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The Etruscan frescoes in the  “Tomb of the Roaring Lions”, located in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Veii, Italy. 

This one is the oldest Etruscan tomb found and oldest burial chamber with frescoes in Europe. The site dates at least to the late 7th century BC and was discovered in May 2006 when police authorities were led to the site by an Italian man on trial for trafficking in illegally excavated artifacts. He revealed the location of the tomb in hopes of gaining leniency from the court. 

The tomb is on a hilly wheat field  less than 13 miles north of Rome and belonged to a warrior prince from the nearby Etruscan town of Veii. It was named the “Tomb of the Roaring Lions” after the four-legged animal figures on the frescoes of the tomb’s walls. The figures have also been hypothesized to be deer or horses or wild boars.  

Looters who plundered the tomb before its “official” discovery, overlooked several funerary objects that were hidden from sight by the collapse of part of the chamber’s red-painted ceiling. In fact, besides the frescoes, archeologists uncovered decorated vases imported from Greece, a sword and metal spits used to roast meat for the prince’s table, elegant broaches, a wool spindle and other objects used by females (that suggest that at least one woman, possibly the prince’s wife, was buried in the tomb) and a two-wheeled bronze chariot, that was found standing in front of the rounded archway that leads into the burial chamber.

The urns containing the cremated remains of the tomb’s owners are believed to have been taken by looters.

Although decorated prehistoric caves pre-date by millennia the “Tomb of the roaring lions”, specialists say this Etruscan tomb is the oldest example in the Western world of a specially built funerary chamber decorated with mural paintings.

Veii (also Veius, Italian: Veio) was, in ancient times, an important Etruscan city. It was indeed the richest city of the Etruscan League in the southern border of Etruria. It was alternately at war and in alliance with the Roman Republic for over 300 years. It eventually fell in the Battle of Veii to Roman general  Marcus Furius Camillus’s army in 396 BC and since then until the fall of the empire more than 800 years later it stayed under Roman dominance.

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Unrelated to this blog technically, but anti-civ people are nuclear levels of cringe, what are you even on about

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People will talk about accessibility, then use the tiniest fucking fonts imaginable

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Colossal Statue of Mars (Pyrrhus). 2nd.century AD Roman. marble.                http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Apollo Citharoedus or Apollo Musagetes (“Leader of the Muses”), 2nd century AD colossal marble statue by an unknown Roman artist, in the Vatican

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Colossal Statue of Apollo

Roman copy of the 2nd century AD after a Hellenistic original about 200-150 BC. From the temple of Apollo at Cyrene.

In this elaborately carved figure, the iconographical features of both Apollo and Dionysus have been fused; the slipping himation and the sensual treatment of the flesh are typical of Dionysus, while the kithara and quiver characterise Apollo.

- British Museum, London.

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Juno (Hera) Ludovisi, a colossal Roman marble head of the 1st century CE from an acrolithic statue of an idealized and youthful Antonia Minor (younger daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor) as the goddess Juno

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Went to more shrines since posting this and they're all so unique

For something more relevant to this blog, I guess...I went to a Shinto shrine for the first time and I really enjoyed it! I wanna go to more

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Every time I see a post about irl LGBT spaces and LGBT history, it is very obvious that the person making the post has never interacted with IRL communities, especially not ones with anybody over the age of 20 present

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Hello friends, there's a dogwhistle I've seen used a couple times on tumblr that I want to discuss.

Fellow neurodivergents especially, please listen-- towards the end of this post I describe how some in our community have been using it without knowing what it means.

A fairly common antisemitic dogwhistle used amongst alt-right circles on the internet is being a "noticer," "noticing patterns," "pattern noticer," etc. I've seen this from a couple Tumblr blogs I follow reblogging memes and such that use this term but don't provide any context about what sorts of "things" they may be noticing.

Here's the meme that I saw a blog I'm following reblog last night.

Seems pretty harmless, right? It's a meme with a cute cat.

In alt-right circles, what they are referring to "noticing" is the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world/"noticing" evidence of an imagined globalist (read: Jewish) world order/etc. If you see a meme that uses terms like "noticing patterns" that doesn't elaborate what those supposed patterns are-- just leaves you to fill in the blank yourself-- take a look at the types of things OP might be posting. The alt-right has an idea that it's forbidden to talk about who might be behind the "conspiracies" they talk about (again, the target is frequently Jewish people) so lack of context is often a red flag.

