Blessed equinox! I've just released a video about the ancient spiritual meaning of the spring equinox. In it I discuss how ancient sites across the world, that were aligned to the spring equinox, encode the spiritual meaning connected to the theme of spiritual resurrection. I talk about the ancient sites, traditions, and myths of the spring equinox to uncover their deeper spiritual meaning and relevance today [...]
Happy solstice! I’ve released a video for it, about the ancient spiritual meaning of the winter solstice. I talk about the ancient sites, traditions, and myths of the winter solstice to uncover their deeper spiritual meaning and relevance today. It’s amazing to realize that the winter solstice was the largest religious occasion in ancient times, and still is now [...]
I finally got this video out! It's one hour long, and has taken a lot of work to put together. I wanted to give a big picture overview of the theory I present in my book The Ancient Religion of the Sun. It was so hard to decide what to include and what to leave out while still keeping it a reasonable length, since there is so much to cover, but I hope this is about right. [...]
The sun was venerated as the greatest symbol of the divine by pagans across the ancient world for thousands of years - including the ancient Egyptians, Celts and Druids, Persians, Aztecs, Inca, Maya, Hittites, Hindus, Germanic and Slavic pagans, Phoenicians, and many others. It was not about growing crops, but has a far more profound explanation... and led to the construction of the most advanced and enigmatic ancient sacred sites on the planet. [...]
This video gives a very simple run down of the basic premise behind my book The Ancient Religion of the Sun. [...]
