Posted in Z, tagged belief, cults, gay, Greece, homosexual, myth, mythology, pagan, queer, religion, same-sex, worship, zeus on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Athens, Greece Zeus Temple 2007
Originally uploaded by Titanas
Zeus The son of the Titan Cronus and Titaness Rhea, Zeus is the chief of the second generation Greek gods, usually arrayed with thunderbolts and an eagle.
Zeus had numerous offspring with several different goddesses, the most famous being Aphrodite.
He apparently had amorous relations with his young male cup-bearer, [...]
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Posted in A, tagged abyss, Beowulf, Borg, Christian, Civilization, devil, druids, dungeon, Eliade, freud, Greece, greek, hell, hindu, janeway, jesus christ, jewish, jung, magic, myth, pit, psychology, Satan, serling, shades, star trek, star wars, sword, symbol, twilight zone, underwater, water on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The Abyss
Originally uploaded by imagical
Abyss (Greek, abyssos, Latin abyssus). Myths about an abyss or bottomless pit are found in most cultures.
In Judaism the abyss lies deep within the earth, a place where evil spirits of the dead are banished (Job 32:22, Psalm 6:5, 143:7).
In ancient Greece the majority of the dead retire to a gloomy [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Achilles, aggression, battle, brad pitt, classical, Greece, greek, greek drama, Greek myth, heel, Homer, Illiad, killing, legend, life, murder, myth, mythology, paris, psychology, stories, struggle, styx, tale, trojan, Troy, violence, warfare on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Achilles Slays Hector
Originally uploaded by litmuse
Achilles The ancient Greek warrior and hero who, in Homer’s Iliad, fought in the Trojan wars.
The son of Peleus and Thetis, at birth Achilles’ mother held him by the heel and dipped him in the fiery river Styx to obtain [...]
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Posted in A, tagged acropolis, Athena, Athens, classical, cult, Greece, hill, history, myth, nashville, parthenon, religion, sicily, tennesse on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Selinunte Acropolis
Originally uploaded by Greg Robbins
Acropolis [Greek akron = point, summit + polis = city]
Initially, an acropolis was simply a fortified hill serving as a stronghold for Greek city-states.
Later, the acropolis took on a religious function. It became a sacred citadel built on high ground within or near a town.
The most famous but by [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aesculapius, ancient history, doctor, dream incubation, dreams, Foucault, Greece, healing, health, history, Homer, Illness, medicine, myth, mythology, pagan, physician, postmodern, postmodernism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Villa Borghese Park
- Temple Of Aesculapius
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David Paul Ohmer
Aesculapius Possibly a Greek mortal around 1200 BCE who, like Heracles, became deified.
In Homer’s Illiad he is described as “the blameless physician.”
His cult was centered in Epidaurus and emphasized cure through a prototype of contemporary psychoanalysis.
The poets Hesiod and Pindar speak of Aesculapius as the son of Zeus [...]
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Posted in A, tagged afterlife, agape, belief, bread, bread and wine, c. s. lewis, catholic, Christian, communion, Eucharist, feast, Greece, heaven, Holy Communion, jesus christ, life, love, religion, rome, sacrament, sacraments, soul, spirit, wine on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Agape In literary circles the Greek term agapē (Latin: caritas) refers to the ideal of universal love, particularly, charitable Christian love among brothers and sisters of the human family.
As C. S. Lewis suggests in The Four Loves (1960), this is distinct from matrimonial, emotional, passionate-erotic and friendly love.
For many Christians, agape also refers to the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged aggression, Alexandria, babylon, classical, conquest, egypt, Greece, history, india, madedonia, war on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Alexander the Great
Originally uploaded by macropoulos
Alexander The Great (356-323 BCE)
Third Macedonian king from 336-323 BCE, born in Pella as the son of Philip II and conqueror of most of the old world, including Egypt and Greece.
Tutored by Aristotle, in Egypt he founded the city of Alexandria.
After consulting an oracle of Ammon, he was convinced that [...]
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Posted in A, tagged alien, Aliens, angel, angels, Bible, devil, et, extraterrestrials, God, Greece, heaven, jewish, jupiter, missing time, moses, myth, paranormal, parapsychology, religion, rome, Satan, siva, ufo, unexplained, zeus on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Classical Martian
Originally uploaded by matsuyuki
Aliens and Extraterrestrials (ETs)
The belief in aliens from other planets dates back for centuries, as does their alleged sightings.
47,000 year-old rock carvings in the Hunan province of China could be interpreted as evidence for UFOs.
Airborne “fire circles” were reported to the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III (1504-1450 BCE).
In the Middle Ages [...]
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Posted in A, tagged altered states, ambrosia, goddesses, gods, Greece, greek, hallucinogen, hindu, honey, mushroom, nectar, olympus, religion, soma, vedic on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Mt Olympus Greece
Originally uploaded by nikoskrikelis
Ambrosia (from Greek ambrotos = immortal).
This is the otherworldly food or drink of the Ancient Greek Olympians, sometimes given to mortal heroes and mankind as a salve.
Mortals were punished if they took it uninvited.
Some scholars argue that ambrosia prefigures the Christian Eucharist.
It remains unclear as to whether ambrosia has an [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aphrodite, cult, Greece, Greek myth, myth, mythology, pagan, Paganism, temple, worship on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Alien AphroditeOriginally uploaded by Fotomoe
Aphrodite Greek goddess of beauty, love and fertility.
Worshipped throughout Greece, Aphrodite was said to have been born from sea foam that arose at Paphos in Cyprus from the castration of Uranus by Cronus.
Homer says she is the wife of Hephaestus but also had romantic encounters with Ares, the god of War. [...]
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