A year ago, on February 27, 2020, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe requested that all schools in Japan shut down until...
ancient history
The Floralia was a festival in ancient Rome in honor of the goddess Flora, held April 27 during the Republican...
Robigalia were the feasts dedicated to the god Rubigus so that the wheat did not ripen too early, exposing it...
We are in Peru. The history of the creation of some local cities is sometimes based on the Inca mythological...
The Cerealia was one of the most important festivals in Rome. It was held for seven days from mid- to...
On the Roman religious calendar, the month of April (Aprilis) was in general dedicated to deities who were female or...
Today, March 31, in ancient Rome, the foundation of Luna's temple, the moon goddess, on the Aventine Hill, was remembered....
In the last several centuries before the fall of the Roman Empire (476 A.D.), Roman devotees of the goddess Cybele...
March 5 was the date of an annual, ancient Roman, nautical religious festival called Navigium Isidis, literally “Vessel of Isis”,...
March, spring month par excellence, marked the beginning of the Roman year, which did not end in winter, like ours....
The Anthesteria, in Ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια, was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus, "dead and reborn"....
It was drawn 2,000 years ago and does not depict superheroes, cute little animals or thieves in a luxury car,...
The ancient Romans had a festival for nearly everything and, if you were a god, you got your own holiday....
In ancient Rome, late January marked the beginning of the agricultural calendar because this literally was the time that the...
The name "Carmentalia" indicates the festivals in honor of Carmenta and her nymphs, the Camene, called Antevorta and Postvorta, in...
The 11th January is the day in honor of Juturna, born as a nymph of the sources and later became...
An Agonalia was an obscure archaic religious observance celebrated in ancient Rome several times a year, in honor of various...
2020 is now over, and many have the feeling that it was one of the worst years in history. But...
Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, whatever your holiday, most of the December holiday traditions that we celebrate today can be traced back...
Located within a sheltered bay on the coast of Western Australia, theb Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve appears at first...
Kamakura was the capital and religious center of Japan from the 12th-14th centuries. The city is scattered with medieval Shinto...
We are in Romania. Hidden in the dense forests of the Carpathians, Sarmizegetusa Regia is one of the oldest, most...
According to tradition, on April 21, 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where...
Lugnano in Teverina is a small village, located in the region of central Italy Umbria, surrounded by green hills that...
A binding spell is a magical formula intended to “bind” or restrain a person’s will or behavior. Examples of binding...
