Wakan Tanka: The Great Spirit and Life Force of the Native Americans
According to Native American mythology, Wakan Tanka is the concept of a life force, a Supreme Being or God sometimes called “The Great Spirit.” To the Lakota, Sioux, and other Tribes, it was the animating force of the universe who created the universe, but...
Erinyes: Those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath
The Erinyes represent a powerful force of darkness in Greek Mythology that live under the ground within the earth. They dwell in the underworld of Tartarus where even the gods had feared them for it was the Erinyes who maintained the established the natural order of...
Acheron: You Will be Eaten by the River of Hell Underneath Your Feet
In Ancient Greece, mountains with subterranean caves served as entrances to a deity and a place called Hades or Tartarus, which would correspond to our modern concepts of hell in Christianity. These unique caverns were considered ancient portals to the underworld,...
The Tragic Duality of Dionysus Producing the Great Health
The double face of the tragic hero known as Dionysus represents the dual nature of his persona of joy and suffering and life and death; a god known symbolically as “the spirit of fire and dew” who was “most terrible and most gentle to mortals” (Bacchae...
The Black Vines of Dionysus
The ancient mythos surrounding the origins of Dionysis is that he had a double birth of fire and water. He was also strongly associated with cultivating vines (fertility) and the development from the juice of the black vine via its decaying grapes which we call wine....About the Gnostic Warrior
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