# ADSactly Mystery: When the skies were green If it doesn’t have a name, does something really exist? No, this is not a philosophical post, but an attempt to understand one of the mysteries of ancient times - did our long-forgotten ancestors see the color blue or not? For all of us today, the question seems rather nonsensical - why wouldn’t they see the color blue, there’s plenty of blue around us. Actually, the dress I’m wearing as I write this is blue. <center> ![](https://i.imgur.com/zR7

# ADSactly Civilization: The Lost Tribes of the Amazon Threatened by the Fiery Apocalypse We are all watching in horror the fires raging in the Amazonian forest, people on social media decry the destruction of our planet’s ‘lungs’, there are calls to action as our future is at risk. While we are perfectly justified in being worried about our future, for the people that call the Amazonian forest their home, their present is at risk. The sad thing is the plight of the 400 native tribes that live

# ADSactly Cult Movie: Dudeists of the World Unite! Long time ago, a friend of mine kept pestering me to watch **’The Big Lebowski’**, something I wasn’t very sure I wanted to. The reviews I’d seen weren’t that great. On the other hand, I trusted this friend, she and I shared the same interests in books and movies, so one day I told her to give me the movie, on a CD, as it was no longer in theaters. This is how I joined the Lebowski fan club. This is how this film became a cult movie, its fan-

# ADSactly Mystery: The Gate to Another World Hello again, dear @adsactly readers! In one of my previous posts, the one on vampire burials, I mentioned thrill-seeking tourists flocking to Romania to experience Halloween in Dracula’s Castle. As I was saying then, the whole thing is fake, *but* if you’re into spooky stuff I have a much better destination for you - the Hoia-Baciu forest in central Romania, near the city of Cluj. A trip to this place is an out-of-this-world experience, and I do me

# ADSactly History: It all started here! Hello again, dear @adsactly readers! Let me say from the very beginning I was in two minds about writing this article. It all started with something I read on a local news site - about an archaeological discovery made here, in my country, Romania. Interesting for me, but, I wondered, would anyone else want to read about it? Remnants of a 5,000 years old civilization in central Romania, is it worth writing about it? Then it hit me - yes, it is worth writi

# ADSactly Mystery: The Siberian Indians *Hello again, dear @adsactly readers! Many of my posts in the folklore and mystery series have been dedicated to discussing ancient people, the complex relationships between apparently different groups of populations, as well as their systems of beliefs from which many of our modern traditions derive. In today’s post we will examine the mysterious origins of a little known population living in Northern Russia - the Ket people, sometimes called the Siberi

# ADSactly Cult Movies: Reservoir Dogs When you sit down to watch a Quentin Tarantino movie you know what you’re in for - violence, a lot of it, and, of course, fast-paced action and witty dialogues. However, that applies to today’s movie goers, but things were completely different 27 years ago when a virtually unknown Tarantino presented his debut feature-length movie, **’Reservoir Dogs’**. <center>  <sub>[source](https://www.google.com/search?q=reservoir

# ADSactly Mystery: The Quest for Eternal Life *Not a week goes by without us stumbling upon some news telling us we’re so close to attaining eternal life. Doctors promising to find a way to stop and reverse the aging process or scientists with futuristic plans of downloading human consciousness into a computer or, even better, into holographic avatars. We’re obsessed with immortality or, at the very least, a really long life, hundreds of years, if possible. However, this obsession is not new a

# ADSactly Cult Movies: ‘Fight Club’, revisited To be able to write this post I must, obviously, break the first rule of **“Fight Club”**, the famous ‘you don’t talk about fight club’. But I feel like I must, especially as the movie turned 20 this year. Hard to believe so much time has passed, hard to believe Brad Pitt is 20 years older… <center>  _{[source](https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/fight-club/280135/david-fincher-fight-club-bomb)}</cent

# ADSactly Mystery: Vampire Burials *Dracula, Lestat, Edward Cullen, Bella - our popular culture is full of charismatic vampires and each generation has its favorites. Seriously, who could resist the charms of a vampire played by Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt? Well, this only goes for modern times. In the past, however, hundreds and thousands of years ago, people had a lot more respect for vampires, feared them and did their best to protect themselves from the undead.* <center> ![](https://i.imgur.

