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Sargon of Akkad: Familiar and Legendary Tales of a Famous Mesopotamian King
... . Sargon’s biological father remains a mystery, and his mother is said to have been a temple priestess, or perhaps a ... “Sargon, the mighty king, king of Agade, am I. My mother was a changeling *, my father I knew not. The ... is situated on the banks of the Euphrates. My changeling* mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a ...
dhwty - 02/03/2019 - 01:46
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Legends Of The Oracle Of Delphi At The Centre Of The World
... King of the Gods, who sought to find the epicentre of the earth goddess Gaia, or his ‘Grandmother Earth’. Zeus sent two eagles flying from the eastern and western extremities of the earth and they crossed paths over Delphi. Zeus marked the ...
MartiniF - 01/03/2023 - 22:52
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Enki: The Epic Mesopotamian Water God Who Saved Humanity
... the son of Apsu, the primeval freshwater ocean beneath the earth. Enki has also been regarded as the son of Nammu , the primordial mother goddess who gave birth to the heavens and the earth. Enki’s wife was Ninhursag, and amongst their ...
dhwty - 18/06/2019 - 19:39
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Metal Detectorist Milly Hardwick Finds Bronze Age Hoard of Axe Heads
... her metal detecting hunting finds in a photo taken by her mother Claire. (Claire Hardwick / Royston Crow ) A Very ... of axe heads and Milly Hardwick from a photograph by her mother Claire in the Royston Crow news. Source: Claire ...
ashley cowie - 02/12/2021 - 13:57
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Flood Reveals Ancient Idols Holding Secrets to Early Hinduism and a Long-Lost Civilization
... Sapta Kanya (seven virgins) or Sapta Matrika (a group of mother goddesses) is a common theme in the idols”, as ... together and this could represent the seven virgins or mother goddesses. In southern India, the seven mother goddesses are still commonly worshipped to this day. ...
Ed Whelan - 28/12/2018 - 22:50
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Nepal Tragedy: Devastating Loss of Human Life and Ancient Heritage
At least 4,000 people have been killed and more than 100,000 left homeless in the worst earthquake to have hit Nepal in more than 80 years. Along with the ever growing loss of life, the disaster has obliterated numerous ancient landmarks, including former royal dwellings and Buddhist and Hindu temples. While the tragic human impact overshadows the destruction of ancient buildings, the cultural loss is also devastating.
Mark Miller - 27/04/2015 - 21:51
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Yin Female Taoism In Search Of Immortality
... Chinese civilization. Taoist Immortal Painting of Queen Mother of the West Riding Foo Dog ( Anton biederwolf / CC ... winter arrived; during this season they rested, like the earth. For women, on the contrary, winter was the season of ... challenges in verse. Chinese painting illustrating a mother and a son plucking tea sprouts (ca.1800–1899) from ...
Alessandra Filiaci - 11/11/2020 - 22:40
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A Hopi Hero’s Journey: How the Snake Clan Came to Arizona
... is the Hopi god of the underworld, death, fire, and the earth-plane. In his book Campbell cites the Navajo version of ... are merely variations of the same archetype, namely, Mother Earth. He goes on, however, to identify the special role of ...
Gary A. David - 13/11/2017 - 18:53
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More than 50 royal Egyptian mummies unearthed in Valley of the Kings
... ruler became king at the age of around 12, with his mother as regent. He died in around 1354 BC and was succeeded ...
aprilholloway - 29/04/2014 - 03:10
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The Pyramid Complex and the Hopi: Creation Myth Sheds Light on Building Plan
... because the Creator instructed her to put his plan down on Earth for all to see. Like any good business man, the ... needed pyramids in Egypt, Mexico, and China, was the Earth had a problem. It was believed it was out of balance ... and his Nephew, that they were to remain here on Earth and start civilization. The Creator wanted one for ...
