15 Jan 2020 Ancient Artificial Intelligence: The Mechanical Messiah and Other Automatons By Roberto Volterri Mythology & Mystery 0 It may not be long before Artificial Intelligence creates access to God via modern technology, however during the 19th century, a spiritualist by the name of John Murray Spear was inspired to build a Mechanical Messiah. Born on September 16, 1804,... Read More
03 Jan 2020 Nyi Blorong Commander of the Southern Seas and Bringer of Wealth By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 One afternoon in the 1960s, the people of Magelang in Java, Indonesia, gathered on the edge of the main road which connects Magelang and Yogyakarta and sounded anything they could find which could make a loud noise. After some time, the wind blew... Read More
25 Dec 2019 The Man Who Was Wednesday: The Norse Origin of Christmas By Charles Christian Mythology & Mystery 0 Christmastide traditions are a glorious amalgamation of customs and practices that have been appropriated wholesale from other belief systems, primarily those of Ancient Rome. But Rome is only part of the story because over the centuries Christmas... Read More
13 Dec 2019 Medea, Murderous Mother or Defiant Defender of the Oikos? By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 In his Argonautica, ancient Greek author Apollonius of Rhodes provides a rather romantic introduction of Medea as a young woman desperately in love. Unfortunately, this introduction quickly takes on a sinister turn and casts Medea as one of the... Read More
11 Dec 2019 Are Zeus’ Curetes the Ancestors of Modern Kurds? By Felice Vinci Mythology & Mystery 0 The hypothesis that there is a relationship between the ancient Curetes of Greek mythology and the Kuri or Kuronians, a tribe of warriors and navigators of the Baltic world, where the medieval Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus locates an ancient... Read More