The English word “pirate” is derived from the Latin pirata (“pirate, corsair, sea robber”), which comes from Greek (peiratēs), “brigand”, from (peiráomai), “I attempt”, from (peîra), “attempt, experience”. The meaning of the Greek word peiratēs literally is “anyone who attempts something”. Over time it came to be used of anyone who engaged in robbery or…
Celestial bodies in our Solar System show harmonic resonance with the Sirius Star System and many cultures have had a long interest in our relationship with it. What the naked eye perceives as a single star is actually a binary star system. The ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Babylonians, Indians and Chinese all had special understanding…
Beneath the surface of the Earth, hidden away from the light of the sun, lies a labyrinthine world of shadows, serpents and untold secrets—the Seven Underworlds of Hindu cosmology, known as the Sapta Patalas.
The Kingdom of Kush, also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt. The native name of the Kingdom was recorded in Egyptian as kꜣš. The name Kush has been connected with Cush in the…
Hindu Vedic texts describe four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle—Krita (Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dwapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga—where, starting in order from the first age, each Yuga’s length decreases by one-fourth (25%), giving proportions of 4:3:2:1 As a Yuga Cycle progresses through the four Yugas, each Yuga’s length and humanity’s general moral…
