Gold Crowns and Cashews (euhh ... Gogok)
Another interesting thing to note about the Gyeongju National Museum is their collection of golden crowns. Apparently there are only ten fully golden crowns in the world, with eight coming from the Korean peninsula and six of those excavated from tombs near Gyeongju. I saw several of them at the Gyeongju National Museum and an additional crown on ( Read more... )
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You and I enjoy academic readings, but I'm not sure if that many other people from among my livejournal friends share the same interest in anthropology and shamanism. ;)
Of the two non-Korean golden crowns it seems one of them was excavated in Afghanistan (at the Tillia Tepe necropolis), and looks like a shorter version of the Silla crowns with more golden 'mirrors' attached. I can only imagine what those look like when they capture the sun's rays! Oh, and the Silla crowns are also supposed to have 'branched antlers' on either side that I've seen used as another example of a connection to Siberian shamanism. (i.e., reindeer herding, which isn't exactly common in Korea)
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A google query for gold crowns came up with a search result from an Assyrian site found in northern Iraq during the late 1980s. The May/June 2002 issue of Archaeology mentions it, but they don't specify whether it's fully gold or gold-plated. The Afghani crown might be connected to the Korean ones and I've seen the expression "Scytho-Siberian connection" used a couple of times in that regard. National Geographic recently featured an article about how the Afghani crown is going on tour in the United States starting in April of 2008, though I'm not sure how close it will come to Oklahoma. (Houston, perhaps ( ... )
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