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The Legend of Zhuge Liang Seeking a Wife
Zhuge Liang was a famous politician, military strategist, and inventor during China’s Three Kingdoms Period. There are several versions of how he met his wife, known as Lady Huang. The following...
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The 1,500-Year-Old Love Story Between a Persian Prince and a Korean Princess...
More than a thousand years before the first European explorer reached Korea’s shores, the Persian Empire was writing love stories about Korean princesses. It’s a little-known story that could change...
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Maya: Science Only Acknowledges Now What Ancient Sages Knew About Reality...
Maya is a word which is very familiar to the western world, but very few know what it actually means. It is a word which was used by the rishis (sages) of ancient India to describe the nature of this...
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The Mahabharata: Unforgettable Lessons in An Indian Epic of Family Fighting
The Mahabharata (which may be translated from Sanskrit to mean ‘The Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty’) is one of the two major Sanskrit epic poems of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. In a...
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Gold, the Peacock, the Lotus Flower, and Other Sacred Indian Symbols Explained
India is a very beautiful country and it has a culture full of symbolism. In what follows, some of the more popular Indian symbols are presented. These are some of the icons that are very relevant in...
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Were Samson’s Superhuman Abilities Really That Far-fetched?
The story of Samson is one of the more far-fetched stories in the Bible. It’s like an ancient Superhero story; the story of a man whose magical hair gives such superhuman strength that he could kill a...
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My Mother’s Persian Stories: Rose and Marigold
The custom of telling bedtime stories is ancient. Over the ages, they have passed from one generation to another through oral tradition. Each generation has embellished them in new ways by adding or...
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Marduk: Babylonian King of Gods and Reportedly Liberator of the Jews
Most people have heard of Zeus, Odin, or Jupiter, but not many have heard of Marduk. Born to the mother and father of all Babylonian gods, Marduk clawed his way to the top becoming the head of the...
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Tigers in Asian Myth: Are Pre Scientific Beliefs Bringing About the Collapse...
Historically, tigers were a Chinese cultural symbol which inspired story tellers, singers, poets, artists, and craftspeople for over 7000 years. This is evident because the earliest tiger statue ever...
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Mazu: Legendary Guardian of the Chinese Seas and Social Media Marvel
Princess of Supernatural Favor, Empress of Heaven, Goddess of the South China Sea - these are just a few of the illustrious titles given to the Chinese goddess Mazu (Mat-su) since her incursion into...
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The Golem: Talmudic Legend of a Clay Beast Created to Protect the Jews
The gothic horror novel, Frankenstein, is one of the most well-known stories in which man tries to play god by attempting to manufacture a living being. A similar story, that of the golem, exists in...
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Ninurta: God of War and Agriculture
Ninurta was a Mesopotamian deity associated with war, agriculture, and the scribal arts. He could be thought of as a defender of civilization against chaos. Ninurta was originally revered in southern...
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Deep Mining the Mythology of Ganesha and the Ancient Temple Well
According to Joseph Campbell (1904 – 1987), the famed U.S. American Professor of Literature who wrote extensively about comparative mythology and religion Read moreSection: ArtifactsOther...
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Girls Gone Wild: World Mythology’s Most Sexualized, Crazed, and Furiously...
Myths, legends, and religions tell of gods and goddesses exemplifying all that is good and right in the world. And there are just as many who represent our deepest archetypal sexual desires, taboos,...
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Dyeus Pater—The Original All-Father of the Gods
The ancestors of the Indo-European peoples looked up into the sky and saw a father, a cosmic patriarch with authority over the realm of daylight. Read moreSection: NewsMyths & LegendsAsiaRead Later
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Was Moloch really Ba’al, the Ancient God Who Demanded Child Sacrifice?
Moloch, or Molech, is well known in the Bible for being the god to whom child sacrifices appear to have been made in a shrine outside the city of Jerusalem. Read moreSection: NewsMyths &...
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Ubasute: Is the Ancient Tradition of Dumping the Elderly in a Forest...
Ubasute is an ancient practice from Japanese folklore in which a sick or elderly relative is dumped in a remote place to die. Although ubasute is attested in a number of Japanese legends, it is unclear...
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Utu - Shamash: Meospotamian God of the Sun, Justice and the Underworld
Utu was a solar deity and god of justice in the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon, and also served as a judge in the Underworld. Whilst Utu was the god’s name in Sumerian, he was known in Akkadian as...
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The Mythology of Winter: 7 Supernatural Beliefs and Magical Rituals From...
According to ancient folklore, some supernatural beings can only manifest when it is cold. Others use the cold to their advantage in order to achieve a certain result. When spirits appear, they require...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh Unveiled: Searching For a Way to the Home Planet
In contrast to many theorists, this unconventional retelling of key parts of the Epic explores the idea that Gilgamesh was not searching for life eternal on Earth, as has been suggested as the theme of...
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