At least for a while. Emperor Constantine, a convert to Christianity, was concerned about ongoing worship of the sun and sun gods. So he changed the name of “Sunday” to “dominicus,” literally “the Lord’s Day.” He decreed that it should be the first day of the week, and a da...
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They’re within you, they’re within others, and they create the very foundation of human behavior. Did you know that you can actually work with archetypes and it’s one of the most multi-layered ways of cultivating more love, happiness, and confidence, as well as accessing guidance and ...
To the Vikings, fate was unchangeable and an integral facet of the Norse worldview. ‘’Ragnarok is the gods' equivalent of the ‘scheduled’ death-day that each mortal has,” Crawford says. “If you can only get to the good afterlife by dying in battle, and you're going to die on ...
These k'uei were created when a person's p'o (lower spirit) did not pass onto the afterlife at death, usually because of bad deeds during life. The p'o, angered by its horrible fate, would reanimate the body and attack the living at night. One particularly vicious sort of k'uei, ...
Like all mythologies, Geek mythology attempts to answer some of the central questions of life, such as where we come from, why we are here, and what happens to us when we die. In Greek mythology, departed souls travel to the Underworld to be judged. Along the way, they must cross the...
Where did the Grim Reaper come from? Stories of the Grim Reaper first appeared in 14th-century Europe during a time when the continent was going through the world's worst pandemic, the Black Death. Is the Grim Reaper an angel? The Grim Reaper is also called the Angel of Death. However...
Norse gods still appear in many English-speaking cultures in the form of the names of days of the week. These words originally combined a god's name withdag, or day, as follows: Tuesday: Tyr'sdag-- Wednesday: Odin'sdag(similar Germanic mythologies use the spelling "Woden," which may be...
In Norse mythology, Asgard is the home of the gods. It has been said that those who die in battle go to Valhalla - a hall where they wait to help Odin fight for another day. In this blog post, we will explore...
Colonyhinted at a changing of the tides for Sweden’s In Flames just one year earlier. On this 2000 album, the band did the unspeakable — gasp! — prominent clean singing! Really, it’s not that heretical, but the old school Jesterheads will just never see it that way. It’s their...