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When people picture the symbol of medicine, they often imagine a staff with snakes wrapped around it. However, it’s important...
The God of Creation Lord Brahma is one of the most important deities in Hinduism...
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The Ahuizotl is more than just a monster of Aztec folklore; it is a symbol, a story, and a lesson from ancient Mesoamerican culture. It embodies the Aztec respect for the spiritual world, their reverence for nature, and their understanding of the need for boundaries in life.
As the most gorgeous of all jewels, the queen of stones, and the stone of kings, the fiery and alluring Ruby is a stone of grandeur. Ancient cultures thought its virtues outweighed those of all other precious stones, and its price was even higher than the diamond’s. According to legend, the Chinese Emperor Kublai Khan offered to trade a large ruby for a whole city. The ruby has a variety of red hues, ranging from pale pink to blood red. This color is due to chromium. The word “ruby” comes from “rubber,” the Latin word for red. Rubies energize and...
The Santera gods, orishas, are the spirits that devotees frequently communicate with. Different believers have different numbers of orishas. There are many orishas in the original African religious system from which Santeria derives. Alternatively, those who practice New World Santeria typically only work with a small number of them. Orunla The wisdom orisha of fortune-telling and human fate is called Orunla, or Orunmila. Orunla has just one “path,” or aspect, whereas other orishas have several. He is the only orisha in the New World who does not appear through possession (although it does sometimes happen in Africa). He is instead...
The gardens are in full flower, and summer has arrived. Fire up the grill, put on the sprinkler, and enjoy the Midsummer celebrations! This summer solstice Sabbat, also known as Litha, commemorates the year’s longest day. Take advantage of the extra hours of daylight by spending as much time as possible outside! How do I celebrate? Litha can be celebrated in a variety of ways, depending on your spiritual path, but the focus is almost always on the power of the sun. It’s that time of year when the crops are flourishing and the ground has warmed up. We may...
A Nigerian Folktale of Abundance, Greed, and the Cost of Wastefulness Long ago—before the first iron was forged in the fires of Nok, before the kingdoms of Ife and Benin carved their legacies into bronze—there was a time in the lands that would one day be called Nigeria when the sky did not loom high and distant above humanity. It rested close. So close that a tall woman standing on her toes could pluck a piece of it with her fingers. And the sky was not empty. It was food. In those ancient days, the sky hung low over the...
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