Mythology and Folklore — Graph — sahil.science

Almanac The Man the Crowd Chose to Release

What is the premise of Lagerkvist's novel Barabbas and why did it likely clinch his Nobel Prize?

Almanac A Stray Antigen and a Laughing Illness

Why was kuru, the disease Gajdusek studied among the Fore people, transmitted through the ritual consumption of the dead?

Almanac A Metre-Tall Relative, Eighty Thousand Years Gone

How does local Flores folklore about the Ebu Gogo relate to the fossil discovery?

Almanac What the Maya Painted on Their Enema Pots

What do the ritual scenes depicted on ancient Maya ceramics reveal about how elites consumed psychoactive substances?
Why would administering a substance rectally have been preferable to drinking it, pharmacologically speaking?