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A_4_27 — Korean Samguk Yusa: Myths, Miracles, and the Foundations of Korean Identity
The Samguk Yusa (삼국유사, "Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms") is a collection of legends, folktales, Buddhist miracle stories, and historical accounts relating to the Three Kingdoms of Korea (Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla) a
C_5_18 — Sami Nordic Shamanic Traditions
The Sami (historically "Lapp," now considered pejorative) are the indigenous people of Sápmi, spanning northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. Their shamanic tradition, centered on the noaidi
Y_2_16 — Near-Death Experience Latest Research
Near-death experiences (NDEs) — the vivid, structured experiences reported by approximately 10–20% of cardiac arrest survivors (including out-of-body perception, tunnel experiences, life reviews, encounters with deceased
Y_2_04 — Neuroscience of Death — Terminal Lucidity and Dying Brain
The neuroscience of death has emerged as a legitimate research frontier, revealing that dying is not a simple cessation but a complex neurobiological process with surprising features. Michael Nahm and Bruce Greyson's doc
U_1_20 — Electronic & Experimental Music: Synthesis, Sampling & Algorithmic Composition
Electronic and experimental music — from Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrète (1948) to contemporary algorithmic composition — represents one of the most transformative developments in the history of sound, severing the a
W_5_07 — Sami Shamanism and Circumpolar Traditions
The circumpolar world — the vast band of Arctic and subarctic territory stretching from Scandinavia across Siberia to Alaska, Canada, and Greenland — is home to indigenous peoples whose spiritual traditions represent som
Y_3_20 — Enlightenment Neuroscience: Satori, Samadhi & Mystical States
Enlightenment — known as satori or kensho in Zen Buddhism, samadhi in Hindu yogic traditions, fana in Sufism, theosis in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and unio mystica in the Western mystical tradition — refers to state
A_1_02 — Sumerian ME: Divine Programs of Civilization
In Sumerian mythology, the ME (pronounced "may," 𒈨) are divine decrees, powers, or "programs" that govern every aspect of civilization and cosmic order. They are not mere abstract concepts — they are described as objects
A_2_02 — Nag Hammadi & Gnostic Texts
The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of 13 leather-bound papyrus codices containing 52 texts, discovered in 1945 near Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt. Written in Coptic and dated to the 3rd–4th centuries CE (with originals p
A_4_05 — Rig Veda and Vedic Cosmology
The Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ṛgveda, "Praise-Knowledge") is the oldest surviving religious text of the Indo-European world — composed in archaic Sanskrit between approximately 1500–1200 BCE (with some hymns possibly older). I
A_4_08 — Bhagavata Purana — Naga and Avatar Sections
The Bhagavata Purana (also called Srimad Bhagavatam) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas ("Great Ancient Histories") of Hindu literature, composed in Sanskrit between approximately the 6th and 10th centuries CE. Its twelv
A_4_01 — The Mahabharata: India's Epic of Cosmic War
The Mahabharata is the longest epic poem ever composed — at ~100,000 verses (1.8 million words), it is roughly 10 times the combined length of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Attributed to the sage Vyasa ("the compiler"), it
A_4_34 — Polynesian Creation Myths: Rangi, Papa & Maui
Polynesian creation mythology represents one of the most internally coherent and geographically distributed oral cosmological systems on Earth — spanning approximately 25 million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean ac
A_4_16 — Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) and Bon Tradition
The Bardo Thodol (བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ, "Liberation Through Hearing in the Intermediate State"), popularly known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a collection of funerary texts attributed to the 8th-century Indian master Pa
A_3_07 — Kalevala and Finnish-Baltic Mythology
The Kalevala is the Finnish national epic, compiled from oral folk poetry (runo songs) by physician-scholar Elias Lönnrot and first published in 1835 (32 poems) with an expanded edition of 50 poems in 1849. Lönnrot trave
U_1_12 — Hip-Hop Culture: MCing, DJing, Breaking, and Graffiti as Art Form
Hip-hop — originating in the South Bronx, New York City, in the early-to-mid-1970s — is among the most culturally consequential artistic movements of the 20th century, growing from block-party culture in economically dev
U_1_18 — Electronic Music Synthesis and Sound Art
Electronic music — music produced or modified using electronic technology — evolved from experimental laboratory curiosities of the early 20th century into one of the dominant cultural forces of the modern era. [KEY FIND
U_1_11 — Opera: Musical Theatre, Spectacle, and National Identity
Opera — dramatic works in which the text is entirely or mostly sung to orchestral accompaniment — is one of Western civilization's most ambitious and complex art forms, integrating music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle,
U_1_14 — World Dance Traditions: Ballet, Bharatanatyam, Flamenco, and Hula
Dance — the oldest art form, predating language, visual art, and music in some theoretical models — is the organization of human movement in time and space for expressive, ritual, social, or aesthetic purposes. Every kno
U_3_01 — Tattoo & Body Modification Traditions
Tattooing and body modification are among the most ancient and widespread human cultural practices, with archaeological evidence stretching back at least 5,300 years and likely much further.
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