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palacholic · 17 hours

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něco co naprosto miluju je popularita deskovek v česku. sejít se s random lidmi v kavárně a celé odpoledne hrát člověče nezlob se nebo cokoliv jiného. not a thing in my country at all zatímco tady naprosto seriózní dospěli lidé hrají hry o jednorožcích co prdí a o tom, koho má přejet tramvaj (ano to jsou reálně existující deskovky).

#česky #czech #česko #česka republika #czech republic #czechia #czech culture #česka kultura #čumblr #deskovky

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adyathemoongoddess · 4 months

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Ordinary weddings: "How dare she wear white dress at my wedding, how are others suppose to tell who is the bride??!!"

Girlies from Haná: "Alright bitches, if we all dress up in simmilar dress, we will confuse the evil spirits that could attack the bride."

#czech folklore #moravian folklore #haná #moravian culture #czech culture #kroj #czech #moravian

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jahodenka-angrestovka · 7 months

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❁blatský kroj❁

nasbíráno na pinterestu :)

teď už ho poznáte!

podobné výšivky a prvky má kroj kozácký (táborský)

#české kroje #česká kultura #blata #slavic #slavic culture #czech culture #south bohemian culture #čumblr #česky #obrozujeme #národní obrození 2

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mediocrelanguagelearner · 1 month

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17.03.2024, Getting rid of winter and welcoming spring

I visited some friends and took part in a traditional spring ritual. This was my first time taking part and it was very interesting. Girls carry a dummy made of straw, adorned with cloth, ribbons and hollow egg necklace. The dummy is Smrtka (Death) or Morana (the Slavic goddess of winter and death), the girls are carrying her out of the town, singing the whole way. At the river they set her on fire and then throw her into the river (drown her). The winter is now over and spring comes. They go back to the town with blossoming twigs decorated with ribbon (letečko), bringing spring back with them.

#I simplified things as much as I could #and I am no expert so I might have written something incorrectly #I'm just trying to tell my international friends more about Czech customs #langblr #czech #čeština #czech culture

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theelfmaiden · 4 months

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Christmas is time of fortune telling. People light up candles in walnut shell boats and let water tell them of their families' fate.

Regardless of what water will foretell for next year, I wish all families and people stricken with sadness this Christmas good fortune, stronger bonds and peace in their hearts.

❤️

(A lil doodle 🤗 for everyone 🌟 a pro spolužáky z fildy UK od přírody UK 🙏)

#non-arda stuff #christmas #christmas2023 #czech culture #czech christmas #moravian christmas #čumblr #art #digital art #joli's art #clip studio paint

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witchwitchglam · 1 year

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POV: Vrchní prchni, akorát od Dannyho Boylea.

subPOV: Závěrečná scéna Vrchní prchni, akorát místo Severního větru hraje Lust for Life.

#vrchni prchni #čumblr #hezky česky #český film #czech film #česká kultura #czech culture #i mean it fakt si to pusťte dohromady #trainspotting #danny boyle #smoljak svěrák

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crowreys-wormstache · 1 year

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My most beloved coworker who is from Italy and I and some others went for drinks tonight after work and he was complaining how he misses warmth in Czech people. That they sometimes see him as weird for his italian temperament

Me, neurodivergent w middle eastern roots:

#i love giovanni to death #i told him how much it meant to me when he welcomed me w open arms and so much warmth when i was new and shy #he seemed to really appreciate that #he's such a ray of sunshine but the way he spoke about this particular thing makes me think he carries a lot of sadness/loneliness in him #and he cant even talk about it properly bc while his czech and english are good it's nowhere near his italian #i want to be properly friends w this guy so bad hnnnnngghhh #czech culture #actuallyadhd #actuallyneurodivergent #jess talks

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dieletztepanzerhexe · 1 month

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shell necklace made of river mussels

stroked pottery culture, 4800-4400 BC

found in Šárka, Czech Republic

#neolithic #prehistory #stone age #artefact #archaeology #jewellery #stroked pottery culture #czech republic #archeology #my upl #central europe #european prehistory

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slavinkka · 4 months

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Rakvice🇨🇿

Some beautiful Moravian dresses/costumes from Rakvice, a village/municipality in the South East of Czechia🇨🇿.

This place has wonderfully preserved their beautiful culture.

You will notice with Moravian dresses, women tend to have large, puffy dresses with their distinctive huge, wide skirts and abundant petticoats underneath.

In many regions in South Moravia, men's costumes typically include a long white embellished ribbon with a decorated cockade on the right side of their vests as you can see above.

