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Perun — God of Thunder and War
He rides across the sky in a flaming chariot, throwing lightning bolts...
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Phoenician
The Phoenician ancestors sailed beyond the edge of the known world, founded...
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Piankhi — Pharaoh of Kush
In 728 BCE, the Kushite king Piankhi marched his army north from...
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Popol Vuh — The Book of Creation
Before there was land, there was only the sea, the sky, and...
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Quetzalcoatl — The Feathered Serpent
He was the wind. He was the morning star. He was the...
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Ra — The Sun God
Every morning, Ra sailed his solar barque across the sky. Every night,...
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Ronin — The Masterless Warrior
When a samurai's lord died or was dishonored, the samurai became ronin...
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Royal Kingship — The Yoruba Crown
The Yoruba beaded crown is the most sacred object in Yoruba royal...
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Sacred Knots — The Celtic Knotwork
There is no beginning and no end. The Celtic knotwork — the...
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Sangoma — Healers of the Ancestors
The sangoma does not choose the calling — the ancestors choose them,...
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Scarab — Symbol of Rebirth
The Egyptians watched the scarab beetle roll its ball of dung across...
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Shaka Zulu — The Great Bull Elephant
In twelve years, Shaka transformed a small clan of 1,500 people into...
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Shiva — The Destroyer and Creator
He dances in the cremation grounds. He wears a crescent moon in...
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Songhai
From the river city of Gao rose the largest empire Africa ever...
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Songlines — Maps Written in Music
Every Ancestor Being who walked the continent in the Dreamtime left behind...
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South Asian Heritage
South Asia is home to humanity's oldest continuous civilization and its most...
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SPQR — The Senate and People of Rome
Senatus Populusque Romanus. Four letters that appear on every manhole cover in...
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Suleiman the Magnificent — The Lawgiver
His own people called him the Lawgiver. Europeans called him the Magnificent....
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Tane — God of Forests and Birds
Tane separated his parents. Ranginui (Sky Father) and Papatūānuku (Earth Mother) lay...
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Tangaroa — God of the Sea
All fish. All sea creatures. All things that live in the ocean...
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Tengri — The Eternal Blue Sky
The Mongols did not build temples. They worshipped under the open sky,...
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Tenochtitlan — The Island City
They built it on a lake. An island city connected to the...
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The Alphabet — Gift to All Languages
Every letter you are reading right now is a Phoenician invention. The...
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The Cedar of Lebanon — Sacred Tree of the Phoenicians
Solomon's Temple was built with Lebanese cedar. So was the roof of...
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Tā Moko — The Sacred Tattoo
The tā moko is not decoration. It is autobiography. Each line, spiral,...