#borametz

[briefbestiary]

A perplexing mythical lamb, this medieval beast was a legend about an area of the world that Europe knew little about at the time. The vegetable lamb itself was a product of the, as of then, many unknowns.

#BriefBestiary #bestiary #digital art #fantasy #folklore #legend #myth #mythology #monster #zoophyte #vegetable lamb of tartary #scythian lamb #agnus scythicus #planta tartarica barometz #barometz #borometz #borametz #medieval legend #medieval folklore #vegetable lamb

[petrvyhlidka]

Borametz

Somewhere in the world, a strange plant grows. It is called the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, for the fruits of this flower, which grow from four or five roots, are really indistinguishable from the younger males of the species Ovis ammon. This information must then be considered reliable since it lasted from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century...

#bestiary

[chanarie69]

THE KIOSK OF DEMOCRACY PRESENTS "BORAMETZ" Participatory action in the context of #poemokratia by Academia Romantica. May 7, 2023, Sozopolis, Athens By PANOS SKLAVENITIS - GREECE www.facebook.com/kioskofdemocracy/

PANOS SKLAVENITIS ©

#art #participatory action

[ubicuo]

(borametz)

#SoundCloud #music #borametz #latin bass #dembow #reggaeton

[f-fader]

Borametz

Whether its a plant or an animal its unclear, all we know its a cluster of golden leaves and flowers, constantly growing in the shape of a sheep. Its gleaming appearance distracts of the fact that all plants around it are unable to grow, leaving it at the center of death and unfertile land. It really is a sight to behold though, but if you see it beware! For inside its roots, red blood runs and is specially tasty for the nearby wolves.

#borametz #art #arte #julietaferaudfader #illustration #digital art #arte digital #mythology #sheep #wolf #wolves #plants #mythology illustrated

[cadbanecringecompilation]

Reposting this because for some reason it was deleted— here’s one of my three Hellboy/BPRD ocs, Nanny. I’m pretty confident and proud with this smol lamb bimbo ;u;.

With some knowledge of plant based spells, Agent Nanny can spawn plant based things such as trees, vines, cactuses that grow at a rapid pace when she is at least around some sort of soil. If not then my vegetable lamb bimbo is kinda useless. She can use this ability to attack stupid dumb poopy enemies. Nannys species is heavily based off of the Borometz/Vegetable lamb of tartary so it kinda makes sense for her to have these kinds of abilities. I shall work more on her and share more about her overtime, but here’s some facts about her anyway:

-Because of where the Borometz originates, she can fluently speak Kazakhan. She also knows Mongolian, Russian and English.

-Was married to a human woman thousands of years back. She went as far as to use a spell to grow horns so she would look more like a ram borametz around the time so they could marry. Sadly though because her wife was human, she died of old age. So uHHhH. Ladies, She is single if you’re into old women.

-She can cook. But pleaaaase please make her 100% follow a recipe. Nanny had a very concerting appetite and fucking combines soda and coffee together thanks to another homie of mines oc.

-Nanny’s knowledge of spells comes from a wizard that she used to assist thousands of years back.

-Nannys species can be either purple or green colors.

-Good luck with finding other plant sheeple though. For fucked up reasons, they are believed to be going extinct.

-The B.P.R.D. named her Nanny.

You are all free to critique this baby! I have been wanting to rework on her for so long and now that I’ve finally started reading the comics, I am a lot more motivated to do so!

#hellboy #BPRD oc #Hellboy Oc #my art #Vegetable lamb of tartary #borametz #OC facts

[generationexorcist]

For Centuries, People Thought Lambs Grew on Trees

Imagine you’re strolling through the woods in Central Asia, in a region formerly called Tartary, sometime during the Middle Ages. As you adjust your woollen cloak, you spot an eye-catching plant. A long, swaying stalk juts out from the ground, bearing a bleating, life-sized lamb hovering a few feet off the ground.

According to ancient lore, you’ve encountered the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. Luckily there’s no need to run, as it’s solidly tethered to the ground. But though this animal-plant hybrid couldn’t go very far, the legend of it did—although completely imaginary, the vegetable lamb of Tartary crops up in ancient Hebrew texts, medieval literature, and even poetry, philosophy, and scientific musings of the Renaissance. Also called the borametz, the Scythian lamb, the lamb-tree, and the Tartarian lamb, this mythical zoophyte intrigued, inspired, and perplexed writers, philosophers, and scientists for centuries.

