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 not as a single god but as a grammar: a crystalline language embedded in sea gods, hearth goddesses, oathākeepers, and ancestral spirits. This is a…
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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 unyielding flint. This wasn’t just poetic fancy, my friends. It was a testament to the god’s unwavering wisdom and strength. In the land of pharaohs,…
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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 (į¼Ī“Ī±Ī¼Ī±ĻĪµĪ½) the giant, flayed him, and made a bag (į¼ĻĪŗĪæĻ) of his skin.[1][2] A folk etymology once said that the town of Damascus in Syria derived its name from this event,…
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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 medicine. Wushi (lit. “five rock”) refers to the component mineral drugs, typically: fluorite, quartz, red bole clay, stalactite, and sulfur. Hanshi (lit. “cold food”) refers to eating cold foods and bathing in cold water…
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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 of creation, at the time of the churning of the ocean, and acts as a symbol of divine authority.[2] Legend In Hindu mythology, theĀ devasĀ and theĀ asurasĀ performed…
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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 to obtainĀ amrita, the nectar of immortality. Fourteen different ratnas (treasures) were recovered from this episode, which were distributed between the two clans. But before the amrita could be formed,…
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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, if you dare, a jar teeming with nature’s most venomous vermin – scorpions, centipedes, and snakes, oh my! But this is no petting zoo, my…
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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 that it brought health and good fortune, it had been domesticated for at least 2,000 years. Pliny recorded that it could be taught to do tricks, and in the…
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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 apparatus. Thistle funnels are used to add small volumes of liquids to an exact position. Thistle funnels are found with or without taps. Since they’re…
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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, Herculaneum is famous as one of the few ancient cities to be preserved nearly intact, as the ash that blanketed the town protected it against…
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