05 Oct 2018 Pure Luck: The Role of Chance in History By ashley cowie Mythology & Mystery, Health & Well-being 0 Luck is a way of understanding or judging how chance events affect our lives. Chance may be a mixed bag of marshmallows and razor blades, a flowing river of good and bad experiences; positive, negative, or improbable events. Throughout history,... Read More
28 Sep 2018 Was Alexander the Great Responsible for Creating Shangri-La in the Hunza Valley in Pakistan? By Willem Daffue Mythology & Mystery, Politics & Social Structure 1 In his book Lost Horizon (1933) James Hilton created the legend of Shangri-La, a peaceful Himalayan valley of long-lived people. Where the northern border of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan meets China, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, lies... Read More
19 Sep 2018 The Ides of March, Celebration of Roman Goddess Anna Perenna By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 The assassination of Julius Caesar on the 15th of March 44 BC was a turning point in Roman history. Centuries later, the expression ‘Beware the Ides of March’ was found in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in 1601 in the soothsayer's message to... Read More
07 Sep 2018 Unveiling the Secret Behind the Rosslyn Chapel’s and Dornoch Cathedral’s Green Men’s Missing Teeth By ashley cowie Mythology & Mystery 0 Scotland’s Rosslyn Chapel came under the world spotlight in 2003 after Dan Brown featured it in his bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. A hitherto unseen correspondence between this legendary chapel in southern Scotland and the magnificent Dornoch... Read More
29 Aug 2018 Where on Earth is Hell, Or Is It in Our Minds? By ashley cowie Mythology & Mystery 3 One of the most common fears shared by most humans at some time in their lives, is what will happen to them after they die? Many parents freeze when their children ask this question and avoiding the finality of the cold truth ‘we don’t know’,... Read More