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A Major Award: The Ancient and Occult History of the “A Christmas Story” Leg Lamp

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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What Is a Foot Lamp?

Foot lamps were often associated with many of the sights where you would engage in incubation rituals. So farrawby points out that the symbols and motifs of the ancient romans don't always make sense to us to day w hi. And he says that the best explanations that he could find were that these were literal footlights placed on the floor or ground, especially at the base of murals. But i decided to look into this a little bit deep, deeper. I looked in a book titled light and darkness in ancient greek myth and religion, from two thousand ten a.m. This has numerous authors on it, but is edited by christophelus and levanioc

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