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    Am I wrong? The statue of Jesus ruins Brazil

    Sorry, but your question is a little bit non-sense. Brazil has 207 million inhabitants and a history of 500 years. Rio is one city with less than 5% of Braziliian population - it's not the capital neither the biggest city - where one statue of Jesus was put in the beggining of XX century...
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    Milky Way Mythology and Creation Story

    I didn't want to take a position about it, I was just describing randomly positions about stars and gods. Your site is admirable by the extent and complexity in which it deals with this theme, and I'll visit it often to read. I would like to say first that I see Astrology always as just an...
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    Milky Way Mythology and Creation Story

    I usually compare the descriptions of a certain God with the descriptions of a Planet/Star/Constellation, most times it fits quite well. I never read about the milk way as a whole having an astrological meaning, but many of it's stars surely have.
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    Milky Way Mythology and Creation Story

    I do not know much of the Goddess Hathor, so I got confused about your question of "Does the ancient understanding of "astrology" then have anything at all to do with planets? " . From my understanding, there are sometimes striking resemblances between the atributs of Gods and of Planets, but...
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    Milky Way Mythology and Creation Story

    The oldest known sources of astrology being from babylon/assyria, I must say that unfortunately I know very little of it's literature. Most pagan literature that I'm acquainted with is greek, and it seems that astrology was an intense part of mesopotamia's life for 2 thousand years at least...
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    Greek Hell

    Old greek literature and it's praise for life and glory, Gods and the astonishing descriptions of Tartarus are way difficult to comprehend. To comprehend how such a religion could offer psychological comfor to it's adepts. I think there's much more in mysteries and traditions that we don't know...
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    Greek Astrological Symbols Help?

    I'm not sure if greeks actually used those symbols. I would suppose they are byzantine, and of course, they knew only till Saturn. Pluto's gliph is the symbol of Alchemy.
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    What To Do With Jacaranda

    As far as I know Jacaranda went close to extinction for the large use of it in making mobiles in South America. Mobiles made by this wood can still be found in old stores and are way expensive. It's a very famous tree in it's original region, if I'm not mistaken.
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    Gaia

    itoi men protista khaos genet' autar epeita gaia euristernos. Certainly, well, firstly Chaos appeared, then Gaia of large breast. After those, Tartarus (a kind of somber region below Earth) and then Love. Chaos, Earth, Tartarus, Love. Those have always been for me an astonishing mysterious...
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    Your brain is already a musical mastermind

    This kind of situation tends to happen with the worst. Always. There's even a kind of technical study about it, to compose propaganda "jingles" - how most annoying, and gummy, the better.
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    What is the root meaning /etymology of the Sumerian word for God, Dingir?

    I can't avoid to see a kind of "star" in the figure. Once astrology originated there, it makes sense.
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    Sacred texts... their revelation and challenge!

    I feel some kind of sacredness feeling on any text which is very old. Like from millenia ago. A simple administrative babylonic issue about a tree that invaded a neighbourds garden, but written in cuneiform rocks in an unthinkable distant time, to me feels as quite sacred. Is it crazy? I...
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    Artemis, Goddess of The Hunt

    Supposing anyone find this topic by searching (I realize it's a bit old), I would strongly recomend a poem of Theocritus, which pictures a greek witch doing rituals for Artemis/Selene/Hekate , identifying the three Goddesses as a triplice Goddess. It has the whole description of the ritual...
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    Your brain is already a musical mastermind

    Regarding music I feel that the mind automatic expands what it has heard before. It's definitely the kind of art where we can feel more an "automatism", an "unconscious" approach, an "inspiration"...
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    How to worship Athena and Hephaestus? (I am 14 years old)

    I would recomend learning about their mythology, there are many english sources online, you could start with Wikipedia (which is full of related articles). The Mythology of those deities are took among many different sources; poems, pieces of theatre, novels, philosophy/history books, so you...
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    Determining Persons in Animism

    There are some kinds of behaviours which are usually diagnosed as "ocd" which includes seeing different things as they were alive and had some kind of conscience. Those behaviors seem to exist in any kind of culture - without any need to have animists references of any kind. I don't want with...
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    Milky Way Mythology and Creation Story

    For many years I could stare at the Milk Way, but since I moved to a big city it's near impossible. But it's definitely among the most amazing things to hear mythology about.
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    Gnomes: Guild

    I realized some time ago reading Lucretius that Epicurism seems to already have "seeds" towards the "Elementals" theory - which I never suspected, by the fame of materialism that this creed had. From the Elementals perspective, the toughest to imagine is definitely the "Earth" kind, for which...
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    Humans as pets of the Gods?

    But if humans feed Gods through rituals, wouldn't it be the opposite? I quite believe that cats rule their "owners", perhaps it could be also this way with Gods.
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    Christian/Catholic Witches?

    Christianity is such deeply rooted in many societies and individuals perspectives that is very difficult to abandon it. I wouldn't think that witchcraft is, however, in itself, something more anthagonist to Christianism than, let's say, the Neoplatonism of St. Augustin. It's just more...
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