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Share this on WhatsAppThe world is filled with more ancient sites than one could see in a lifetime, but many of these treasures elude the hordes of tourists, who tend to flock to popular tourist attractions. While monuments like the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, the Colosseum, and Pyramids of Egypt should undoubtedly be visited at […]
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You think you see different cultures when you leave your home town and drive 30 minutes to a family road
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Introduction The ancient civilization of Sumer, is one of the earliest civilizations in human history. The Sumerians were a people who lived in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, around 4000-2000 BCE. They achieved impressive technological advancement, including the development of writing, mathematics, and astronomy. Their social structure consisted of a ruling
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You think you see different cultures when you leave your home town and drive 30 minutes to a family road
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You think you see different cultures when you leave your home town and drive 30 minutes to a family road
Th lady on the right has on 44 solid huge gold amulets. Six worn in a headdress, a belt of 9 domes, 6 smaller tdomes behind and a two very huge amulets at the bottom. On the sides of her lower robes are rectangular . Another five solid gold Gau boxes are in front. Probably she could be wearing 20 kilos of gold alone. Tibetans consider it a sacriledge to alloy gold, when gold appears in ornaments it is pure gold. The current price of this 20 kilos of raw gold alone is almost a millions dollars. Of course these ornaments as rare artworks by master goldsmiths are worth much more for the workmanship. The young lady on the right has a belt of 9 gold amulets, and six amulets in her hair. She wears 5 gold and silver Gau amulets in the front of her lower robes, and 4 chain amulets, each consisting 6 parallel silver chains with embossed gold at each end. The enormous coral beads in these ladies necklaces are often worth more than their weight in gold, and the black and white dzi beads between them can be worth tens of thousands of dollars each if they are antique or ancient. these breathtaking costumes are only worn in full about 20 times in the life of the wearer, as they take around two hours to put on with the help of their family, and are incredibly heavy, leading to tiredness and stiff shoulders ===================================================== Ornaments make up most of the life savings of many Khampa families, and so play an important role in Tibetan families' lives as well as in announcing the social status of the wearers. They are saved up for over many years and handed down for centuries from generation to generation within families. Until very recently, these families were nomadic and have to move every few months because of the snowy seasons in the Himalayas, so Khampas have always needed to store their wealth in portable form. So being unable to store wealth in the form of estates or houses or land or in a bank, for millenia wealth has been stored in art, precious fabrics, and particularly into ornaments. Their culture is very conservative about the type of ornaments favored: for thousands of years jewelry made from amber, turquoise and coral have been worn because the stones are believed to hold spiritual power. Gold and silver and also naturally found in Tibet, and the use of these metals by the wealthy also goes back thousands of years. Their ornaments are very chunky, bold and colorful. While the gold earrings that Khampa women wear may have cost them a year or maybe several year's of their salary, ornaments carry so much social status in their society that probably didn't have to think twice about the purchase. To the Khampa people these ornaments have the utmost sentimental value and significance, because they are the physical remnants of generations of their ancestors hard work or success. what these people are wearing is not just their life savings, but also their family history and treasure. this culture has been around for millenia - archeological finds from the 1st century AD in the khampa area unearthed ornaments that are essentially the same in design and materials as today's are. there are also beliefs that the stones provide good luck and protection to disease. dyed red coral is the most sought after stone, but interestingly tibet is very very far from any oceans - all the coral is imported by traders! Religious symbols from Tibetan Buddhism frequency form the designs of pieces, however archeological finds show that the role of ornaments in Tibetan society and peoples' lives long predate the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet. Indeed the beliefs of spiritual protection being provided by coral, amber and turquoise probably originate from the ancient shamanic Bon religion. ANOTHER PHOTO of her is below... (click the thumbnail)
