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91Aboriginals in New Zealand
The Maori peoples of New Zealand consider themselves its First Nations. There is much duiscussion and much dispute over the question of whether they came from Egypt and the region to teh east or southeast, from Southeast Asia, from Melanesia, rrom Polynesia, from Hawaii, or from all of these sites.
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70The Search for Dr. Josef Mengele
At the end of WWII, one of the most notorious fugitives from justice was the chief medical officer at the Auschwitz death camp, Dr. Josef Mengele. He was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands...
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72The White Room
I open my eyes. They are bombarded by the light. It is so bright that I must close them right away. I squint to allow my eyes to become accustomed to the onslaught. Eventually I can see my surroundings, four...
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64Rural Legends from the Caribbean: Papaya and the Male Sex Drive
Many Caribbean men refuse to eat papaya. Rural folk on my island will tell you that a man must not let a papaya (papaw) plant grow too near to his home or it will take away his ‘nature’. I remember...
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77Head Smushing and Foot Binding: Some Thoughts on Body Modification
Yoshi was whimsical that morning, filled with the hope of finally cutting down that group of ronin that brutally murdered his family, and also with fluffy, warm pancakes. I was recently following a thread of...
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71How Many Words Do The Inuit People Use To Describe Snow?
I was chatting today and the conversation came round to the weather as it nearly always does. It had been snowing over the weekend and it reminded me of that old legend of the 100 Inuit words for snow. I was...
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69Springtime Among The Algonquain
Here is a small sampling of how the Algonquain (other spellings - Algonquian, Algonquin)Â prepared for and viewed spring. Most of this information was taken just prior to or at the beginning of European...
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81Aboriginals of New Guinea and Small Islands
The study of the Human Genome and of human migration for the last, possibly, 200,000 years examines far more than the steps and routes early peoples took. A wealth of information and growing controversy are inherent in the research, all of it fascinating. "All my relations" is truer than we thought...
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77Why is Fiber Important and How is it Beneficial to Your Health?
Dietary fiber seems to be an important part of human health. We can analyze ancestral diets to determine what our bodies were designed to digest, and use this to postulate what we should and should not be...
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67The Toltec Christ
 Isaiah 14:29, For out of the serpents root shall come forth a cocatrice, and his fruit shall be a firey flying serpent. Quetzalcoatl or "feathered snake" as the translation goes, was a popular diety amid...
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