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Demonic mask

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The mask featured grotesque was found in the small island of Mozia before Marsala in Sicily, during excavations in a Carthaginian sanctuary of the sixth century BC . Within the sacred they were found bones of animals and children who were sacrificed to the gods, remember the horrible practices still present stems. In the context horrible event, do not leave indifferent the defined demonic mask on his scary attitude. The eyes are curved upwards and borders the mouth into a grin distorted. It was worn on the occasion of the sacrifice in the Tophet, the sanctuary where the bodies were burned as gifts to the gods Baal Hammon and Astarte. The practice mainly took the firstborn males, the most precious things you had to offer. This mask, apparently smiling, expressed happiness for the gift to the gods, but also facial contraction denoted a desperate cry for the terrible sacrifice, at the height of despair man distorts eyes and mouth in this way. This type of expression defined grot

Eclipse egg

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The Sestino National Antiquarium contains interesting Roman remains dating back to the eleventh century BC, including a Venus from Sestino, and a special circular funerary temple shrine, discovered in 1904, protoaugustea of ​​age who had to have a stairway access, disappeared. For the amount of the exhibits, the museum has been divided into three areas which are distributed vertically in three buildings to the square of the church of San Pancrazio, the main church of the city. Sestino is an Italian town of 1,385 inhabitants in the province of Arezzo in Tuscany The museum houses a rather curious object, not shown, so that the vision must ask. It is the Egg of Sestino or egg eclipse, a simple chicken egg shell which reports on a strange natural engraving showing a solar eclipse. It is good to emphasize the circular body and the rays, a regular pattern, as if he had been impressed by an intelligent hand. Instead, it was found in a chicken coop, a farmer, the next day to a solar ecli

The Magician tarot card

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The  Magician is a highly symbolic and allegorical figure. It is represented as a young magician holding a magic wand in hand, a symbol of stability and power, and is placed in front of his desk, on which are supported some objects that have a relationship with the rest of the playing cards. Its name comes from the term (Pagad) Master Chief, but (Gad) alone takes on the meaning of Fortuna. In fact among its main meanings is the willpower, personal skills, the skill and creativity. The Magician is a safe and determined man in the positive meaning divination. The downside however indicates that it has to do with a deceptive and treacherous person who creates confusion and instability in their lives, but above all prevents you from achieving your goals and not allows you to overcome the difficulties. The shape of his hat reminiscent of the infinity symbol also because he himself is the infinite as a principle of vibration, 1. Besides being the first Tarot card plays a particu

Little People World

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Ever since we were children, reading a story or watching a movie, we learned about the protagonists of the fairy world; so we found the elves inhabitants of the valleys, the fairies of flowers and woods, the gnomes of the Crystal Caves, the elves of Rivendell, and so on. These creatures of the Little People, even if they are the best known, are not the only ones to inhabit the fairytale world. In addition to these there are others, certainly less famous, whose deeds are given to the rich literature and northern European traditions . Bean-Nighe (from Scotland) This creature is accustomed to being near brooks and streams where lava mortuary garments of the blood of those who are close to death. Legends say that the Bean Nighe are women died while they were giving birth and then wandered until death he had not received normally. Of Scottish origin these creatures have webbed feet, large pendulous breasts and a huge crooked tooth. A mortal who approaches her while she is washing if h

Hollow Earth Theory

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The first scientist to say the probable existence of an empty space inside the planet was Edmond Halley (1656-1742), the well-known who discovered the comet. According to its terrestrial electromagnetism studies, the Earth had to be hollow, and inside it had to find another incandescent globe, a nucleus capable as another sun to illuminate the underworld. This theory was hotly contested, but others continued the Halley studies, such as Leonardo Euler (1707-1783), his most influential follower. A few years later, a great contribution to this theory was made by John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829), who volunteered to empirically prove the reality of the phenomenon, declaring himself ready to take a trip to the North Pole, which would lead in the cavity of the Earth . He was never taken seriously and was reduced to write a novel, Symzonia, in which he described the hypothetical journey of Captain Adam Seaborn at the center of the Earth. Here, Seaborn discovered the existence of a world q