This place is a personal database regarding worldviews, philosophies, and mythologies from cultures around the world, across time.
Time periods. Before the Common Era (BCE) and after the year 0, the Common Era (CE)
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- The benandantiThe benandanti (“Good Walkers”) were members of an agrarian visionary tradition in the Friuli district of Northeastern Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries.… Read more: The benandanti
- Third generation Vodou
- feng shui
- House of the vital forceIn the spiritual realm the pè, or life force, lived within various natural elements including wind, breath and was… Read more: House of the vital force
- Queen of heavenInanna[a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with beauty, sex, divine law, and political… Read more: Queen of heaven
- epic of GilgameshWritten 2100-1200 BCE mesopotamia, west asia, Mesopotamia included parts of present-day Iran, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey.
- Prehistoric Aboriginal cultureDescribing prehistoric Aboriginal culture and society during her 1999 Boyer Lecture, Australian historian and anthropologist Inga Clendinnen explained: “They […] developed… Read more: Prehistoric Aboriginal culture
- The UniverseHow historical figures and visioners describe the universe: A divine reasoning entity, where all the parts belong to… Read more: The Universe
- Living in a clay wine jarDiogenes (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης, romanized: Diogénēs[di.oɡénɛːs]), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, Diogénēs ho Kynikós) or Diogenes of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher. Founder… Read more: Living in a clay wine jar
- De Druïden“What does celebrating these festivals mean? Are we merely trying to revive customs that belong to a different… Read more: De Druïden
- De Pest (zwarte dood)In het midden van de 14e eeuw slaat de pest toe in Europa. Een op de drie Europeanen –… Read more: De Pest (zwarte dood)
- Water-spirit Mami wataIt is believed that all of ancient Africa possessed a multitude of water-spirit traditions before the first contact… Read more: Water-spirit Mami wata
- layers of gererations of artists
- cave
- Shapeshifterthe Nahuatl word nāhualli [naˈwaːlːi]) is a human being who has the power to shapeshift into their tonal animal counterpart. Nagualism is tied to the belief one can… Read more: Shapeshifter
- The drum to get in tranceIndigenous Sámi religion The Sámi (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking peoples inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large… Read more: The drum to get in trance
- Mythical and historical past of PersiaThe Shahnameh (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. ‘The Book of Kings’, pronounced [ʃɒːhnɒːˈme]), also transliterated Shahnama,[a] is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and… Read more: Mythical and historical past of Persia
- Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
- Monian art
- Scythian cosmologyThe Scythian cosmology corresponded to the typically Indo-Iranic tripartite structure of the universe of Scythian cosmology,[4] which is also… Read more: Scythian cosmology
- The Flaming OneTABITI “the Burning One” or “the Flaming One goddess of the primordial fire which alone existed before the… Read more: The Flaming One
- Deity yogadissolves one’s reality into emptiness and meditates on the deity-mandala, resulting in identification with this divine reality
- womb realmWithin the vision of the Sutra, the state of bodhi (“awakening, enlightenment”) is seen as naturally inherent to… Read more: womb realm
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