Tag: Rock paintings

Thousands of rock paintings dating back to the Ice Age discovered in the Amazon

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Tens of thousands of paintings in red ocher dating to the last Ice Age, discovered in Colombia on a rock face that stretches for 13 km, shed light on the inhabitants of the Amazon and its incredible megafauna of more than 12.000 years ago. The "Lost Civilization" theorized by Colonel Percy H. Fawcett, which until a century ago seemed like science fiction, seems more and more real.

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Blood Metaphysics

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Blood has always been considered, in the history of ideas, the vector of a powerful magical force and the vehicle of a complex and varied symbolism, starting with the rock paintings dating back to the Paleolithic to reach the three "book" religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism), passing through the cosmogonic myths of ancient traditions (Babylonian, Hindu, Norse, etc.), obviously without neglecting its use in traditional oriental medicine and its sacrificial value within ceremonial practices.

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Enigmas of the Mediterranean: the Guanches, the 'Peoples of the Sea' and Atlantis

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An attempt at classification (cultural, anthropological and genetic)Β of the mysterious population of the Guanches, ancient inhabitants of the Canaries, and a look at the Hellenic myths concerning the "Fortunate Islands" and the 'mythical' war against Atlantis

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