The Ancient Greeks are central to much modern magical practice. A significant amount of thaumaturgy is taken directly from, or at least influenced by the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri of late Antiquity. Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis took their name from the… Continue Reading
One could argue that moderne magick study and practice arose out of the primitive sciences of archaeology and anthropology as they existed in the 18th and 19th centuries. Archaeology unearthed evidence of the pre-Mechanistic concept of the world’s functioning, perpetuated… Continue Reading
The letters O.T.O. stand for Ordo Templi Orientis, the Order of Oriental Templars, or Order of the Temple of the East. O.T.O. This is a reference to the mediaeval Knights Templar, a order of Roman Catholic warrior monks organized to protect… Continue Reading
The Norwegian Institute At Athens just announced a new publication via their FB page: “We are delighted to announce the publication of a new book in our “Papers and Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens” series! The book titled… Continue Reading
Late last year, the scholarly journal published a paper by a British team suggesting that homo sapiens had populate the Americas a couple thousand years earlier than previously believed. This is based on fossil footprints found in New Mexico indicating… Continue Reading
iScience Journal posted a paper regarding a dinosaur embryo found in a fossilized egg in which the dinosaur took a distinctive tucking position before hatching, a behavior previously consider unique to birds. Artist renderning of the embryo kinda resemble the… Continue Reading
Recently, the scholarly journal Nature published a paper on an infant burial in northwestern Italy and the insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe that examining these remains and their archaeological context has provided. The Introduction… Continue Reading
What a world! The ever-informative Daily Mail recently ran a story with the headline: Has the White City of the Monkey God been found after 500 years? Ruins could be legendary lost jungle city where lurid tales say tribe worshipped… Continue Reading
Outlets around the world are reporting on the discovery of a herd of dinosaurs in Italy, drawing on the scholarly paper published in the journal Nature. The Nature paper’s Introduction begins: The latest Cretaceous Mediterranean archipelago, a complex set of… Continue Reading
So what rings youse guys’ bells? Classic Goth and Neo Goth music, horror movies, sci-fi, stories about the persecution of Witches… so, here’s a New York Times review of The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming, exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum.… Continue Reading