Roger Ma returns with the latest in his series of manuals for dispensing imaginary monsters using real-world weapons and tactics. You’ll also learn defense, but not how to avoid the Twilight movies.
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Tag Archives: folklore
Oldest Mummies in the World Explained
Behind this mask lies the well-preserved face of someone who died many thousands of years ago, in the coastal desert of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru. A new theory may explain why the locals there began mummifying their dead.
A number of human cultures developed a tradition of mummification. The Chinchorro people of South America were the first. Their mummies are between 7000 and 8000 years old, predating the earliest evidence of mummification in Egypt by about 4000 years.
Now Pablo Marquet of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and colleagues may have worked out why the ancient hunter-gatherers began to handle their dead this way. It may all be down to the environment.
Buddhist ‘Endless Knot’ Crop Circle
This is the latest intricate crop circle to appear overnight in a British wheat field.
The mysterious pattern resembles the ancient Tibetan Buddhist symbol of an ‘endless knot’ – a complex loop of lines and circles used to illustrate the eternal flow of time.
The symbol has many meanings but because it has no beginning and no end many people who follow the religion say it represents the wisdom of Buddha.
Ancient Sumerian Provebs
“I looked into the water. My destiny was drifting past.”
SEE THEM IN PDF FORMAT. Words of wisdom from 6000 years ago.
Gargoyles – Glorious Gruesome Grotesques
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.
They’re also strange, bizarre, unpleasant or just plain ugly. They have been hovering around our towns and cities for centuries, for so long that it can be forgotten that they have meaning and purpose. Take a tour of the weird world of the gargoyle. VIA: –UNIQUE DAILY–
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