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The Vedas — Songs of Ancient Wisdom
The Rigveda contains hymns composed over three thousand years ago that are...
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The Wandjina — Spirit Beings of the Sky
They have large oval heads, enormous eyes, no mouths, and halos that...
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The Ziggurat — Temple Mountain
The ziggurat was a mountain built in a land without mountains. In...
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Thor — God of Thunder
When the thunder rolls across the sky, the Norse heard the wheels...
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Tlaloc — Lord of Rain and Water
He wore goggles made of serpents. He carried a lightning bolt. He...
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Topkapi Palace — Heart of the Ottoman Court
For four hundred years, the Topkapi Palace on the tip of the...
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Torii Gates — Sacred Thresholds
You pass through the torii and you leave the ordinary world behind....
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Tūmatauenga — God of War and People
When the children of Ranginui and Papatūānuku debated how to separate their...
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Ubuntu — I Am Because We Are
Ubuntu. The Nguni Bantu concept that has no single English translation. It...
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Uluru — The Sacred Heart of Australia
It rises 348 meters from the flat red plain, changes color from...
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Valhalla — Hall of the Fallen
To die in battle was not defeat — it was invitation. The...
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Veles — God of the Underworld
He rules the roots of Yggdrasil's Slavic equivalent — the world below,...
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Vishnu — The Preserver
When the cosmos tilts toward chaos, Vishnu descends. He has done so...
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Waka Hourua — The Voyaging Canoe
They crossed the Pacific without instruments. The Māori ancestors read the ocean...
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Xibalba — The Maya Underworld
The Maya underworld was not a place of punishment. It was a...
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Yggdrasil — The World Tree
At the center of all Norse cosmology stands Yggdrasil — the great...
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Yoruba Proverbs — Owe L'esin Oro
Owe l'esin oro, oro l'esin owe. Proverbs are the horses of speech;...
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Zeus — King of Olympus
He overthrew his father Cronus, divided the world with his brothers, and...
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Zoroaster — Prophet of Sacred Fire
He taught that the universe is a battleground between Ahura Mazda —...
