(Published in Grail World 36/2005) FROM THUNDERLIGHTNING AND GRAINING Probably in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. a people immigrated to Italy whose origin is disputed. It mingled with the local population and other immigrants, came into contact with the Greeks and adopted their alphabet: the Etruscans. Greek influences can be seen with them [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 20/2001). In Germany, the name Zarathustra (Greek: Zoroaster) is best known through Friedrich Nietzsche, whose main work bears the name of the Persian priest. However, Nietzsche's philosophical fictional figure has only the name in common with this model. "They didn't ask me, they should have asked me what was in my mouth, in the mouth [...]
(Published in Gralswelt 37/2005) Priests in white robes pose in front of the megalithic cult site Stonehenge. You feel connected to the classical Druidism from Caesar's time and want to revive an old religion as a Neo-Druid. Because the life of the Druids and their worldview continues to attract great interest in our day. Fantastic novels and also comics present [...]
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The modern era still begins
(Published in GralsWelt 37/2005) On September 25, 2005: The “Augsburg Religious Peace” was proclaimed 450 years ago - a first step towards a religious tolerance that we are still struggling to achieve today. Historians cite various important dates that mark the beginning of the modern age: the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks (1453), the journey [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 39/2006) During excavations of Roman antiquities, Mithraea, ie cult sites dedicated to Mithras, were found in many places, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland. For example, you can visit a Mithras grotto on the Hallberg near Saarbrücken; the Saalburg near Bad Homburg (Taunus) and the Palatinate Museum in Heidelberg have reconstructed mithraea. "Had a fatal disease [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 38/2006) THE QUESTION ABOUT THE FUTURE Anyone who thinks or plans ahead is because of a future they hope for. Out of that desire, asking about the future for foreknowledge has become a practice almost as old as humanity. Here are some practical reasons: "The prophetess also sits on a holy tripod [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 33/2004) When we Europeans speak of antiquity, we actually only think of the Mediterranean area, but especially of Greece and Rome. We were taught at school that this is where the roots of our culture lie; this is where philosophies were devised two and a half millennia ago and which continue to have an impact today; and on the edge of the Mediterranean - [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 34/2004) LIFE FOR DEATH? “You shouldn't go out of your house (= die) if you don't know the place where your corpse will rest. Let your resting place, where you wish your corpse be buried, be known so that you can be buried ... Decorate ... the grave that is to contain your corpse. ”From an ancient Egyptian [...]
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The First World War
(Published in GralsWelt 18/2001) At the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15, after Napoleon's fall, European diplomats created a so-called balance of power that was supposed to give the continent stable conditions and save war. The unification of the German provinces into a common state (1871) and the subsequent rise of the German Empire to an important industrial nation disturbed this balance of forces. Such [...]
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The last Hindu kingdom
(Published in GralsWelt 18/2001) Of the 14 mountains on our planet that are over 8,000 meters high, eight - including the Sagarmantha (Everest) at 8,848 meters - lie wholly or partly in Nepal, the last Hindu kingdom. A mountainous country of almost 148,000 km² with around 25 million inhabitants, once the land of Buddha, today a center of attraction [...]
