Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) is a Shinto festival held in the town of Kawasaki. Every year, on the first Sunday of April, the town… Read more “With Teeth: Festival of the Steel Phallus”
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War of the Magicians: Si-Osiris and the Nubian Sorcerer, part II
* For part one, click here [War of the Magicians: Si-Osiris and the Nubian Sorcerer, part I] * Imagine this: the Grand Vizier bursts into Pharaoh’s great… Read more “War of the Magicians: Si-Osiris and the Nubian Sorcerer, part II”
The Stars Who Fed Us: the Onondaga and the Seven Sisters
A constellation that is central in the field of archaeo-astronomy is the Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters. If you want to know when to reap and… Read more “The Stars Who Fed Us: the Onondaga and the Seven Sisters”
War of the Magicians: Si-Osiris and the Nubian Sorcerer, part I
Little is known of Euhemerus, the late 4th BCE mythographer who worked in the court of the Macedonian king Cassander (himself a student of Aristotle), except that… Read more “War of the Magicians: Si-Osiris and the Nubian Sorcerer, part I”
Waiting for Dingonek: An End to the Dread Plague
Imagine this: two big game hunters are sitting around Lake Victoria, reminiscing and being racist as one was wont to do in the early nineteen hundreds. As… Read more “Waiting for Dingonek: An End to the Dread Plague”
Dybbuk in a Box: the Book of Wonders
As the old adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words – that would make this a a very long post indeed… But since actual information… Read more “Dybbuk in a Box: the Book of Wonders”
Cerberus: Hound of Hades
We’ve seen many a mythical dog. There was Yudhistara and the black dog at the gates of heaven from the Mahabharata; there was Fenrir, who bit off… Read more “Cerberus: Hound of Hades”
The Last Question: How to Reboot the Universe
Before Douglas Adams posited that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything was 42, Isaac Asimov was pondering the same question. Long… Read more “The Last Question: How to Reboot the Universe”
As Above, So Below: The Net of Indra
Modern cosmology and physics have given birth to some peculiar notions regarding space-time. One is Simulation theory, the idea that that everything we perceive is actually a… Read more “As Above, So Below: The Net of Indra”
Japanese Time Travel: the Fisherman and the Turtle
Imagine this: You’re a peaceful fisherman, walking home after a day at sea. As you tread up the shoreline, you come across a group of children tormenting… Read more “Japanese Time Travel: the Fisherman and the Turtle”
