Mythology
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š The Salt Pantheon: Mineral Deities & Boundary Spirits
Salt rarely claims a throne of its own. Instead, it infiltrates pantheons as a mineral glyph, a boundary agent, a covenant seal, and a purification catalyst. Across cultures, salt appears… Read more.
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The age-old debate between hard rock and heavy metal
In ancient Egypt, flint was the very essence of divinity. Imagine the god Thoth, with his ibis head and scribe’s palette, his heart not of flesh and blood, but of… Read more.
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Ascus (Mythology)
Ascus (Ancient Greek: į¼ĻĪŗĪæĻ) was a giant from ancient Greek mythology, who in conjunction with Lycurgus of Thrace chained the god Dionysus and threw him into a river. The god Hermes (or, according to other tellings, Zeus) rescued Dionysus, conquered… Read more.
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Cold-Food Powder or Five Minerals Powder, Poisonous Psychoactive Drug Popular During the Six Dynasties (220ā589) and Tang Dynasty (618ā907)
Cold-Food Powder (Chinese: åÆé£ę£; pinyin: hĆ”nshĆsĒn; WadeāGiles: han-shih-san) or Five Minerals Powder (Chinese: äŗē³ę£; pinyin: wĒshĆsĒn; WadeāGiles: wu-shih-san) was a poisonous psychoactive drug popular during the Six Dynasties (220ā589) and Tang dynasty (618ā907) periods of China. Terminology Both Chinese names hanshisan and wushisan have the suffix -san (ę£, lit. “fall apart; scattered”), which means “medicine in powdered form” in Traditional Chinese… Read more.
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Kaustubha, divine ruby or gem in Hindu mythology
KaustubhaĀ (Sanskrit:Ā ą¤ą„ą¤øą„ą¤¤ą„ą¤,Ā romanized:Ā Kaustubha,Ā lit.ā‘crest jewel’) is a divine ruby orĀ ratnamĀ (gem) inĀ Hindu mythology.[1]Ā This gem is in the possession ofĀ Vishnu, granting him the epithet ofĀ Kaustubhadhari. It is believed inĀ Hindu scripturesĀ to be the most magnificentĀ ratnamĀ in all… Read more.
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HalÄhala or kÄlakÅ«į¹a poison
HalÄhalaĀ (SanskritĀ ą¤¹ą¤²ą¤¾ą¤¹ą¤²) orĀ kÄlakÅ«į¹aĀ (SanskritĀ ą¤ą¤¾ą¤²ą¤ą„ą¤ą¤, literally: ‘black mass’ or ‘time puzzle’[1]) is the name of a poison inĀ Hindu mythology. It was created from theĀ Ocean of MilkĀ when theĀ devasĀ and theĀ asurasĀ churned it (seeĀ Samudra Manthana) in order… Read more.
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Kodoku: The Venomous Vortex of Ancient Curses
Here’s one that might make your skin crawl and your blood run cold. Welcome to the world of Kodoku, the sinister sorcery that turns creepy crawlies into catastrophic curses. Imagine,… Read more.
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The Goldfinch in art
The goldfinch is a widespread and common seed-eating bird in Europe, North Africa, and western and central Asia. As a colourful species with a pleasant twittering song, and an associated belief… Read more.
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Thistle Tubes, Thistle Feeders, Distelfinks and Goldfinches Wiki
A thistle tube is a piece of laboratory glassware consisting of a shaft of tube, with a reservoir and funnel-like section at the top. Thistle tubes are typically used by chemists to add liquid to an existing system or… Read more.
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Herculaneum Was anĀ Ancient RomanĀ Town Buried Under Volcanic Ash and Pumice in theĀ Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
HerculaneumĀ (NeapolitanĀ andĀ Italian:Ā Ercolano) was anĀ ancient RomanĀ town, located in the modern-dayĀ comuneĀ ofĀ Ercolano,Ā Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in theĀ Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Like the nearby city ofĀ Pompeii,… Read more.
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