Enthusiastic pilgrims, interested occultists and curious tourists continue to visit Marie Laveau in her final resting place.
New Orleans is not only a living intersection of cultures, but it’s also a city with a multifaceted, unique and troubled past. Founded nea…
Ancient history of the undead.
Vampires, zombies and other various forms of undead beings show up in modern Western culture as creations of Christian-based mythoi and superstitions. However, the human imagination conceived these types of fearsome creatures l…
This is the commonly misconstrued example of a Voodoo doll that Hollywood would have you believe.
Few religions around the world are fully understood by those who do not actively practice them. Still, it seems that some of these religions can be more easily miscons…
Confucianism: a religion, a philosophy, and even a specific set of rules for governing a nation
Confucianism is a movement that has existed for thousands of years. In the time since it first appeared, it has been labeled as a religion, a philosophy, and even a spec…
Even people of faith may be suprised to learn about these unusual religious practices.
All religious practices, from the most popularized to the most esoteric, have interesting facts buried deep beneath their surfaces. By taking time to uncover some of these intrig…
Cao Dai incorporates many attributes of the world’s largest religions
Religions often form in very interesting ways. By taking a trip back through history, you can see how one religion became another, and then another, and so on. In most cases, a new religion wil…
Buddhism and the art portraying Buddha has changed entirely over the religion’s history.
Buddhism is a religion with deep and ancient roots. Originating sometime around the 6th Century BCE, Buddhism has persisted through historical shifts of all varieties and…
Voodoo blends of African and European religious influences,involving a complex set of doctrines, traditions and practices.
When you hear the word “Voodoo,” what images come to your mind? You might picture hordes of hungry zombies or small, human-shaped cloth ef…
Origins of the use of the Pentagram symbol reach back to ancient history.
The pentagram predates Christianity by as much as 6,000 years, but it’s been defined and interpreted by Christians and non-Christians alike throughout the ages. While it’s been as…
There are Pagan Origins Behind the Christian Concept of Hell
If you grew up as an evangelical Christian, you might have heard all about Hell from the Sunday morning pulpit. A brief survey of the Bible’s New Testament also reveals references in the four Gospels al…