Pages tagged with Myths

I think most of us would like to journey to magical places not only in the world but inside of ourselves..this is a piece on such a journey...enjoy! and if you do not want to....oh what you will be missing!!!

So-called ‘old wives tales’ are often taken as truth, but recent research has shown that most are false, while others, surprisingly for science, turned out to be true after all.

Romance is truly in the air on Valentines Day, and apart from the chocolates and flowers, we all enjoy a good Love Story where true love wins out against all odds.. Let me take you back in time into a Greek Mythological Past, where Gods are mighty and mortals frail and the tale of Ero...

In this writ, or scribing, Captain James Galiac displays his frustration with those whom after countless lifestreams still are taking their baby steps forward. He tries to explain with logic how certain events are to come around. - Uthrania Seila Sentana-Ries

Not only has he unearthed Black Country images of them dating back to 1945 and beyond, but also uncovered evidence of the phenomenon in documents dating back to 1880.

NASA records more Earth-threatening asteroids every year, and asteroid Apophis will be a record-breaker - ominously, on Friday 13-04-2029, it will briefly be a naked-eye object scooting over the mid-Atlantic ocean.

You may be shocked to know that I was born in a house that had been worshipping snakes. We, being traditional Christians, could not live in that house for long. We had to leave the place. Snake worship can be found prevalent in India and other countries. Why do people worship snakes?

Structuralism as a theory analyses society from a structural viewpoint. In all societies the structures are all the same- that of binary opposition and nature-culture dichotomy, and the contents are culture specific. In fact, human society tends to replicate the larger structure of th...

Fairy rings, as they have long been called, have occupied a popular place in folklore foe thousands of years.

Roman emperors sometimes paid soldiers with it, giving rise to the word ‘salary’. In Ethiopia, salt bars were used as currency once, and salt was money in both Borneo and Tibet!

Soaked in milk, the tasty herb tea also induces sound sleep, and like Cardamon seeds employed world-wide for treating impotence and premature ejaculation.

Lord Shri Ram has been considered to be a mythical character, but the "circumstantial evidences" throughout India and the whole South-Eastern-Asia clearly demonstrate that He was a real person who ones existed.

Northern European cultures, in the middle ages, associated this plant with poisonous members of the Solanceae family, specifically henbane, mandrake and deadly nightshade, which bore morphological resemblance

The first mention of her riding a donkey comes from the non-Biblical Protoevangelium of James, written around 150AD and is also one of the oldest works to describe Mary as a virgin both before and after the birth of Christ.

That perhaps is the greatest appeal for us. Creatures of the night, who always maintain a secretive distance, allowing us to adore them, at a price

Had you ever wondered about the mysteries of life? About the differences of each one of us? Why we are different in color, languages, beauty, ability, wisdom, intelligence, behavior, etc.? There's a reason and logic behind everything. The only thing you need is an inquisitive and open...

Last year, quite a complex and elaborate 100ft diameter circle appeared overnight in a field of oil seed rape near Silbury Hill, Wiltshire

This is a poem written to honor the Kenyan champions. It may not be a perfect sestina poem because it utilized some flexibility. The poem seeks to honor the Kenyan champions and make a prayer for victory. The poem also lets Kenyan runners know how much their homeland is proud of their...

There are some monster snakes in nature that can not only crush a human to death but also swallow them whole. These constrictor species can also be enormous.

There weren’t three and they didn’t visit Jesus in a manger. The Bible gives neither the number of men, but does the number of gifts as three, which is probably where this misconception stems from.

What visions and stories we have in our dreams, whether awake or asleep! Wonderful!

Moscow, capital city of Russia, supposedly has a secondary, secret underground metro system, known as Metro-2, running parallel to the public Metro. Built, it is thought, during Stalin’s time.

How would it be, do you suppose, to find something so valuable that it set you up for life? Exciting, thrilling, even devastating, but never really likely to happen, or is it?

I was born on the thirteenth of June, on a Friday, as my mother told me, and throughout my life Ive found anything associated with thirteen to be reasonably lucky for me

As dawn broke, Druid priests gave glowing embers to each family to start new cooking fires to keep homes warm and free from evil spirits. This was Samhain, a festival lasting three days that was the forerunner to Halloween, still celebrated in Celtic countries today