him snapping “I know how the game is played, Cortana!” Yes, writers, you’re very cute. I once again question how many Spartans there are and why we only have four here? In this super important not-hardened base that the Covenant is actively looking for? Like, worth 100 marines each, that’s great, but getting separated and pinned down is still a problem! Especially in this area which is wide open with lousy cover!
Which of course is exactly what happens to Kai, which I choose to believe is why she went down, instead of her being overwhelmed by trauma like the Master Chief predicted while he’s just fine, just Heroically Angry. (That bit of writing annoyed me.) (Yes I know he blew it too, he just got to blow it in a way that’s very differently coded than she did.) Halsey gets her one good moment saving Miranda when I 100% expected her to leave her daughter to die. (I did think Miranda would live to be extremely screwed up about it, mind you.)
So the Covenant got away with the new artifact, crap. And they pull the exact same gambit with Makee as last time, and I have the exact same complaint. Human makeup and nice clothes and not a scratch? She does NOT look like she just escaped that ship during the chaos of battle after surviving durance vile! Like, I want a poster of her on my wall but I do NOT trust her.
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‘neath the black, the sky looks dead
She’s walking on a ghost ship. Boots treading where the dead recently lay. Darcy’s hands are shaking, not in fear but from too many hours on her feet scrambling between Doctors Foster and Cho.
“I’m awake,” Darcy says to herself, frowning down at the tablet in her hand. She’s walking through the belly of the Ark Three scavenging whatever they can from the wreck of the ship like sea creatures harvesting a whale fall, back when whales swam and the sea teemed with life.
“Ensign Lewis, how much longer?”
Darcy scrunches up her nose, “I’ve found their genetic library and seed vault. I need a few minutes to cross reference their library with ours, Captain Rogers. Huh…that’s weird.” She looks from the Ark One tablet in hand to the Ark Three tablet in its plinth.
“Weird how?” Steve asks, looking over Darcy’s shoulder.
“You know, I was a cryo bay tech and this is below my pay grade. If we were getting paid and not on a spaceship built by a trillionaire headed for a planet that a space probe said looked shiny enough for a colony-“
“Lewis.”
“What I am trying to say in my official, unofficial designation as ship’s librarian/archivist/future experimental archeologist is that half of these species shouldn’t be here. On our ship, S.H.I.E.L.D. and SI sent us with the DNA of livestock animals: chickens, sheep, cows, and pigs, that sort of thing.”
“Right,” Steve nods. “We're a colony ship so it makes sense that we are sent with everything needed to establish a working colony. Like Parker’s vegetable crops keeping us alive.”
“Look,” Darcy says. She shuffled across the room, tablet forgotten as she read aloud, the neat little labels on the drawers, under her breath. “Here.”
“Apis mellifera,” Steve mouths. “You’re gonna have to help me here, I’m military, not science.”
“Honey bees,” Darcy says.
“Bees have been gone…I don’t know, a long time.”
“The Smithsonian had several species of bees in their genetic library. The same library that was supposedly destroyed in that terrorist attack. I’m guessing that a lot of these species were in that library too,” Darcy rocks on her heels, waving her hand at the glowing walls around them.
“You think Stark, the genius, that built the tin can, we are traveling the universe in, stole a library from the Smithsonian Institute?”
“I’m not, not saying it.”
The Captain, Acting Captain, pinches the bridge of his nose. “How much of this do you want to take?”
“All of it,” Darcy replies. She doesn’t need to think about it. Not really. The Ark Three is a crypt orbiting a dwarf exo planet. The only hope is with the Ark One, her crew, and their destination Proxima B.
“I really don’t want to be the one to say there is no room on Ark One.”
“You don’t have to,” Jane says, stepping into the storage library. There’s a smear of grease on her temple, and a tablet held on her open palm. “We’re going to take their cryo bay with us.”
Dr Foster, the Ark’s chief engineer, taps her tablet with a fingertip. A three-dimensional schematic of an Ark unfolds in the air above the screen. “The Ark bays are modular, built in pieces for easy assembly, alteration, and dissembling at Proxima B or wherever the other ships have been sent. We lost our cryo pod bays, but the connections, here and here,” Jane says, pointing out to places on the Ark with a finger. “…are intact, with a little work. One bay on this ship is untouched. I can bridge the gap. We can do this with your permission, Captain.”
“Acting Captain,” Rogers says. He folds his arms across his chest, brows furrowed, blue eyes staring through the Ark diagram. “Do it.”
…..
A little Syfy’s the Ark au. The show has it’s flaws, it’s very cheap at times, very incredibly cheap, and I want to burn the cheap not-a-smart-watch straps they are wearing. But the characters grow on you and it has potential, at least enough to inspire me to write this little scene.
