In ancient Greek, the adjectiveatheosmeant "godless." It was a derogatory term used to describe someone who did not worship the gods of the time or who was not sufficiently devout in his worship of these gods. Around the 5th century BCE, the term came to mean the intentional denial of ...
The suffix philia is from the Ancient Greek meaning love or friend, and is usually used to refer to a sexual fetish. The word vore is related to the Latin vorare, which means to devour or to swallow. Vore scenarios often do not play out in real life – no one is actually advocating ...
What Does a Cornucopia Symbolize? By Samantha Enslen To understand thecornucopia, you have to start with Greek mythology and Zeus. Thecornucopiacomes from a story about Zeus and a broken goat horn in the mountains of Crete. It translates literally to “horn of plenty.” ...
Derived from the ancient Greek words autos, meaning ‘self’, and nomos, meaning ‘rule’, and later popularised in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the liberal philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, autonomy conjures up some very seductive fantasies. This includes the “...
What’s in a Root So what exactly does make carrots useful? The answer is actually in their coloration. Carrots owe their bright orange tones to a pigment called beta-carotene. As you might guess, beta-carotene is red-orange in coloration, and occurs naturally in many fruit...
What does it mean that “hope” alone remains in Pandora’s jar/box? What is the significance of “hope”? 1. Nature of Woman l “all-gifted”有着一切天赋的女人 l “the root of all evils”, the symbol of extravagance and ill-nature l the being with “curiosity” l the first woman...
The European Melusine, for example, often has a serpent's tail or two tails, sometimes in addition to wings. Mermaids also vary in their reported behavior. Some are dangerous, such as the Greek Siren who sings enchanting songs from the shore in order to bewitch sailors or lure them to ...
Did God create disorder and chaos? What does it actually mean to be evil? And how do you tell your kids that in the Bible dragons are actually the “bad guys”? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your questions from the first half of the Chaos Drago
the Jewish canon is full of cautionary tales about secular and religious rulers with absolute power. The encroachment of tyranny on both Greek democracy and the Roman republic inspired America’s founding fathers to try to design a strongman-proof democracy. Although 19th-century political thinkers ...
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.” ―Albert Einstein The Altruism Code Negativity and degradation are out of control. The world is in a downward spiral. The Altruism Code stops it all now.T he purpose of "The Altruism Code" is to...