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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Mankind has always recognized certain landscapes and architecture as special, sacred, spiritual or divine. On every inhabited continent, humans have built structures that honor the land around them, the sky above or allow them to climb higher to try to touch the hand of God. But, for many, these monuments were not places [...]
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Ixtab In Mayan culture, the afterlife may have varied from one region to another (such as different beliefs in the Yucatan as compared to the area of Guatamala). In the Yucatan, the evil descended to an afterlife of torment in the underworld while the good were sent to paradise. Those destined for paradise, [...]
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Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove Why does there seem to be an obsession with the number ’7′? For some, the explanation derives from the fact that God created the world in six days and, on the seventh, he rested. The ‘Whole Work of God’ is supposedly founded on that number ’7′. Seven [...]
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James Warren Jones is remembered for one thing and one thing only – the deaths by suicide of 913 men, woman and children through the ingestion of cyanide-laced soft drink, in the compound of Jonestown, Guyana November 18, 1978. The story of Jim Jones is the story of the demagogue who tried to [...]
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