Aztecs flourished around the fourteenth to sixteenth century their centre being Mexico and the densely populated Mexico valley and here they built the great spiritual complex known as ‘Teotihuacan’ an empire which ended around 1520 and the arrival of the peace loving and broad minded Christians. The ‘valley of the dead’ the … Read more
Sanskrit can be seen as the source of the numerical system, it can be seen as the source of the months of the year, it can be seen as the source of many of the colours of the rainbow and as we shall see it can also be seen as the source of … Read more
“There was once an Ethiopian monk named Gregory who visited Germany and the way in which he accounted for the tradition of a serpent king is highly interesting as when asked about King Arwe who was the first king he described an ancient tradition amongst his countrymen that the very early Ethiopians worshipped … Read more
As he wrote about his experiences within Uganda Winston Churchill declared ‘the kingdom of Uganda is a fairy tale, the scenery is different, the climate is different and most of all the people are different from anything in the whole range of Africa’ he goes on to say ‘for magnificence, for variety of … Read more
‘Mweru’ is one of the may beautiful lakes to be found upon the lands of Africa and one which resides upon the long arm of the Congo river on the border of Zambia. Academics claim the name is Bantu meaning ‘lake’ and has nothing to do with the obvious which is the ‘Meru’ … Read more
One who undergoes any endeavour seeks out an auspicious beginning, hence the most popular of the gods of Rome was ‘Janus’ the god of beginnings, whose wise old face looks to the past, a book one can easily read, while his youthful face seeks out the future, a book yet to be written, … Read more
‘R’ expresses ‘reaching’ ‘arriving’ ‘moving’ while ‘C’ expresses ‘circular motion’ and combined they form ‘Rc’ a root from the language of Sanskrit described as that which arrives ( r ) all around ( c ) and that which reaches ( r ) all around ( c ) a root whose meaning is to … Read more
Ancient Burma has a recorded history beginning some 3000 years ago with the appearance of ‘Abhiraj’ a king who represents the Vedic culture of India and whose Sanskrit name means the fearless ( abhay ) king ( raj ) as confirmed by the Burmese ambassador to India ( U. Than Aung ) who … Read more
‘Siam’ is an ancient labyrinth of that which is exotic, that which is chivalrous and that which is romantic, all expressed through the three dimensional world of Kingdoms, Kings and Queens as well as great spiritual teachers, court advisors and wise old bards who strove to bring heaven to earth. ‘Siam’ was … Read more
Malaysia along with the lands of Cambodia, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java, Thailand, represent a civilisation of great warriors, great wealth, great architecture, noble Kings and beautiful Queens whose recorded history coincide with Buddhism as it spread throughout the lands of South East Asia. The foundations, however, and the reason Buddhism was so easily … Read more
