Ancient Stories and Facts

Nearly everyone has heard about the tale of King Midas, a legendary king that turned almost everything he touches to gold. However, how much fable and how much of reality is there about this character? Is there really one King Midas? When there is one, what do we recognize about him? The Legend of this Golden Touch King Midas is one protagonist of one of the well known fable of antiquity. It’s a tale that had been reminded by countless of artists and writers, but, this Roman poet Ovid has been that one that gave that full shape to King Midas during his Metamorphoses play. In that play, Ovid told the tale of Midas, the king of Phrygia, the son of Cybele and Gordius. Based on a version of the myth, after Orpheus death, Dionysus left Thrace. The matured teacher Silenus, who as usual drunk, accompanied Dionysus, but was lost along their way and has been picked up through Phrygian farmers, who had led him to King Midas. This king, who had initiated into a cult of Dionysus has been surprised...

The civilization of Maya was the Mesoamerican civilization which was placed in Central America. Maya civilizations beginnings have dated back to 2nd millennium BC. But, about 9th century AD, the civilization of Maya failed. However, it was the cities of Maya of southern lowlands that had been abandoned gradually. Whilst the precise reason for the strange decline of Maya is still not clear, some more competing theories have been developed by scholars from the available archaeological proof. History of Maya The word ‘Maya’ has been the modern collective word not used by indigenous populations themselves. Not like the other indigenous Mesoamerica populations, the Maya were intensifying in a geographical area that corresponds to the current area of the southern Mexico, northern Belize, Guatemala, and in western areas of El Salvador and Honduras. However, the area can be split to 3 sub-regions, and each with its personal cultural and environmental differences. These are Yucatan Peninsula, ...

Lots of people now have heard of the Magician Merlin, as his identity had been popularized through the centuries and the story had been dramatized in many television programs, novels, and films. The powerful wizard has been depicted with lots of magical powers, with the shape shifting power, and is popular in mythology as the tutor and the mentor to the famous King Arthur, eventually guiding him towards turning into King of Camelot. Whereas the general tales are famous, Merlin’s initial emergences were only somewhat connected to Arthur. It seized many decades of editions before Merlin turned out to be the wizard of Arthurian myth he is famous as today. Ambrosius and Merlin It is a common faith that Merlin was made as a form for the Arthurian legend. Whereas Merlin the Wizard had been the very prominent personality in the Camelot story and that isn’t where he starts off. Monmouth Writer Geoffrey was credited with making Merlin during his work in 1136 AD, Historia Regum Britanniae –...

The doomsday forecast is as mature as the recorded time.  Given that the human beings had existed, there had been the fear of the apocalypse or the ‘ending era’, during the divinities wish revenge upon the people, when the humans paid for those sins of the forefathers, then, when that world of demons world increases and consume all that has been good. The prophecies of the ending part of times stems coming from the myths of the civilizations past: this Norse Ragnarök story , a tale of Noah & the Flood, & a Biblical apocalypse.  This is the earliest identified prediction of the finality of the earth came from an Assyrian, the powerful Mesopotamian tradition that endured for roughly 2 thousand years. The tablet was found dating back to at times between 2800 & 2500 BC, which bears the primary known prediction of the final days.  Base of the translation, it claimed that the earth had been in the final days during those years and which the world has been gradually...