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Warding Evil and Welcoming Luck: Protective Amulets of the Ancient World
... Last Supper charm is earliest known use of magic in Christianity A 1,800-year-old ring and the curse of the ...
valdar - 24/12/2015 - 03:54
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Rare Thor’s Hammer Amulet Found in Iceland Casts New Light on Viking Life
... that the Norse cults had come under the influence of Christianity. It is now being studied and analyzed to ... researchers to rethink how the Vikings became converts to Christianity. Moreover, the find has helped to provide an ...
Ed Whelan - 19/10/2018 - 19:01
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The Comet that Changed Civilization – And May Do Again
... Signs in the Sky: Did a Meteorite Change the Course of Christianity 2,000 Years Ago? The Carolina Bays and the ...
Graham Phillips - 05/10/2016 - 21:39
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Worship? Meditation? Sacrifice? What Ancient Ritual Activities Were Held at the Externsteine Sacred Stone Formation?
... that when Charlemagne forcibly converted the Saxons to Christianity, that he destroyed pagan temples and banned the ... the rock at Externsteine is said to depict the triumph of Christianity over Saxon paganism. Below the cross stands a ...
ancient-origins - 03/01/2018 - 19:02
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Master Architects of Sardinia: The Sacred Well of Santa Cristina
... during the Bronze Age, long before the coming of Christianity. Apart from that, the Well of Santa Cristina was ... this water cult died out, presumably with the coming of Christianity, the stone structures themselves survived till ...
dhwty - 09/01/2021 - 17:11
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Tezcatlipoca, Prime God of the Aztecs, Compared to Other Omnipotent Deities
... when they attempted to convert the Mesoamerican peoples to Christianity, even identified Tezcatlipoca with the Christian God to adapt Christianity to the native culture because Tezcatlipoca, ... (Judaism and Zoroastrianism) and the Greco-Roman world (Christianity). The ubiquity of this concept suggests that ...
Caleb Strom - 27/05/2024 - 23:18
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Thanatos: The Beautiful Reaper of Death in Greek Mythology
... their dearly departed are in a better place. Unlike in Christianity and other religions, where a person either goes ... as the personification of death. With the coming of Christianity, many of the Greek gods vanished from ...
Khadija Tauseef - 16/11/2021 - 00:57
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Controversial Lead Codices With Earliest Written Account of Jesus Confirmed Authentic
... very well change everything we know of the origins of Christianity. The documents first came to light in 2007 when ... Has Christ returned as he predicted in the New Testament? Christianity has its secrets. And if you have a secret, you ...
david elkington - 02/07/2020 - 18:58
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The Monastery of Saint Catherine: A Controversial Agreement Across Faiths
... tied to a rolling spiked wheel for her refusal to renounce Christianity. When she survived the ordeal, the emperor ... Peninsula. The Arab conquest eventually brought an end to Christianity in the Sinai Peninsula. In addition, by the ...
dhwty - 02/08/2018 - 18:20
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Bjorn Ironside: Son of Famed Viking Ragnar Lodbrok Became Legendary King of Sweden
... death. On his deathbed, however, he had converted to Christianity, and it was his dying wish to be buried on ... that he was seriously ill, and intended to convert to Christianity before he died. Bjorn preparing for battle in ...
dhwty - 25/04/2019 - 22:11
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Footprints, Fairies and even a Foreskin: 9 Bizarre Relics from History
... of this widespread religion. Accordingly, just like in Christianity, religious relics associated with him are ... became an important religious item in the early periods of Christianity. Numerous healing powers have been attributed to ...
Aleksa Vučković - 12/04/2024 - 13:09
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The Torah: Its History, Use, and Continued Purpose
... eastern side of the Jordan River. The Torah in Judaism, Christianity and Islam While the Torah can be read throughout ... of Judaism, it does also play a role in other religions . Christianity takes its Old Testament from the Torah, though ...
Riley Winters - 15/08/2020 - 01:02
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Herakleia Under Latmos: A Prosperous City of the Past and its Mystical Connection with the Moon
... importance, Herakleia had some religious significance. Christianity is said to have arrived in the area at quite an ... hermits and monks to live there. Prior to the coming of Christianity, Herakleia was associated with a Carian mystic ...
dhwty - 24/05/2016 - 21:47
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Eating Insects: The History of the Human Hunger for Bugs
... It was also an accepted custom in the divine scriptures of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, being kosher as well as ... / Adobe Stock) Eating Insects as Worship The holy books of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have a few things to say ...
Jake Leigh-Howarth - 05/03/2022 - 18:00
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The Grand Architect: The Sacred Link Between Architecture and the Divine Across Ancient Cultures
... its appearance in modern faiths and philosophies such as Christianity, Hinduism, and Freemasonry. But what led ancient ... Malkowski has suggested that the carpentry tradition of Christianity arose in order to tie Jesus to an “esoteric ...
Morgan Smith - 05/07/2019 - 23:14
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Golden Curse Tablets Found in Ancient Serbian Tombs Invoke Gods and Demons
... artifacts reveal a changing religious landscape in which Christianity was taking over the old pagan religion, but the ... is weird. This shows us that the process of converting to Christianity was slow," said Korac. In the ancient city of ...
aprilholloway - 09/08/2016 - 00:47
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Behold the Coconut! There’s Nothing Savage About Niue
... the island and eventually converted all the population to Christianity. During the 19 th century, the island was ruled ... grave, which commemorates the man who reputedly brought Christianity to the island. There are a number of magnificent ...
Ed Whelan - 14/03/2020 - 01:08
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Thomas Becket’s Sacred Healing Shrine Digitally Reconstructed
... reconstruction team, from the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture at the University of York, explains ...
ashley cowie - 08/07/2020 - 01:44
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Egyptian Demons and Magic: Exorcising Evil Spirits
... the pharaonic culture, the end of Paganism, the rise of Christianity, the coming of Islam, and even into our own ... of the talking cure perhaps. Some research shows that Christianity’s “Manichean” approach to demons may be ...
Chris Morgan - 25/06/2021 - 14:33
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Arguments Why God (Very Probably) Exists
... Religion ‘God is One’: It wasn’t always like this in Christianity The Golden Ratio – a sacred number that links ... 20th century, Marxism was the “historical successor of Christianity,” claiming to show the faithful the one ... were characteristic of much of the modern age. So Christianity, I would argue, did not disappear as much as it ...
ancient-origins - 20/05/2017 - 01:49