Last night the Discovery Channel premiered “The Exorcist Files.” When initially announced, the show was touted as a partnership between Discovery and the Vatican:
“The Vatican is an extraordinarily hard place to get access to, but we explained we’re not going to try to tell people what to think,” says Discovery president and GM [...]
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Over at Live Science, Owen Jarus reports on a visually stunning and spooky mask recently discovered in Pennsylvania:
The lead archaeologist thinks the mask dates to about 900 AD and may have been used by a shaman. Other archaeologists think the mask may be more recent and aren’t sure whether it was a ritual or personal [...]
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This is really cool — an elderly woman buried in the Levant 12,000 years ago with a plethora of grave goods and indications of a feast for her send off. As reported by Live Science, this was a critical transitional period from foraging to agriculture:
Prehistoric leftovers of a feast 12,000 years ago at an apparent [...]
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I came across this nicely altered image while searching for photos of shamans. With the inlaid jade, it looks a bit more like a Mayan king’s headdress than a mere shaman’s. Regardless, here’s to hoping for some national healing!
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Over at WorldNews, Dallas Darling (love that name) has posted a nice story asking “What Kind of Christianity Should Texas Teach?“ There are, of course, many kinds of Christianities, though the Texas School Board apparently believes Christianity is an essential unity and their perception of this fictitious unity (and false history) should be taught in [...]
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