Word: esotericism
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Myth has it that Morocco's Atlas Mountains were formed when the hero Perseus turned the eponymous Titan to stone by forcing him to look at the head of Medusa the Gorgon. A visit to the town of Ouarzazate, on the mountains' edge and 400 km outside Marrakech, might lead...
The Hotel Cristallo's history reads like a rock star's autobiography: there's the sudden success, the fame, the adulation, the troubled times, the seemingly unstoppable decline. And, inevitably, the comeback. Ten years after the Cristallo closed its shutters, the veteran sashayed back onstage, looking more glamorous than ever...
Never mind applying creams and lotions - if you could relieve a skin ailment simply by the kind of clothes you wear, or the bed linen you use, wouldn't you? The Handloom Weavers Development Society in Kerala , India , hopes so. The nonprofit organization - based in Thumbod, a tiny village of...
Asia's two most famous temple sites - Cambodia's Angkor Wat and Burma's Bagan - each have their partisans. Some say that Angkor's location amid dense foliage lends its ruins a heightened sense of mystery and romance. Others argue that the dry plain of Bagan provides a Loh and...
“The problem is, right now, Boston hip-hop is unbalanced,” Cublunk says. “You get all these college kids coming to town, wanting to see what our city is about, and they cram 7L & Esoteric [an underground MC/producer duo] down their throats...