Nothing from our ancient past seems more deeply embedded in our modern consciousness than mythologies, tales and symbols. Were those myths something that existed in the minds of our ancestors, or were they based on true events? The extraordinary stories of societies, heroes, gods, the supernatural, and life and death resonate deep within us even now, surfacing generation after generation in books, art, culture, music and everyday wisdom. Some realms still remain hidden from us, as they may have for our ancient ancestors, and these anomalies need to be re-examined—mysteries and legends may hold truths that can unlock the secrets of our ancient origins.
Here we feature Myths and Mysteries:
In 1697, William Congreve, a British playwright, wrote that: “Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, and, as with living Souls, have been inform'd, b...
Myths, folklore ancient songs and poems present the number ‘nine’ as being connected with the underworld, and this has been extended into modern pop culture. There were ‘nine circles of Hell’ in Dante's Read More
"Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, and, as with living Souls, have been inform'd, by Magick Numbers and p...
An American census on agricultural stone fence survey conducted in 1880, documented over 240,000 miles (386,242 kilometers) of stone walls in north-east America alone. That’s enough to reach to the moon or wrap around the earth 10 times Read More
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a play written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play dramatizes the murder of king Claudius by his nephew, Hamlet, who desired to avenge the death of his f...
The Mabinogion is a collection of 11 stories from medieval Wales. Although only first committed to manuscript during the 13th century (the oldest surviving fragmentary manuscript dates to circa 1225), the tales are generally acc...
For thousands of years, the people of India have believed in the divinity of Sri Krishna. But questions have constantly haunted their consciousness as to whether Sri Krishna was a historical character or a mythical one and whether t...
About 600 years BC, Greek merchants sailed west the length of the Mediterranean Sea and founded a city named Massilia. Now it's called Marseilles, France. The purpose of the new port was to control commerce by means of the Rhone river into the in...
The image of the serpent is widely acknowledged in western culture to symbolize medicine. One of the most recognizable symbols for medicine today is the rod of Aesculapius with its entwined single serpent. It was originally a symbol representing ...
Every proper myth and legend features a door, gateway or mirror acting as portals to other dimensions of reality. In modern mythology this component features as children venturing to ‘Narnia’ through a cupboard and Alice entering the rabbit h...