# ADSactly Cinema: Cult Movies - A Clockwork Orange Hello, dear @adsactly readers and cinema lovers. Today we continue our exploration of the best cult movies ever made with Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 **’A Clockwork Orange’**, a surrealistic tale of an ultra-violent dystopian future and the dangers of psychological reconditioning. Based on Anthony Burgess’ novel of the same title, the movie follows the story of a young sociopath, Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, who, together with his frien

# ADSactly Mystery: The Talking Stones of the Armenian Stonehenge The name Karahundj probably doesn’t mean anything to you and for good reason. Western archaeologists have only recently gained access to this prehistoric site hidden deep down in the southernmost province of the former Soviet republic of Armenia. It’s a place nobody knows what to make of as yet, but things are about to change. After being locked for decades in fierce debate over the significance of this place, the local scientifi

# ADSactly Folklore: Campfire stories *Hello again dear @adsactly readers!* *Over the past few months I have dedicated much of my folklore series to the study of various myths and stories, searching for common motifs and the cultural links between apparently different people. However, to better understand this complex topic we need to look back, far far away into the past, to the moment our cultural heritage of myths and legends was just starting to emerge.* *We’ve talked about many stories, bu

# ADSactly Cinema: Cult Movies - Donnie Darko # Hello, dear @adsactly readers and cinema lovers! I must start this post with a confession - I only saw the movie “Donnie Darko” a couple of years ago, long after its 2001 premiere. In my defense, few people did see it at the time of its release, which came at a very unfortunate moment, less than a month after 9/11. Add to this the fact that the movie starts with a plane crash and you will understand why the movie did not get any publicity at the t

# ADSactly Folklore: The Bird of Doom *I have a niece who, for many years, was totally obsessed with owls, which, of course, made it easy when it came to buying her birthday or Christmas presents. Anything with an owl on it would do - jewelry, T-shirts, school-bags. There are plenty of owl-themed items on the market which only goes to show the popularity of this bird. Why is it that people find it fascinating, though? It is quite strange as, at least in my area, the hooting of an owl is a bad o

# ADSactly History: The Bear Cult of the Primitive People *Hello, dear @adsactly readers. We continue our quest to understanding the spiritual evolution of our earliest ancestors by taking a look at their religious beliefs. In order to do this, we should use our imagination to try to understand what Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens made of a world that was full of mystery. If they looked at the sky, they knew the Sun brought light and warmth, but they didn’t know what it was. Presumably, they lear

# ADSactly History: The painter in the cave Hello, dear @adsactly readers! In this series dedicated to understanding the spiritual evolution of our distant ancestors, I would like to focus on primitive art. As I was saying in the previous post, it is very frustrating to try to understand the spirituality of the earliest human inhabitants of our planet, as such things are not easily preserved. We have plenty of stone tools to help us know how they survived, but then what was the primitive man th

# ADSactly Cinema - Supporting actors - the unsung heroes of the film industry *When I was young, I used to go to the theater a lot - you just had to see a famous actor playing Hamlet, everyone talked about the superb cast of ‘The Glass Menagerie’. No one ever went to see the guy playing the butler or the maid. Most of the times the actor playing the butler is on older gentleman, who’s done similar parts for most of his life. Often ignored, but essential to the play. Somebody has to hold the do

# ADSactly History - Burial Rites and Human Evolution *Us humans are the only species that cries as an emotional response. All land-animals have tear-ducts to moisten their eyes, but humans are the only ones who can shed tears when in distress. For a very long time, scientists maintained that humans are the only animals with the brain capacity to create tools, until groups of monkeys have been observed doing the same thing. Not such an unique trait, then. We are so accustomed to us, humans, be

# ADSactly Folklore: When Giants Roamed the Earth (Part 5) Hello again, dear @adsactly readers! Our series dedicated to the mysterious beings numerous myths describe as Giants is drawing to an end. Time to recap what we have learned so far. In the previous installments we have explored various classical mythologies that clearly acknowledge the existence of a race of giants, in the very distant past. One thing all these legends have in common is the idea that the race of giants was destroyed by