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You think you see different cultures when you leave your home town and drive 30 minutes to a family road
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Hello all, this is my 200th article, and I thought i should do something rather different. I will do an overview of the folk costumes of Europe. I will follow nation-states, as inappropriate as that may be, but i will also cover nations without states. Some very small and obscure ethnic groups will be omitted for lack of available material. I will also not be covering the north Caucuses, as there is simply too much material there. Where there is a recognized or unofficial 'National Costume' I will show that. This will necessarily not include much in the way of explanation. Iceland Upphultur Peysufot Faldbuningar Faroe Islands Ireland Scotland England Wales Brittany Bigoudin Kemper [Quimper] Plougastel France Berry Normandie [Normandy] Provence Euskadi [the Basque Country] Andorra [also Rousillon and Catalonia] Spain Andalucia La Mancha Galicia Portugal Minho Madeira Algarve Monaco [also Nice] Italy Lombardy Lazio Calabria Arbëreshë [Italo Albanians] Vatican City There is no women's costume for the Vatican Sardinia Florinas Orgosolo Quartu Sant'Elena Malta Switzerland Appenzell Valais/Wallis Graubunden/Grisons Liechtenstein Germany Miesbach, Bavaria Gutach, Schwartzwald Scheesel, Lower Saxony Luxembourg Belgium The Netherlands Volendam Beveland Staphorst Friesland [Frisia] West East North Denmark Fanø Hedebo Amager Norway There have been several attempts to design a national costume, but most of them have not received much acceptance. The most successful was a simplified form of the Hardanger costume, but this is currently little used, as most people wear their local bunad. Hardanger Setesdal Gudbrandsdal Sweden National Costume Värend Rättvik Sabme [Lappland] Jokkmokk Kautokeino Skolt Finland Häme, western Finland Kaukola, Finnish Karelia Tuuteri, on the Finnish Isthmus Estonia Järva-Jaani, North Estonia Muhu Island Setu, South Estonia Livonia Latvia Latgale Vidzeme Nica Lithuania Aukštaitija Žemaitija Vilnius Kaszëbskô [Kashubia] Poland Łowicz, Mazowsze Krakow, Małopolska Podhale One of many Górale or Highlander costumes Sorbia [Lusatia] Chosebus [Cottbus], Lower Lusatia Slepo [Schleife], Upper Lusatia Catholic costume, Upper Lusatia Bohemia Plzeň [Pilsen] Blata Nové Paky, Northeast Bohemia Moravia Hanak Valašsko Vlčnov, Slovacko Slovakia Myjava Detva Šariš Hungary Palóc Kalocsa Matyó Austria Montafon, Vorarlberg Tyrol Upper Austria Slovenia Gorenjsko Dolenjska Bela Krajina Croatia Posavina Zagrebačko Prigorje Dubrovnik/Konavle Bosnia Moslem town costume East Hercegovina Orthodox Serbian Costume Travnik, Catholic Croatian Costume Serbia Šumadija Vojvodina Gniljane Crna Gora [Montenegro] Macedonia Skopska Blatija Galichnik Radovish Gorani Albania North Albania and Kosovo [Gheg] Sulovë, Central Albania Fieri, South Albania [Tosk] Greece Amalia Costume, Athens Kriti [Crete] Karagouna, Thessaly Cyprus Bulgaria Sofia [Shope] Rhodope Severnjashko [North] Vlach in Serbia in Greece in Albania Romania Wallachia Transylvania Moldavia Moldova Gagauz Crimean Tatar Ukraine Central Ukraine Hutsul Volyn' Carpatho-Rusyn, Lemko Komancha Venhryny [Čirč region] Jakubany Belarus Svetlahorski region, Western Polissia Malarytski region, Eastern Polissia Russia Peasants from northern Russia Kaluga Province Voronezh Province Karelia [Russian held part] Tver' Province Karelians Veps Nenets The Nentsi [formerly known as the Samoyed], live along the arctic coast from the White Sea to well past the Urals, and thus into Asia. Komi Permliak Udmurtia Northern Udmurt Southern Udmurt Mari-El Ural Mari Mordovia Erzya Moksha, Contemporary Costume Men Chuvashia Anatri Chuvash bride and her father Anat Enchi bride, groom and married woman Virial Chuvash Matchmaker Tatarstan [Kazan'] Bashkortostan [Bashkir] Kalmuk [Kalmyk] Thank you for reading, I hope that you have found this to be interesting and informative. Roman Kozak
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