EUHEMERISM
Named after the Greek philosopher Euhemerus, who introduced it in a book written around 200 BCE, euhemerism is the belief that myths and legends derive…
Author: Lux Ferre
ESSENES
A sect of Jewish mystics active in Palestine around the beginning of the Common Era, the Essenes were known only from scattered references in a…
EMBLEMS
Among the most common elements of secret society symbolism and initiation ritual, emblems are visual images with specific meanings hinted at, but usually not clearly…
ELECT COHENS
The most influential of eighteenth-century French occult secret societies, the Élus Coens or Elect Cohens were the creation of Martinez de Pasqually, a Portuguese occultist…
EGYPT
The lost civilization par excellence in the imagination of western cultures, ancient Egypt has had a huge impact on secret societies and alternative history from…
EASTER ISLAND
One of the most isolated islands in the world, this small triangular patch of land in the middle of the western Pacific is famous for…
EARTH CHANGES
The idea that vast catastrophes have swept the earth in the distant past can be found in many of the ancient mythologies and philosophical traditions…
E CLAMPUS VITUS
Among the most colourful of nineteenth-century American secret societies, E Clampus Vitus was founded by goldminers in the frontier town of Mokelumne Hill, California in…
DUALISM
The belief that the universe is governed by competing powers of good and evil, dualism has some role in most ancient mythologies but first took…
DRUID REVIVAL
One of the oldest continuous traditions of pagan nature religion in the western world, the Druid Revival began in England in the early eighteenth century,…