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Demonic Exorcisms in the Temple Schools of Mesopotamia
... the room 56 of the British Museum. ( CC0 ) The Extensive Otherworld of the Sick Sumerians The Sumerians did not ...
Dr. Heather Lynn - 15/03/2019 - 15:37
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Do you have the Second Sight? Finding Fairies & The Secret Commonwealth of Robert Kirk
The tale of the Rev. Robert Kirk and his Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Faeries is very peculiar. When read carefully, the text of his 1691 manuscript describing the faeries of Aberfoyle, Scotland gives many clues as to the reality of what he calls the Subterraneans, and how people were able to perceive them and interact with them.
nrushton - 17/07/2017 - 15:26
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A Trove of New Denisovan Discoveries Revealed At A Recent Anthropological Conference
The annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists held at the end of March in Cleveland, Ohio, was eagerly awaited by those with an interest in human origins as it would be here that Bence Viola, a Canadian paleoanthropologist with the University of Toronto, would reveal details of the discovery of the first ever fragment of a Denisovan skull.
Andrew Collins - 03/04/2019 - 22:53
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Underground Cities Around the World – Myths and Reality
... a supernatural race believed to live underground in the Otherworld. (Sevenseaocean / CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Further Accounts ...
Joanna Gillan - 27/08/2022 - 01:56
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Picts, Gaels, and Scots: Exploring their Mysterious (and Sometimes Mythical) Origins
... travelling to Tír na nÓg ("Land of the Young" – an otherworld inhabited by the Irish fairy people the Tuatha Dé ...
Steven Keith - 19/06/2018 - 20:55
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Mystery of 2,100-year-old Death Mask Found to Contain Ram’s Skull
By Anna Prokhozheva / The Siberia Times
The discovery of the magnificent clay likeness of a young man in the Shestakovsky burial mound No 6 has long intrigued Russian archaeologists.
ancient-origins - 17/04/2020 - 18:38
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This Haunted World: You’re a Part of It, and You Have Been for Thousands of Years
Where do we come from? A normal life consists of being born into and then living within a world made up of material building blocks such as subatomic particles, atoms, protoplasm, flesh and blood. But to say we were born "into" a world implies there is an "outside." Although our five senses have evolved to help us cope with what we usually call "reality," is there a world outside reality that is more "real" than what we usually experience? And does that world cast a shadow that sometimes colors our very existence?
jim willis - 15/09/2017 - 15:34
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Isaac Newton And His Alchemical Interest In The Lost Pyramid Code
Unpublished 17th-century AD alchemical documents reveal Sir Isaac Newton’s private Egyptian pyramid studies, in his quest to calculate a date for the End of Days. In July 1936 AD, a metal chest surfaced at Sotheby’s auction house in London filled with Isaac Newton’s unpublished, private, hand-written papers and lab books.
ashley cowie - 07/12/2020 - 17:31
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Malta Underground: Religious Legends, Cave Churches and Subterranean Shrines
Religious visions have frequently taken place in the dark damp setting of caves and subterranean chambers making them attractive locations for shrines, chapels, pilgrimages and healing. One of the most famous of these sites is Lourdes in France, now a major Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary. What started as a series of visions in the Massabielle grotto by a local girl, has lead to the small Pyrenees town becoming a hugely popular pilgrimage site attracting five million visitors per year to its sanctuary and curative spring waters.
Laura Tabone - 09/04/2022 - 18:58
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8,000-Year-Old Yarmukian Mother Goddess Unearthed
... . So what then does this ancient mistress of the Levantine otherworld represent? Red Is The Color Of Love, And Sex The ...
ashley cowie - 09/07/2022 - 15:00
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Mask or Masquerade? Skeptic Totally ‘Trashes’ Magical Pagan Masks
For over six decades, it was believed that two wooden objects discovered in Opole, Poland were pagan Slavic masks used in mystical ceremonies held in cemetery woods. However, recent research by a Polish professor challenges this dogmatic interpretation and suggests they were simply discarded waste.
ashley cowie - 02/02/2023 - 13:58
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Baldr: The Shining God Who Shines No More
Known among the pre-Christian Scandinavians, and the gods themselves, as the "Shining God", Baldr was the image of perfection in the Norse religion, and the pride and joy of the Æsir (members of the principal pantheon of deities). The second son of Odin and his wife Frigg, Baldr was beloved and adored by his fellow gods—in the minds of the Æsir, he could do no wrong and no wrong could be done to him. He was the husband of Nanna and the father of Forseti, and dwelt with them in his hall of Breidablik, located in the Norse equivalen
Riley Winters - 13/12/2014 - 12:27
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Beware the Supernatural Bathroom Spirits, Toilet Deities, and Dung Demons
Every place in the world has its own legends and superstitions. These led to beliefs about gods, demons, and spirits which haunt a certain location. Even toilets have their own otherworldly beings.
valdar - 18/06/2016 - 03:39
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Vandal Strikes at Lia Fáil, Ireland’s Ancient Spiritual Heart
... got it wrong. The Hill of Tara is located amidst a grassy otherworld, near Skryne in County Meath, Ireland. Known as an ...
ashley cowie - 09/02/2023 - 21:59
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Menga Dolmen Unveiled As “The Greatest Neolithic Engineering Marvel”
A team of archaeologists has deciphered the hidden Neolithic building dynamics within Spain’s 5,700-years-old Menga dolmen. Not only were sophisticated engineering and building methodologies discovered, but the tomb’s alignment with surrounding hills offered visitors an other-worldly light show.
ashley cowie - 08/12/2023 - 17:55
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The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the ritual contained a psychoactive entheogen.
ancient-origins - 04/09/2020 - 21:32
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The Annual Megalithomania Conference - 2017
... talking about 'Megalithic Temples and the Quest for the Otherworld', along with other renowned lecturers - Prof. ...
ancient-origins - 02/02/2017 - 22:51
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Health Concerns Drive Revival of Ancient Saatvik Foods in India
India, particularly when viewed from the Western lens, has always occupied a particular place in popular imagination. The Indian subcontinent was a land of mysticism, yoga, ayurveda, alternate dietary habits, and ancient scriptures that have firmly set defined the creation of cleaner and more spiritual lifestyles.
Sahir - 20/12/2021 - 22:00
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Aion: The Demiurge and the Destiny of Man in the Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus
... communication between worlds and the journeys through the Otherworld in their respective mythologies. This perfectly ...
Jason Jarrell - 16/05/2022 - 18:26
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Top 10 Mysterious Ancient Manuscripts and Inscriptions Yet to be Deciphered
While exploring the enigmatic depths of ancient history, scholars often stumble upon cryptic relics, among which lie manuscripts that continue to defy the most skilled scholars and linguists. The origins of early writing are still an enduring mystery in the scholarly world, but they do not give up on one day understanding their secrets.
Aleksa Vučković - 16/12/2023 - 13:54