The wolf always played an important role in the life of the Lakota Indians. He was both a threat and a wise totem animal. There was a wolf cult called “Šung'manitu”, to which special priests and medicine men belonged and whose ritual robes included a wolf's fur under which the cult member could hide. The legends of the Lakota Indians also reflect the meaning [...]

Asceticism and meditation are important tools for finding the inner center, as it is practiced in Buddhism. If you cleanse your body of all poisons and external influences and go into meditation, it is possible to climb completely new levels of consciousness. The Buddhist monk strives for the dissolution of the [...] during his path, which lasts his whole life.

Hephaestus, the god of fire, created Pandora at the behest of Zeus as a punishment for humanity for Prometheus' theft of fire. Her name means something like “all-gifts”. Endowed by the gods of the Greek pantheon with all the gifts they could bestow on her, she was absolutely irresistible to men. Epimetheus is [...]

The satyr is a hybrid being and demon of Greek mythology. He has similarities with the god Pan and the god Priapus. Dionysus is considered the father of the satyr. He is not a god in the sense of a radiant, flawless and exalted entity. It is a very worldly, hedonistic figure. But where the father can still [...]

Dullahan can be found in Ireland. There they appear as dead, often armed and headless riders. The appearance of a Dullahan, also known as a Gan Ceann, is a terrible death omen. The Gan Ceann can actually speak, but only the name of the person whose imminent death it announces. Particular caution should be exercised at the end of August / beginning of September and [...]

People have always had an ambivalent relationship with the sea. It has been a source of wealth and prosperity for fishermen and traders, but also an unpredictable enemy and the final resting place for innumerable people. In ancient times people began to kill themselves at sea by building ships that were only designed for this purpose [...]

One day Condla the Red was out with his father when suddenly a woman approached him in a robe more beautiful than anything he had ever seen. She told him that she was from the Otherworld. There would be no death, no sin, no war here. Here everyone can eat continuously without having to look at their own food [...]

The significance of Aries for human history is a history full of sacrifice, of struggle and strength, but also always of originality. Norse mythology puts spring at his feet: the goddess Freya climbs the sky in a ram's chariot in April. From there it sends storms, blowing snow, hail, rain and even sunshine unleashed. [...]

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The "black death" (also known as "the plague") killed a quarter of European humanity. Truly demonic times, which the post-war generation, already battered and disappointed with life, again extended the cold hand of death. If the war hit mainly the men in the population, the black death now reached the remaining women. This, from the [...]

Draugr, or Draugar, are deceased in Old Norse who come back to life after their death - also called revenants. Many stories, such as the legend of Asmund and Aran, tell of how dead flesh is brought back to life and the dead come upon the living with irrepressible hunger. A draugr was created when [...]

The owl: Always a symbol of wisdom and infinity. It triggers fascination and fear in people at the same time. The rigid eyes and the human-looking face ensured that she was adored or feared, admired and persecuted. As a symbol of good and bad, she towers high in the trees above people and observes. If a [...]

“Man - man's wolf.” -Plato Lykaon, oh son of Pelasgos and great king of the Arcadians - how deep is your guilt? Up until the 4th century BC, human sacrifices were offered to Zeus on Mount Lykaion. According to legend, everyone who ate this meat turned into a wolf who lived 10 years [...]

In the infinite darkness of the universe there are unimaginable powers. The restricted mind of man can hardly imagine these: the powers of madness. However, some of these forces entered our dimension through somber ways. Only here to torment and enslave humanity. So in the sunken city of R'lyeh lies asleep: Cthulhu. In a dream [...]

Charon, the ferryman of the underworld. Companions and leaders of the dead on their journey across the Acheron. Fellow of Souls Fallen. If they pay their share of a single coin. Those who are unable to do so will wander for a hundred years on the banks of the river of souls.

The fascination for the occult and the inexplicable has been inherent in man for thousands of years. Cave paintings already show early rites for the worship of great natural phenomena. Negative or harmful are the works of demons, servants of the princes of the underworld. Their only sense of existence, the agony of the living and the dead. Equipped with special skills. Alchemy is the tool of mortals to [...]

The old alchemist, lingering in his dusty little room, sunk in the darkness that only the mind knows, With weary hands he conjures up a creature he creates, A homunculus as elusive as the wind, lost in space. The principles of alchemy that burn deep in his soul Are well known to him, like a […]

In the mangrove swamps of Southeast Asia, in what is now Cambodia, the Khmer once ruled. A powerful and rich people who built temples and cities of a magnificence and size the world had never seen before. But with this splendor came the arrogance and so one threw oneself into constant wars with the neighboring states. In the 14th [...]

The powers of nature are subject to it and the essence of the world is revealed. Withdrawn in the woods, she observes people's ignorance, forever young and blessed with the ability to change their shape at will, to beguile people and to cloud their eyes. Dark stories are told about the evil in the [...]

Man has tamed the seas, subjugated the oceans. Just a few decades ago, the struggle with waves and tides was a struggle “man against nature”. Not all white spots on the world map had been sailed, not all islands had been entered. Men set out to penetrate into the last corner of the earth to find immortal [...]

Life and offense go hand in hand. Living organisms feed on dead to be alive. The energies flow into each other and like the mighty mountains, everything that arises at the same time is already decaying.

For thousands of years man has tried to fathom nature, life and its essence. Where do we come from and what is life actually? Many peoples have independently developed ideas of deities who personify nature and her power. But not only the question of our origins has occupied us from the beginning - it is [...]

The secrets of alchemy and the essence of the world are known only to a small group of initiates. Ancient knowledge, transferred from master to adept and can only be learned after years of study and exams. The abilities that the followers of the dark arts unite are inconceivable and the powers that they invoke older than the [...]