24 Mar 2016 The Origins of Evil: The Story of Human Spirituality and Belief Systems By Marie and Larry Mythology & Mystery 0 Evil is as old as humanity. We live in a world of duality. Darkness and light. Good and evil. Up and down. In and out. Heaven and Hell. But which came first—or did these dual concepts evolve side by side as our primitive understanding of the... Read More
21 Mar 2016 The Sacred Three in Asian Beliefs: Triple Gods, Tridevi, and the Three Treasures By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 Number three has been considered sacred for over many centuries throughout the world. Its depictions of the triads, triplicates and trinities have also existed in many cultures with various interpretations.The possible oldest interpretation of the... Read More
09 Mar 2016 The Dangerous and Powerful Guardian Spirit Queen of the South Seas, Kanjeng Ratu Kidul By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 Kanjeng Ratu Kidul is a well-known figure in Javanese mythology who is still venerated by the Javanese today as the spirit queen of the Indian Ocean. Living in her palace on the bottom of the ocean off the south coast of Central Java, she rules the... Read More
06 Mar 2016 William of Newburgh: Medieval Vampire Hunter? By Charles Christian Mythology & Mystery 0 “It would not be easy to believe that the corpses of the dead should sally from their graves, and should wander about to the terror or destruction of the living, did not frequent examples, occurring in our own times, suffice to establish this as... Read More
04 Mar 2016 Confessions of a Teenage GhostHunter: Keeping the St Marks Eve Vigil and Looking for the Ghost of Sir Walter Calverley By Charles Christian Mythology & Mystery 0 When I was a student Leeds University, in the north of England, (this was in the early 1970s) I used to go on nocturnal ghost-hunting forays with one of my flatmates, a medical student called Ralph. I had the notebook and a typewriter. He had the... Read More