9 World Chronicles

The bear. A symbol of primitive brute force. The bear was an incarnation of the Norse God Odin and the Viking beserker warriors wore bareskin tunics. In Greece the cult followers of Artemis dressed as bears. The bear is linked with many other war like divinities including the Norse God Thor and the Celtic thunder god. To the ainoo new of north Japan and to Native Americans the bear is an ancestral figure the closest relative to humans as bears can walk on two legs. It is also linked with resurrection symbolism perhaps because of its hibernation.    The formless bearcub licked into shape by its mother became an image of the heathen needing the spiritual ministrations of the church. Similarly the bear is the alchemic symbol for the primary state of matter.

Bear worship (also known as the bear cult or arctolatry) is the religious practice of the worshipping of bears found in many North Eurasian ethnic religions such as the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu,[1] Basques, Germanics, Slavs and Finns.[2] There are also a number of deities from Celtic Gaul and Britain associated with the bear, and the Dacians, Thracians, and Getians were noted to worship bears and annually celebrate the bear dance festival. The bear is featured on many totems throughout northern cultures that carve them.

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.

It is name for the Ethiopian Princess Andromeda who is famous for the story of her rescue from a sea dragon by the Greek Hero Perseus.

Distance to Earth: 2.537 million light years

Radius: 110,000 light years

Age: 10.01 billion years

Stars: 1 trillion

The constellation is associated with the Andromedids meteor shower (also known as the Bielids), first documented on December 6, 1741 over Russia.

Batara Guru

A creator God of the Sumatra mythology. One day Batara Guru sent a swallow down to the sea with a handful of soil to create dry land upon which Batara Guru scattered many seeds. From the spring all the different species of animals. Batara Guru then sent down a heroic incarnation of himself to defeat not a para ha the serpent ruler of the underworld. The divine hero was rewarded with the hand of Batara Guru daughter. They became the parents of the first humans

is the name of a supreme god in Indonesian His name is derived from Sanskrit Bhattaraka which means “noble lord". He has been conceptualized in Southeast Asia as a kind spiritual teacher, the first of all Gurus in Indonesian Hindu texts, mirroring the guru Dakshinamurti aspect of Hindu god Shiva in the Indian subcontinent.

Hut-ka-Ptah (meaning "Enclosure of the ka of Ptah

The Temple of Ptah is a shrine located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. It lies to the north of the main Amun temple, just within the boundary wall. The building was erected by the Pharaoh Thutmose III on the site of an earlier Middle Kingdom temple.

The great temple of Ptah was one of the city’s most prominent structures. According to an Egyptian document known as the “Memphite Theology,”

Ptah created humans through the power of his heart and speech; the concept, having been shaped in the heart of the creator,

The mythology of the Greek character Andromeda who in real life was a beautiful melanated Ethiopian woman. Well documented in history as such. Yet in the 1981 film the clash of the Titans she is portrayed as a non woman of color to the detriment of the story