• Greek Mythology and Ancient Daily Life in Film and TV
    Stories from Greek mythology are always fascinating. These timeless epic tales revolving around love, betrayal, loss, and vengeance have been adapted for TV and film since the beginning of the cinematic arts. We asked Getty Villa Museum antiquities curators to select TV shows and films based on classical Greek themes, taking a closer look at how the myths and images that inspired them were...
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  • Egypt Exploration - The Myth of Osiris
    Traveling Beyond: Explorations with New Acropolis India, is an opportunity to travel with a philosophical lens, to visit places, not only as a tourist, but also as a seeker of truth and beauty. To try to uncover together, the wisdom that exists in the world, and to extract from it something that we can apply today, to make our lives and the world better. This orientation for the travel, shared...
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  • Heroic Symbols of the Feminine: The Myth of Eros and Psyche
    In this article I will look at the archetypal hero’s journey with particular reference to its feminine aspect and symbolism. Symbols resonate on all levels of nature, meaning that feminine does not refer only to gender or biology (although there might be some relevant keys) but rather the understanding that the feminine is a principle that subsists in all humans, in all living things and...
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  • In Search of Harmony: a Mythic Journey Across Cultures.
    Article By Nataliya Petlevych posted by UK, January 15, 2026 “Harmony is the source of manifestation, the cause of its existence, and the medium between God and man.” Hazrat Inayat Khan Throughout history and across civilizations, harmony has been an eternal companion to humanity. No age or culture has existed without its presence. It has...
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  • Romanticism or Realism?
    Article By Julian Scott posted by UK, December 30, 2025 This question occurred to me as I was coming to the end of the 19th century novel Middlemarch by George Eliot (the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans). As the characters’ lives and actions came to fruition I found myself thinking: would this person’s life really have ended like this (so...
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  • Tales from the Ramayana – The Abduction of Sita
    In the world of literature there are a few well known epic stories in which the plot is built around the abduction of a woman. In the East one of them is the ancient Indian story of the Ramayana, and in the West, there is the ancient Greek story of the Iliad. These are not just stories of men and women, but also of gods and goddesses. According to tradition there were times when gods would...
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  • The 12 Archetypes and the Nations They Ruled – Part 1 (Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter)
    In Blog 1, we saw how the ancient world believed the Most High divided the nations under cosmic governors—archetypal powers linked to the planets and the zodiac. Deuteronomy 32 (Dead Sea Scrolls reading) speaks of the nations allotted to the “sons of God,” while the New Testament speaks of “principalities and powers in the heavenly places.” This Part 1 begins a...
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  • The 12 Cosmic Governors and the 70 Nations: How the Ancient World Was Divided Among the Archetypes
    In ancient Judaism, Christianity, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Hermeticism, one truth quietly echoes across time: the world was once divided under cosmic governors—archetypal spiritual powers associated with the zodiac and the planets. This idea appears clearly in the Dead Sea Scroll version of Deuteronomy 32:8: “When the Most High divided the nations, He set the boundaries of the...
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  • The Ancient Tradition of Kalaripayattu: In conversation with Lakshmanan Gurukkal
    The Ancient Tradition of Kalaripayattu: In conversation with Lakshmanan Gurukkal - New Acropolis Library Article By Axelle Defrasne posted by Kurush Dordi, July 8, 2024 Shri Lakshmanan Gurukkal hails from a traditional Kalaripayattu family. His father and guru, Shri Veerasree Sami Gurukkal who trained under Guru Govindankutty Nambiar,...
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  • The Educational Value of Folk Tales
    The Educational Value of Folk Tales - New Acropolis Library Article By Pinar Akhan posted by UK, April 30, 2022 It is now a well-known fact that reading or telling stories to children starting from a young age has many developmental benefits. Just to name a few: stories can help to improve language and communication skills, develop the...
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  • The Feathered Serpent
    The Feathered Serpent - New Acropolis Library Article By Nataliya Petlevych posted by UK, July 6, 2022 Stories of ancient civilizations appear and evolve in the flow of time. The symbols they contain are multivalent and complex and the pursuit of meaning is never a simple task. Ancient Mexican legends tell of great cycles of construction and...
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  • The Hero, Life and the Creation of the Sun
    The wisdom tradition and religious thought of the ancient Aztecs is shrouded in mystery. Whilst we cannot completely ‘know’ how these people encountered life, we can intuitively enter an understanding of how they thought, using symbolic language to decipher what remains perceivable through the shifting sands of time. One such remaining treasure is the myth of Chicovaneg and the...
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  • The Serpent of Light: Forbidden Knowledge and Liberation
    In every age, the Serpent has been both feared and worshiped—condemned as the deceiver, yet revered as the bringer of wisdom. From the Gnostic perspective, the Serpent is not a symbol of evil but a sacred emissary of Gnosis—the divine knowledge that liberates humanity from ignorance. The story of the Serpent is the story of awakening, the spark that defied blindness and restored...
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