While what I wrote isn’t wholly accurate to the plot of the show, it is how I would write it. If I could write more than a few paragraphs in as many months. Ah, well, it’s fun to play with the headcanon at least. Thanks for reading. I’m sorry I don’t have more to give you.
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A 1000-year-old Viking Silver Treasure Found in Sweden
Discovered outside of Stockholm, the hoard includes a Norman coin whose only previous documentation was in an 18th-century book.
A hoard of Viking silver, described as a once-in-a-lifetime discovery by onsite archeologists, has been unearthed in Täby, a municipality north of Stockholm.
As the Archaeologists, a team of specialists under contract from Sweden’s National Historical Museums, dug beneath the decayed wooden floor of a building in a Viking Age settlement, they discovered a small ceramic pot. Inside lay eight neck rings, two arm rings, a finger ring, a pair of pearls, and 12 coin pendants deposited in a linen pouch.
The neck rings provoked particular excitement. Forged in the torque-style, a symbol of wealth and status for Viking men and women, the nearly 1,000-year-old rings were “extraordinarily well-preserved despite having been made and deposited almost a thousand years ago,” said Maria Lingström, the archeologist who removed them from the ground. “They looked almost completely new.”
The find is part of a larger excavation taking place at a settlement that endured from 400 C.E. through the Viking Age (800–1050 C.E.) and into the Middle Ages. So far, the archaeologists have identified more than 20 houses and buildings, and dug up arrows, quern stones (used to grind down a range of materials), and amulet rings. This most recent discovery, however, is the team’s most eye-catching and potentially illuminating.
“Silver hoards are significant in many ways. They reflect that their owners were very wealthy and are proof of advanced craftsmanship,” said Johan Anund the group’s regional manager, “but they also reflect ancient rituals and religion” said , “the excavation also revealed more than a thousand other artifacts”
The hoard of coins evidences the international nature of commerce in Viking Age Scandinavia, and includes silver from England, Bohemia, Bavaria, as well as dirhams, a type of Arabic coinage. The collection makes up what the Archaeologists termed “a perfect example of [the era’s] far-reaching connections and blossoming trade.”
The cache also includes a 10th-century coin minted in Normandy, an area in northern France to which Vikings migrated in the early ninth-century, which had only ever previously been documented in an 18th-century book of drawings.
Chief among the questions posed by the haul is why inhabitants would bury their most valuable possessions. “One common interpretation is that people buried their treasures in tumultuous times,” said one of the site’s project managers, John Hamilton. “We have yet to see if that was the case here.”
The artifacts have since been transferred to the Acta Konserveringscentrum, a conservatory company in Stockholm, to be cleaned and documented.
By Richard Whiddington.
#A 1000-year-old Viking Silver Treasure Found in Sweden#silver#treasure#viking#viking silver treasure#ancient artifacts#archeology#archeolgst#history#history news#ancient history#ancient culture#ancient civilizations#viking history
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Hey I was wondering whenever you have time if you can do a yandere Artemis x female archeologist who was on a trip to go Greece to go discover old Greek artifacts when she crashed landed on themascriya and Artemis finds her and at first she's mean discipline and distance and later takes a liking to her. And so she keeps a prisoner until a ship for her to be fixed but Artemis has taken a liking to her and so the reader tries to escape but runs into Artemis and Artemis make sure she doesn't leave by locking her up in a celler in Chains
Broken Truth (Reads the ask and raises an eyebrow): Why does this ask seem familiar? Doesn't matter, let the words weave together!
[Name] [Surname] was a young archeologist that specialized in Greek Ruins, she was of Greek Origin, fluent in the language, and lived in Greece for most of her life until he went to the United States for more opportunities in her field. One day, she got a call from the Chief Archeologist in her crew that they would be heading to her homeland to investigate some ruins that came up when people were breaking the ground and none of the were familiar with the writing or any of the relics that were found. [Name] was excited to return to her homeland after so much time away but something about this dig made her wonder - what were Ancient Ruins doing under the ground and how far did these people dig to find them?
[Name] arrived in Greece about one week later after she got the call from her boss and the time arrived at the ruin site about 5 hours after getting off the plane. [Name's] eyes widened at the sight of the ancient lands before her, buildings, streets, and vendor stands standing far as the eye could see but they have all withered away and looked like they would break apart if she so much as touched them. She got her orders, to go to the main temple and look for any artifacts but be careful with bringing them back to the campsite. She walked into the temple - her steps echoing through the empty halls - and something shiny caught her eye: A single blue gemstone embedded in the wall with writing around it. She took out her dusting brush and removed the dust to make the writing easier to read, however, it was in a language she wasn't able to understand but here was a phrase on the stone she was able to understand.
