Relics of Ancient Religions
British
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MegaLithic!
- More than 250 pictures from prehistoric ritual monuments
within the British Isles
Irish
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Mythology of prehistoric sites in Ireland
- The Mythological Cycle is a collective term for those stories in ancient myths that describe the activities of the 'Otherworld' characters who are reputed to have landed in Ireland in pre-historic times.
Maltese
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Computer based reconstructions of an old temple in Malta
- Since the late 18th century the curious megalithic stone circle and the Ggantija temple on the Xaghra plateau of Gozo have been recorded by European travellers. In the 1820s, the Lieutenant Governor of Gozo, Otto Bayer conducted an "excavation" at the circle which was recorded by the local artist Charles de Brochtorff in 1825.
Hawaiian
- Gods And Myths
- The Gods of Old Hawaii were many, told in Mele (song) Oli (chant) and Hula (dance). Each Island had its own variation. Here are some of them.
- HEIAU: Native Hawaiian Temples
- In the early 1900's, Bishop Museum anthropologist John Stokes began
his lifelong mission of documenting the existing Heiau (Temples) in the
Hawaiian Islands.
Egyptian
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
- The Papyrus of Ani ( Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge )
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The Tomb
- This site is an artistic and philosophical exploration into the fictitious travels of an archeologist
exploring an ancient Egyptian, pharaoh's tomb.
- Mummification
- A philosophical examination
Western
Olympus
- Olympus
- by Thomas Bulfinch. THE religions of ancient Greece and Rome are extinct. The so-called divinities of Olympus have not a single worshipper among living men.
- Ephesus: Diana's City
- Diana, alias Diana the Huntress, was a goddess in Greek and Roman mythology. Theoretically, she
was the daughter of Zeus, and the sister of Apollo. This was the cult of Diana-Artemis of
Anatolian fertility cult fame.
Greek
Mithraic
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The Mithraic Mysteries
- Owing to the cult's secrecy, we possess almost no literary evidence about the beliefs of Mithraism. The few texts that do refer to the cult come not from Mithraic devotees themselves, but rather from outsiders such as early Church fathers, who mentioned Mithraism in order to attack it, and Platonic philosophers, who attempted to find support in Mithraic symbolism for their own philosphical ideas.
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Mithraism
- Known throughout Europe and Asia by the names Mithra, Mitra,
Meitros, Mihr, Mehr, and Meher, the veneration of this god began some 4000
years ago in Persia, where it was soon imbedded with Babylonian doctrines.
The faith spread east through India to China, and reached west throughout the
entire length of the Roman frontier; from Scotland to the Sahara Desert, and
from Spain to the Black Sea. Sites of Mithraic worship have been found in
Britain, Italy, Romania, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Persia,
Armenia, Syria, Israel, and North Africa.
© 1996