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Monthly Archives: May 2012
The grave-digger
Once, as I was burying one of my dead selves, the grave-digger came by and said to me, “Of all those who come here to bury, you alone I like.” Said I, “You please me exceedingly, but why do you … Continue reading
Asherah
Asherah (; Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎘𐎗𐎚 : ‘ṯrt; Hebrew: אֲשֵׁרָה), in Semitic mythology, is a Semitic mother goddess, who appears in a number of ancient sources including Akkadian writings by the name of Ashratum/Ashratu and in Hittite as Asherdu(s) or Ashertu(s) or Aserdu(s) … Continue reading
biblical propaganda
A diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, “scattering, dispersion”)[1] is “the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland”[2] or “people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location”,[3] or “people settled far from their ancestral … Continue reading
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Misquoting Jesus
Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar, currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ‘Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why’ is … Continue reading
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flying peacock
Peafowl are two Asiatic species of flying birds in the genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae, best known for the male’s extravagant eye-spotted tail, which it displays as part of courtship. The male is called a peacock, the female … Continue reading
זֹהַר
The Zohar (Hebrew: זֹהַר, lit Splendor or Radiance) is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah.[1] It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah (the five books … Continue reading
The Garden of Eden
Tuesday March 29 – 2011 ‘The Bible’s Buried Secrets’, ‘The Real Garden of Eden‘: Episode 3 of 3
in die Wildnis des hohen Nordens
Wir werden jenseits des Polarkreises reisen, in das magische Land des Nordlichtes, der Mitternachtssonne und in die Wildnis des hohen Nordens.
Clean Aztecs, Dirty Spaniards
by Katherine Ashenburg, prize-winning non-fiction author, lecturer and journalist. Her latest book, ‘The Dirt on Clean’, is a social history of Western cleanliness, which ‘holds a welcome mirror up to our intimate selves…’
The grokking eagle 