"Those who are worthy will find riches and glory on the island of Themyscira?" [Name] read out loud - that would prove to be her first mistake for the stone started glowing and blinded her before a doorway opened before [Name] and the winds sucked her into the portal before closing once she was in.
[Name] groaned as she blinked but quickly closed her eyes when direct sunlight hit her eyes; she blinked again to adjust her eyesight to the sudden sunlight before she was able to open her eyes and keep them open. She moved her hand - feeling something soft but firm under her - something like soil or sand as she pushed herself off the ground and looked around - she was on a beach before her was a massive ocean, waves crashing against the surface of the side, just barely touching her feet as she rose to her feet.
'Where am I? This doesn't look like Greece or the Dig Site. What is this place?' [Name] questioned herself as she looked around and began walking along the beachfront. That's when the sound of horse neighing and hooves hitting the sand caught her attention; looking in the direction of the sound, she saw 4 women dressed in ancient armor riding on the backs of horses with swords drawn in their hands. [Name] looked wide-eyed at the woman riding in her direction and tried to turn to run away but something wrapped around her legs, causing her to fall face-first into the sand once again. [Name] grunted as she picked her upper body out of the sand and looked up, just in time to see the tip of a sword point in her face and a rather beautiful woman on the other side of the sword holding the handle.
"Who are you? Why do you trespass here on the Island of Themyscira?" The long-haired woman asked her with a glare in her olive eyes and her lightly tanned skin. "Answer me, Outsider. Who are you and how did you get here?"
"My name is [Name] and I'm not entirely sure how I got here. I was in Greece, exploring a dig site when I found some strange blue stone with strange writing on it. I read the writing and a portal opened up and sucked me in. I woke up here a little while ago. I didn't mean to trespass on your island, I swear this." [Name] said as she looked into the woman's olive eyes with her own [Eye Color] eyes. The woman glared at [Name] before sheathing her sword and looking at the other woman on the horses.
"Sisters, return to the temple and prepare the cell. I shall bring this time to Queen Hippolyta." The Orange-Haired Woman said as she lifted [Name] off the ground and slung her over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
"Yes, Artemis." One of the women said before the three of them turned their horses around and rode back in the direction they came from.
"Artemis? Like the Goddess of the Moon and Hunt?" [Name] asked as she looked in Artemis' direction, making the Amazon raise her eyebrow.
"You are familiar with me?" Artemis asked.
"Yes. Well, familiar with your legend. It's an honor to meet you, Lady Artemis." [Name] said as she smiled at Artemis, who glared at her.
"Be silent." Artemis placed [Name] on the back of her horse before mounting it again and taking off in the direction of the Amazon Temple.
[About 3 Months Later]
[Name] turned the wrench on the engine of the boat before stepping back and wiping the sweat off her forehead with a smile - that was the last adjustment - the boat was seaworthy now and ready to be filled with gas and set sail.
Oh?
How did [Name] get a boat?
Well, allow me to explain.
When Artemis brought [Name] before the Amazon Queen - Hippolyta - and explained her story, the queen took pity on the lost soul and told her there was a way to leave Themyscira - fix a boat and be on her way, but until the boat was repaired, Artemis was going to have to watch over her. It had been 3 Months since [Name] started working on the boat, she patched any holes, fixed the navigation system, and salvaged enough fuel from the other vessels to get a full tank of gas. She was ready to leave Themyscira and she was going to leave tonight.
"[Name], are you done in there? It's almost time for dinner." Artemis said from her place on the beach with her arms folded and a smirk on her face. [Name] poked her head from the Engine Compartment and got out of the lower level before looking at the setting sun and lightly chuckled when she noticed how late it was.
"Sorry, Lady Artemis. I didn't know that it was so late." [Name] said as she jumped off the anchored boat and walked over to Artemis. The two of them began walking back to the Amazon City with Artemis constantly looking at [Name] with a small smirk on her face - [Name] was dressed in Amazon Clothing with a dagger at her side and she looked like she belonged with them… With Artemis.
"Lady Artemis, are you alright?" [Name] asked.
"I'm fine. Tell me, [Name], have you ever thought about my offer?" Artemis asked her.
"You mean…" [Name] started.
"Yes - staying here in Themyscira. You have already fit in with your new sisters and everyone loves having you here. Why go back to the World of Man, where people don't respect you?" Artemis asked, looking at you with a dangerous gleam in her eye.
"Lady Artemis, I have a family in the World of Man; people I love and respect. I am not an Amazon. I was not born an Amazon." [Name] said but Artemis shook her head.
