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Aegean by
Deborah Brommer
Henna patterns adaped from the art of the ancient Aegean world Henna in the Ancient Aegean World Red markings on depictions of young women from the Cycladic Islands, Crete, Cyprus, and Mycenae Greece, corroborated with texts from the period, indicate Bronze Age Aegean women hennaed much as we do today. Texts from that period desribe young women preparing for marriage with henna in the Bronze Age Aegean and eastern Mediterranean,. They hennaed for a fertility festival was in late March or early April, coinciding with the end of the rainy season and the beginning of the long summer drought. The tableau “Mistress of Animals” and Crocus Gatherer, Room e3 a, first floor, North Wall, and in “Lustral Basin”, North Wall, Adorants, Xeste 3, from Akrotiri, dated prior to the eruption of Thera in the first half of the second millennium BCE, appears to be a depiction of this spring festival, and shows women with hennaed palms, soles and fingertips.
Doumas, C; tr. Doumas, A.
The Wall Paintings of Thera The Thera Foundation, Athens 1992 De Moor, Johannes C. The Seasonal Pattern in the Ugaritic Myth of Ba’lu According to the Version of Ilimilku Verlag Butzon & Berker Kevelaer, Neukirchen – Vluyn, 1971 |
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