I managed to find some older photos from 1959 too❤️

A traditional dress/costume in Czech & Slovak is called a "Kroj" (pronounced like kroi). I love how highly and beautifully embellished each garment is from here❤️

#slavic #slavic culture #folk #folklore #slavic tradition #tradition #czech republic #czechia #czech girl #moravia #czech folklore #czech tradition #moravian folklore #morava #moravian tradition #czech traditional dress #moravian dress

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adyathemoongoddess · 5 months

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On the day of Saint Lucia, here in Czechia women dress up as Lucky. Then they go from house to house checking wether or not you were working, wich is strictly banned on this day. So if your house was clean, or you were spinning, plucking feathers or doing any other chores that day, they are allowed to trash your place.

They are allowed to attack men who don't help their wives with chores and scare children, warning them that if they aren't fasting on the Christmas day, they will come to them and rip their stomachs apart to take all the food back and replace it with hay.

Girls night out. 💅

#culture #culturalheritage #czech republic #czechia #czech culture #sharing culture #celebrations #cultural celebrations #fun facts #fun fact #st. lucia #saint lucia

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jahodenka-angrestovka · 10 months

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Jakožto obrozence mě vyloženě vytáčí Colours of Ostrava; jak nepoeticky to zní! Kam se poděla národní hrdost? Barvy Ostravy je přece mnohem hezčí, kór když je to český festival.

Upřímně mě rozčilují i všechny ty anglické názvy a nápisy (hlavně u nás v Krumlově a v Praze). Je přece tolik hezkých českých slov, která by se dala upotřebit, třeba dukát, řeka, štěstí, podkova, peřej, struhadlo (představte si kavárnu Struhadlo, vsadím se, že by se z ní ihned stalo společenské středisko), pampeliška, sedmikráska, kartouzek, stříbro, drak, třpyt a třpytný, kamenný, srdce (pohostinství U Tří kamenných srdcí třeba?), rosnička, rusalka, taky různé zdrobněliny - matička, sluníčko, voděnka, poupátka...

Pokud máte nějaká další, na kolenou vás prosím, podělte se!

#obrozenci #obrozujeme #národní obrození 2 #čumblr #česky #hezky česky #česká kultura #czech culture #czech #slavic #slavic culture

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mediocrelanguagelearner · 2 years

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Josef Lada – Květen (May)

#czech #čeština #czech art #czech culture #josef lada #langblr

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blueiskewl · 6 months

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The Tomb of a Royal Scribe Discovered in Egypt

Czech experts have made another important discovery in the Egyptian archaeological site in Abusir. They found the hitherto unexplored tomb of the royal scribe Dzhehutiemhat, which is richly decorated in the form of many hieroglyphic texts and images. They mainly consist of ritual and religious texts, which were supposed to ensure the soul of the deceased an eternal life in the next world.

In April and May of this year, another part of field research by Czech Egyptologists regarding shaft tombs from the middle of the first millennium BC took place in Abusir, Egypt. It was here that the archaeological team of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University discovered the tomb of a hitherto unknown dignitary from the time of the Persian invasion of Egypt.

“It is a richly decorated shaft tomb of medium size, whose owner, a certain Džehutiemhat, held the office of royal scribe,” explains Ladislav Bareš, who has been coordinating the research of Abusir shaft tombs for a long time.

From the tomb, the above-ground part of which was destroyed already in ancient times, only the main shaft was preserved, at the bottom of which lay a burial chamber made of limestone blocks at a depth of 14 meters. Access to it was provided by a small, more northerly shaft and a narrow corridor approximately three meters long connecting the access shaft with the burial chamber.

For reasons still unknown, this access shaft was largely filled with several dozen decorated limestone blocks, originating from the dismantled above-ground part of the nearby majestic tomb of General Menechibnekon.

A tomb with rich decoration

The burial chamber is richly decorated with texts and other scenes. A long sequence of incantations against snakebite from the Pyramid Texts covers the north entrance wall. Interestingly, the snakes mentioned in these magical texts represented a potential danger, but could also serve as powerful protectors of the deceased and his mummy.

“While the entrance to the nearby Menechibnekon’s burial chamber was protected by the guardians of the gates of the 144th chapter of the Book of the Dead, in the case of Džehutiemhat, snakes from the Pyramid Texts play this role,” adds Renata Landgráfová, director of the Institute of Egyptology and an expert on the ancient Egyptian language and texts.

