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Sagittarius
Sagittarius Sagittarius Sagittarius constellation lies in the southern sky. It is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is the ninth astrological sign and one of the constellations of the zodiac....
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Freyr and Freyja
In Norse mythology, Freyr or Frey is one of the most important gods of Norse religion. The name is conjectured to derive from the Proto-Norse *frawjaz (“lord”). Freyr was associated with sacral...
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Odin/Enki – Water
Odin Four gods, Thor, Baldr, Viðarr and Váli, are explicitly identified as sons of Odin in the Eddic poems, in the skaldic poems, in Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum, and in the Gylfaginning section of...
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The return of the Golden Age
The name is connected to the Indo-European root Ar- meaning “assemble/create” which is vastly used in names of or regarding the Sun, light, or fire, found in Ararat, Aryan, Arta etc. Asha (aša) is the...
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On the origin of the Greeks
Xisuthros is a Hellenization of Sumerian Ziusudra, known from the writings of Berossus, a priest of Marduk in Babylon, on whom Alexander relied heavily for information on Mesopotamia. Hellen was the...
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The Sumerian flood story
The mother goddess The Mesopotamian mother goddess is known under many names, the most prominent of which is the Sumerian name Nintud/Nintur (“Queen of the (birthing) hut”). Other frequent names are...
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The etymology of the name Caesar and Gaius
The etymology of the name Caesar is still unknown and was subject to many interpretations even in antiquity. The suffix –ar was highly unusual for the Latin language, which might imply a non-Latin...
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The king and the queen of gods
The mother goddess The Mesopotamian mother goddess is known under many names, the most prominent of which is the Sumerian name Nintud/Nintur (“Queen of the (birthing) hut”). Other frequent names are...
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The Golden Age – about battling the forces of darknes and the forces that...
There are plenty of similarities between Sumerian (Mesopotamian) mythology/religion comming out of the PIE-culture existing in the Armenian Highland and the Jewish/Christian mythology/religion. There...
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Beer in the Ancient World
Beer Beer in the Ancient World Ancient Grain Goddesses of the Eastern Mediterranean Ninkasi is the ancient Sumerian tutelary goddess of beer. Her father was the King of Uruk, and her mother was the...
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Our civilization is like an enormous phallos – a symbol of the energy and...
Our civilization is like an enormous phallos – a symbol of the energy and potential of God. Portasar (“Mountain Navel”) or Göbekli Tepe (“Potbelly Hill”) is an archaeological site at the top of a...
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The battle in history
The Neolithic Starčevo and Vinča cultures existed in or near Belgrade and dominated the Balkans (as well as parts of Central Europe and Asia Minor) about 8,500 years ago. The Starčevo culture,...
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The king and the queen of the gods and the goddesses
Jacob Grimm theorized that Hel (whom he refers to here as Halja, the theorized Proto-Germanic form of the term) is essentially an “image of a greedy, unrestoring, female deity” and that “the higher we...
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Winter Triangle
The Winter Hexagon or Winter Circle/Oval is an asterism appearing to be in the form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. It is mostly upon the Northern...
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Pandora and the birth of civilization
Greek Myths and Mesopotamia From Eve to Pandora: How fear of women haunts our earliest myths In Greek mythology, Pandora (derived from pān, i.e. “all” and dōron, i.e. “gift”, thus “the all-endowed”,...
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Folklore traditions in the central and eastern Alps of Europe
The central and eastern Alps of Europe are rich in folklore traditions dating back to pagan (pre-Christian) times, with surviving elements amalgamated from Germanic, Gaulish (Gallo-Roman), Slavic...
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The birth of our civilization
The name Urartu comes from Assyrian sources: the Assyrian King Shalmaneser I (1263–1234 BC) recorded a campaign in which he subdued the entire territory of “Uruatri.” The Shalmaneser text uses the name...
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Lofn’s Bard A Northern Tradition Pagan Storyteller
Lofn’s Bard A Northern Tradition Pagan StorytellerFiled under: Uncategorized
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