13 Mar 2024 Tracing The Origins Of The Tuatha Dé Danann To Greece By Willem McLoud Mythology & Mystery 1 The Tuatha Dé Danann is one of the most mysterious peoples of the British Isles. Fascinatingly enough, some Celtic traditions place the prehistory of the Tuatha Dé Danann on the Greek islands in ages past. Although scholars often disregard this... Read More
27 Jul 2022 Unmerciful Diets of Ancient Sea Monsters Of The Northern Abyss By ashley cowie Mythology & Mystery 0 Unless having been to sea, far enough out to lose sight of land on an open wooden craft, no-one would quite understand the terror endured by ancient seafarers braving the unknown oceans. Mariners skiffing over the surface of a storm-torn ocean at... Read More
28 Mar 2022 The Archetypal Origins Of Norse And Celtic Sea Deities By ashley cowie Mythology & Mystery 0 Long before the chemical composition of water was discovered, ancient cultures recognized it as the elixir of life, protected and ruled over by powerful deities. Only in the late 19th century chemist Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) became the first... Read More
31 Jan 2022 Taking The Fall For Humankind: Psycho-Secrets Of The Celtic Pookas By ashley cowie Mythology & Mystery 1 It is generally accepted that Fairies were mythological creatures from old European folklore, and that according to fairy folklorists the so-called wee-folk prefer natural sweetened foods like honey, plain milk, sweet butter, scones with jam and... Read More
20 Aug 2021 The Ancient Celtic Thresholds Of Liminal Time And Space By ashley cowie History & Tradition 0 The ‘Veil of Isis’ is an ancient metaphor and allegorical motif of mythology where nature is personified as the goddess Isis covered by a veil representing the mystery and inaccessibility of nature's infinite secrets. In mythology and... Read More
25 Sep 2017 Magic Armor Can’t Save the Tragic Heroes: Duty & Doom for Karna, Ferdiad & Achilles By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 It is no longer a secret that there are historical connections between the myths from everywhere in the world, indicating that every culture had strong influences on each other and their legends. A minor example of this can be seen in something as... Read More
31 Aug 2016 The Wenhaston Doom: A Surprising Medieval Relic, Doomsday Message—and a Reminder of Pre-Christian Traditions By Charles Christian History & Tradition 0 A ‘Doom’ is a remarkable survival of a type of church decoration once common in the Middle Ages but largely destroyed during the iconoclastic excesses of the English Protestant Reformation during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) in the... Read More
03 Mar 2016 Questions of Identity: Who are the Europeans? By Lucy Wyatt History & Tradition 5 Many of us with European heritage are confused about identity. Regardless of where we now live – Europe, North America, Australia or elsewhere - questions arise such as “where is the homeland, what are our origins and who dispossessed... Read More