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Which ancient cults would cut out the hearts of live animals and offer them as sacrifices? The Mishnah (Avodah Zarah 2:3) mentions a concept called עורות לבובין which Maimonides and other commentators ...
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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For instance, according to the supernatural wiki, silver is a metal with strong supernatural properties. But historically, why is specifically silver considered harmful to vampires? Is there a reason ...
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Is there a common, categorical name for creatures that become stronger and more powerful by feeding off living beings' emotions, such as fear, anger, greed?
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Odin's ravens would continuously fly all over Midgard to collect information and bring it back to Odin.
In Norse mythology, Huginn (from Old Norse "thought") and Muninn
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He is the father of many gods, but certainly not all, and he is not the creator of the Norse universe.
Is this epithet merely an honorific, referencing Odin's status as patriarch, or are there other ...
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When Hercules fought the Hydra, it had 9 heads I think.
But the way of the Hydra is that when one is cut down 2 grow up.
So obviously some foolish fighters went in and cut some heads before, to ...
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The material I was taught in school spoke of how Artemis never sought the company of man (romantically or sexually). Said material merely described the huntress as 'celibate', but this was sort of a ...
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From Wikipedia article on Hades:
Zeus got the sky, Poseidon got the seas, and Hades received the underworld, the unseen realm to which the souls of the dead go upon leaving the world as well as ...
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