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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 909941, member: 5833&quot;]Thyrsus/thyrsos.&nbsp; In modern times routinely described &amp; depicted as a pine cone headed staff with a straight shaft, but it has not always been so.&nbsp; I got curious about how they would have attached a pine cone to a stick &amp; tried to research this at one point. Learned that some sources say it is a fennel stalk. Never delved deep enough into the matter to find out whether the idea that the head is a pine cone is also an ancient one, or a later misreading of images of the giant fennel.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry to say, none of these is mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]200813[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]200814[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]200815[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]200816[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]200820[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Couldn&#039;t find some materials I thought I had &amp; had to go back to the Internet to round up some of the fennel images.&nbsp; On the way, encountered this interesting bit:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PrimitiveTechnology/comments/6me207/using_giant_fennel_stalks_as_a_portable_ember/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PrimitiveTechnology/comments/6me207/using_giant_fennel_stalks_as_a_portable_ember/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/PrimitiveTechnology/comments/6me207/using_giant_fennel_stalks_as_a_portable_ember/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Never heard this caught on:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.rootsimple.com/2009/08/thyrsus-the-new-hipster-accessory/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rootsimple.com/2009/08/thyrsus-the-new-hipster-accessory/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rootsimple.com/2009/08/thyrsus-the-new-hipster-accessory/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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