Ancient Egyptian religion used many animals as symbols and representations in their deities. Animals also play a sacrificial role, and the cat is arguably one of the most important animals in Egyptian religion. While cats themselves were not worshipped, cats were seen as symbolic of various gods...
Cat-like animals appeared on this planet tens of millions of years ago. The wild cats we see today are believed to come from a common ancestor, Pseudaleurus, who lived in Asia around 11 million years ago. The cats eventually migrated from Asia to Africa, North America, Central America an...
is a very hard cement. A gray metal is also found in this cavern, which puzzles the scientists, for its identity has not been established. It resembles platinum. Strewn promiscuously over the floor everywhere are what people call "cats eyes', a yellow stone of no great value. Each one ...
For each of the burials she chooses (which range from the paleolithic – the red lady of Paviland – to the Iron Age and the Pocklington Chariot), Roberts gives a history of the discovery of each burial as well as the research past and present that has gone into each discovery. She also...
You claim we are decended from animals or other life forms, that evolution proves it, surely you can find links within human language and existing cultures to prove one language, one myth, even one religion, is descended from another. The ages of semitic cultures, chinese cultures... c'...
against the tenets of…every religionin the world.” Over the last two thousand years, this judge’s views have been supported time and time again. From cults of virginity to the stoning of adulterers, the religions of the modern world have made sex a virtue mainly by the act of omission...
Presumably, everyone reading this book is a Homo sapiens – the species sapiens (wise) of the genus Homo (man). Genera in their turn are grouped into families, such as the cats (lions, cheetahs, house cats), the dogs (wolves, foxes, jackals) and the elephants (elephants, mammoths, ...
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In mythology, it is supposed that the Panathenaea was founded by Erechtheus (continued by his son, Erichthonius), King of Athens, seven hundred and twenty-nine years before the first Olympiad which was held in 776 B.C.E. This first festival may have been called the ‘Athenaea’. Late...
This in turn promoted the domestication of cats. In the Bible the dialogue between crop farming and pastoral husbandry is told as the relationship between Cain (crops) and Abel (cattle). While Abel's offering was accepted by YHWH, Cain's offering wasn't (Genesis 4:3-5). But obviously ...