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The Mother Matrix

Postby bolgios » 29 Jul 2012, 19:55

The Celtic Mother-Matrix found in n.e. Bulgaria:


http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2012/0 ... er-matrix/
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Re: The Mother Matrix

Postby DaRC » 30 Jul 2012, 13:58

Very interesting thanks :D
The word 'Sattelkopfpferd' how does it translate?

I assume it's German but my Deutsche is not good enough. It seems to directly translate as Horse Saddle Head or google translate as Pommel Horse.
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Re: The Mother Matrix

Postby skh » 30 Jul 2012, 14:47

DaRC wrote:Very interesting thanks :D
The word 'Sattelkopfpferd' how does it translate?

Seems to be a numismatic term for a specific type of horse found on celtic coins. The german compound word "Sattelkopfpferd" without this context is nonsense, as you already noticed ;)

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Re: The Mother Matrix

Postby bolgios » 30 Jul 2012, 16:31

Celtic coinage in general is so 'weird' that modern numismatic experts (not famous for their imagination) often give them silly names - in this case saddlehead-horse, because they have no idea what they are looking at. In fact, if we look at the development of Celtic coinage during this period -

http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2011/0 ... rejection/

we see experiments with abstractionism, surrealism, and even post-modernism - ideas that would not reemerge in European art for another 2,000 years!
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