It showed her still seated on a throne but now more decorous and matronly, her hand resting on the neck of a perfectly still lion and the other hand holding the circular frame drum...which evokes the full moon in its shape and is covered with the hide of the sacred lunar bull.
Figurine of a woman playing a hand-drum. 8th - 7th centuries B.C.E.
Terracottas of female drum players and other figurines depicting musicians, both male and female, have been found in Judah and Israel, as well as Phoenicia and Cyprus. ...Female drummers not only provided rhythms for singing and dancing at family and community celebrations, but, as Psalm 68 makes evident, their music was also incorporated into the ceremonies of the Temple.
In early Christian imagery, God creates the bodhrán
Notice how each angel has his own bodhrán conveniently stored behind the head.
Here the bodhrán symbolizes a deep spirituality.
In our modern era, the circular form of the bodhrán is used as a symbol of joy and freedom...
Caroluna wrote:In early Christian imagery, God creates the bodhrán
I hate to disappoint you, but this is God destroying a bodhran. I mean, just look at that vicious expression on his face! And what he's using is the next best thing to a penknife he could lay his hands on.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
Ah, moonmothmaid, drumming up support for an excellent theory, i see. Be ware... you may yet be framed, and drummed from the ranks by those more prone to think the pizza pan or bar-maid's tray the true history of the instrument.
anniemcu
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