Portraits
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Women
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Ritual
2 March 2008
The Daring Daughters of Kahena
Max Freedom Long was a young American student of world religions who, in 1917, took a teaching job in Hawaii. There he heard of guarded references to native magicians known as "Kahunas," who could heal by magic, kill at a distance, (...)
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Antiquity
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Religion
21 June 2007
Egypt: origin of the Greek culture
Schools still teach that the Western civilisation is a child of Greece. Until a few decades ago, many schools did not mention the cultural achievements of Egypt or Sumer - and many schools in Europe still pay no attention to the (...)
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International
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Canary Island
23 September 2006
Egyptologists meet in La Laguna
Spanish Egyptologists were in La Laguna last week to attend a congress hosted by the university, one of the few in Spain which boasts a department of Egyptology.
And it was the university’s plain-speaking professor of (...)
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Lifestyle
25 January 2006
The Bilmawen Carnival
An Amazigh ancestral tradition.
The masquerades which flourished during the pre-colonial era [Before 1912] in Morocco are some of the truly interesting carnivalistic phenomena, among which is the jester, as it combines the merry (...)
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Lifestyle
25 January 2006
ANZAR
Anzar is the masculine name for rain, but rain with a distinct personality. Anzar is the benevolent element which helps the vegetation grow, crops to be harvested and animals to flourish. In this way rain, likened to seed or semen, (...)
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