Mahabharata (Sanskrit: Mahābhārata, महाभारत) – one of the two main Hindu epic poems (along with the Ramayana), located in the smriti category and belonging to the main works of Indian literature. The Mahabharata is the greatest epic and longest poem in the world. It consists of 110,000 Sanskrit couplets and is seven times as long … Read more
Panspermia (from ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) – everything and σπέρμα (sperm) – semen) is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe and is spread by cosmic dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets and asteroids, as well as spacecraft carrying unintended microbial contamination, known as directed panspermia. The theory states that life did not originate on Earth, … Read more
Asherah (/ˈæʃərə/; Hebrew: אֲשֵׁרָה (ʾíšērā); Ugaritic: ðŽ€ðŽ˜ðŽ—ðŽš (ʾAṯiratu); Akkadian: Aširat; is a great goddess of ancient Semitic religion. She also appears in Hittite writings as Ašerdu(s) or Ašertu(s). For the Amorites was called Aṯeratum and Athiratu in Ugarit. Significantly, Yahweh and Asherah were a married couple in ancient Israel and Judah. Yahweh (or Jehovah) (Hebrew: … Read more
On February 24, 1942, the United States Navy reported the detection of luminous objects over Los Angeles. An anti-aircraft alarm was raised and gun positions were manned. The alarm was taken seriously, given the state of war the US was in, the previous attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, and the theoretical possibility of … Read more
What does it mean to take someone to heaven in a society dominated by many religions in which God or Gods reside in heaven and have supernatural powers? Isn’t this a form of death by which we, simple people, explain the end of life and being taken to heaven? This is a very simplified but … Read more
