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  Aboriginal

  For sixty thousand years — longer than any other civilization on earth...

  Aboriginal

• Achilles — Greatest of Warriors

  His mother dipped him in the River Styx to make him invulnerable,...

• African Heritage

  The cradle of humanity and the birthplace of civilization. African heritage spans...

• Ancestor Altars — The Unbroken Chain

  In Chinese tradition, the dead are not gone. They require food offerings,...

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  Ancient Egyptian

  Three thousand years of pharaohs, pyramids, and gods on the Nile —...

  Ancient Egyptian

• Anubis — God of the Dead

  Before judgment. Before the scales. Before the feather of Ma'at is weighed...

• Apedemak — The Lion God of Nubia

  Where Egypt had Horus the falcon, Nubia had Apedemak the lion —...

• Athena — Goddess of Wisdom

  She was born fully armored, springing from the head of Zeus with...

• Augustus — First Emperor of Rome

  He found Rome a city of brick and left it a city...

• Avalon — The Isle of the Blessed

  When Arthur fell at Camlann, they did not bury him. They carried...

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  Aztec

  The ancestors of Tenochtitlan built temples to the sky and calendars that...

  Aztec

• Baal — Lord of Heaven

  He was the storm god, the rider of clouds, the lord who...

• Baba Yaga — The Wildwood Witch

  She lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs deep in...

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  Babylonian

  Babylon sat at the center of the ancient world — a city...

  Babylonian

• Benin

  A walled empire of brass-casters and god-kings, whose stolen art is still...

• Berserker — Warriors of Odin

  They wore bear skins. They fought in trances. They felt no pain,...

• Bestsellers

  Our most honored pieces across all 23 ancestral traditions.

• Book of the Dead — Spells for Eternity

  The Egyptians called it the Book of Coming Forth by Day —...

• Bushido — The Way of the Warrior

  Righteousness. Courage. Benevolence. Respect. Honesty. Honor. Loyalty. The seven virtues of Bushido...

• Carthage — The Great Rival of Rome

  Carthage must be destroyed. The Roman senator Cato ended every speech —...

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  Celtic

  Across Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany, Celtic ancestors wove their wisdom into knotwork,...

  Celtic

• Cernunnos — Lord of Wild Things

  He sits cross-legged in the forest, antlers rising from his head, a...

• Cherry Blossoms — Beauty and Impermanence

  The cherry blossom falls after seven days. That is precisely the point....

• Chichen Itza — The Sacred City

  El Castillo pyramid has 365 steps — one for each day of...

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  Chinese Ancestral

  Chinese ancestor veneration is one of the oldest living traditions on earth...

  Chinese Ancestral

• Clan Crests — Mon of the Samurai

  Every samurai family had a mon — a geometric crest worn on...

• Coatlicue — Mother of Gods

  She wears a skirt of writhing serpents and a necklace of human...

• Confucius — The Great Teacher

  He spent his life trying to convince rulers to govern with virtue...

• Constantinople — City of the World's Desire

  For eleven hundred years, Constantinople was the greatest city in the Christian...

• Cú Chulainn — The Hound of Ulster

  He was seven years old when he killed the hound of Culann...