Maiden Dawn

Both in the Vedic hymns and in the Homeric poems dawn is imagined as radiant young woman. The Vedic hymns describe her as she who, everyday anew, suffuses the world with vital energy and rouses its creatures form the inertia spread over the world by night. यूयं हि...
The poisoned twigs

The poisoned twigs

Ancient Germanic smiths used a technique known as pattern welding, by which a blade was forged from several rods twisted and hammered together when in fusion. This process not only makes the resulting blade stronger, but it also gives it a very distinctive patterned...