France24 reports from the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music - Artists from East and West, from all of the world's main religions, meet every year in the Moroccan spiritual city of Fes to promote understanding... continue reading

posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 2,167 views

A slightly less than 10-minute video that describes ritual stone structures made by the Native American populations over the centuries, scattered throughout northeastern America. If MarineGunrock or any... continue reading

posted by kronosposeidon 1 decade 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 3,771 views • 8:52

Terence McKenna's documentary about going to the Amazon rainforest to paticipate in a hallucinogenic Ayahuasca ritual with two Amazon shamans.

posted by persephone 1 decade 7 years 6 months ago • 1,254 views

From YouTube Even before absinthe was banned in Europe and the United States, the herbal liqueur had a long history with artists and writers. During the century-long absinthe-ban, the drink reached near-mythical... continue reading

posted by Zonbie 1 decade 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,403 views

Pagan people share their views on worshiping - in the nude.

posted by LadyDeath 1 decade 6 years 1 week ago • 93,578 views

Peyote visions are considered good luck and dispensed to those deemed worthy by the god-spirits. Peyote, the Huicholes believe, opens the mind to a new way of experiencing the world. For centuries they... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 2,050 views

Nudity. Bruce Parry is brilliant - He's seriously hardcore, and will try anything to fit into the culture he is spending time with (and make great tele). In this clip he performs a nervewracking ritual... continue reading

posted by Eden 1 decade 7 years 5 months ago • 14,359 views • 4:59

A ritual of passage for a South Korean girl requires dancing barefoot on top of sharp knives.

posted by Issykitty 1 decade 6 years 8 months ago • 1,619 views

"In the Lambeyeque valley in Northern Peru lies a strange lost world - the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks. ... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 2,838 views

A subculture pierces people through skin and suspends them from the ceiling.

posted by LadyDeath 1 decade 6 years 1 week ago • 2,744 views

Stumbled upon this, found it painful to watch, so I thought I'd share it :P

posted by WaterDweller 1 decade 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 7,436 views

This is the 'land diving' (Naghol) ritual of southern Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. With much encouragement from an excited crowd, a young man leaps from the top of a tower in the jungle with vines attached... continue reading

posted by Eden 1 decade 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 2,285 views

When you're a member of the South Pacific Vanuatu, by the time you get to be eight-years-old or so it's high time to prove your masculinity. And what better way to prove you're ready to take on the challenges... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 2,529 views

Failure. Of. Humanity. Sad or hilarious? Or arranged marriage ahead of schedule? :p

posted by Krupo 1 decade 5 years 10 months ago • 2,658 views

Via Reuters: Mar 13 - Rare panels showing monsters, gods and serpents in an ancient creation myth are found in El Mirador, the ruined Mayan city in Guatemala.

posted by Gratefulmom 1 decade 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,504 views

This is 'Dance Fever' from 1981 film 'Ellem Emba Mayan' and is awesome on many levels.

posted by dystopianfuturetoday 1 decade 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 2,430 views

The History channel documentary on the Mayans, their prophecies and the 2012 "doomsday".

posted by thesnipe 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 2,995 views

Why did the Maya abandon their magnificent city of Chichen Itza?

posted by Issykitty 1 decade 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,711 views

The Pyramid of Kukulkan produces an interesting acoustic response to hand clapping that many describe as a bird call.

posted by BreaksTheEarth 1 decade 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 8,325 views