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The Norse mythology associates the aurora with the goddess Freya. Freya was the goddess of ...
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It has been suggested that the northern lights, or aurora, represented the reflections of the ...
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According to a primitive Chinese myth, at the beginning of time only chaos existed. The universe ...
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According to the Pawnee Indians, the world was created by the god Tirawa who assigned to the ...
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Pan is the Greek god of wild nature. He protected shepherds, sheep, and goats. Pan's name is ...
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Faunus was a Roman pastoral god. The Romans identified him with the Greek god Pan. Some times ...
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Shango was the fourth king of the ancient Oyo Empire, the West African center of culture and ...
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Susanowo was the god of the sea and the storms according to the ancient Japanese religion Shinto, ...
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Tlaloc was an important deity of rain and fertility in the Aztec mythology. Aztec people were ...
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Tonenili, who is also known as the Water Sprinkler, is the Navaho God of Water. He is responsible ...
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Did you know that different cultures imagined
different constellations, based on their own cultural context?
Did you know that the Maya believed that the Earth was flat, and that there was a jaguar called a bacab in each corner that supported the sky?
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Glaciovolcanoes, they're called, these rumbling mountains where the orange-red fire of magma meets the frozen blue of glaciers. Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which erupted recently, is but one of...
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