Divination

The Clear Quartz is the mixture of silicon and two oxygen molecules (silicon dioxide, or SiO2), it is also the precursor of over 500 stones as they start as the clear quartz and gain their color with inclusions and mineral deposits that are added while forming, these minerals are designated as “silicates.” The Clear Quartz crystal can occur in two different ways, one being the hexagonal crystals in masses and druses, and the other being dense fibrous material that has no visible crystals.…

The book of Micah, situated between Hosea and Amos, is the thirty-third book in the Old Testament and one of the twelve books classified as a Minor Prophet. The name Micah, meaning "who is like Yahweh," encapsulates the prophet's message. Ralph L. Smith argues that the "name is appropriate for a book like this because Yahweh is exalted in it." Filled with judgment yet laced with redemption, the prophet's message mirrors the grander narrative of Scripture. By outlining the disobedience of God's…

around the 19th century to the 20th century. The piece is made of wood, beads, and metal. The Luba peoples created many different works of art. Some pieces represented women since they were important in this society. They also sculpted stools, mboko (divination bowls), bow stands, and the Lukasa. They had a centralized authority: the sacred king, mulopwe. Their religion was based on ancestor veneration and they paid tributes to spirits, and they also considered their king divine. The elite…

In particular, she explores seemingly irrational concepts and beliefs found in ancient myths and narratives, which formed the ‘explicit theology’ of Greek religion, taking into account theories about ‘counter-intuitive agents’ appearing in most religions (e.g. Boyer 2001; Atran 2002; Pyysiäinen 2003; Barrett 2004) (Chapter 1). As she notes, theories about symbols suggested by modern anthropologists (e.g. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz) and largely used by classicists,…

What happen to Pluto People like to observe things. Ancient people observed stars at night and drew a picture on a wall of the cave where they lived. People who lived in Before Common Era also observed stars at night to predict the weather or divination of the future. In modern world, people still observes stars at night to discover what is in the universe. People sent probe outside of the Earth to study what is in the outside of the Earth and beyond the solar system where human being are…

Hurriasn, Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Greeks, Romans and Arabian Pantheons were polytheistic. Most of these cultures practiced similar purification and cleansing rituals, animal and human sacrifices, sacred prostitution, life after death and divination. Historical records discovered at the Ras Sharma excavations confirmed that the Canaanites used the Babylonian Pantheon as an example when forming their religion and it is now evident that the Israelites used both the Canaanite Pantheon…

Confucius was born around 550 BC and little did people know he would change the entire ideology of China. His teachings of moral goodness as the law of everyday man were essential and China needed it more than she knew. Criminal punishment up until Confucianism was rather harsh and unforgiving. Confucius on the other hand urged the Chinese to exercise restraint in the imposition of law upon the people (Duhamie). The lash and the Five Punishments gave no restraint and Confucius saw the…

Tiresias a blind prophet conferred with the power of having knowledge about the foresightedness, who with this capacity had privilege to tell people about their past events, future calamities and fatal occurrences and even unknown on goings of present. In the dark and gloomy days Thebes was going through the most helpless condition by which no single being was able to redemption of people from disastrous epidemic in the aspect of Black Death which was grave depriving in human history, resulted…

Rituals - Birth, initiation, sacrifice, burial, worship, festivals -Vicky The arrival of a child was a welcome event in the Inca empire, both parents were required to perform rituals to ensure the safe delivery of the infant. Pregnant women were expected to continue working until the day they gave birth, which was done without assistance. The newborn was either placed in a cradle, carried by the mother while she worked or tied in a pack across her chest. The baby was named later during a…

The book Mojo workin’: The old African American Hoodoo system was written by Katrina Hazzard-Donald. Hazzard-Donald (2013) is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice at Rutgers University-Camden. Hazzard-Donald’s book explored the African American cultural tradition of hoodoo. Subsequently, Hazzard-Donald argued that the tradition of hoodoo emerged from a range of different African ethnic cultures brought together as a result of enslavement during the Trans…