ATLANTEAN GARDENS

According to Irish folklore an island named Hy-Brasil was located off of the west coast of Ireland, and although it was never offici...

Having once been a privileged and favored people, the Atlanteans became corrupt and degraded, according to Plato, by interbreeding with ...

The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy, originally published in 1908, is a book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trism...

When people talk about Atlantis, they are usually referring to the writings of Plato, the Athenian philosopher who lived during the Cl...

Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic, historical capital of Bohemia, and once was the main residence of several Holy Roman Empero...

Most Biblical scholars will claim that Moses was the first person to write portions of Scripture while John, the disciple of Jesus, was ...

Before Christianity existed, there was what is now commonly known as Paganism, which is also called Polytheism, the belief or worship o...

According to ancient myths and legends from antiquity, an advanced sea faring civilization established colonies around the world, introd...

Hermeticism is a philosophical tradition that gets its name from Hermes Trismegistus, a word which means thrice-greatest Hermes. Hermes i...

Over 2,000 years ago, a wise Egyptian priest named Sonchis told a respected Greek statesman, Solon, about a spectacular legend recorded o...

The Achaemenid, or the First Persian Empire, was founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC, and extended from Eastern Europe in the west to th...

Archaeologists have uncovered an area devoted to the first King of Rome and a rock sarcophagus, which are believed to date back to the 6t...

Almost all native tribes in the Western Hemisphere preserve oral traditions about the ancient appearance of a bearded god or gods who a...

When ancient Egypt is mentioned, most people think of Pharaohs. But there are many Egyptian mysteries that stretch back into pre-dynasti...

An ancient Egyptian 'board game of death' was used to communicate with the dead about 3,500 years ago. The game, called Senet, was p...

The Viking Age, the period of great Scandinavian expansion from the late 8th to the late 11th century – is normally associated with violent ...

One of the most important works of Old English literature, Beowulf is an epic poem consisting of over 3,000 lines, beautifully written i...

Samodivas are woodland fairies found in South and West Slavic folklore and mythology, commonly depicted as ethereal maidens with long hair, ...

While the Bible speaks of Giants roaming the earth in the remote past, so do many other mythologies from around the world, as quoted by the ...

In Greek mythology, the underworld is where souls go after death. The original Greek idea of afterlife is that, at the moment of death, the ...