Tuesday 15 July 2014

съдина (Vessels in Dispute)

съдина

(Vessels in Dispute)

(Authentic Massacre of the Innocent Image Painting # 72)



In December 1949, three brothers were digging for clay outside the town of Panagyurishte, located 90 km east of Sofia.  For those of you who are unaware of these treasures, the Panagyurishte find consists of nine solid gold (6.1kg) vessels of sophisticated craftsmanship, decorated with different zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures. 
That is all well and good - you can find out about these trifles on the internet.  What is NEVER spoken about is the 10th vessel, totally unique in appearance as it does not allude in form at all to the blending of blending Eastern forms with imagery of Greek origin.  1                    
From the civilization of  Ancient Thrace, (researchers are in dispute, but I know) the treasure was  hid in a crisis during the reign of Cotys II (300BC - 280BC).  
When the Gauls sacked Seuthopolis in 281 BC, and Cotys and company were taken as slaves, Coyts, knowing his wife to be a Bhubezi Woman, hid her, the Panagyurishte treasure and the съдина, promising he would come back.  Pallene knew he would not, but was grateful to the gentle man with hands the size of mountains who was her sworn guardian.  2
And what of the съдина     you make ask?                 

This vessel is actually a map to Between.  The one who can unlock the reading mechanism is The Traveller.  She does not know this as she crosses the world in search of The Keys with The Red Giraffe.  Neither does he - in fact, no-one does except you and I.  3
Historian Z.H. Archibald writes:            

The Odrysians created the first state entity which superseded the tribal system in the east Balkan peninsula. Their kings were usually known to the outside world as kings of Thrace, although their power did not extend by any means to all Thracian tribes. Even within the confines of their kingdom the nature of royal power remained fluid, its definition subject to the dictates of geography, social relationships, and circumstance - it was no autocratic rule, and  that was no accident - that was the work of Pallene.  4

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