21 Nov 2022 Transformation Of Andean Earth Goddess Pachamama Into The Virgin Mary By ashley cowie History & Tradition 0 The blessed Virgin Mary has a long and dignified reputation within the Catholic church ever since her first appearance in the Biblical narrative of the Annunciation (Luke 1:26), where she is described as a first-century Jewish woman living in... Read More
02 Nov 2022 Mankind Is Mesmerized By Millennia Of Moon Mysteries By ashley cowie History & Tradition 0 Over millennia humankind has been mesmerized by the moon, speculating as to what exactly the moon is and only in early-2022 a team of astronomers suggest the moon may have “formed immediately, in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth... Read More
23 Sep 2022 Blades of Destiny: The Ancient Tools And Weapons That Crafted History By ashley cowie Archaeology & Science 0 It is widely accepted that Homo sapiens were the first species to develop effective tools, but humans were not the first primate to make or use stone tools. That achievement belongs to an unidentified species that hunted and fished along the shores... Read More
12 Sep 2022 The Homo Floresiensis Controversy: The Hunt For The Modern Hobbit A Hoax? By ashley cowie Archaeology & Science 0 Has the search for the modern relatives of Flores Island’s Homo floresiensis turned into a hoax-hunt? Everything that scientists thought about human evolution changed in 1856 after the first fossil evidence of ancestral human forms was discovered... Read More
09 Sep 2022 Hallucinogenic Trip Of The 1000-Year-Old Shamanic Pouch Into Another Galaxy By ashley cowie History & Tradition, Philosophy & Spirituality, Health & Well-being 0 Since the mid-1950s, experimentalists, scientists, artists, musicians and psychonauts have been indulging in the “jungle alchemy” that is the ayahuasca, or DMT, experience. From 2008 – 2010 archaeological excavations revealed a collection of... Read More
22 Aug 2022 Six Sexy Semi-Divine Superfoods Of Ancient South America By ashley cowie History & Tradition, Family & Relationships 0 One need not search too long ago into South American history to identify a range of consumable drinks that would challenge and defeat, hands down, any of their modern derivatives - which are mostly fads fluttering in and out of culinary fashion,... Read More
12 Aug 2022 Giants Among Men Who Walked The Earth By ashley cowie History & Tradition 0 Today, overachievers are often called “giants in their field" and “giants among men”- terms which define talent, ability and zeal. However, in the ancient world, the word “giant” applied to the oversized, generally supernatural, larger... Read More
01 Aug 2022 Measuring Up The Mega And Mini-Henges Of Neolithic Britain By ashley cowie Archaeology & Science 0 The dictionary description of a ‘henge’ as “a circular area, often containing a circle of stones or sometimes wooden posts, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages,” fails to depart that these circular or oval earthen enclosures dating... 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
22 Jul 2022 The Furry Ones Slain And Sacrificed To Bloodthirsty Deities By ashley cowie History & Tradition 0 It is beyond many people to even consider the killing of an animal, the sacrifice of the innocent in the name of a deity, but this was not the case in ancient times, and even in some parts of the modern world, where the killing of what are today... Read More