Viracocha, also spelled Huiracocha or Wiraqoca,creator deity originally worshiped by the pre-Inca inhabitants of Peruand later assimilated into the Inca pantheon. He was believed to have created the sun and moon on Lake Titicaca. How old is the Gate of the Sun?
We must assume that the goddess Avellenau was created for the film, obviously a corruption of Avalon, the legendary island from the Arthurian cycle which translates as The Isle of Apple Trees. But, if we look at that Sun God we find our old friend Nuada making an appearance. The Wicker ...
When did Roman Catholicism spread throughout the barbarian kingdoms of Europe? When did Augustus rule the Roman Empire? When did the Roman Republic became the Roman Empire? When did the Hittite empire start and end? When did the Sassanid Empire fall?
Replication of the Overlay Study. We decided to exclude in the Adult Gender Attribution Test one question that was included in the original study: “How would you change the figure to make it into the other gender?” (Kessler & McKenna,1978, p. 146). This question should have been present...
When was the Ggantija temples discovered? Built long before Stonehenge appeared, it is thought that these temples were created between 3600 and 3200 BC, however during 2500 BC they were disused and it wasn't untilthe 19th Centurythat they made a reappearance and were discovered as a part of ...
Ireland’s population was nearly halved by the time the potato blight abated in 1852. While approximately 1 million perished, another 2 million abandoned the land that had abandoned them in the largest-single population movement of the 19th century. Most of the exiles—nearly a quarter of the ...
It was located in modern-day Scotland and was ruled by a king. Initially, it had its capital at Scone but was later shifted to Edinburgh. The people of Scotland were Catholics from the onset of the kingdom until Catholicism was overtaken by Presbyterianism later. The empire that covered ...
created himself. I vividly remember one of the rooms having deep, rich tan walls bordered by a turquoise crown molding wrapping the entire room where the walls and the at least sixteen-foot ceiling intersected; one of the small horizontal lines on the molding was painted silver, which ti...
In response, the Holy Father created the Apostolic Vicariate of New Mexico—a missionary stage of transition in the process of becoming a diocese in its own right. The new Vicariate Apostolic of (Santa Fe in) New Mexico was to be technically attached to the Archdiocese of St. Louis Missouri...
Hymns are musical expressions of religious devotion within Catholicism, and singing is a common facet of life for many nuns. Ex-nuns have sought outlets for this communal form of worship. Leahywas able to find such a group after she was asked to join an Episcopal choir. As she wrote: ...