05 May 2022 Prophets For Profit: Telling The Future - Fiction, Fact Or Funny By jim willis Mythology & Mystery 1 Technically speaking, a prophet is one who is believed to speak for God, but generally speaking, when people hear the word ‘prophet’, they tend to think of one who sees the future. In popular parlance, ‘prophesying’ or ‘telling the... Read More
23 Oct 2017 The Missing Contents of the Ark of the Covenant: What Was Inside the Ark? (HINT: Not just the 10 Commandments) By jim willis Mythology & Mystery 2 Whenever the subject of ancient technology comes up, most people have been conditioned by spectacular movies and TV shows to think right away about the Ark of the Covenant. Some say it was a capacitor of some kind—a power source containing a... Read More
12 Apr 2017 Bodies Left Behind - A Cruel History of Persecution, Shamanic Ecstasies & the True Witches’ Sabbath By nrushton History & Tradition 4 ‘The witches are carried sometimes in their bodies and clothes, at other times without, and the examiner thinks their bodies are sometimes left behind. Even when their spirits only are present, yet they know one another.’ In his 1989 book... Read More
10 Feb 2017 Divine, Forbidden and Dangerous? Magic Apples in Ancient Mythology By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 Apples have a prominent place in world mythology, and are often associated with paradise, magic, knowledge and sensual experience. Legendary magician Merlin was said to carry a silver bough from an apple tree which allowed him to cross into the... Read More
27 Jan 2017 Fantasies from Evil Spirits? Faeries in the Medieval Imagination By nrushton Mythology & Mystery 0 “There are also others who say that they see women and girls dancing by night whom they call elvish folk, or faeries, and they believe that these can transform both men and women or, by leaving others in their place, carry them to elf-land; all... 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
23 Aug 2016 Monks, Hermits and Ascetics: The Little-Known History of Women in Desert Asceticism By MartiniF History & Tradition 1 Theodoret of Cyrrhus (423–457) tells us that when little girls played games in forth-century Syria, they played monks and demons. One of the girls, dressed in rags, would reduce her little friends into giggles by exorcising them. This glimpse... Read More