Ajacian, Alea, Ambulian, Apaturian, Asia, Acraea, Ageleia, Agoraea, Alalcomeneis, Alcimache, Athena Alea, Athena Alkidemos, Budeia, Chryse (a local epitaph), Hellotia, Itonia, Bridler, Goddess of the Brazen (Bronze) House, the Bright-Eyed, Capanean, Cissaean, Contriver, Coria, Co...
In Bronze Age Europe, the Celts and possibly others may have associated the Pleiades with grief, mourning and funerals. At this period of time and history, the time of the Autumn Equinox and Solstice would have occurred around the time that the Pleiades star cluster rose in the eastern skyli...
It should be noted that the earlier mentions of Huang-Di, the Yellow Emperor is on a fourth century bronze inscription for the royal house of the Qi. This inscription claims Huang-Di as an ancestor to the Qi. The scholar, Lothar von Falkenhausen has suggested that Huang-Di is likely creat...
The offering of cucumbers to kappa may have come from a tradition of giving the year’s first crop of cucumbers and eggplants to the local river to either appease local water deities or hungry ghosts. Festivals –There are still some festivals held in places, twice a year during the equinox...
Bronze Age, roughly 1200 B.C.E. and continue uninterrupted up to the Late Roman Era towards the 4thcentury C.E. There are suggestions that Aphrodite’s worship could possibly go back to the Chalcolithic Era. Female figurines and charms have been found dating to the third millennium and ...