Source

#borametz #Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

[alessandrococcorullo]

Follow the Unknown and the Unknown will follow you. On instagram

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#cain #omicidio #murder #memoryfruit #fruttodeiricordi #radici #borametz #fraticidio #weird #surreal #surrelism #strange #illustration #art #arte #myart #pietà #rimosso #pity #strangerthings #illustrazione #uniposca #surrale #strano #ilritorno

[mysticarks]

thanks Miitopia for making me appreciate my original-verse NPCs a bit more by way of individually crafting their miiselfs and deciding their roles with care. even Sylvane (cast as Dubious Mayor) is kinda cute in a dorky way. still gonna poke fun at him and have him chased by a boss monster though

#he's Borametz's highest authority he can handle it. he had some fruit juice on the job anyway so it won't be too scary

[dustedmagazine]

C Joynes & The Furlong Bray— The Borametz Tree (Thread Recordings)

Gamelan, Chinese opera, Morris tunes, South Asian percussion, Sahel guitar, pre-war blues, and Scotch/Irish dance tunes and their scruffy Appalachian descendants are just a few of the sounds haunting The Borametz Tree, the new record from Cambridge guitarist C Joynes and his ad hoc band, The Furlong Bray. Plenty of well-meaning heads take the ecumenical approach, but what makes The Borametz Tree special, besides its melodic facility, is that (with one exception) Joynes & Co. have zero interest in empty genre exercises, authenticity, or bragging about the size of their record collections. Rather, they’ve created an evocative, playful, sui generis sonic world where their imaginations run rampant and yours is invited to do the same.

Most pieces on The Borametz Tree indulge in music’s higher purposes: to amuse, inspire, and comfort yourself and your neighbors. Put it another way—it’s folk music; it just so happens to be from somewhere you won’t find on any map. It would be a blast to dance with your dearly beloved to the fifes and electric guitar of “Hamasien Wedding Song”, while on the crepuscular “Gottem Ni Gottem” you can almost hear the musicians looking at each other from across the porch, smiling and trying to get their timing right. The wiry exchanges of “Tango Wire 334” and the Eurasian-pagan stomp of “The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary” beg to be described by archaic words like badinage, charivari, and rodomontade, while standout opener “Triennale” is, among other things, Jakarta juke joint Buddhist boogie. Perhaps best of all is the stirring finale, “Mali Sajyo”, which rides the cyclical swells of gospel or marching songs, of “There Is A Happy Land” and “Bread and Roses”. Like the nearly forgotten city-state of Hav, (colonized by Russia, Turkey, Britain, Italy, France, Greece, Armenia, China, and a handful of Arab countries) The Borametz Tree is redolent of a dozen cultures and not easily identifiable with any of them.

Which brings us to the album’s big misstep. Unlike the best tunes here, “Librarie Du Maghreb” tells you everything upfront. The Furlong Bray includes members of the wonderfully named Dead Rat Orchestra, who make their living, in part, from creating music for BBC history documentaries. Honorable work, but the one-dimensional Saharan signage of “Librarie Du Maghreb”, even with its strange distortions and half-heard vocals, is incidental music, soundtrack work. Too, “Jacket Shines” is, by itself, a lovely piece of post-Pelt rural drone, particularly when the banjo and fiddle interpolate some sprightly airs, but it doesn’t fit with the surprising, ramshackle vibe of the other numbers. On both tracks, you know where you’re going long before you get there. Prune them from The Borametz Tree and you’ve got yourself a veritable Anthology of Aghartan Folk Music.

Of course, the aforementioned syncretic city-state of Hav never existed. It was the invention of travel writer Jan Morris, one so credible that she reportedly fielded questions from confused would-be travelers and a member of the Royal Geographical Society about its location. Similarly, C Joynes and the Furlong Bray have dreamed up a wholly convincing invisible city and utopian alternative musical history of the world. While the beleaguered Havians “do not excel at the musical art”, the Bray boys do, and have created something warm and joyful out of the long ages.

Isaac Olson

#c joynes #furlong bray #the borametz tree #isaac olson #thread recordings #albumreview #dusted magazine #folk #world music #hav #dead rat orchestra

[saironwen]

EL BORAMETZ El cordero vegetal de Tartaria, también llamado Borametz y "Polypodium Borametz", y "polipodio chino", es una planta cuya forma es la de un cordero, cubierta de pelusa dorada. Se eleva sobre cuatro o cinco raíces; las plantas mueren a su alrededor y ella se mantiene lozana; cuando la cortan sale un jugo sangriento. Los lobos se deleitan en devorarla. Sir Thomas Browne la describe en el tercer libro de la obra Pseudodoxia Epidemica (Londres, 1646). En otros monstruos se combinan especies o géneros animales; en el Borametz, el reino vegetal y el reino animal. Recordemos a este propósito la mandrágora, que grita como un hombre cuando la arrancan, y la triste selva de los suicidas, en uno de los círculos del Infierno, de cuyos troncos lastimados brotan a un tiempo sangre y palabras, y aquel árbol soñado por Chesterton, que devoró los pájaros que habían anidado en sus ramas y que, en la primavera, dio plumas en lugar de hojas.

