World Mythology Archive
Brahma
Brahma is the Hindu god associated with creation, knowledge, and the Vedas. He is featured prominently in creation myths, and in a number of places is associated with Prajapati. Ancient Vedic Religion often knows Prajapati as the Hiranyagarbha, however in […]
Continue ReadingHiranyagarbha: The Golden Embryo of Creation
In Vedic Cosmology the Hiranyagarbha is the source that all creation emanated from. In the formless, darkness of the Universe before creation, God created the Hiranyagarbha in the primordial waters. Out of this golden embryo all of creation emanated. Hiranyagarbha […]
Continue ReadingVedic Religion
Vedic Religion is the earliest layers of the religion of India, the ancient religion that made its way into India carried by the Aryan people (“noble” or “royal” people) who were the children of the ancestors of the ancient Iranian […]
Continue ReadingHvergelmir
Hvergelmir is a place within the cosmos of Norse Religion, where the waters of the Earth rise, deep beneath the roots of Yggdrasil. The great spring under the roots of the cosmic tree is said to be in the land […]
Continue ReadingNastrond
Nastrond (written with the appropriate accents as Náströnd) is one of the halls in the afterlife, Hel, according to Norse Religion. While there are many good halls, Náströnd is not one of them. Nastrond translates to “Strand of the Dead” […]
Continue ReadingAesir
The Aesir are the gods of Norse Religion, a tribe of divine, supernatural beings who feature heavily in their myths and legends relating to life, death, the creation of the world, and the creation of humanity. An exact definition of […]
Continue ReadingHow Grain Came To Sumer (Sumerian Myth, Translation)
The story of How grain came to Sumer is the account within Sumerian Religion of the distant ages of deep antiquity before humans had known grain, and how it eventually came to be domesticated in their lands of southern Mesopotamia. […]
Continue ReadingAdapa
Adapa is an ancient figure from Sumerian Religion, who was preserved in historical records for over a thousand years. It is not exactly clear what he was, or the exact role he played in ancient religion, because the accounts vary. […]
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The Ancient Connection Between Sumerian, Semitic, and Indo-European Religions
For many years I have been pestered by a nagging thought. An idea on the periphery of my consciousness scratching away like an insect, never letting me rest. This idea began to taunt me long before I had the breadth […]
Continue ReadingTree of Life
The Tree of Life is a motif found in religions around the world. The tree of life is often planted at the center of the world, the Axis Mundu of that respective culture, often in a sacred garden and can […]
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