Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan

  If you have time tomorrow (Saturday, Jan. 22) and live in or near San Francisco, you can check out the book launch by my friends and coll...

With the holiday season upon us, it's a great time to investigate the possible connections of Father Christmas with the Green Man . Th...

In 1977, the anthroposophist Pio Filippani-Ronconi suggested that elements of Ismaili Shi'ism appeared to have originated from the Vajra...

Returning over the next few blog posts to the theme of the migration of Tantric elements from South and Southeast Asia across the Muslim w...

Another strong evidence of the relationship between the Indian and European face motifs is the existence in Romanesque art of a feline face ...

If the "simplified" Lapita face motifs can be traced back to similar designs in red-slipped and other early wares from Southeast A...

The possibility of a relationship between the Taotie face motif that dates back to the Shang Dynasty in China, and the previously discusse...

 A new study (abstract below) suggests that the Austronesian-speaking Cham people are more closely related in terms of mtDNA to Mainland Sou...

The term "mandala" is often used in scholarly literature to describe the polities, the temple architecture and other aspects of So...