Arthur sees the beast drinking from a pool just after he wakes from a disturbing dream that foretells Mordred’s destruction of the realm (no noise of hounds from the belly is emitted while it is drinking). He is then approached by King Pellinore who confides that it is his family quest to hunt the beast.
Source: Questing Beast – Wikipedia
After the Fall of the House of Song, the Bardic Collegium split into factions, and went into exile. Lore thereafter continued to be transmitted via a peripatetic tradition, as strolling singers crossed the Wide Lands. But they continued their tradition without the rich visual and symbolic aids of the original artifacts or memory palaces which housed them.
Not in attendance: an attendant of the House of Silence, who was elsewhere officiating over the funeral preparations of Jan Re, but the quietude of whose spirit did participate silently in absentia, and was considered sufficient to make the hearing binding
From this Happy Period came the development of the Runf-Mailaf alphabet, an ancient ur-script whose name remembers its two Pantarctican discoverers. This alphabet, in fact, had a vastly wider range of letter forms than any later or contemporary known alphabets. It is said in Quatrian myth that this alphabet contained all forms, and as a result, all possible words.
Ancient Bengal was the site of several major Janapadas (kingdoms), while the earliest cities date back to the Vedic period. A thalassocracy and an entrepôt of the historic Silk Road,[2] Ancient Bengal established colonies on Indian Ocean islands and in Southeast Asia;[3] had strong trade links with Persia, Arabia and the Mediterranean that focused on its lucrative cotton muslin textiles.[4]
Source: History of Bengal – Wikipedia
The Portuguese empire in the Indian Ocean was a traditional thalassocracy which had extended its reach to every major choke point in the Ocean. Trade in the area corresponded also to a traditional triangular model whereupon small manufactures would be brought from Europe and traded in Africa for gold and several items, then these would serve to purchase spices in India proper which were then brought back to Europe and traded at immense profit which would be reinvested into ships and troops, to be sent eastw
Source: Dutch–Portuguese War – Wikipedia
The Carthaginians tell us that they trade with a race of men who live in a part of Libya beyond the Pillars of Herakles. On reaching this country, they unload their goods, arrange them tidily along the beach, and then, returning to their boats, raise a smoke. Seeing the smoke, the natives come down to the beach, place on the ground a certain quantity of gold in exchange for the goods, and go off again to a distance. The Carthaginians then come ashore and take a look at the gold; and if they think it presents a fair price for their wares, they collect it and go away; if, on the other hand, it seems too little, they go back aboard and wait, and the natives come and add to the gold until they are satisfied. There is perfect honesty on both sides; the Carthaginians never touch the gold until it equals in value what they have offered for sale, and the natives never touch the goods until the gold has been taken away.
— Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Source: Hanno the Navigator – Wikipedia
It is a secretion produced by several species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae, rock snails originally known by the name Murex. In ancient times, extracting this dye involved tens of thousands of snails and substantial labor, and as a result, the dye was highly valued.
Source: Tyrian purple – Wikipedia
It was added to by many generations, and contained various information: diary-type entries on current events, memoirs, letters, political speeches, copies of legal documents, gossips, jokes and anecdotes, financial documents, economic information (price of grain, etc.), philosophical musings, poems, genealogical trees, advice (agricultural, medical, moral) for the descendants and others. The wealth of information in silva is staggering; they contain anything that their authors wished to record for future generations.[1] Some silvae rerum were of truly enormous proportions, with thousands of pages (Gloger cites one of 1764 pages) although most common size is from 500 to 800 pages.[1]
Source: Silva rerum – Wikipedia
Tanit was represented by “palm trees weighed down with dates, ripe pomegranates ready to burst, lotus or lilies coming into flower, fish, doves, frogs… .” She gave to mankind a flow of vital energies.
Source: Phoenicia – Wikipedia
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