{"id":826,"date":"2007-02-22T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2007-02-22T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T20:28:00","slug":"the-eye-of-power-bwahahaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"The eye of power, bwahahaha"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
I saw this ancient artificial eye discussed sanely in Archaeology<\/em> magazine, but then there is the “soothsayer or priestess” angle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trust The Daily Mail<\/em> for that.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists said the woman was a female soothsayer or priestess and would have transfixed those around her with her eyeball, making them believe she had occult powers and could see into the future.<\/em><\/p>\n

Take a clue from the ancient priestess and wow ’em at the next psychic fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this ancient artificial eye discussed sanely in Archaeology magazine, but then there is the “soothsayer or priestess” angle. Trust The Daily Mail for that. Archaeologists said the woman was a female soothsayer or priestess and would have transfixed those around her with her eyeball, making them believe she had occult powers and could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-dk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7246,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7246","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":0},"title":"Scandinavian Style, 1400 BCE","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The acidic peat surrounding this grave of a Bronze Age girl, labeled a \"priestess\" for her elaborate jewelry,\u00a0 preserved her clothing and hair but not her skeleton. The burial was found in 1921, but only this month did analysis reveal that, for instance, the wool in her skirt came from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"egtved-textile-belt","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/egtved-textile-belt1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1302,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1302","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":1},"title":"What a Difference the Suffix ‘-ess’ Makes","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Following a link from another religion blog, I dropped into today on Beauty Tips for Ministers (subtitled \"Because you're in the public eye, and God knows you need to look good.\")I read this:SO many of you have written to let me know that TLC will be airing an episode of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3305,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3305","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":2},"title":"The First (Pagan) Museum","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"To the list of Things Created by Pagans (democracy, etc.), add the profession of museum curator. That honor goes to Princess Ennigaldi, the daughter of King Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. As was traditional for the daughters of Mesopotamian kings, her primary duties were religious in nature,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":882,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=882","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":3},"title":"Gallimaufry","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 Now this is a poorly written headline.\u00b6 As John Leo would explain in \"Thoughts on Good Writing\", the headline writer needs to \"work to avoid the dead idioms that we all seem to carry in our heads.\" \u00b6 Weirdest search string to bring someone here in the past month:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8586,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8586","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":4},"title":"The BBC Interviews Iceland Heathens","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"You can download this episode (27 minutes) of the BBC's Heart and Soul program on the Heathens of Iceland: Floating in a hot spring, snow falling from the night sky, John Laurenson meets Teresa Drofn. A 25-year-old Heathen, Teresa describes her return to the religion of her Viking forebears as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Iceland\"","block_context":{"text":"Iceland","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=iceland"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Icelandic-blot.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6593,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6593","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":5},"title":"Passing of Loreon Vigne","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Loreon Vigne, priestess of Isis, who created the Isis Oasis sanctuary and retreat center at Geyserville, California, passed away last night. There are tributes on her Facebook page. Here is an earlier post of mine about visiting Isis Oasis. Her memoir, The Goddess Bade Me Do It, tells her story\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}