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Religion of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian religion can be summarized as shamanism under the influence of nationalism. Like the Native American cultures, they saw the world as a spiritual place and the relationship between the ancient tribes of Egypt changed over time before the organization of the two kingdoms. They didn’t have a Cartesian view like modern thinkers do,…
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Documented Record for Ancient Lore
Literacy is interesting. Previously the only sanctioned literacy was of the priesthood, and only of the sacred texts. The word “talisman” was a reference to magicians marks, or to make marks like a magician. Tally was to make marks on a stick. The Norse did it to count sheep. They made more complex marks than numbers,…
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Alchemy – The Ancient Science by Robert Gresak
The word “Alchemy” is an Arabic one although it probably really originated in ancient Egypt. The popular explanation is that it originally meant “the art of the land of Khem”, Khem being the name the Arabs gave to Egypt for it was from Egypt that they acquired their knowledge of this strange science. However, although…
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Ancient Runes Script
Today we are talking about the runes. They are ancient to the point of prehistoric. The only thing necessary for something to be prehistoric is for it to have had its advent before written history. The first instances of runes as we know them today show up as ancient petroglyphs at various locations around northern…