Anthropology

Anthropology

The study of human beings and human ancestors through time. Focuses on relation to physical characteristics, environmental effects, social relations and culture. The science of humans.

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Nyx

Anthropology; Mythology

Nyx ("Night") – Roman (in Latin): Nox – is the Greek goddess (or personification) of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was ...

hecatoncheir

Anthropology; Mythology

The hecatoncheires, or hekatonkheires (singular: Hecatoncheir; "Hundred-Handed Ones"; Latinised Centimani), were figures in an archaic stage of Greek mythology, three ...

cyclops

Anthropology; Mythology

A cyclops (plural cyclopes), in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. The ...

titan

Anthropology; Mythology

In Greek mythology, the Titans were a primeval race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky), that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. They were ...

divination

Religion; Mythology

Divination (from Latin divinare "to foresee, to be inspired by a god", related to divinus, divine) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of ...

necromancy

Anthropology; Mythology

Necromancy is a form of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, ...