<p>Heimdall is an interesting and mysterious figure in Norse mythology, and is associated with the Rune Algiz because of his role as protector and guardian. He is the watcher at the gate who guards the boundaries between the worlds and who charges all those entering and leaving with caution. He is best known for his [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There were two types of doctors in ancient Mesopotamia: the Asu (a medical doctor who treated illness &#8216;scientifically&#8217;) and the Asipu (a healer who relied upon what modern people would call &#8216;magic&#8217;). Joshua J. Mark Doctors in ancient Mesopotamia</p>

<p>The great flood A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primaeval waters found in certain creation myths, as the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the stars all rise in the east and set in the west. And that&#8217;s because Earth spins &#8212; toward the east. However, this is a generalization. Actually, the Sun only rises due east and sets due west on 2 days of the year &#8212; the spring and fall [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Enki / Paradise / Kish Enki and Ninhursag and the Creation of Life and Sickness &#8230;. Ninhursag relents and takes Enki&#8217;s Ab (water, or semen) into her body, and gives birth to gods of healing of each part of the body: Abu for the jaw, Nintul for the hip, Ninsutu for the tooth, Ninkasi for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nineveh (URUNI.NU.A Ninua‎) was an ancient city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. Today it is a common name for the half of Mosul which lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris. Nineveh was one of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Zodiac Archetypes The twelve signs of the Zodiac represent twelve different characters. They can be described as archetypes, models into which human personality traits tend to group.</p>

<p>Paganism goddesses &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>The Moon Nanna (Sumerian: ŠEŠ.KI, NANNA) was the Sumerian god of the moon. He became identified with the Semitic Sīn or Suen (Akkadian: Su&#8217;en, Sîn). The two chief seats of Nanna&#8217;s/Sīn&#8217;s worship were Ur in the south of Mesopotamia and Harran in the north. A moon god by the same name was also worshipped in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tyr In Germanic mythology, Týr (Old Norse), Tíw (Old English), and Ziu (Old High German) is a god. Stemming from the Proto-Germanic deity *Tīwaz and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European deity *Dyeus, little information about the god survives beyond Old Norse sources. Due to the etymology of the god&#8217;s name and the shadowy presence of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The sky often has important religious significance. Many religions, both polytheistic and monotheistic, have deities associated with the sky. The daylit sky deities are typically distinct from the night-time sky (or &#8220;heaven of the stars&#8221;) deities. Stith Thompson&#8217;s Motif-Index of Folk-Literature reflects this by separating the category of &#8220;Sky-god&#8221; from that of &#8220;Star-god&#8221;. Daytime-gods and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Index of known Goddesses Glossary for Her Cycle of Transformations &amp; related documents Origins of the ancient constellations: The Mesopotamian traditions The Celestial Pole in the Apocalypse Damgalnuna, Damkina, Davcina, Ninhursaga: Mistress of the Earth Sumerian Goddesses &#8211; Goddess-Guide.com</p>

<p>Akitu or Akitum (&#8220;the barley-cutting&#8221;, &#8220;barley-sowing&#8221;, &#8220;head of the year&#8221;) was a spring festival in ancient Mesopotamia. The name is from the Sumerian for &#8220;barley&#8221;, originally marking two festivals celebrating the beginning of each of the two half-years of the Sumerian calendar, marking the sowing of barley in autumn and the cutting of barley in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Astral Worship BY J. H. Hill, M. D. &nbsp; “Now, what I want is—facts.”—Boz.</p>

<p>When the medieval Icelanders were copying out Greek myths, they explained the god Saturn/Kronos to their readers as “Njord”. In Norse mythology, Njörðr is a god among the Vanir. Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Noravank Monastery (literally &#8220;new monastery&#8221;) is a 13th-century Armenian monastery, located 122 km from Yerevan in a narrow gorge known for its tall, sheer, brick-red cliffs, directly across from the monastery made by the Amaghu River, near the town of Yeghegnadzor, Armenia. The monastery is best known for its two-storey Surb Astvatsatsin (Holy Mother of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“Minoans, Mycenaeans, and modern Greeks also had some ancestry related to the ancient people of the Caucasus, Armenia, and Iran,” said co-lead author Dr. Iosif Lazaridis, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School. The Minoan civilization was an Aegean Bronze Age civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands which flourished from about [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8220;Pour toi Arménie&#8221; (English Translation: &#8220;For You, Armenia&#8221;) is a 1989 song written and composed by Charles Aznavour, and recorded by a group of French singers (and also a few actors and TV presenters) who were popular at the time. The charity single was intended to raise funds to help the Armenians who experienced the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mens Tyskland har forsonet seg med jødene har ikke tyrkerne gjort det samme når det kommer til armenerne. Det er faktisk ulovlig å påstå at det i det hele foregikk et folkemord på den armenske befolkningen. Tyrkia anerkjenner ikke hendelsen som folkemord, og tyrkiske borgere som offentlig hevder det motsatte kan risikere å bli straffeforfulgt [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Argo var i gresk mytologi et skip som Jason og argonautene, som vil si noen av de fremste heltene i det gamle Hellas, seilte i fra Iolcos til Kolkis i sin leten etter det gyldne skinn. Skinnet er i gresk mytologi skinnet til en gullhåret og bevinget bukk i Kolkhis, Kaukasus. Skinnet er et symbol [&hellip;]</p>