Sylvia Rose
Dream Interpretation (Oneiromancy) - Ancient Egypt
Dreaming is an important part of ancient Egyptian spirituality. Dreams and dream interpretation play a role in almost all cultures. In...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 43 min read
Natron - Ancient Embalming & Household Salts
From personal hygiene to embalming the dead, ancient Egypt has many uses for natron. It's a naturally forming desert salt easy to harvest...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 47 min read
Khet, the Body: Death Rites of Ancient Egypt
Khet represents the physical body and is considered part of the soul in ancient Egypt. The soul is made of eight parts. Together they...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 34 min read
Dream Interpretation (Oneiromancy) - Mesopotamia
Dreams and dream meanings are a large part of the spiritual life of ancients. Oneiromancy or dream interpretation clarifies the dream....
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 33 min read
Mamu - Sumerian Goddess of Dreams
Mamu (Mamud) is a goddess of dreams in ancient Mesopotamia. Daughter of dawn goddess Aya and sun god Shamash (Utu), she may be called the...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 23 min read
Enki (Ea) God of Water & Creation
Enki is an ancient Sumerian primary God worshiped for over three thousand years in Mesopotamia. He's among the first Gods to emerge in...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 25 min read
Butter - Food of Peasants & Barbarians
Earliest evidence of butter dates back to c. 8000 BCE. The first butter comes from the milk of cattle, sheep, goats and yaks. The ancient...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 15 min read
Bitumen - Tarry Trade in Perfect Pitch
Bitumen, a natural petroleum product, is a common trade route item in the ancient world. The earliest known use of bitumen dates back to...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 14 min read
Sailing - Bronze Age Sails & Sailcloth
Sailing begins in the Sumerian or southern Mesopotamian regions of river deltas and marshes. Boats and rafts at first are made of...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 313 min read
Early Sun Mythology: Mid European
In the early centuries CE the Imperial Romans occupy almost every part of Europe except Germania, though they keep trying. They also...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 313 min read
Sonne - Sun Goddess of Germania
Sun worship is a prehistoric nature religion. An organized cult and mythology appear in Egypt c. 1400 BCE. Worship of the Sun as a...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 303 min read
Sun Goddess & Moon God in Myth
Gods worshipped by prehistoric and Bronze Age cultures are found in Proto-Indo-European Sun Goddess *Seh₂ul and Moon God *Meh₁not. They...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 303 min read
Linen, Hemp & Cotton - Fabrics of Ancient Egypt
Linen from the flax plant is the most popular textile in ancient Egypt, used in everyday clothing, bedding and funerary shrouds. Hemp is...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 304 min read
Egyptian Blue - First Synthetic Color
Egyptian Blue is a soft smoky blue hue considered the world's first synthetic color. The original formula to create Egyptian blue pigment...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 293 min read
Aruna, Hittite God of the Sea
Aruna is the God of the Sea worshiped by the Hittites (c. 1600 - 1187 BCE). At their greatest range under King Šuppiluliuma I, the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 294 min read
Isuwa - Bronze Age Hittite Foes
Isuwa is a Bronze Age Hittite kingdom founded by the Hurrians. Also called Išuwa or Ishuwa, it's one of the many states or kingdoms...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 287 min read
Hayasa-Azzi - Hittite Bronze Age Foes
Hayasa-Azzi is a confederation of states in Bronze Age Anatolia from the Pontic regions at the Black Sea to the Armenian highlands....
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 287 min read
Hattusilis III - Great Hittite Kings
The youngest of four sons, Hattusilis (Hattusili) doesn't expect to take the throne. In fact he's not expected to live. Read: Cult of the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 274 min read
Purulli: Hittite New Year & Spring Fest
Purulli is a spring festival acquired by the Hittites from the Hatti, previous occupants of the Anatolian lands. It also celebrates the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 274 min read
Hapkis - Hittite & Kaska Hostilities
Hapkis is an ancient vassal kingdom created to contain the unruly Kashka (Kaska, Kaška, Kaskians) of the Pontic Mountains. The range runs...
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