Because this is the Mythology SE, we need to make sure we have a clear definition of mythology. We talked about this a bit on the Area 51 proposal, but we need to make clear guidelines for mythology. Here are a few (related) questions that we need to answer: What is the line between mythology ...

The original use of Phylactery is from Ancient Greek phylacterion, form of phylássein, φυλάσσειν meaning "to guard, protect" ~Wikipedia and was originally meant to refer to 'Tefillin', boxes that contain script from the Torah. The first time I heard of it though, it was as the 'soul ja...