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A_1_10 — Marduk — Supreme Deity of Babylon and Dragon Slayer
Marduk (Sumerian: dAMAR.UTU, "Sun Calf of the Storm"; Akkadian: Marduk) is the patron deity of Babylon and, from the late 2nd millennium BCE onward, the supreme god of the Babylonian pantheon. Originally a minor city-god
A_2_13 — Sibylline Oracles: Prophecy Between Judaism and Paganism
The Sibylline Oracles (Oracula Sibyllina) are a collection of 12 surviving books (numbered 1–8, 11–14, with books 9–10 lost) of prophetic poetry in Greek hexameter verse, composed between the 2nd century BCE and the 7th
A_2_12 — Pistis Sophia: Gnostic Cosmology of Light and Redemption
The Pistis Sophia ("Faith Wisdom") is a major Gnostic text preserved in the Askew Codex (British Library, Add. MS 5114), a 4th–5th century CE Coptic manuscript containing four books of post-resurrection teachings attribu
A_2_11 — Book of Jubilees: Angelic Calendar and Retold Genesis
The Book of Jubilees (also called Leptogenesis or "Little Genesis") is a Second Temple Jewish text (composed c. 160–150 BCE) that retells the narrative of Genesis 1 through Exodus 12 as a revelation dictated to Moses on
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_02 — The Norse Eddas: Cosmology, Ragnarök, and the World Tree
The Norse Eddas — the Poetic Edda (anonymous, compiled ~1270 CE from older oral sources) and the Prose Edda (written ~1220 CE by Snorri Sturluson) — preserve the most complete surviving mythology of the pre-Christian Ger
A_4_20 — Mandaean Ginza Rabba: Living Gnostic Scripture
The Ginza Rabba (Ginzā Rbā, "Great Treasure"), also known as the Book of Adam, is the principal holy scripture of the Mandaeans — the world's only surviving Gnostic religion, practiced today by approximately 60,000–100,0
A_4_11 — Upanishads — Core Vedantic Philosophy
The Upanishads (उपनिषद्, "sitting near" a teacher) are the concluding philosophical sections of the Vedas and the foundational texts of Vedantic philosophy. Composed between approximately 800–200 BCE, the principal (mukh
A_4_37 — Rig Veda Astronomical Dating Analysis
The astronomical dating of the Rig Veda is one of the most contentious and consequential problems in Indology, Vedic studies, and the broader field of ancient chronology. The Rig Veda — the oldest of the four Vedas and a
A_4_09 — Avestan Texts — Gathas, Vendidad, and Yasna
The Avesta is the primary scripture of Zoroastrianism, the religion founded by the prophet Zarathushtra (Greek: Zoroaster) in ancient Iran. The surviving Avesta — a fraction of a much larger corpus reportedly destroyed d
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
A_3_16 — Renaissance Esotericism: Hermeticism, Ficino & the Occult Revival
The Italian Renaissance witnessed a dramatic revival of Hermetic, Neoplatonic, and Kabbalistic thought that fundamentally shaped Western intellectual history. In 1463, Cosimo de' Medici commissioned Marsilio Ficino to tr
A_3_12 — Epic of Sundiata: Mandinka Foundation Myth and West African Oral Epic
The Epic of Sundiata (Sunjata, Soundjata, Son-Jara) is the foundational oral epic of the Mandinka (Manding) peoples of West Africa, narrating the life of Sundiata Keita (c. 1217–1255 CE), the historical founder of the Ma
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_5_12 — Art Patronage: Medici, Mughal Courts, and the Economics of Culture
Art patronage — the financial, institutional, or social support of artistic production by individuals, courts, religious bodies, states, or corporations — has been the primary economic engine of art creation for most of
U_5_07 — Art Therapy and Healing Through Art
Art therapy — the clinical use of art-making within a therapeutic relationship to improve psychological well-being — and the broader phenomenon of healing through creative expression bridge the domains of art, psychology
U_5_06 — Art Forgery and Authenticity
Art forgery — the creation of works intended to deceive buyers, dealers, or institutions into believing they are by another (usually more famous or valuable) artist — is as old as the art market itself and raises profoun
U_2_14 — Minimalism in Art: Reduction, Silence, and Essential Form
Minimalism — emerging in the early 1960s in New York as a radical reaction against the emotional excess of Abstract Expressionism — reduced art to its most fundamental elements: simple geometric forms, industrial materia
U_2_05 — Photography and Visual Culture
Photography — from Greek phōs (light) + graphē (drawing) — transforms light into permanent images. Origins: the camera obscura (darkened chamber projecting inverted images through a pinhole) was known to Aristotle and us
W_4_02 — Polynesian Navigation and Rapa Nui
The Polynesian settlement of the Pacific Ocean — the largest migration in human prehistory — colonized virtually every inhabitable island across 16 million km² of open ocean using non-instrument navigation techniques of
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