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Spells, Charms, Erotic Dolls: Love Magic in the Ancient Mediterranean
... magic. Professional magic practitioners charged fees for writing erotic charms, making enchanted dolls (sometimes ... religion’s god won’t listen, one from another belief system may). Deities with erotic connections were also ... conventions around sexuality and gender. The rigid system of clearly demarcated gender roles of active (male) ...
ancient-origins - 03/07/2018 - 01:39
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The Language And Symbolism Embedded In Medieval Stone Bibles
... that what the illiterate could not understand through writing should be taught through painting. Throughout the ... support AO Premium, you support independent thought and writing. Alessandra Filiaci is the creator of ‘Tarosofia’, a system of study and creative use of the Tarot and author of ...
Alessandra Filiaci - 01/10/2021 - 21:31
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The Exceptional Inscription on the Pokotia Monument – Evidence of Sumerian Script in Bolivia?
... in their textiles. Much of what we can decipher about the writing system of the ancient Peruvians comes from Felipe Guaman Poma ... American textiles were not just restricted to Peru. The writing on the Pokotia monolith makes it clear that the ...
Clyde Winters - 15/05/2017 - 14:05
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Therapies, Pseudo-Science And Bizarre Remedies Of Egyptian Medicine
... support AO Premium, you support independent thought and writing. Alessandra Filiaci is the creator of ‘Tarosofia’, a system of study and creative use of the Tarot and author of ...
Alessandra Filiaci - 17/03/2021 - 18:15
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Analysis Shows that the Hebrew Bible May Be Centuries Older than Once Thought
... a broader area. The knowledge of the skills of reading and writing, which were not limited to a tiny elite, but were ...
Natalia Klimczak - 13/04/2016 - 00:52
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Remarkable 3,000-year-old Subterranean Tunnels Discovered in Jerusalem
... in another remarkable finding, archaeologists have found a system of subterranean caverns under Jerusalem which date ... were astounded to find that the cave appeared to link to a system of tunnels, which were clearly man-made – the walls ... were referred to by the Jewish historian Josephus in his writing, The Jewish War, where he spoke of the creation of ...
aprilholloway - 07/07/2013 - 12:39
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Ancient Assyrian Astrologers Teach Us About Solar Storms
... is helping teach modern scientists about the solar system today and what may happen in the future. What Did ...
Alicia McDermott - 17/10/2019 - 22:58
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Loves Of The Lady Of The Labyrinth: Ariadne Powerful Minoan Goddess
... support AO Premium, you support independent thought and writing. Mary Naples ’ master’s thesis: “Demeter’s ...
Mary Naples - 02/10/2020 - 16:52
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Enochian: The Mysterious Lost Language of Angels
... , which he conceived as being a book describing the magic system used by the Patriarch in the Bible. Portrait of John ... correspond to various functions within the Enochian Magic system. They are given in the original Enochian Language, ... Alphabet." Enochian Alphabet. http://www.omniglot.com/writing/enochian.htm "Enochian." Enochian. ...
Bryan Hill - 08/06/2019 - 18:53
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Antarctica's Origins Update – Part One: Deglaciation Reveals More Amazing Secrets
... translated, might help construct a provenance. Although 'writing' was invented circa 3500 BC, i.e. about 6000 years ... scientists to be the basic symbols from which the very system of 'writing' evolved. If associated, then Figure 3(a) could date ...
William James Veall - 07/06/2018 - 18:57
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8 Forbidden Books That Still Rewrote History
... Ovid continued to be a thorn in the Emperor’s side, writing from his exile, “I come in fear, an exile’s book, ... Hermeticism, and Jewish Kabbalah into a comprehensive system of occult knowledge. The Catholic Church was wary of ...
Robbie Mitchell - 08/10/2023 - 14:51
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Paradise Lost: Gulf Oasis Was Home to Earliest Humans that Existed Africa – But What Forced them Out?
... Device Kharga Oasis spider rock art may be astronomical writing Floods expose Roman ruins near famous Gulf of Baiae ...
Andrew Dold - 14/05/2017 - 02:39
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Britannia, Druids and the Surprisingly Modern Origins of Myths
... it took later antiquarians, including William Stukeley writing in 1740, as well as William Borlase in 1754 ... can also inflect the British landscapes of the New Nature Writing. But Butterworth is working according to an older ...
ancient-origins - 30/01/2018 - 13:59
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Riches Unearthed in Turkey’s ‘Land of the Blind’
Excavations around a historic Istanbul train station have exposed a spread of tombs loaded with artifacts, including the remains of 28 human skeletons and 10,000 gold coins.
ashley cowie - 13/03/2020 - 12:56
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Homer: From Oral Tradition to Canon
... to the disappearance of the Mycenaean Greeks in the LBA, writing was utilized in all of the Aegean to record ... It would take centuries before the Greeks rediscovered writing. The earliest known and yet fragmentary Greek ... of the Semitic script was the first alphabetic writing system that was not abjad (or consonant only); introducing ...
pkoutoupis - 09/05/2014 - 00:51
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Brutal Bakery-Prison Operated by Slaves and Donkeys Found in Pompeii
... featured an elaborate grain milling and flour collecting system. In an article just published by the official ... the flour, and adding fresh grain to the milling system to keep it going without pause. Exposing the Brutal ... supported by other writers who knew how the bread-making system operated, and by Roman rock carvers who created images ...
Nathan Falde - 09/12/2023 - 18:00
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Mohenjo Daro and The Mounds That Hid a Civilization
... pottery, and numerous square seals depicting strange writing and engravings of animals and people, similar to ... the bath even had change rooms and a hot-air heating system. More than 40,000 artifacts recovered from the ... trade purposes appeared to fall out of use and evidence of writing started to disappear. By around 1500 BC, the ...
Joanna Gillan - 10/01/2022 - 14:00
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The Serpent Scion: Mythic Traditions and the Brotherhood of the Snake - Part 1
... and founder of Athens, similarly bestowed knowledge of writing and reading unto mankind. 3 Greek mythology also ... humans and the Rhesus monkey; today, the Rh blood group system is one of thirty of the existing current blood group ... of any foreign body or virus entering one’s immune system; hence, the newborn can suffer a variety of ...
ancient-origins - 08/08/2013 - 13:31
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Mesopotamian ‘Demon of Epilepsy’ Discovered on 2700-Year-Old Tablet
... the Mesopotamian region, but is now extinct. The cuneiform system of writing uses symbols to represent a complete word or sound. ... widely feared condition that is described in the cuneiform writing. On the tablet, the symptoms included seizures, ...
Ed Whelan - 22/12/2019 - 23:00
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The Ebers Papyrus: Medico-Magical Beliefs and Treatments Revealed in Ancient Egyptian Medical Text
... It specifically focused on the heart, the respiratory system, and diabetes. The Ebers Papyrus is an ancient medical ... It specifically focused on the heart, the respiratory system, and diabetes. The Papyrus measures over 68 ft. (21 ... placed a significant focus on the heart and cardiovascular system. They believed that the heart was responsible for the ...
B. B. Wagner - 22/07/2019 - 14:02