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If the previous articles of the Greek gods, was described gods of Mount Olympus (the so-called Olympic) now will talk about the gods of sea and of underground. And I’ll start with the most powerful sea god, brother of Zeus, the mighty Poseidon (Neptune). I remember when I was little and rested in the Crimea on the Black Sea, there was held an interesting “celebration of Neptune” – dedication of people in the watery element, various competitions, fun, mermaids and…

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Continues the story of the gods of the Greek pantheon, the first part can be read here. And the second part will begin with one of the most famous Greek goddesses – Aphrodite beautiful (or Venus)

Gods in the religion of the ancient Greeks too much, but they are all very interesting and charismatic characters. It is worth noting that the gods of the Greek pantheon, even more like ordinary people than actually on the gods. As they say, if the gods created humans in his own image, people will pay them back in the same coin. In short, the Greek gods are all the same drawbacks as the ordinary mortals, sometimes they are just envious,…

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Today, we are with you, like a submarine will dive into the depths of fascinating Greek mythology. After all, the Greek myths are the most interesting of this core religion of the ancient Greeks. The word “myth” from the Greek legend translates word, story or teaching. It so happened that the Greek myths are not just interesting history, and highly symbolic message, which incorporates many of the important things. Maybe this is the secret of such great popularity of Greek…

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The pagan religion of ancient Greece, perhaps the most famous among the rest. Indeed, who among us does not know the great Zeus, who reigns over the whole world with high Mount Olympus, warlike Athena, the beautiful goddess of love Aphrodite, (in wide circles better known as Venus) rogue Hermes, the sea god Poseidon (Neptune). Well, many, many different gods of the Greek pantheon, who entered the everyday language of many people and not just the Greeks. For example, diseases…

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The first part can be read here. As sung in one song: “Moscow was not built.” Similarly, the prophetic office of Mohammed did not immediately become popular among ordinary Arab Bedouin. The Arabs at the time were pagans and worshiped many different gods, embodies those or other forces of nature. Great respect enjoyed a huge black stone of the Kaaba in Mecca, which was probably of meteoric origin. For the Arabs, of all times, this rock is one of the…

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Prophet Muhammad – one of the brightest personalities in the history of the founder of the youngest world religion – Islam, was born on April 20 of the year 570 in the Arab city of Mecca. Interestingly, the birthday of Mohammed and the same day of his death, for Muslims, this is another sign of the God of the special mission of the Prophet in the history of mankind. According to legend, during labor on the boy’s mother – Amin,…

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In today’s article, we’ll touch on a little-known part of the biography of the famous Ukrainian writer and poet Ivan Franko. This piece of his life for some reason not covered in school lessons in literature and completely unknown to many people that the “great Kamenyar” (so called respectable Franko) was seriously interested and fascinated by Eastern philosophy of Buddhism and Hinduism. Honestly for me it was also a small opening, which I want to share.

It is Autumnal. Soon September 23 will be held one significant astronomical event – the autumnal equinox. That same day, the amounts of light and dark hours in the day are equal. And the length of the day is the same as March 21 – the day of the vernal equinox. In ancient times, our ancestors of the ancient Slavs (and various other nations) are astronomical dates were often enormous symbolic and sacred significance. And if the value of the…

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