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Brewery Ommegang: Idyll Days Pilsner

10,000 Birds

Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. Following this early example, weathervanes in classical antiquity often assumed the form of animals and mythological beings – often deifications of the four compass winds – traditions that carried on in Europe long past the fall of Rome.

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