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Ansuz is the conventional name given to the a-rune of the Elder Futhark, ᚨ. The name is based on Proto-Germanic *ansuz, denoting a deity belonging to the principal pantheon in Germanic paganism. The...
View ArticleThe Sun – justice: Venus and Mars
The Phrygian cap The Phrygian cap or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia,...
View ArticleThe Cuthaean Legend and Umman-manda
The Cuthaean Legend envisions a powerful enemy that emerges unexpectedly from the distant mountains and establishes hegemony after a sudden burst of military power. This enemy will eventually be...
View ArticleOn the origin of the Greeks – The Graeco-Armeno-Aryan family and the origin...
“Minoans, Mycenaeans, and modern Greeks also had some ancestry related to the ancient people of the Caucasus, Armenia, and Iran,” said co-lead author Dr. Iosif Lazaridis, a postdoctoral researcher at...
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The concept of freedom (Ama-gi) and justice
The concept of freedom (Ama-gi) Manumission, or affranchisement, is the act of an owner freeing his or her slaves. Ama-gi is a Sumerian word written ama-gi or ama-ar-gi. It has been translated as...
View ArticleGobekli Tepe: The Cosmic Connection – Did its Builders Have Their Eyes on the...
Gobekli Tepe’s hilltop site was not defensive or residential and the indications are that it was a sacred area and that the two pillars outside the entrance of some of the circles represented a gateway...
View ArticleChaoskampf – How the ones in power portray their enemies, foreigners and the...
Chaoskampf The motif of Chaoskampf (“struggle against chaos”) is ubiquitous in myth and legend, depicting a battle of a culture hero deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or...
View ArticleReality and illusion – concealed and observed – consciousness and energy –...
The Trimūrti typically consist of Brahma (the ”creator”), Vishnu (the “preserver”), and Shiva (the “destroyer”), though individual denominations may vary from that particular line-up. When all three...
View ArticleMaktsentralisering gjennom historien
Menneskeheten har blitt stadig mer brutal og krigen har blitt en del av våre liv. Vi lever i en verden med krig, sult, urett og forurensning. Viktige kjennetegn ved samfunnet som vi har i dag er blant...
View ArticleHydra, Cancer and The Serpent
The Snake is a universal symbol of immortality and creativity in myth through out the ages and in virtually all lands inhabited by humans. Many snakes shed their skin at various times, revealing a...
View ArticleThe spread of the bull
Haplogroup J2 is thought to have appeared somewhere in the Middle East towards the end of the last glaciation, between 15,000 and 22,000 years ago. It is likely that J2 men had settled over most of...
View ArticleThe origin of the “god issue”
According to A. Audin, who interprets the god as the issue of a long process of development, it started from two solar pillars located on the eastern side of temples, each of them marking the direction...
View ArticleOn the origin of bread
At an 14,400-year-old Natufian hunter-gatherer site – a site known as Shubayqa 1 located in the Black Desert in northeastern Jordan – researchers have discovered the charred remains of a flatbread...
View ArticleThe dragon, the chaoskampf and the mother goddess
The dragon-slaying myth and theme was an important motif in Sumer by 3000 BC, and the dragon-slaying epic influenced the myths of later groups, including the Babylonians and Akkadians. The dragon was...
View ArticleThe trumpets of war and prophecy: doomsday – The white horse and the saviour
Primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia; some of the predecessors of the modern instrument are now known to date back to the Neolithic era. The earliest of these...
View ArticleThe trumpets of war and prophecy: doomsday
Primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia; some of the predecessors of the modern instrument are now known to date back to the Neolithic era. The earliest of these...
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The Principality of Khachen
Royal Standard of the Principality of Khachen (Kingdom of Artsakh) during the reign of Grand Prince Hasan Jalal Vahtangian (1214-1261). Artsakh is located in the southern part of the Lesser Caucasus...
View ArticleUpper Mesopotamia and Mesopotamia
Upper Mesopotamia Upper Mesopotamia is the name used for the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East. The region...
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Hell Hell, in many religious and folkloric traditions, is a place of torment and punishment in the afterlife. Hell appears in several mythologies and religions. It is commonly inhabited by demons and...
View ArticleDomestication of goats and sheep
At several sites (e.g. Hallan Çemi, Abu Hureyra, Mureybet) we can see a continuous occupation from a hunter-gathering lifestyle (based on hunting, and gathering and grinding of wild grains) to an...
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