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... as late as the 9th and 10th centuries, before which pagan rituals and traditions were followed, including Slavic ...
Sahir - 21/10/2022 - 14:53
The news was astounding! Famous India was discovered just a month’s sailing across the Atlantic, proclaimed the first-ever International Press Release, dated Lisbon, March 4, 1493.
Manuel Rosa - 23/09/2021 - 14:37
... the Story Behind the Old Croghan Man’s Bog Body Iron Age Pagan Idol Discovered in Irish Bog Top image: Close up of Old ...
Robbie Mitchell - 08/11/2023 - 15:56
... status for being “unparalleled examples of both pagan and Christian Nordic culture. However, this hoard ...
ashley cowie - 06/09/2021 - 22:53
... Emperor Constantine a True Christian or Was He a Secret Pagan? The Roman Empire: A Story of Power, Glory, and Tragedy ...
Robbie Mitchell - 25/10/2023 - 20:53
... The Lost Spiritual Legacy Of A Powerful Anglo Saxon Pagan Princess Excavations of the possible Anglo-Saxon abbey ...
ashley cowie - 26/01/2020 - 22:38
The Colossal Statue of Shapur is the name given to a carved figure of the 3rd century AD Sassanian ruler, Shapur I. This giant statue is located in a limestone cave known as the ‘Shapur Cave’, which is situated in the Zagros Mountains in southern Iran. This cave lies about 6 km (3.7 miles) from the ancient city of Bishapur, which is said to have been founded by Shapur himself. This statue of Shapur is often regarded as one of the most outstanding sculptures produced by the Sassanians that is still in existence today.
dhwty - 16/11/2016 - 03:48
... was part of the Mercian heartland and was populated by a pagan tribe called the Pencersaete ” said Dr Tetlow. ...
Robin Whitlock - 27/05/2015 - 23:47
The new TV series Britannia, which has won plaudits as heralding a new generation of British folk-horror, is clearly not intended to be strictly historical. Instead director Jez Butterworth gives us a graphic re-imagining of Britain on the eve of the Roman conquest. Despite its violence and chaos, this is a society bound together by ritual under the head Druid (played by Mackenzie Crook). But where does this idea of pre-conquest British religion come from?
ancient-origins - 30/01/2018 - 13:59
... The Oxford Classical Dictionary . Oxford University Press. Pagan, V. E. 2017. Tacitus. Bloomsbury Academic. Pagan, V. E. 2012. A Companion to Tacitus. John Wiley & Sons. ...
Aleksa Vučković - 24/03/2024 - 17:00
... His distressed father tried to win him back to the “pagan” religion by surrounding him with temptations. When ...
Sahir - 24/05/2022 - 22:57
... can sleep here overnight during one of the ancient Pagan festival dates and when they awake they will receive ...
David Halpin - 09/03/2019 - 18:53
... a clear indication that the practice is a long-surviving pagan custom. Casting lead with a spoon from an illustration ... This woman performs a complex ritual seeped in old pagan Slavic folklore, pouring the molten lead over the ...
Aleksa Vučković - 19/11/2021 - 13:57
Satanic panic grips Loch Ness as an innovative historian attempts to conserve the “not so good” name of England’s most controversial occultist, Aleister Crowley.
ashley cowie - 08/12/2020 - 17:52
... Persecution. Ironically, the rotunda that was built by the pagan emperor was later used as a Christian Church for many ...
Ed Whelan - 03/06/2020 - 02:02
... of the ancient Dragon, and (as one would expect) of the pagan knights, schismatics, and other nations of the Orthodox ...
Aleksa Vučković - 16/10/2021 - 22:39
To quote the poet John Donne: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”, but every person may also venture to the mythical islands of the collective subconscious where a wounded soul goes to recover and uncover the Hidden Self.
ashley cowie - 30/06/2021 - 19:50
For centuries, rice has been a staple diet and plays an important role in Asian culture. Although rice farmers have found their lives becoming more difficult due to climate change, Bloomberg states in 2016 that 16 million people still farm rice in Thailand alone. Commemorating the beginning of the rice growing season with an annual Royal Plowing Ceremony in the month of May is an ancient tradition for countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka, among others.
MartiniF - 18/12/2017 - 15:27
In the annals of history, there exist tales of love that transcend the boundaries of time and society, romances that have left a permanent mark on the world. From the passionate but doomed romance of Mark Antony and Cleopatra to the political union-turned-love affair of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, these love stories offer a glimpse into the personal lives of rulers, conquerors, and royals.
Robbie Mitchell - 06/11/2023 - 17:58
An institute has been established in Tibet to preserve ancient texts written on the leaves of plants, known as pattra-leaf scriptures. Originally from ancient India, these cultural relics are immensely valuable to the research of Buddhism, but also shed light on everything from poetry and literature, to astronomy and civil codes.
aprilholloway - 03/01/2014 - 12:55