Some scholars have been saying this since at least 1793, when Enlightenment scholar Charles Dupuis began publishing his 13-volume Origine de Tous les Cultes, ou Religion Universelle, postulating the mythical origins of Christianity and other ancient religions. People who hold to the theory that Jesu...
The words and expressions of our English Gay Dictionary have been obtained from many different sources, but unlike many of these sources, which are copies from one another, each of the items has been analyzed, investigated, contrasted and expanded within the possibilities. During the making of th...
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There is some debate about the statue's reign as master of the temple. While some sources claim that the statue was placed in the temple around 450 B.C., others estimate the date 430 B.C. With Christianity's encroaching threat to the ancient gods, some Greeks paid to have their beloved...
Frahm adds that many Mesopotamian kings even said they were gods but that notion was eventually discarded "perhaps because rulers often appeared all too human in the eyes of their subjects." As to where the idea of kingship even came from, Frahm believes that was directly tied to a need to...
This doomed city at the heart of the Trojan War was lost for thousands of years until a team of German archaeologists uncovered the ancient site.
The real Dracula had a reputation for unfathomable brutality (a reputation many Romanians claim is inaccurate), but there is not much evidence showing that people believed he was a vampire. Stoker's fictional villain is not closely modeled after the real Dracula, though they are sometimes linked...
When men died in battle, it was believed that the war-god Odin gathered chosen slain warriors at his home in Asgard—the dwelling place of the gods in Norse mythology. Odin’s mythical hall, called Valhalla, was a warrior’s paradise built of spear shafts and roofed with shields. The ...
here for weeks, lost in a labyrinth of ancient stone corridors and sacred chambers. But the scars of plunder run deep: looters have hacked off the heads of many statues… they've stolen bodies as well… empty pedestals mark where gods and deities once stood… on...
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