The word ‘cannibal’ is derived from the Spanish name for the Carib people first encountered by Columbus in the ‘New World’. This native group of the Caribbean (now extinct) butchered and ate prisoners of war as a routine of battle. Carib Native Cannibals The scientific term for cannibalism is ‘anthropophagy’, the [...]
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Sophia, Greek goddess of wisdom, sought after, prayed for, fought over but never fully attained by the ‘lovers of wisdom’ the philo sophers. In ancient Greece, the goddess was the personification of wisdom. The Goddess Sophia Wisdom is the central theme of many books in the Old Testament as well as [...]
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The term ‘geometry‘ means ‘measure of the earth’, a Greek word inherited from ancient Egypt. The yearly flooding of the Nile caused chaos in the fields and each year, after the waters had receded, ‘geometry’, the redefining and re-establishment of boundaries, was carried out. It was the re-establishment of the principle of order [...]
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Synchronicity, a concept first proposed in the scientific literature by Carl Jung in the 1920s, is the ‘experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance but which are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner.’ It is an idea that has been claimed by some [...]
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Whether because of politics, ethnic or nationalist preferences or really because of religious reasons, the papacy, based in the city of Rome since the Christian church was established as the religion of the Roman Empire by Emperor Constantine, moved to Avignon, France in 1305 (see post: The Palace of the Popes). [...]
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