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Bean and Stick Divination in the Moche Culture of Pre-Incan Peru

by Theresa | Jun 5, 2023 | About Divination, Goddess, More on My Books, Recent Posts

It’s fascinating to observe the multitude of ways humans have found to carry out divination and oracle through the ages. In every culture we find a variety of ways that people devise to interact with the unseen and spiritual dimensions, to read signs and try to...

The Lure of the Amazon by Eduardo Barros Prado: Further Information on the Amazon Women or Icamiabas of Brazil

by Theresa | Feb 8, 2023 | Goddess, More on My Books, Recent Posts

In my previous post about the Amazon women, Icamiabas, or women without husbands on the Rio Nhamundá in Brazil, I was thrilled to find actual documented evidence of an encounter with the women by a man named Eduardo Barros Prado in the 1950s. I located this...

Icamiabas: Amazon Warrior Women in Precontact Americas

by Theresa | Dec 8, 2022 | Goddess, More on My Books, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

While researching the truth and myth around ancient warrior women called Amazons for my book The Amazon Pattern, I stumbled into unexpected territory —Amazon warrior women—Icamiabas—in South America. It soon became clear that I was sitting atop a huge mountain of...