The archaeological excavations in Greece never cease to amaze. The discovery of a vessel under the Athenian agora in 2006 by M. Handler, from the University of Cincinnati, did not generate greater expectations than the majority of ceramics found, which end up being stored waiting to analyze their iconography or the names written on them. , which...

Lilith is a character that becomes more important every day in Western folklore, although her image has been modified since her Mesopotamian origin, through Judeo-Christianity and literature that has associated her with other beings of neighboring mythologies or proto-feminist metaphors. This is undoubtedly the most widespread portrait today, and...

Yoga is a Hindu doctrine of a philosophical nature, which seeks physical and mental control, to achieve spiritual perfection, through the practice of asceticism, meditation and concentration. Yoga, from Sanskrit योग, union, comes from the root yuj-, yoke, so it not only seeks union, and teamwork of body and mind. It also defines a "balance" between...

Druid is a Latinized word from the Celtic word to define the priestly and legal class of his people. Multiple etymologies have been considered, which have tried to be related to the positions they held, for example the Gaelic drui- or cymraeg (old Welsh) drw-, which indicate magic or clairvoyance, or a possible Indo-European root reconstructed from...

Once again, the Santa María La Real Foundation offers its wide variety of courses on culture and heritage, focused on the Romanesque, offering presentations, workshops, seminars, excursions, guides and trips.

Before talking about astrology itself, we must talk about the Eastern philosophy of the 5 elements (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth), which were associated with the 5 astrological planets: Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. The energy of these elements in combination is balanced into positive energy (Yan) and negative energy (Yin). In...

In 2018, a folded lead amulet measuring just 27 mm high x 22 mm wide, and just 6 mm thick, was found in Bispegata, in what in the Middle Ages was one of the main streets of Oslo, Norway. of the folds. Amulets made of lead folded in on themselves are common in the Nordic world, in the same way...

Among all the possible astrological and geomantic interpretations and connections of cartomancy, one of them is the one that links the cards to the elements, in this case, cartomancy being a most widespread divination method in the Western world, of the five elements earth, water, fire, wind and ether or spirit. In this regard we will find some...

As could be seen in the introduction of Nordic Magic (I): Galdr, Seiðr is a type of magic related to the female environment, with less social consideration given its shamanic characteristics, that is, practices of loss of consciousness and ecstasy. The purposes between the galdr and the seiðr are different in that the galdr seeks a voluntary and...

Two types of magic were practiced in the Norse world: the honorable galdr magic, and lastly, the "less honorable" seiðr magic. A third type would be rune magic, but since rune magic can be a general purpose tool, future articles will focus on distinguishing between the two main ones. Galdr derives from the verb gala, to sing or chant, to...

Although magical-religious practices exist in practically all cultures, the truth is that some are always better known than others. Many, like the magic of Indonesia, recover their contact with the modern world through cinema or, as in this case, medical studies that expose practices that tried to go unnoticed. Susuk is one of them. Susuk is the...

As already seen in the previous article (part I), regarding the shape of the hand, we found the popularity of a system that differentiated the shapes of the palm and the fingers in order to make a first general reading, without classifying the hand, as a single entity, but multiple. We turn now to the analysis of reading the shape of the fingers....