Re: Lunar pics

From: Bo Rosén <brosen_at_...>
Date: 28 Oct 2002 15:04:54 +0100


mĺn 2002-10-28 klockan 14.42 skrev Gianfranco Geroldi:

> The passage from straight to curved blade can't be
> reduced to a mere change of religious symbolism!

A bad example, as I said ;-)

The lunar adoption of symbols from other cultures can certainly reflect more things than a change in faith. To keep talking about swords, a humakti sword changed into a scimitar could and probably does reflect several things. Change in military tactics, i.e more use of cavalry among the nobility (I am just speculating here - I have no idea if this happened), combined with a rising popularity of Tarnils as the Lunar war god, combined with the crescent shape of the scimitar. All contributing factors for Tarnils being identified with the scimitar.

In early pictures of him he may have a straight sword. Perhaps picturing him with a straight sword is still done to indicate he has not yet attained godhood, or that he takes part in an event before the Godess rose into the sky.

Cheers,

        Bo

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