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Ibn Umail describes a statue of a sage holding the tablet of ancient alchemical knowledge. Illustration from a transcript of Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi's book Al-mâ' al-waraqî (The Silvery Water), Islamic miniature probably from Baghdad (Public Domain) — 15 Sep 2023

Perfect Nature: Encountering The Self As A Spiritual Guide In The Arabic Hermetica

By Jason Jarrell

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The Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica are a core subgroup of Arabic Hermetic texts which take the form of discourses and letters of the philosopher Aristotle to Alexander the Great. The texts concern an array of subjects, including cosmology, the...
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Ibn Umail describes a statue of a sage holding the tablet of ancient alchemical knowledge. Illustration from a transcript of Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi's book Al-mâ' al-waraqî (The Silvery Water), Islamic miniature probably from Baghdad (Public Domain) — 15 Sep 2023

Perfect Nature: Encountering The Self As A Spiritual Guide In The Arabic Hermetica

By Jason Jarrell

Mythology & Mystery

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The Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica are a core subgroup of Arabic Hermetic texts which take the form of discourses and letters of the philosopher Aristotle to Alexander the Great. The texts concern an array of subjects, including cosmology, the...
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Virgil reading The Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1812) Toulouse, Musée des Augustins (Public Domain) — 11 Sep 2023

When In Rome: Legends - Fact Or Fiction, Does It Matter?

By Robert Garland

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The Greeks exhibited an amazing aptitude for fashioning myths about gods and heroes. Not so the Romans, who failed to produce an independent mythological tradition. But what the Romans did excel at was in shaping legends about the men and women who...
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Virgil reading The Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1812) Toulouse, Musée des Augustins (Public Domain) — 11 Sep 2023

When In Rome: Legends - Fact Or Fiction, Does It Matter?

By Robert Garland

Mythology & Mystery

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The Greeks exhibited an amazing aptitude for fashioning myths about gods and heroes. Not so the Romans, who failed to produce an independent mythological tradition. But what the Romans did excel at was in shaping legends about the men and women who...
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Panoramic view of Stonehenge with rainbow - United Kingdom (muratart / Adobe Stock) — 28 Aug 2023

Roman Origins Of A Pot At The End Of The Rainbow

By jim willis

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Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side?Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide.So we've been told and some choose to believe it.I know they're wrong, wait and see.Someday we'll...
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Panoramic view of Stonehenge with rainbow - United Kingdom (muratart / Adobe Stock) — 28 Aug 2023

Roman Origins Of A Pot At The End Of The Rainbow

By jim willis

Mythology & Mystery

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Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side?Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide.So we've been told and some choose to believe it.I know they're wrong, wait and see.Someday we'll...
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Adam clutches a child in the presence of the child-snatcher Lilith, by Filippino Lippi (1502) Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence (Public Domain) — 14 Aug 2023

Seeking Lilith, Adam’s Ex-Wife

By Ken Jeremiah

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Lilith was Adam’s first wife, and after a messy divorce, he married Eve, thus giving birth to the more commonly known Old Testament story of creation, featuring the famous Biblical characters Adam and Eve, who pranced around the Garden of Eden...
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Adam clutches a child in the presence of the child-snatcher Lilith, by Filippino Lippi (1502) Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence (Public Domain) — 14 Aug 2023

Seeking Lilith, Adam’s Ex-Wife

By Ken Jeremiah

Mythology & Mystery

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Lilith was Adam’s first wife, and after a messy divorce, he married Eve, thus giving birth to the more commonly known Old Testament story of creation, featuring the famous Biblical characters Adam and Eve, who pranced around the Garden of Eden...
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Souls of Heroic Warriors in Polynesia ( adrenalinapura/ Adobe Stock) — 12 Jun 2023

Hawaii: Paradise Location Of Homeric Mythical Elysian Fields

By Felice Vinci

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Over centuries explorers as well as ethnologists noting the myths, legends, customs and folklore of the cultures native to the Pacific Ocean islands, have accumulated enough evidence to attest to contact between the ancient Greek world and the...
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Souls of Heroic Warriors in Polynesia ( adrenalinapura/ Adobe Stock) — 12 Jun 2023

Hawaii: Paradise Location Of Homeric Mythical Elysian Fields

By Felice Vinci

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Over centuries explorers as well as ethnologists noting the myths, legends, customs and folklore of the cultures native to the Pacific Ocean islands, have accumulated enough evidence to attest to contact between the ancient Greek world and the...
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