African art and history

  Religion is based on a book. Spirituality follows the laws of nature. Religion fills you with dreams of glory in heaven. Spirituality makes you experience glory and heaven here and now. Religion promises heaven or hell after death. Spirituality is about finding the Creator from within us during life and death. There is one spirituality but several religions. Religion has a set of dogmatic rules, manipulative to weak minds. Spirituality invites you to reason about everything, question everything to discover and understand. Religion threatens and scares. Spirituality gives inner peace and happiness. Religion speaks of sin and guilt. Spirituality says: ′′ Learn from error ". Religion is human Spirituality is natural, without human rules. Religion is the cause of divisions. Spirituality unites. Religion makes you passive. Spirituality transforms you and makes you active. Religion kills to impose its dogmas. Spirituality leads to wisdom through knowledge. Religi...

  People in Egypt have been observing the natural world since long before they built the pyramids. In ancient Egyptian society, leopards represented determination and power; the animal's representation in the tomb was likely intended to strengthen the spirit of the recently deceased for the journey to the land of the dead. Priests required specific items of dress, one of which was the pelt of a leopard. Fastened over a shoulder or hanging down the back, the leopard skin served as a powerful symbol of regeneration, particularly relevant for priests conducting rituals carried out on behalf of the dead. Some ranks of the Egyptian priesthood wore leopard-skin mantles, or cloaks, while performing their official duties, marking them as high priest. Tutankhamun, who was in theory the high priest of every god, was buried with this type of mantle. Depictions suggest that priests wore actual pelts, but nearly all the rare surviving examples are made from painted linen. In ancient times, the ...