Yep, total power move, swallowing the wife. As king of the gods, Zeus could also, from his commanding position in the sky, ...

The “Apollo Belvedere” was one of the first works featured in the Museums. It shows the god having just shot an arrow and is ...

This week’s soft opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum marks the beginning of a new era for Egypt’s heritage, reports Nevine ...

The devotional dance now honors the goddess Maria Lionza, whose following began in the early 1900s out of a combination of ...

Hundreds of bare-chested men circle flames on a dark night to the beat of drums in central Venezuela's mountains. They dash ...

Salvador Dali hires a young artist with a striking similarity to the goddess Proserpina to model for him in the Sacro Bosco, ...

Many conventions from historical, Western societies have been patriarchal in nature. However, while Celtic society was ...

The cancellation news (which first came in a since-deleted Instagram post from cast-member Aurora Perrineau as reported by ...

From the lukewarm Laodicea to the overachieving Ephesus, these seven ancient congregations struggled with relatable problems.

Since Durga could no longer be the premier royal war-goddess in a Sultanate-dominated world, Sanskrit texts from the 15th ...

She's been described as a chariot-riding queen of night and the mother of death, deceit and dreams. Who was this ...

As a scholar of South Asian religions, I know that stories found in the “Puranas,” religious texts likely composed between the second and 10th centuries, describe why gods and goddesses favor certain ...