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In 1938, Australian anthropologist, A. P. Elkin described Wangga, “[It] starts as a sudden high note, then descends in regular intervals to a low pitch, after which the songman just beats his sticks to the accompaniment of the didgeridoo. Twenty seconds or more later, the melody is sung as before and so on” and lyrics tend to be syllables.[2] Typically, the songs and dances express themes related to death and regeneration.[3] The songs are performed publicly. The singers compose from their daily lives or while dreaming of a nyuidj (dead spirit).[4]

Source: Wangga – Wikipedia

When people were told to sit and do nothing, the PET scans showed a distinct surge of mental energy in some regions. The resting state turned out to be more active than the active state.

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She called this mode the REST state, for Random Episodic Silent Thought. The surge of activity that the PET scans revealed was not a confound, Andreasen argued. It was a clue. In our resting states, we do not rest. Left to its own devices, the human brain resorts to one of its most emblematic tricks, maybe one that helped make us human in the first place.

It time-travels.

Source: The Human Brain Is a Time Traveler – The New York Times

The most important ability of a táltos is a meditation or spiritual trance called “révülés” (verb: révül); in this state, he could heal wounds and sickness or learn hidden truths by “sending their soul among the stars”. The táltos was chosen by Gods or spirits for a specific calling in life and had the duty to communicate with the entire Hungarian nation in a time of danger, to warn against invading armies or an impending cultural collapse.

Source: Táltos – Wikipedia

Creation is believed to be the work of culture heroes who travelled across a formless land, creating sacred sites and significant places of interest in their travels. In this way, “songlines” (or Yiri in the Warlpiri language) were established, some of which could travel right across Australia, through as many as six to ten different language groupings. The dreaming and travelling trails of the Spirit Beings are the songlines.

Source: Dreamtime – Wikipedia

Dreamtime stories say the Wandjina created the landscape and its inhabitants, and continue to have influence over both. When the spirits found the place they would die, they painted their images on cave walls and entered a nearby waterhole. These paintings were then refreshed by Aborigines as a method of regenerating life force.[1] The Wandjina can punish those who break the law with floods, lightning and cyclones.[2]

Source: Wandjina – Wikipedia

This small room was part-office, part-laboratory, part-hiding place, and part-cabinet of curiosities. Here the prince tinkered with alchemy and kept his collection of small, precious, unusual or rare objects. The walls and ceiling were decorated with paintings showing a similar variety of subjects, some showing exotic forms of industry and others mythology.

Source: Studiolo of Francesco I – Wikipedia

“The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron’s control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction.”[10]

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The specimens displayed were often collected during exploring expeditions and trading voyages.

Source: Cabinet of curiosities – Wikipedia

This original Musaeum (“Institution of the Muses”) was the home of music or poetry, a philosophical school and library such as Plato’s Academy, also a storehouse of texts. […]

More than 1,000 scholars lived in the Mouseion at a given time. Staff members and scholars were salaried by the Mouseion and paid no taxes. They also received free meals, free room and board, and free servants. The Mouseion was administered by a priest appointed by the Pharaoh.[6]

Source: Musaeum – Wikipedia

…[O]ften abbreviated to “Carthago delenda est” (English: “Carthage must be destroyed”), is a Latin oratorical phrase pronounced by Cato the Censor, a famous politician of the Roman Republic. The phrase originates from debates held in the Roman Senate prior to the Third Punic War between Rome and Carthage, where Cato is said to have used it as the conclusion to all his speeches in order to push for the war.

Source: Carthago delenda est – Wikipedia

Unlike other totemic animals, the Set animal is not easily identifiable in the modern animal world. Today, there is a general agreement among Egyptologists that it was never a real creature and existed only in ancient Egyptian imagination. In recent years, there have been many attempts by zoologists to find the Set animal in nature. Whether or not the animal existed is currently unknown, yet it had much significance for the Egyptians.

Source: Set animal – Wikipedia