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There have been a huge amount of interactions between many peoples and empires from before Stonehenge throughout Europe and Asia. Robin Lane Fox Travelling Heroes notes that a continuous xian and Jewish propaganda effort has been to minimise these interactions in the name of asserting the true god -...

Another aspect of the night is that it was egalitarian and communal, you literally huddled around the fire to keep warm, did not have class distinctions, shared food and tasks with your community.. The facing East at dawn is more symbolic than is realised, it sounds like an attempt to get people bac...

Ekirch, at Day's Close, discusses how incredibly different the modern world is to that of only a hundred years ago, mainly because of electric light. Until very recently everyone experienced two utterly different lives, that of the day and that of the night. Everyone literally became blind at night....

Hephaestus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hephaestus (/hɪˈfiːstəs/, /həˈfɛstəs/ or /hᵻˈfɛstəs/; eight spellings; Ancient Greek: Ἥφαιστος Hēphaistos) is the Greek god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes.[1] Hephaestus' Roman equivalent is Vul...

The Aramaic term for craftsman = חרש also means magician. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02mbgtv An archaeologist visits Butser Ancient Farm to make a bronze age axe head exactly the way Bronze Age man would have done so. Starting with copper and tin we see how an axe is made by heating the metal...

The Bogomils taught that God had two sons, the elder Satanail and the younger Michael. The elder son rebelled against the father and became the evil spirit. After his fall he created the lower heavens and the earth and tried in vain to create man; in the end he had to appeal to God for the Spirit. ...

As I recall. catharism is an import from the East when catholic troops met various Islamic troops/societies in many places across Eastern Europe/the levant. Its roots are possibly then directly to zoroastrianism, and we need to explore texts and thinkers from that source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

It is this kind of idea that started me thinking, what is the purpose and meaning of colours, and contradictions like red causing white? https://erea.revues.org/4475 No Renaissance play title has drawn such attention to the importance of colour as John Webster’s The White Devil (1612).1 Surprisingly...

Is this another way of categorising literature?

Is it utopian, is it about end times, is it epic, the stories of the gods and humans?

Religions and their various intricacies are then secondary features, ways to transmit the stories?

The case of imperial expansion.. is an instructive one. Although new territories may be added by conquest, successful integration of the populations within those territories depends on - better yet, amounts to - the transformation of these peoples's consciousness so that they come to consider thems...