Did the Indian and Babylonian astronomy evolve in isolation, was there mutual influence, or was one dependent on the other? Scholars have debated these questions for more than two centuries, and opinion has swung one way or the other with time. The similarities between the two systems that have been investigated are: the use of 30 divisions of the lunar month; the 360 divisions of the civil yea...

India is an ancient nation with diverse cultures, which are articulated and depicted through different tribes, communities, castes, ethnic groups. Kabbaliga (Koli) its associated communities one of the tribal groups found across subcontinent under names. Culturally religiously, they Hindus traditional beliefs systems practices. They worship deities, saints, philosophers, personalities from gene...

In the Andes, prominent mountains are revered as earthly spirits that protect, but may also punish, their human constituents. These apu were often linked to distant ancestors and are considered the most important local deities. During the phase of the earliest highland Andean expansive states (AD 600–1000), the Wari and Tiwanaku utilized mountain worship as a means of establishing hegemony over...

and the concrete come together in the dojo andprovide a key to the doors. The threshold leads to an aug-mented understanding of Aikido and Kabbalah, and forsome, much more.These complexities may have a basis in human nature. Writing about brain science and the biology of belief,Newberg and d’Aquili note “that the root of the ceremonialrites of all human societies, from t...