"Just because you weren't born an Amazon doesn't mean you can't become an Amazon. You have lived here for three months, I have seen how you interact with the others, you hunt well like one of my huntresses, you can fit in here. Stay with us." Artemis said as she looked [Name] in the eyes but [Name] looked at Artemis and shook her head before going into the meal hall. Artemis stood there and narrowed her eyes before walking in herself.
Something was going to change tonight.
It was midnight - [Name] packed her bags from her room & the gold that Queen Hippolyta gifted her with and placed it all in her backpack. She walked out of her room, down the hall, out of the sleeping quarters, out of the temple, and to the beach to reach her docked boat but when she reached it, her jaw dropped and her eyes widened - the boat was DESTROYED!
Holes in the Haul.
Gas leaking in the ocean.
The Navigation System yanked out.
Everything [Name] worked so hard on was destroyed but how did this happen?! Everything was perfect before she went to bed. Someone did this!
"[Name]? What are you doing out here?" The voice of Artemis called behind her, causing [Name] to look at the Goddess of the Moon and Hunt.
"Someone destroyed my boat! I was going to leave tonight but now I am stuck here! Damnit!" [Name] roared as she threw the boat keys into the sand in anger. Artemis just looked at her back before smiling.
"Maybe someone didn't want you to leave. Maybe someone thought you belonged here, with them." Artemis said as she placed a hand on [Name's] shoulder, making the woman widen her eyes before knocking Artemis' arm away from her and taking a few steps back.
"It was you… YOU DESTROYED MY BOAT AND LEFT ME STRANDED HERE! ARTEMIS, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! I TOLD YOU THAT I AM NOT AN AMAZON AND I DON'T BELONG HERE! CERTAINLY NOT WITH YOU! I'M TALKING TO QUEEN HIPPOLYTA ABOUT THIS!!!" [Name] barked as she started walking around Artemis when the goddess grabbed her by the arm and yanked her back before socking her in the face, knocking her out.
"You are mine and I will not let you leave me again, My Love. We are going to stay on Themyscira forever and there is nothing you can do about it." Artemis said as she gathered the unconscious woman in her grasp and walked to the lone temple in the forest, where a fresh bed…and chains were waiting for her prisoner of love.
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yap sesh about the best game to ever exist on Roblox: pokemon brick bronze
okay so. as a child without access to a 3ds and an unhealthy obsession with Pokémon, my only available options were listening to my 2 friends (only one of which actually had a 3ds) talk about Pokémon and role play and stuff. whatever. but ROBLOX!!! hell yeah. brick bronze was built to be an actual, fully developed Pokémon game, FOR FREE (with slight exceptions for game passes such as shiny/legendary hunting boosts). Even with these things that cost money (or robux, whatever) they didn’t actually impact the game that much. Shinies have no difference to their normal counterpart other than color, and they can of course be hunted with normal methods at standard odds. Legendaries had incredibly small chances to appear in any wild encounter, usually only after being "released" by completing a puzzle related to them. However, these puzzles very rarely ended without an encounter — you usually got one guaranteed shot at catching the pokemon, which you could save before hand to get as many chances as you'd need. Point being that the game is 100% enjoyable without spending a cent. (Don't talk to me about Ash Greninja.)
When it comes to the plot and story, perhaps my vision is blurred by the past and being a naive child, but it was amazing. You're a child of two archeologists who seal off a tunnel due to dangers, but that's not too important. You and your best friend Jake embark on your very own pokemon adventure: you are allowed to pick any starter from generations 1-7, and Jake always ends with an Eevee (Bastard - I wanted an Eevee). Before you leave the lab, your parents give you a parting gift: A Bronze Brick, attached to a necklace, for good luck. After leaving town, you’re almost immediately called back, with news that your parents have been kidnapped by the evil Team Eclipse. Cypress, the Pokémon professor, advises you to take the Bronze Brick to one of his associates in the next town over, to see what the last thing your parents left you was. You do, but the girl reveals herself to be a member of Team Eclipse, and runs off with the brick. You chase her down and get it back. Fast forward a while; you run into some more Team Eclipse shenanigans in the cities of gym 2 and gym 3; they’re trying to harness Groudon and Kyogre. You shut those two plots down, and meet the other rival: Tessa. The plots great, but I’m bored now.
The most interesting things are the small side things you can do: there isn’t a quest system in game, but there’s always little things slightly off the beaten path that you can find by exploring buildings and talking to NPCs. Chief among these are Legendary and Mythical encounters. Many, many legendary Pokémon are sprinkled throughout the world, for those brave enough to find them (or those smart enough to open the Wiki). Three legendary Pokémon live in one volcano: Groudon, who is encountered
Forgot I had this draft laying around. You guys can have it. I’ll do more PBB ramblings later
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