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bedlamsbardI HAVE FINALLY FOUND A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE PENIS BIRD.
My professor finally put up all the powerpoints from the semester, because of the final (tomorrow...*dies*), and this one hadn't been up already, and do you know what googling "penis bird" gets you? Not classical Greek art, I'll tell you that.
For brain bleach, I will offer up the Derveni Krater, which is fucking awesome and of which some variant is going to show up in Dust, somehow.
My professor finally put up all the powerpoints from the semester, because of the final (tomorrow...*dies*), and this one hadn't been up already, and do you know what googling "penis bird" gets you? Not classical Greek art, I'll tell you that.
For brain bleach, I will offer up the Derveni Krater, which is fucking awesome and of which some variant is going to show up in Dust, somehow.
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Date: 2010-05-02 03:04 am (UTC)(yay&lols penis bird \o/)
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Date: 2010-05-02 03:13 am (UTC)(The penis bird is so fucked up I cannot even.)
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Date: 2010-05-02 03:50 am (UTC)archaeologistsantiquarians would be like.Of course everything would be total fail by modern standards and it'd really just be more like tomb robbing and weird accidental finds like Pompeii.
Hnggg.
There could be so many cool little artifacts out there.
Me and Doctor Cornelius need to sit down and have a good long talk about how one acquires priceless pieces of national history.
Or maybe it's like splinters of the true cross, you know how the saying goes - if you brought all the relics of the true cross together, you would have enough wood to build Noah's Ark ^.^ Lots and lots of ivory horns that people think are really Susan's and all of them carved in inaccurate styles by forgers who think they know how old it should look and how it should be carved...
Oooh. And Narnia needs barrows. Lots and lots of them! I mean, really what were they *thinking* making Aslan's How and how does it fit into the traditions and customs of that age of Narnians? (Burial sites for the win! Unlikely mummies!) *is getting carried away*
I guess this is my way of asking - have you any ideas yet how the Narnian Krater would come to be found? Shepherds looking for lost sheep are always very popular.
Or ooooh. You could go meta-meta and have it be found in a way that echoes how the runaway slave in Beowulf found that gold cup in the dragon's hoard aka the story wot Tolkien incorporated into The Hobbit. Because it probably wouldn't be in Narnia proper any more...or would it? :D? Yay possibilities!
Uh oh. I think I'm going to loose myself tonight in reading up on the wacky adventures of early antiquitarian-archaeologists. Or possibly babble more made up provenance thingies at you.
(I am never going to google for the penis bird. I don't want to know.)
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Date: 2010-05-02 03:48 pm (UTC)Ahem.
The Narnian Krater appears to actually be Galman, presented to Caspian on the voyage of the Dawn Treader (before he picked up Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace), though I'm still not sure when it was made or how it was found. Old ruins, I think; Galma suffers from earthquakes.
Heh, at one point, I was going to write a Cornelius story set in Tashbaan when he was hunting down relics of the Pevensies.
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