Dating from 1250, the Black Book of Carmarthen is the earliest surviving medieval manuscript written solely in Welsh, and contains some of the earliest references to Arthur and Merlin. The book is a collection of 9th-12th century poetry along both… Continue Reading
The divine may be experienced through a variety of means. In various global spiritual traditions, these include prayer, meditation on sacred texts, participation in religious ceremonies and going on pilgrimages. There are other means of achieving a religious experience that… Continue Reading
Dozens of tombs filled with up to 40 mummies each have been discovered around a 1,200-year-old ceremonial site in Peru’s Cotahuasi Valley. So far, the archaeologists have excavated seven tombs containing at least 171 mummies from the site, now called… Continue Reading
A study in Royal Society Open Science says that so called ‘Neanderthal bone flutes’ are no more than the damaged bones of cave bear cubs left by scavengers during the Ice Age. The paper suggests that the ‘flutes’, which are… Continue Reading
Neanderthals from the French region of Poitou-Charentes cut, beat and fractured the bones of their recently deceased companions, as revealed by the fossil remains of two adults and a child found at the Marillac site. These manipulations have been observed… Continue Reading
We were talking about “gateway drugs” on Saturday in our hailing the birthday of Anton LaVey, founder of the Church a Satan which, when you stripped away all the Hollywood horror film trappings, was an embrace of Rabelaisian Thelemic principles…sort… Continue Reading
Buried for millennia in the rear of a rock-shelter in the Lapedo Valley 85 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal, archaeologists uncovered the bones of a four-year-old child, comprising the first complete Palaeolithic skeleton ever dug in Iberia. But the significance… Continue Reading
Across many ancient civilizations throughout the world, love was placed under the domain of a certain deity, usually, but not in all cases, a goddess. In the Classical world, for instance, there were Venus and Aphrodite, love goddesses of the… Continue Reading
The “Midnight Terror Cave” is located to the south of Belmopan near the Mennonite community of Springfield in the Cayo District of Belize. It is an extensive subterranean complex that archaeologists theorize was used for a variety of ritual purposes… Continue Reading
The tale of our creation we know from the Bible is only half the story—one which has been heavily edited. But have you ever wondered how god created male and female in his image? There are other sources that give… Continue Reading