Courtesy of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Posted on 06/11/2024 11:47:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Recent excavations in Pompeii have uncovered a remarkable room with walls painted in a vivid, sky-blue hue, a color seldom seen in Pompeian ruins.
This room, discovered in the Insula 10 area of Regio IX, is thought to have served as a sacrarium, a space dedicated to pagan rituals and the preservation of sacred objects.
The walls of this 8-square-meter room, known as Room 32, are adorned with frescoes in the Fourth Style, characterized by its intricate and narrative aesthetic...
The sacrarium's walls are painted a brilliant sky blue, a color rarely seen in Pompeian frescoes and typically reserved for spaces of great significance. The blue backdrop is complemented by red-lined niches, where statues and other devotional objects likely stood.
The frescoes depict female figures representing the four seasons, agriculture, and shepherding. These figures are adorned with crowns of flowers, flowing garments, and in some cases, depicted without clothes, adding to the room's mystical aura...
Among the discoveries were 15 amphorae, two jugs, two lamps, and three decorative boxes embedded in the walls that likely held devotional statues. Building materials such as piles of oyster shells, intended to be mixed with plaster and mortar, indicate that the house was undergoing renovations at the time of the eruption...
This discovery aligns with the broader context of Roman literature and art, where the pastoral and agrarian themes often symbolized a nostalgic return to simpler times. Works like Virgil's "Georgics" and "Eclogues" celebrated the rural idyll while acknowledging the tension between the idyllic past and the realities of contemporary Roman life. The room's decorations may reflect this cultural ambivalence, embodying both reverence for agricultural deities and a longing for the lost simplicity of rural life.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeologymag.com ...
The satanists will be downright giddy over this.
I’ve been to Pompeii.
Anyone that likes Roman history needs to add this to a bucket list.
A vast immersive experience in history.
Make sure to pay for a tour. Without that it becomes a pile of rocks like many archeological sites if you don’t get the context.
That should be close to the vomitorium.
Those that just want to attack Christians will use anything to their arguments advantage. They are usually sick people emotionally. They are often guided by some horrible sin they want to partake in and normalize (Pedophilia and full bore euthanasia are coming next).
That’s why it’s very important that we educate our kids outside of secular public schools, hedonist and secular Hollywood, the arts (music, painting, sculpture...).
When you get one and the same message everywhere you look, it’s very easy to believe this or go along with it out of peer pressure (conformity).
Your post makes no sense.
Thanks! I’ve never been there, but those are great tips!
Great place to shoot a mouthwash commercial. :^)
The roofs of many buildings in Santorini have that kind of impact as well.
Blue Room!
I found you standing alone!
Without a beat in my heart,
Without a love of my own!..................
My wife, who’s been everywhere, rates Pompeii in her Top Two.
:^)
One explanation for painting everything blue there is that it creates a psychological sense of coolness, in a place where it gets so hot.
(I’ve heard that in the South of the US porch ceilings are often painted blue because it causes the bugs to fly up there, and not bother you while you’re sitting on the porch...and ‘bottle trees’ used blue bottles to attract bad spirits...)
(I’ve heard that in the South of the US porch ceilings are often painted blue because it causes the bugs to fly up there)
All true, especially in Louisiana.
Just before the vomitorium there’s a barfbagatorium, and remains of a public fountain to saturate the bag before using.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpj7ExqDRgo
I’ve seen the blue porch ceilings here in NY and could never figure out why. Thanks now I know, don’t know whether it works but it makes sense.
I was just commenting on the fact that satanists are highly interested in everything pagan, especially ancient sites of pagan rituals.
Lol
I doubt they’re reading Sunken Civ’s posts on FR.
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