I left you with images of raw fish and a gnomic reference to the Christmas Forcola (not to be confused with the Great Pumpkin). I think you deserve to see how they came out.
Hello! Pigs could be present in the nativity. Remember that not all habitants of the Holy Land were jewish 2000 years ago, quite a lot were pagans! In fact the gospel cites, how the teaching Jesus and his disciplines once met a herd of 2,000 pigs near the city of Gadara. Jesus purged the devils from two madmen and had them embed in the pigs, which then ran into the nearby Genesaret Lake and all drowned. (Mt 8-28-34, Mark 5,1-20, Lucas 8,26-39)
You are completely correct and I’m glad you took the trouble to write. To take it several steps further, if you ever visit Naples, you should go to the street of San Gregorio dei Librai and look at some of the Nativity-scene shops. They’ve got figurines of everybody — Diego Maradona, Bill Clinton, Toto’, undoubtedly Kim Kardashian and Bristol Palin — which you can add to your O Holy Night cast pf characters. Pigs are nothing.
An interesting article!
The Venetian traditional Christmas dinner since the Bronze Age cannot be as you describe it, as the Bronze Age ended at least 7 centuries BCE !!
Rice may have been known primarily due to imports through Altinum from the Levant and Egypt where it was cultivated perhaps before 700AD, and some may have been bartered for fish from the Lagoon residents prior to the establishment of Venice as it is known today.
Good to keep trying to run away from Americanate like rewriting history about Christmas in Venice!
My reference to the Bronze Age was just an expression, an attempt at humor which I see was not successful. I’ll keep at it, but don’t guess I can win them all. Meanwhile, I would hazard that it would be more likely that the Lagoon residents sold the salt they produced (I doubt that they bartered), considering how valuable a commodity salt was, and how relatively rare, unlike fish. About your comment on my “rewriting history” — that would be an attempt at humor? If so, not successful.
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Hello! Pigs could be present in the nativity. Remember that not all habitants of the Holy Land were jewish 2000 years ago, quite a lot were pagans! In fact the gospel cites, how the teaching Jesus and his disciplines once met a herd of 2,000 pigs near the city of Gadara. Jesus purged the devils from two madmen and had them embed in the pigs, which then ran into the nearby Genesaret Lake and all drowned. (Mt 8-28-34, Mark 5,1-20, Lucas 8,26-39)
You are completely correct and I’m glad you took the trouble to write. To take it several steps further, if you ever visit Naples, you should go to the street of San Gregorio dei Librai and look at some of the Nativity-scene shops. They’ve got figurines of everybody — Diego Maradona, Bill Clinton, Toto’, undoubtedly Kim Kardashian and Bristol Palin — which you can add to your O Holy Night cast pf characters. Pigs are nothing.
An interesting article!
The Venetian traditional Christmas dinner since the Bronze Age cannot be as you describe it, as the Bronze Age ended at least 7 centuries BCE !!
Rice may have been known primarily due to imports through Altinum from the Levant and Egypt where it was cultivated perhaps before 700AD, and some may have been bartered for fish from the Lagoon residents prior to the establishment of Venice as it is known today.
Good to keep trying to run away from Americanate like rewriting history about Christmas in Venice!
My reference to the Bronze Age was just an expression, an attempt at humor which I see was not successful. I’ll keep at it, but don’t guess I can win them all. Meanwhile, I would hazard that it would be more likely that the Lagoon residents sold the salt they produced (I doubt that they bartered), considering how valuable a commodity salt was, and how relatively rare, unlike fish. About your comment on my “rewriting history” — that would be an attempt at humor? If so, not successful.