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Seventy-seven fragments of his writings remain, mostly from his four-volume Attica, which discussed the cult, religion, and institutions of Attica in its mythical past, based largely on Atthides. [2] According to the Suda , a 10th-century encyclopedia, he wrote both prose and verse.
Choronzon / ˌ k oʊ ˌ r oʊ n ˈ z oʊ n / is a demon that originated in writing with the 16th-century occultists Edward Kelley and John Dee within the latter's occult system of Enochian magic.
The son of Cephalus of Syracuse, Polemarchus had two brothers, the famous orator Lysias [1] and Euthydemus, and a sister who married Brachyllus. Polemarchus and Lysias traveled to Thurii when the latter was 15-years old.
The Story of Kamikuishiki Village (上九一色村物語, Kamikuishiki-mura Monogatari) is a satirical Japanese doujin resource management strategy game developed by HappySoft and published by Aum Soft [2] that was released for PC-98 on June 29, 1995. [1]
Chaos magic, also spelled chaos magick, [1] [2] is a modern tradition of magic. [3] Emerging in England in the 1970s as part of the wider neo-pagan and esoteric subculture, [4] it drew heavily from the occult beliefs of artist Austin Osman Spare, expressed several decades earlier. [3]
Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion centered on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity ( yazata ) Mithra , the Roman Mithras was linked to a new and distinctive imagery, and the degree of continuity between Persian and Greco-Roman ...
The Cult of the Phoenix" Short story by Jorge Luis Borges: Original title: La secta del Fénix: Translator: Anthony Bonner: Country: Argentina: Language: Spanish: Genre(s) Fantasy, short story: Publication; Published in: Ficciones (2nd ed) Media type: Print: Publication date: 1952: Published in English: 1962
Halae was mentioned by Euripides [1] as close to the chain of Karystia.In this place was conserved a statue of Artemis Tauria brought from Tauris by Iphigenia and Orestes.. In the deme, expiatory rites were held which consisted of withdrawing drops of blood from the throat of a man by means of a knife; furthermore, they had midnight feasts and Pyrrhic dances.