Templum Dianae Media
Article
Dead Animal Meanings
Finding a dead animal can be disturbing, memorable, and emotionally charged. Because death is already one of the strongest human symbols, the discovery often…
Article
Animal Encounters & Omens
Sometimes an animal becomes symbolic not because of what it represents in general, but because of how it appears. A bird at a window,…
Article
Spirit Animals, Totems & Power Animals
Animals have always helped human beings think about qualities that are difficult to express directly: courage, fear, fertility, protection, instinct, intelligence, death, renewal and…
Article
Animal Symbolism
Animals have carried symbolic meaning for thousands of years. They appear beside gods, in myths and folktales, on coats of arms, in dreams, in…
Article
Symbols and Meanings: Spiritual, Ancient & Sacred Symbolism Guide
Symbols and meanings form one of the oldest systems humans have used to express ideas that are difficult to reduce to literal language. Animals,…
Article
Advanced Meditation May Push the Brain Toward a Critical State Before Consciousness Switches Off
A neuroscience study of advanced meditation finds measurable shifts in brain criticality around brief cessation events in which ordinary conscious experience temporarily disappears.
Article
A Giant Radio Galaxy Shows Four Separate Eras of Black Hole Jet Activity
Astronomers have identified a giant radio galaxy that may preserve four separate episodes of black hole jet activity across millions of years.
Article
Ancient Maya City of Caracol Reveals a Religion Built Around Three Tutelary Gods
A new study of Caracol in Belize reveals how triadic tutelary deities connected Maya religion with place, kingship, ritual and political identity.
Article
Nephthys Goddess: Egyptian Mythology, Symbols and Meaning
Nephthys is an ancient Egyptian goddess of mourning, funerary protection, divine assistance, temple space, and the guarded passage between life and death. She is…
Article
Wicca for Beginners: How to Start Your Practice
Beginning Wicca is different from beginning witchcraft in general. Wicca is a modern Pagan religion with its own history, ritual structures, sacred calendar, theology,…
Article
Witchcraft for Beginners: How to Start Practicing
If you are new to witchcraft, the hardest part is usually not finding information but understanding what actually belongs together. Modern witchcraft is broad:…
Article
Othala Rune Meaning: Love, Career, Reversed & Divination
Othala (แ) is rune 24 of the Elder Futhark. Its historical name is tied to inherited estate / ancestral property. In modern rune reading,…