Jorge Luis Borges

El libro de los seres Imaginarios

#borametz #lamb #jorge luis borges #el libro de los seres imaginarios #Forest #fantasy #plants #digital art #Fanart

[atmaflare]

-Barometz,  The vegetable lamb of Tartary- Also known as Borometz, Borametz or Boranetz. A legendary creature from Tartary (an old blanket term for Central Asia) that's part animal and part vegetable, believed to be a misinterpretation of a cotton plant. It produces fruit in the shape of sheep, with flesh, bones and all, which spend all their lives connected to the plant by a stem, grazing the land around it. If the stem is severed, the sheep dies. It's wool can then be used to make articles of clothing, and the blood is said to be sweet like honey.

#barometz #baromett #vegetable lamb of tartary #Monster Design #digital art #shin megami tensei v #persona 5

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Geese and sheep from trees

There are two delightful creatures from Medieval European “scientific” folklore that I’ve never been able to compare to anything else, because they are both animals that grow from plants in place of fruit.

I say scientific folklore because these creatures are mentioned in travel diaries, almanacs, topographies and ‘histories of the natural world’ by medieval scholars. Fancy and fact tend to be quite liberally mixed in these works though and these two are some of my favourite fancies.

The first is “the vegetable lamb of Tartary”, also called the Borametz, Barbary Lamb, or later Scythian Lamb. Two types are described, one plant which produces little newborn lambs inside its pods, and one plant that grows a single, large lamb, attached by its belly button to the plant’s stem:

[Left: A woodcut based on the 14th-century manuscript of The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Mandeville. Right: unsourced illustration from 1926, most likely based on a 19th-century illustration by Henry Lee.]

One offered explanation is that this was a muddled explanation of a cotton plant, which is not native to Northern Europe, but creatures like this have been found mentioned in Jewish texts from the 5th century.

The second is the Barnacle Goose, which is a real creature (branta leucopsis). The folklore comes in because it was believed that this goose did not grow from eggs, but from shells, which in turn grow from a tree by the waterside:

[Left: Illustration based on a woodcut from Münster’s Cosmographia, 1552. Right: Illustration from John Gerard’s The Herball or General Historie of Plantes, 1597.]

Alternative stories had the geese hatch directly from barnacles attatched to the shore or to pieces of driftwood. This type of barnacle is still called “goose barnacle” (or “duck mussel” in Dutch.) Most written sources for these stories seem to come from Ireland and Scotland, but the belief existed throughout Northern Europe. The prevailing theory nowadays is that people did not know that these geese migrate and therefore came up with this explanation when they never saw them laying eggs.

Not much is known about these creatures apart from “they came from plants”, but I like them. I want to plant them in a garden and then raise them in a little flock on a magical farm.

[Illustrations by Gervasio Galardo, 1985.]

#the pictures make it very long but I like them too much to take them out #thank you cat for reminding me of these ^^ #lamb of tartary #vegetable lamb #barnacle goose #goose tree #lamb tree #bestiary #medieval folklore #european folklore #long post #laura babbles

[frith-inle]

Collaboration: Borametz by Kuroi-kisin

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

C Joynes & The Furlong Bray - The Borametz Tree

There are occasional bursts of thrilling electric guitar on C Joynes’ latest LP, but the overall vibe is decidedly pre-rock-and-roll. Scratch that, The Borametz Tree is decidedly pre-Christian. The wild, ecstatic music he and his cohorts make here would make for the perfect accompaniment to some kinda summer solstice celebration on the British isles before the Romans arrived. Droning fiddles, martial rhythms, stinging strings ... it’s absolutely great stuff in the vein of Third Ear Band or some of the more intense Early Music Consort of London jams. And “Gottem ni Gottem” may well be the most beautiful tune you’ll hear this year, with banjo and fiddle conjuring up a gorgeous sunset of sound. This is Britfolk that isn’t fussy or overly scholarly, using age-old ingredients to create something totally fresh. Get it! 

#c joynes #bandcamp monday

[cjoynes]

**AVAILABLE NOW**

C JOYNES & THE FURLONG BRAY - ‘THE BORAMETZ TREE’

LP/DL Thread Recordings THR 006 / Feeding Tube Records FTR443

"A strange and beautiful collection of hybrid oddities." ★★★★ MOJO 

"This year's most explorative gem." ★★★★ RNR "'The Borametz Tree' is a difficult-to-describe hybrid of approaches and techniques, drawn from the vast collective imagination of the group, abetted by field recordings and cassettes Joynes has collected on his peregrinations across continents." Byron Coley "A multi-paced and multi-cultured journey that is utterly idiosyncratic; at times dense in its structure and challenging in its rhythm, at others gentle and spare. Layered and intelligent, finding art and inspiration from many places, this particular result is something that really should be heard." Folk Radio

Order here: https://cjoynes.bandcamp.com/album/the-borametz-tree-2019 

And here: smarturl.it/THR006