17 April 2016

Isis in the Roman Tradition

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Bronze statue of Isis-Venus, 1st-2nd century CE When (some) Romans first came to worship Isis in the first century BCE they embrac...
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01 April 2016

How to be a Bodhisattva

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Buddha statue from Ghandara (Pakistan), 1st-2nd century CE. Source: japanesemythology.wordpress.com Defining Bodhisattva Loosely put...

The Lotus Sutra

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Bodhisattva of compassion, Avalolitesvara, holding a white lotus, Ajanta Caves mural, west central India, 5th century CE or earlier. S...

Schools of Buddhism

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Source: buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld I have been studying and practicing Buddhism on and off since my teenage years. As a ch...
12 March 2016

Freyja

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"A Blonde Beauty" by Styka   The usual starting place, when looking to the written sources on Germanic Gods, is Snor...
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04 February 2016

Janus of the Gateway

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18th century herm of Janus. Source: hadrian6.tumblr.com Janus is the God of the doorway and the gateway. He is the holder of the key...
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24 January 2016

Tutelary Gods of Sydney

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"Sydney" by vampiresaredifferent.deviantart.com The founding of Sydney by Europeans theoretically began on the 26th of Janua...
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06 January 2016

Sexual Assault and Cultural Predispositions

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Today it has emerged that a large number of sexual assaults took place during NYE celebrations in Cologne by around "1,000 d...
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23 December 2015

Sol

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"Apollo, God of Light" by Meynier, circa 1790s Sol is the deity that is the sun. In the Roman trad...
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