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Astral Worship BY J. H. Hill, M. D. “Now, what I want is—facts.”—Boz.

Noravank Monastery (literally “new monastery”) is a 13th-century Armenian monastery, located 122 km from Yerevan in a narrow gorge known for its tall, sheer, brick-red cliffs, directly across from the monastery made by the Amaghu River, near the town of Yeghegnadzor, Armenia. The monastery is best known for its two-storey Surb Astvatsatsin (Holy Mother of […]

“Minoans, Mycenaeans, and modern Greeks also had some ancestry related to the ancient people of the Caucasus, Armenia, and Iran,” said co-lead author Dr. Iosif Lazaridis, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School. The Minoan civilization was an Aegean Bronze Age civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands which flourished from about […]

“Pour toi Arménie” (English Translation: “For You, Armenia”) is a 1989 song written and composed by Charles Aznavour, and recorded by a group of French singers (and also a few actors and TV presenters) who were popular at the time. The charity single was intended to raise funds to help the Armenians who experienced the […]

Mens Tyskland har forsonet seg med jødene har ikke tyrkerne gjort det samme når det kommer til armenerne. Det er faktisk ulovlig å påstå at det i det hele foregikk et folkemord på den armenske befolkningen. Tyrkia anerkjenner ikke hendelsen som folkemord, og tyrkiske borgere som offentlig hevder det motsatte kan risikere å bli straffeforfulgt […]

Argo var i gresk mytologi et skip som Jason og argonautene, som vil si noen av de fremste heltene i det gamle Hellas, seilte i fra Iolcos til Kolkis i sin leten etter det gyldne skinn. Skinnet er i gresk mytologi skinnet til en gullhåret og bevinget bukk i Kolkhis, Kaukasus. Skinnet er et symbol […]

In Sumerian literature Aratta is described as a fabulously wealthy place full of gold, silver, lapis lazuli and other precious materials, as well as the artisans to craft them. It is a land that appears in Sumerian myths surrounding Enmerkar and Lugalbanda, two early and possibly mythical kings of Uruk also mentioned on the Sumerian […]

Throughout the ancient world and even for us today the concepts of Justice such as democracy, freedom and equality have always been female. To this day Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) stands in front of courtrooms, while her sister Libertas, the Goddess of Freedom, continues to hold the torch as the famous Statue of Liberty. Dingir […]

The oldest existing, continually operating and first degree awarding educational institution in the world according to UNESCO and Guinness World Records is the University of al-Qarawiyyin or Karueein, founded in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco. The University of Bologna, Italy, was founded in 1088 and is the oldest one in Europe. The Sumerians had scribal […]

Anu or An is the divine personification of the sky, supreme God, and ancestor of all the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. Anu was believed to be the supreme source of all authority, for the other gods and for all mortal rulers, and he is described in one text as the one “who contains the […]

Tyr and Hel In Germanic mythology, Týr (Old Norse), Tíw (Old English), and Ziu (Old High German) is a god. Stemming from the Proto-Germanic deity *Tīwaz and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European deity *Dyeus, little information about the god survives beyond Old Norse sources. Outside of its application as a theonym, the Old Norse common noun […]

Shulaveri-Shomu culture is a Late Neolithic/Eneolithic culture that existed on the territory of present-day Georgia, Azerbaijan and the Armenian Highlands. The culture is dated to mid-6th or early-5th millennia BC and is thought to be one of the earliest known Neolithic cultures. The earliest evidence of domesticated grapes in the world has been found in […]

At several sites (e.g. Hallan Çemi, Abu Hureyra, Mureybet) we can see a continuous occupation from a hunter-gathering lifestyle (based on hunting, and gathering and grinding of wild grains) to an economy based mainly on growing (still wild varieties of) wheat, barley and legumes from around 9000 BC. Domestication of goats and sheep followed within a few […]

Hell Hell, in many religious and folkloric traditions, is a place of torment and punishment in the afterlife. Hell appears in several mythologies and religions. It is commonly inhabited by demons and the souls of dead people. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations while religions with a cyclic history […]

Upper Mesopotamia Upper Mesopotamia is the name used for the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East. The region extends south from the mountains of Anatolia, east from the hills on the left bank of the Euphrates river, west from the mountains on the […]

Primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia; some of the predecessors of the modern instrument are now known to date back to the Neolithic era. The earliest of these primordial trumpets were adapted from animal horns and sea shells. For the most part, these primitive instruments were “natural trumpets”: […]