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fromYoga Journal
1 day ago

This Is the Most Underrated Yoga Pose for Tapping into Your Inner Strength.

Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva parallels Christian trinity; Virabhadra, born from Shiva's rage-sweat, represents destruction's primal force and inspired three yoga asanas called Warrior Pose.
fromFuncheap
4 months ago

Free Book Talk: Ancient Egyptian Afterlife Rethink (UC Berkeley)

The overall model for understanding the ancient Egyptian afterlife in scholarship and popular culture alike is well known: The ancient Egyptians believed in a post-mortem judgement that would determine their fate in the afterlife, being either rewarded with an eternal life of bliss or punished with painful annihilation. However, in my new book Yearning for Immortality, I argue that for the most part these ideas were in place well before the decipherment of hieroglyphs
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