Flo's History

The concept of death and the afterlife has alway s been a major aspect of the various mythologies and religions around the world, well save a few exceptions like Shintoism. As such, mystical figures ruling over the domain of death generally become important figures in the many pantheons that existed in our history, although not all of them were gods .   Speaking of which, these lesser figures tend to be more obscure than the death gods, as they either hail from older mythologies that are less well known or belong to a more niche following. An example of the latter is, of course, the Baron de Samedi from Haitian Voodoo. S ince it is still widely practiced in the Caribbean , the Baron thus is extremely well known in the region. The Baron de Samedi's main function is to manage all the voodoo figures connected to death, like his wife Maman Brigitte, as well as watching the crossroads between the living and the dead. Outside of his homeland, the Baron still enjoys quite a bit of...

While humans are far from the only species to utilize tools, we are by far the most skilled when it comes to not utility but also to building them. Starting off in the Paleolithic, where our ancestors came up with early wooden and stone tools, before mastering ores in the advent of the Bronze Age. However, going from hammering flint and obsidian into shapes to smelting metals requires a brand-new set of tools, with the most important one being the kiln. This is because when dealing with ore s and metal s , a simple bonfire is far from enough to heat the material up to the hundreds of degrees required to melt them .   Interestingly, kilns actually predate smithing, as these fires on steroids were used for pottery, as the clay pots needed very high temperatures to harden properly. As such, the technology can be traced as far back as 10,000 years ago, when sedentary societies first formed. Just like everything, these early furnaces were rather simple and extremely unre...