Close-fitting, four-cornered caps such as this one were worn by Huari and Tiahuanaco elite males in life and were interred with the dead. Upon a netted cotton base, the llama or alpaca wool pile in more than eight colors is woven into repeating designs of long-necked birds and geometric shapes.
Gold and silver ear ornaments, Wari culture (Peru), 500-1000 AD
Anonymous asked:
What is the apex predator of the hibernation period? Is it the source of the birdbug's darkest legends?
It’s this big fuzzy beast, so-called the Omb
It has sensitive mechanoreceptors in its legs, particularly its forelimbs that allow it to locate burrows hidden underground, facilitated by a tapping of the arms. Like birgs, it also has ears just below its elbows, which hang over the ground at rest and are tuned to the minute sounds of movement beneath dirt and snow. Once prey or a winter cache is located, it uses its chelicerae and paws to dig it out. This animal is active throughout the winter, but enters its own hibernation phase in summer. In spring and fall its diet consists mostly of roots, walking seeds, and small, easy to catch animals.
The omb’s overwinter habit of exhuming hibernating animals has inspired countless horror stories of birgs’ homes being torn into in the dead of the night. Folklore also presents them as eaters of the dead, both in the literal and supernatural sense. Creatures such as these may well be the reason the Twowi prefer to cremate their remains….
A gold-sheet mask representing the sun god Inti from the La Tolita part of the Inca empire. Now on display at the National Museum of Ecuador [2000x1548]
From La Tolita Island, Ecuador, 7th century
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Germany (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 DE)
Pensador Prehispánico (Prehispanic Thinker) Inguapi Period 700 BC to 350 AD Tumaco
Etowah Statues
Statues from the Etowah Native American prehistoric site in Georgia, USA. The statues are thought to represent the spirits of one’s ancestors as ancestor worship seems to have been a part of religious ritual at the site which flourished c. 1000-c. 1550 CE.
Tomb KV9, located in the Valley of the Kings Egypt, was built for Pharaoh Ramses V (reigned 1147-1143 BC) although it is not known if he was ever buried here. Yes, it was Ramses VI (reigned 1143 to 1136 BC), his son and successor, whose sarcophagus was found with great damage.
~ Inlaid Bowl with Nilotic Scene
Place of origin: Egypt (?)
Date: A.D. 300-499
Baia or Bayas, located on the Campania coast, 20 km. of Naples, it was not a true city, but a set of luxurious villas, thermal facilities, a place of recreation and rest for the Roman elite. It seems that it was a center of dissolute life. Cicero called it “pusilla Roma” (Rome in miniature) since he considered it to be a place of vice and perdition. It was sunk into the sea due to the phenomenon called “bradyism”, which consists of the gradual rise and fall of the ground level caused by seismic and hydrothermal activity.
Solapur, Maharashtra, 2021
Fan throated Lizard
Have you ever seen the pattern on a Macrodontia Cervicornis cuz like… holy shit
The Rainbow Starfrontlet, Ecuador by Jorge Alcivar
The crown changes color depending on the angle of viewing.
So apparently i had to find out by accident today that stickbug eggs look like tiny pots and they hatch out by opening the lids and crawling out
I had this same question myself and I regret to inform you that the answer is yes it is
heres a video of a nymph hatching as proof, no clue how they fit in there like that, my hypothesis is hammerspace eggs.
They fit because an insect only hardens once it’s exposed to air. Inside the egg it was crumpled up like a deflated balloon :)