Thomas O. Mills - 13/10/2016 - 15:10
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Climate Change Played Cupid Between Neanderthals and Denisovans
... specimen that had a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal mother. It has been 5 years since the unearthing of Denny , a ... into the nuances of this, uncovering how alterations in Earth's orbital trajectory around the Sun, occurring over ... that during warm interglacial periods, characterized by Earth's more elliptical orbit around the Sun and the ...
Sahir - 17/08/2023 - 14:55
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Archaeologist pieces together story of the mysterious Zhang Zhung people of Tibet
... marked the descent of their supreme god, Gekhoe, to the Earth. (Photo courtesy of John Vincent Bellezza) “Upper ... jeweled egg. This marvelous egg began its descent to earth through the agency of the lha of bright light, a ... mingling with the radiance of the father mountain and mother lake, it hatched. From this magical egg sprung Gekhoe, ...
Mark Miller - 25/11/2015 - 21:47
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The Sacred Omphalos Stone, Navel of the World and Communicator of the Gods
... his children as soon as they were born, due to his mother’s prophecy that he would be overthrown by his own ... ends of the world, and commanded them to fly across the earth to meet at its centre. It was at Delphi that the two ... to humanity. As this stone is placed at the center of the earth, it was called the omphalos stone, the meaning of ...
dhwty - 05/06/2018 - 21:51
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Natural Harmony: How did the Stonehenge Druids Measure the Landscape?
... data by using both Ordnance Survey maps and Google Earth. And I will provide the necessary Ordnance Survey map ... of water once flowed. Astonishingly, it appears as if Mother Nature had planned the Stonehenge landscape to her ... … as touching the size of the universe and of the earth” (De Bello Gallico, V1, 14). Was Orion the Heavenly ...
Dr. John Hill - 19/06/2021 - 18:55
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The Serpent Scion: Mythic Traditions and the Brotherhood of the Snake - Part 1
... fabled moment when Eve, the first mythic wife of man and mother of all living, accepted fruit from the serpent will ... attained by the lowly belly-crawler amidst its ancestry on Earth that predated his encounter with Adam’s wife, this ... unto mankind. 3 Greek mythology also featured Echidna, mother of all monsters and human-snake hybrid, appearing ...
ancient-origins - 08/08/2013 - 13:31
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Indonesia’s 31,000-year-old Amputee Shatters the History of Surgery
... the scale bar; b) in situ nodule of red ochre (a natural earth pigment) next to the mandible; c) Maxilla and mandible. ... ) and Griffith University / Nature ) Living And Dying In Mother Nature’s Embrace Now that the “great assumption” ...
ashley cowie - 07/09/2022 - 16:00
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11-Year-Old Boy Finds Rare Ancient Fertility Goddess Amulet In Israel
... he describes as “an unusual object.” Ben-David’s mother, Miriam Ben-David, is a professional tour guide and ... goddess to assure a safe birth and recovery for the mother, whose lives were also seriously endangered when ... and childbirth were seriously dangerous for both baby and mother and while improvements in healthcare , nutrition , and ...
ashley cowie - 15/03/2021 - 21:58
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The Galli: The Cross-Dressing Cybele Cult Priests Who Castrated Themselves
... Cybele was the Phrygian goddess of fertility and the mother of all gods, humans, animals, and plants. In Rome, she was given the Latin title Magna Mater or ‘great mother’. She was accepted into the state religion in 204 BC ... this, she was often seen as the personification of Mother Earth . In contemporary art, she was often pictured sitting ...
Molly Dowdeswell - 14/10/2022 - 18:45
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Suspected Human Sacrifices Unearthed Beneath Medieval Castle
... mason built a seat into the wall for a small child whose mother had given it up to be sacrificed for “a large sum of ...
ashley cowie - 21/04/2020 - 07:32
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‘Little Pompeii’ Unearthed in France is Most Exceptional Roman Site Found in Half a Century
... (Cybele being known by the Romans as Magna Mater or Great Mother) and a pyramid shaped monument that was part of the ...
Gary Manners - 03/08/2017 - 22:59