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...placed beside the skeletal remains in the tomb, suggest the Thracians' spirituality may have been as complex as their artistry. "The separation of body parts, the golden mask placed where the face must have been - it all seems like it has been designed to transfer the spirit into immortality," says Fol. The exhibition also features items from a second tomb Kitov uncovered only 2 km from the first, called Goljamata Kosmatka (literally, the Big Hairy, because the hill over the tomb used to be covered in trees). Instead of the more common large single chamber, this tomb is made...
...Thracians believed in resurrection, but the rebirth was as a spirit. They believed the spirit has the same needs as the body. That's why they put so many things inside [the tombs...
...stone walls covering the entrances, he found the first room contained the remains of a sacrificed horse. The grave itself is in the third chamber, carved out of a single block of limestone weighing more than 60 tons. Inside was a ritual deathbed, a resting place for the spirit, covered in gold thread. But no bones: the body was most likely burned or buried. Kitov believes the tomb, which was built around 150 years later than the one that contained the mask, belonged to King Seuthes III, who ruled in the late 4th century B.C. and fought Alexander the Great...
Bardin, who is also a Crimson editor, attributed Currier’s success to the “incredible amount of House spirit,” and the dedication of its Intramural (IM) secretaries Daniel D. Almog ’05 and Brooks B. Lambert-Sluder ’05, who devoted forty-hour weeks to overseeing the House’s participation in IM sports...
Fostering house spirit under the motto “We must protect this house,” (a slogan taken from an “Under Armour” commercial), Almog and Lambert-Slunder led the house in the heated competition against Dunster this spring, whom Currier bested with a 59-point margin...