Eastern Europe
The Price of Honey
Life in medieval Bulgaria. […]
Month: October 2019
Britons and Celts
Merlin’s Blasphemous Birth
“Many times, too, when I was sitting alone, he would talk with me, without becoming visible; and when he came to see me in this way he would often make love with me, as a man would do, and in that way he made me pregnant.” […]
Greek and Roman
The Origin of Life
“Then, as the sun’s fire shone upon the land, it first of all became firm, and then, since its surface was in a ferment because of the warmth, portions of the wet swelled up in masses in many places, and in these pustules covered with delicate membranes made their appearance.” […]