Since this is in comparative religion...
There's no one way to pray. Many religions have different ways of praying based on where, when and how the prayer itself is being performed.
Ancient Hellenists would stand with their arms and palms towards the sky whilst beseeching the gods.
Modern...
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The above is a rather good example of part of the problem with feminism. They will typically deny all negative associations or resort to the 'not I' argument. It's all meaningless.
Of course there are many branches of feminism, and most, if not all of them, are gangrenous.
This is a...
First and foremost, that would take too long to explain so I will highlight the things that concern me the most.
The two views of sex they have: all sex is good and you should '**** it up' as they say, or they have a nigh puritanical view of sex and will say that it's degrading for women.
The...
As a gay man, there has been considerably more malignant factors in society previously for men like me, but I do not feel such factors are in play today, so it should be far less so for lesbians. So, why the special day? What does it do? What does it achieve? Does it really acknowledge anything...
Heroic souls go to Elysium, or its equivalent to different cultures. Neutral or unremarkable souls go to Hades/Fields of Asphodel/Yomi, a ghostly realm where most of the dead goes to. The truly wicked dead are sentenced to the darkest depths of Tartarus.
In the first two realms, it could be...
It depends on what you mean as having no beginning. It the beginning, there was Chaos, which isn't really perceived of as a deity itself. Nyx (Night), Erebus (Darkness), Eros (Love) and others came forth from Chaos, so does that count as a parent or as a non-beginning? Japanese mythology has...
Well, one should read the mythology surrounding such deities. Spiritual beings that are often part of a pantheon are rarely ever outwardly malevolent (at least in the northern hemisphere).
Candles are kind of like a focus. The flame typically attracts energy or spirits. Candles can also be imbued with power. The color of a candle also has certain properties as well. They're rather complex wax cylinders.