House (or hall) God (or protector, the root word of ON aegis = shield)
…which, IF that’s a part-human-part-bird holding a nut, and those are stitched lips, and that other figure is a snake, and that’s an oath ring around the central figure’s neck, MIGHT be pretty compelling evidence of Loki having a hearth cult that included people of significant wealth.
I am trying not to get too excited until the experts publish their findings on this artefact but this could be a really big deal.
If it is Loki, I will (amongst being happy about this find) once again give him shit for his endlessly absurd mustache.
On Sept. 9, 1971, approximately 1,500 prisoners in Cell Block D seized the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, after submitting a 27-point manifesto to the prison administration in an attempt to address the torturous conditions inside the prison.
Outside of the jails and also inside many prisons, a battle was raging for the national liberation of Black, Puerto Rican, Indigenous and Chicanx people. A new revolutionary mood was sweeping the country to end all kinds of oppression.