I sent the blog who reblogged this an ask informing them that the meme was a dogwhistle. If you see someone reblog something like this, check what they've been posting. If this seems like an isolated incident, the person probably reblogged it not knowing what the term actually meant. That's why dogwhistles are so effective-- to the average person they look harmless if you don't know what to watch out for!

Let's take a look at how alt-righters use this term.

Here's an alt-right definition of it from Urban Dictionary.

Oh boy, this one gets a bigotry bingo for all the dogwhistles used here. If I miss any, feel free to comment. Here are the ones I found:

-Noseticing: Noticing plus nose, based on the stereotype for Jewish people to have large noses.

-"those who cannot be named"/skirting around saying Jew: again the idea that it's forbidden to talk about who they think is behind their conspiracy theories.

-"world events and agendas": idea that Jewish people have a Globalist agenda etc etc

-Degeneracy: Nazi term to describe the behaviors/people they find undesirable.

-Early life: refers to the section in a person's Wikipedia page. If a person was brought up Jewish, it'll usually say so there.

-Oy vey: a Jewish exclamation of exasperation that Nazis have unfortunately co-opted when talking about Jewish people.

Here's probably the most obviously antisemitic meme I found.

The title and first bullet point include the "noticer" term. This meme also talks about a "group" who controls wealth. Who might the poster be referring to here?

Here's a Twitter account with many similar alt-right terms. Explicitly identifies as a Nazi and ethno-nationalist, etc etc.

A couple other pages. I clicked on them to see if I could find any more examples but the first seemed pretty blank and the second... Well, I don't have a twitter so I couldn't view.

Let's unpack these a little. The first one has "13 outta 52," a statistic used among white supremacists to depict Black people (especially African-Americans) as "savage": 13 referring to the percentage of America that is Black and 52 referring to the alleged percentage of murders in the U.S. that are committed by Black people. "109 countries" refers to the idea that Jewish people have been expelled from 109 countries during history. (Which isn't entirely true. Some "countries" in this count are actually cities, regions, etc.) Some white supremacists may use the number 110 instead to suggest that it should happen again.

The second one has a blurb alleging a global sterilization effort and concerns of fertility. This is likely in connection to pro-natalism for white people. If Nazis want a so-called "Aryan nation," they're going to want white people to populate it, and so they encourage white people to have babies for their cause. Nazi Germany employed this tactic as well, even awarding "Aryan" German women who had four or more children for their contributions to the Nazi cause.

The reason why I'm emphasizing that context matters is that some neurodivergent people have seen this and co-opted it into neurodivergent circles. As a person who is Jewish and autistic, this is pretty alarming to me. I'll show a couple examples from Tumblr:

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I've left out the URLs of the OPs because I want to give the benefit of the doubt-- they both explicitly refer to being a "pattern noticer" in terms of neurodivergence. And it's easy to see why introducing this term to ND folks would be an easy way to get a dogwhistle passed off as harmless! Since autistic people often have analytical minds, we often make connections that others might not be able to see. But unfortunately, using terms like this only makes it much easier for antisemites to fly under the radar.

Stay safe and let's keep Tumblr free of this shit.

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For something more relevant to this blog, I guess...I went to a Shinto shrine for the first time and I really enjoyed it! I wanna go to more

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Bejaia Synagogue in Algeria

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Stalking is when somebody sees your posts on their dashboard and thinks the posts are stupid, in case you didn't know

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Young people can have back pain. Young people can have joint pain. Young people can require a cane to get around. Young people can have memory problems. Young people can get migraines. Young people can lose their eyesight. Young people can lose their hearing. Young people can lose their teeth and require dentures. Young people can have neurological disorders. Young people can go through menopause. Young people can have heart attacks. Young people can have strokes. Young people can go through all kinds of things you think only happens to older people and they don’t deserve to be invalidated or bullied just because you have never heard of it.

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Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.

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Public criticism isn't the same as enabling or encouraging harassment, this site sucks

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Y'know, you don't have to use your ethnicity to justify your paganism, right? Like, it doesn't do anything except make you seem like a folkish weirdo.