The south and west walls are covered with a sacrificial ritual and an extensive sacrificial list. On the ceiling of the burial chamber are depictions of the journey of the sun god Reo through the sky, first in the morning and then in the evening celestial bar. The depictions are accompanied by hymns to the rising and setting sun. Inside the burial chamber covered with relief decoration is a large stone sarcophagus, which also bears hieroglyphic inscriptions and depictions of gods, both outside and inside. The lid is decorated with texts taken from the Book of the Dead, but also excerpts from the much older Pyramid Texts, which partially repeat sayings that also appear on the walls of the burial chamber.

Ritual texts for eternal life

On the bottom of the inner wall of the sarcophagus bath, the goddess of the west, Imentet, is depicted, and its inner sides bear the so-called canopic sayings, spoken by this goddess and the earth god Geb. “The goddess of the west inside the sarcophagus represents the protector, guide and symbolic mother of the deceased,” explains Jiří Janák, who analyzes and interprets religious and magical texts as part of field research.

All the mentioned spiritual-ritual texts were supposed to ensure the deceased a smooth entry into a blissful and well-secured eternal life in the afterlife.

The tomb of the scribe Dzhehutiemhat was discovered almost empty, as it was robbed probably already in the 5th century AD, similar to other tombs in this burial ground.

The deceased suffered from sedentary work

From the anthropological analysis of the skeletal remains, which was carried out by leading Egyptian experts, it was found that Dzhehutiemhat died at a relatively early age of around 25 years, he bore the signs of a kind of occupational disease (wear and tear of the spine during sedentary work) and suffered from severe osteoporosis, i.e. thinning of the bones.

The latter fact could place him in the family of other inhabitants of the Abusir shaft tomb burial, in whom the disease was also confirmed, such as the famous Iufaa, the owner of a nearby much larger tomb, whose unlooted burial chamber was discovered in 1996.

It is therefore possible that most of the owners of the tombs buried in this part of the Abusir necropolis belonged to one extended family, firmly anchored in the military elite of late Saiyan Egypt. However, Dzhehutiemhat’s mother probably came from completely different circles and a different part of Egypt at that time. Her two names can be translated as “Nubian” and “Fox”, while the latter is written in an unusual, most likely Berber form.

They also found a collection of pottery in the tomb. “The discovery of a large fragment of a Chian amphora with a perfectly smoothed edge is also very interesting, because the ancient looters probably used it as a shovel,” says Květa Smoláriková, who is an expert on Egyptian ceramics and Greek imports in the Czech team.

“The recently discovered tomb of the dignitary Džehutiemhat on the Abusír archaeological concession is the latest piece of knowledge in the mosaic of the history of ancient Egypt at the end of its glory in the late period, in the 6th century BC,” says Miroslav Bárta, director of Czech archaeological research in Abusír, about the discovery.

“The shaft tombs represent a special type of tombs of this time. They were created as a specific attempt by the ancient Egyptian elites for a renaissance and are based on the form of the tomb of King Djoser, the founder of the famous Old Kingdom, the time of the pyramid builders in the 3rd millennium BC,” he adds.

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gender0bender · 8 months

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Photos of lesbians taken between 1983-1985 by Czech photographer Libuse Jarcovjakova in T-Club, a gay bar in Prague. Link to her website - http://www.jarcovjakova.com/albums/t-club-1983-1985/

#lesbian #gay history #lesbian history #queer history #czech lesbians #eastern european lesbians #lgbt #gay bars #80s gay culture #my uploads #T-club

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folkfashion · 5 months

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Czech women, Czech Republic, by Eva Všetíčková

#czech #czech republic #europe #eastern europe #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

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lanotteviene · 7 months

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anyway it's funny in an interesting way how the internet turned Kafka into the sad boy with an existentialist + romantic flavour instead of the author of seminal works about alienation & the confusing, painful contrast between what society deems normal and what Isn't. how the rules that establish that divide aren't made clear, how to the marginalized they seem ever-changing, impossible to grasp, surreal to the point of despair.

if you've ever felt overwhelmed by the absurdity of a system that seems legitimately against you instead of for you, if you've had days or months or years where language or cultural barriers have made you feel wrong to your core, if you've dealt with so much stress or mental illness or abuse that you've struggled to recognize yourself in the mirror his work talks about your struggles and would probably speak to you

#this is a very resonant theme for queer and/or young people #and for good reason -- the latter group he was downright referring to in the metamorphosis (a work ostensibly about the clash between older #generations and the younger #wounded and lost #one he was part of). Kafka wasn't merely sad per se #he was a marginalized person - both ethnically/religiously and linguistically #as a German-speaking jewish man in Czechoslovakia #he was doubly alienated;#stuck in the ghetto and forbidden from interacting with the German minority in Prague while also not part of the cultural Czech majority #and that alienation followed him in his domestic life in the form of a wounding distance from his own parents and their generation #literature #franz kafka

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