Sylvia Rose
Klabautermann - Germanic Sea Kobold
Klabautermann is a water kobold of the Baltic and North Seas. He's one of the noisy spirits, who can scream like the wind. In general he...
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Sylvia Rose
Apr 15 min read
Cyprus: Prehistoric Humans & Pygmy Hippos
Cyprus enters the Neolithic age armed with hundreds of years of history. Humans arrive on the island in the Paleolithic period, which...
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Sylvia Rose
Apr 15 min read
Suppiluliuma II: the Last Hittite King
Šuppiluliuma II is the last King of the Hittites. As every end marks a beginning, Suppiluliuma II is also credited with the first naval...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 315 min read
Ammurapi - The Last King of Ugarit
Ammurapi is the last ruler and king of the Syrian Bronze Age city of Ugarit. He's a contemporary of Hittite King Suppiluliuma II, the...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 304 min read
Anat - War Goddess of Ancient Ugarit
Anat is a war goddess and deity of the hunt in ancient Ugarit, Ḫanat and Tanis. In the Baal Cycle she's an ally to the God Baal, battling...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 304 min read
Pentagram: Drudenfuß, Five Point Star
The pentagram or Drudenfuß (Drude's Foot) is a protective sign or talisman with the power to repel malevolent magic associated with...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 294 min read
Periwinkle: Magic & Medicine of Europe
Periwinkle is a flowering plant also called witches' herb and graveyard plant. A member of the Vinca genus, periwinkle is native to...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 284 min read
Fire Men & Lights Errant: German Lore
Feuermann (Fire Man) is a spectral manifestation. He may be a glowing skeleton, a man on fire from within or a flame. Feuermänner (Fire...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 284 min read
Baal Cycle - Myths of Ba'al Hadad
Baal (Ba'al) is a fertility god and storm deity known by 2330 BCE. As Ba'al Hadad, his exploits form the Baal Cycle of texts. In Syria...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 275 min read
Baal (Ba'al): Storm God & Love Demon
Baal (Ba'al) is a Bronze Age Canaanite deity whose worship centers on the Levant and the industrious coastal city of Ugarit, north Syria....
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 273 min read
Shams - Ancient Arabian Sun Goddess
Shams is a sun goddess of Arabian myth and patron goddess of the Himyarites in the southern highlands of Yemen. She's equated with the...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 264 min read
Schrat: German Nightmare Forest Elf
Schrat (Schratt) is a nature spirit, goblin, elf or domestic entity in Germanic lore. Waldschrat or Wood Schrat lives in the forest....
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 263 min read
Ib the Heart: Book of the Dead Egypt
Ib ( jb ) is the ancient Egyptian heart, the center of intelligence and existence in a body. It's also called qaib or qa-ib referring to...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 254 min read
Jet Black - Ancient World Gemstones
Jet black describes a rich dark black, or the blackest black of all, as in jet-black hair. An ancient painter's pigment, jet is also...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 245 min read
Night Raven (Nachtkrapp) Germania
Nachtkrapp or Night Raven is a large predatory bird found in lore of Switzerland, Germany and the North Lands. Nachtkrapp (Nachtkrappe,...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 236 min read
Elp: Bronze Age Militant Cattle Culture
The Elp culture spreads through the Netherlands, Northern Germania and just south of the Baltic coast. Bronze and Iron Age cattle people,...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 236 min read
Yarrow (Achillea) Magic & Medicine
Yarrow is an herb of magic and medicine. A flowering plant native to the northern hemisphere yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is commonly...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 229 min read
Khnum: Ram Headed Potter God Egypt
Khnum is one of the ram-headed gods. He's an ancient divinity of Upper Egypt, related to ram god Ba-neb-djedet of Lower Egypt. A creator...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 215 min read
Ba Bird & Sacred Ram - Ancient Egypt
The ba is part of the concept of the soul, broadly defined as personality, in the form of a man-headed bird. In ancient Egypt ba also...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 204 min read
Was Scepter, Djed & Ankh Power Trio
The was scepter, djed and ankh are three of the most powerful symbols in Egyptian hieroglyphs, statuary, painting and other iconography....
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