While the Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is only known to most Europeans as an invasive species, it once had divine significance in its namesake homeland. Although its original distribution area extended across almost the entire African continent, it was particularly worshipped in ancient Egypt, especially around Thebes. There it was considered a deity, Gengen Wer, "the great cackler," whose loud cackle filled the primordial darkness and who laid the world egg in a mulberry tree in Heliopolis, from which light and the world then emerged. This deity was one of the various manifestations associated with the complex Egyptian pantheon, which included the fertility aspects of gods like Amun. People assumed that creation was a continuous cycle and that every human being hatched from an underworld goose egg.

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Happy Seven Sleepers!
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The Seven Sleepers is a medieval legend about a group of youths who hid inside a cave outside the city of Ephesus around AD 250 to escape one of the Roman persecutions of Christians and emerged some 300 years later.

🌥️ A weather lore says:
"The weather today will remain the same for seven more weeks."

It has a kernel of truth. From the end of June to the beginning of July, the weather conditions usually stabilize. Actually, the Seven Sleepers Day is on July 7th, if you transfer it to today's calendar. In southern Germany, where the rule seems to be originated, for the first week of July, it has an accuracy of about 70 percent.

Birds are singing, people are sleeping. The air smells of meadow. Sunday morning sunrise.

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View of Frankfurt this morning 🌇❤️

Aerial view of the city of Frankfurt am Main in 2004. The Taunus rests in its majesty and cuddles with clouds.

Goodyear Zeppelin NT over Frankfurt (09/2020). With a length of 75 meters, it's currently the largest semi-rigid airship in the world.

Feeling the force of nature!
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Sun is now arriving, please step back from the tracks.🌇

Going to paint that dirty room.