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February 2023

February 11, 2023

Genetic study IDs volcano in Turkey as Sumerian Garden of Eden

The Sumerians engraved the myth of the Garden of Eden on clay tablets about 5,000...

February 07, 2023

Early eco-farmers relied on sacred, seed-bearing migratory birds

Hunter-gatherers lived in extremely busy bird migration corridors in Panama 13,000 years ago and in...

February 03, 2023

Sacred birds may have guided ancient mariners across the Pacific

The ancient and cross-cultural belief that birds contained the souls of ancestors may have played...

January 2023

January 28, 2023

Evidence suggests mysterious Denisovans followed birds around Asia

The fossil record and genetic evidence paints a clear picture of where our mysterious road-tripping...

January 25, 2023

A sweat lodge in Snowmass with Wallace Black Elk

It was the day before Thanksgiving 27 years ago and I was the only reporter...

January 24, 2023

The digital age re-branded the cloud. Are the storm gods angry?

It was a Tuesday morning in October 2012 when the IT guy said my e-mail...

January 21, 2023

The blossoming of the silver flower: shamanic rituals of creation

Reenacting the moment of creation inside the body and mind has long been a cross-cultural...

January 18, 2023

The science of creation myths and how the oceans were filled

It’s hard to find a more important moment in Earth’s history than the very first...

January 15, 2023

Introducing the mythical whooper swan, Virgin Queen of birds

Naturalists of the ancient world once believed the whooper swan was the original ancestor of...

January 12, 2023

Evidence of a Neanderthal religion dates back 175,000 years

An avalanche of scholarly studies in recent decades has yielded enough evidence to make a...

January 09, 2023

Migration map suggests birds led St. Brendan to Iceland

It's well accepted that the Irish version of Christianity is more rooted in the natural...

January 05, 2023

Blockbuster news from Ireland or random cracks in a stone? The mysterious swan of K-15 at megalithic Knowth

It all started in the spring of 2014 during a visit to the 5,200-year-old megalithic...

January 01, 2023

Science and mythology agree: Birdsong inspired human language

A profound connection between birdsong and human language has been identified by recent linguistic and...

December 2022

December 29, 2022

Red deer, snails & birds: talismans of rebirth in ancient human burials

The three animals appearing most often in ancient human burials over the greatest span of...

December 20, 2022

Healing bodies & delivering souls: The pagan roots of Christmas trees

Long before the advent of Judaism and Christianity, the world tree was a sacred conduit...

December 19, 2022

The sacredness of turning on the solstice, from death to life

Each year the sun god Apollo was believed to travel north in a chariot drawn...

December 18, 2022

Live births and reincarnation: A new theory of the winter solstice

Long before the advent of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, reincarnation was a near-universal belief that...

December 15, 2022

Music, crystals & rainbows: Welcome to a Neolithic winter solstice

To be a fly on the wall at a stone temple during a Neolithic-era celebration...

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