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   katyag's Blogs in September 2008
Astrology on our lives
While working on my research in funeral home directory , I started thinking more about the influence of stars, in general, and astrology on our lives. I know, what you are going to say - this is not a real science, it is a superstition, etc, etc. Well, a lot of people would agree with you and......Read More
Posted on: 2008-09-01 13:13:38 |  Rating: | Views: 35 | Comments: 1 | Tags: influence  stars  astrology  science  superstitions  history  cultures  belief  connection   
Beliefs of the ancient Celts
No matter what you say, I think that Halloween is one of the greatest holidays ever. I heard more versions about the origin of a Halloween than fingers on both my hands and my toes. Some are no more than a myth. But this story that I found in archives of funeral home directory , seems to be......Read More
Posted on: 2008-09-01 13:59:48 |  Rating: | Views: 60 | Comments: 0 | Tags: version  origin  myth  story  tradition  spirits  beliefs  ancient  system  mounds  holiday  traditions  culture  ancestors  
Mayan calendar and Mayan astrology
Mayan calendar and Mayan astrology have been in use in Meso-America from at least the 6th Century BC. In archives of funeral home directory I found that there were two main calendars, one plotting the solar year of 365 days, which governed the planting of crops and other domestic matters;......Read More
Posted on: 2008-09-02 22:18:25 |  Rating: | Views: 52 | Comments: 0 | Tags: calendar  astrology  rituals  astrological  system  life  astrologer  priests  horoscope  profession  influence  evidence  zodiac  constellations  observatory  ancient 
Great public interest in astrology
In the first half of twentieth century a great surge of popular interest in astrology took place in the US. I found some interesting facts during my research in archives of funeral home directory . A very popular astrologer Evangeline Adams from New York City helped quench the public’s......Read More
Posted on: 2008-09-02 22:45:16 |  Rating: | Views: 31 | Comments: 0 | Tags: popular  interest  astrology  astrologers  readings  forecasts  horoscope  writings  practice  concepts  materials 
Astrologer in the Middle Ages
Astrology became part of the Kabalistic lore of Jews and Christians, and came to be the substance of the astrology of the Middle Ages. Even church prelates and nobility were using astrologers’ services. And at that time everybody believed that the position of heavenly bodies influenced the......Read More
Posted on: 2008-09-02 23:04:50 |  Rating: | Views: 59 | Comments: 0 | Tags: astrology  services  position  predictions  book  astrologers  famous  reading  stars  horoscope  discoveries 
Very exotic ways of saying goodbye
You live - you learn. What else can I say? While researching funeral rites and cultural funeral traditions of nations all over the planet for local funeral home directory , I found an interesting story of excarnation, which was, I must say, a very exotic way of saying goodbye to their dead by......Read More
Posted on: 2008-09-12 22:31:51 |  Rating: | Views: 80 | Comments: 1 | Tags: history  funeral  rites  culture  cultural  traditions  nations  excarnation  exotic  ways  ancient  practice  corpse  remains  coffins  cliffs  locations  future  space  burial  
The first examples of the zodiac
History of ancient astrology. As far as I know, astrology of ancient Egyptians appeared slightly later in ancient Babylon. The outcome of this historical competition is still not clear, because the archaeologists still did not make up their minds. But we know, that astrology has a very ancient......Read More
Posted on: 2008-09-12 22:40:22 |  Rating: | Views: 31 | Comments: 0 | Tags: history  ancient  astrology  competition