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Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner, a shaman, who is believed to interact with a spirit world through altered...

Palo, also known as Las Reglas de Congo, is a religion with various denominations which developed in Cuba among enslaved Central African...

The naga morsarang, also known as sahan, is a container which is used to store medicine in the culture of Toba people of North Sumatra,...

Pupuk is the name given to a magical substance which was used by the Batak shamans of North Sumatra. The pupuk is the main feature to...

A tunggal panaluan is a magic staff used by shamans of the Batak people, who live in the highlands of North Sumatra, Indonesia....

A magick staff has many names; a spirit staff, a walking stick, a traveler’s weapon, a weary wanderer’s companion. It has been used as a...

When the shaman’s helping spirits work through objects, such as a staff, it is possible to amplify the available spiritual power. For...

Over the centuries, a shaman’s regalia has often included a ritual staff. Different forms of this ritual garb are seen in cultures around...

Navaratna (Sanskrit: नवरत्न) is a Sanskrit compound word meaning “nine gems” or “ratnas”. Jewellery created in this style has important...

In Mesopotamian mythology, Ereshkigal (“Queen of the Great Earth”) was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian...

Inanna is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex, war, justice, and political power. She was originally...

Marchosias appears as a fire spitting chimeric wolf with wings of a griffon and tail of a serpent. In demonology, Marchosias is a great...

Mary was a first-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran. The...

A vampire is a creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In...

The Phurba is probably the most exotically evocative of Vajrayana Buddhist symbols. The Bell and Vajra are sacred and special — but...

Mirror A mirror is an object that reflects light in such a way that, for incident light in some range of wavelengths; the reflected light...

The third eye (also called the mind’s eye, or inner eye) is a mystical and esoteric concept of a speculative invisible eye, usually...

Omniscience is the capacity to know everything. In monotheistic religions, such as Sikhism and the Abrahamic religions, this is an...

Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited power. Monotheistic religions generally attribute omnipotence to only the deity of their...

The Illuminati (plural of Latin illuminatus, “enlightened”) is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically,...