#FairyTaleTuesday: Confirming the pan-European nature of the Dragon-Pair motif are numerous finds among the Eastern and Balkan #Celtic tribes, often in association with the Hungarian scabbard style, as at Halimba, Jutas 3, Kosd, and Szob (Harding 2007). Other examples have been registered at Celtic warrior burials in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Osijek in eastern Croatia and Pisçolt in Romania (Megaw 2004, Szabó and Petres 1992, Pl. 96).
Interestingly, a variant of the ‘Dragon Pair’ motif has also been discovered on a bronze
Celtic chariot fitting from Bobata Fortress (Schumen region) in north-eastern Bulgaria,
also dating to the 3rd c. BC.`
Photo: Celtic scabbard with Dragon-Pair motif from the Celtic (Scordisci) site at Osijek Ciglana-Zeleno polje in eastern Croatia (3rd c. BC): (https://bsky.app/profile/neu-kelte.bsky.social/post/3mjhye5wfbb2k)
Source: https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/tag/celtic-dragon/

#FairyTaleTuesday: `Although earlier studies (Jacobsthal (1944:46, De Navarro 1972:229) saw these motifs as evidence of orientalizing influences in early #Celtic art, or even as a direct Scythian introduction into eastern Central Europe, subsequent discoveries in the west have now rendered this view obsolete. The earliest incidence of a dragon-pair has conventionally been the example from an old and never fully published burial from Saint Jean-sur-Tourbe in the Marne, which should belong to an early La Tène phase (Harding 2007).`
Photo (https://bsky.app/profile/neu-kelte.bsky.social/post/3mjhsieww7l2s): Celtic sword in scabbard with dragon-pair motif, and detail of decoration – from a recently discovered Celtic warrior burial at Chens-Sur-Léman (Haute-Savoie), France (late 4th/early 3rd c. BC)
Source: https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/tag/celtic-dragon/

#FairyTaleTuesday: `Dragon-pair decoration on a #Celtic iron scabbard discovered in the nineteenth century in the river Thames at Battersea and Hammersmith,
London (Stead:1984; https://bsky.app/profile/neu-kelte.bsky.social/post/3mjho53hvwt2a). A further example was also found in the Thames, and a
derivative of the dragon-pair motif at Fovant (Wiltshire), also in England (Jope
2000:278).`
Source: https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/tag/celtic-dragon/

#FairyTaleTuesday: `One of the genuinely pan-European elements in La Tène art is the dragon-pair motif, which is found on the upper end of the front-plate of #Celtic scabbards from south-eastern Britain to the Balkans, with further examples from south of the Alps and Iberia (Stead, 1984, Megaw 2004, Megaw and Megaw 1989, Ginoux 1995).
Comprising a pair of opposed S-shapes with zoomorphic heads facing inwards,
the beasts represented are highly schematic, and have sometimes been thought
of as griffons rather than dragons.`
Source: ORDER OF THE DRAGON - Observations on Celtic Dragon-Pair Scabbards by Brendan Mac Gonagle

#FairyTaleTuesday: `#IronAge European artistic compositions are populated by a vast array of fantastic and impossible creatures. These include a wide variety of dragonesque beasts (https://sl.bing.net/jyxyO4u7PyK) which appear on #Celtic jewelry, coinage and weapons throughout the La Tène period.`
Source: ORDER OF THE DRAGON - Observations on Celtic Dragon-Pair Scabbards by Brendan Mac Gonagle

Prior to the King James Bible unicorns were not in the Bible; many cases of oxen were replaced with unicorns, in places of metaphor or simile and when describing strength or resilience. As the unicorn was part of James' standard, it was to flatter the new king. #FairytaleTuesday

Prior to the King James Bible unicorns were not in the Bible; many cases of oxen were replaced with unicorns, in places of metaphor or simile and when describing strength or resilience. As the unicorn was part of James' standard, it was to flatter the new king. #FairytaleTuesday

At the center of many Filipino myths is the Bakunawa, a dragon-like being whose movements inspire Filipino spiritual calendars. With a single horn, it takes on different roles in different regions, causing eclipses to the Cebuano and Bicolano via eating the moon #FairytaleTuesday