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Those Who Once Reigned: Experts Name Famous and Forgotten Ancient Gods
... Destruction in the Hands of Man -- 3. The Minoan Mother Goddess, Athena —By Petros Koutoupis Despite our inability ... it is well known that the Minoans worshiped a Mother Goddess who was at the very top of their pantheon. A ... deity who was referred to as A-ta-no-dju-wa-ja or Athena Goddess. Dju-wa-ja can be compared to the Proto-Indo-European ...
ancient-origins - 03/08/2016 - 14:52
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Child Miners, Mother Goddesses, and One of the Greatest Powers of the Bronze Age
... style of the Celtic Legends, with their powerful Mother Goddess figures, to remain intact well into the Middle Ages. ...
Kerry Sullivan - 12/07/2016 - 14:50
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Site in Athens revealed as an ancient temple of twin gods Apollo and Artemis
... rendered by K. Mylonas in the late 19th century to a third goddess, Hecate,” says the Archaeology News Network . The ... in Athens where he was worshipped along with Artemis, a goddess of the wilds, chastity and girls. Apollo and Artemis ... and the local craftsmen. The worship of the god and goddess together at the same site seems to point to a yin and ...
Mark Miller - 29/08/2018 - 23:31
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The Ancient Celtic Thresholds Of Liminal Time And Space
... motif of mythology where nature is personified as the goddess Isis covered by a veil representing the mystery ... motif of mythology where nature is personified as the goddess Isis covered by a veil representing the mystery ... a range of conceptual veils . Nature is personified by the goddess Artemis, and is revealing itself to a personified ...
ashley cowie - 20/08/2021 - 18:45
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The Very Strange History of the Easter Bunny
... an ancient Anglo-Saxon myth, concerning the fertility goddess Ostara. The Encyclopedia Mythica explains that: ... associated with the spring and is considered a fertility goddess. She is the friend of all children and to amuse them ... brought forth brightly coloured eggs, which the Greek goddess gave to children as gifts. From her name and rites ...
ancient-origins - 16/04/2017 - 18:46
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Mummified Mice, Cats and Falcons Discovered In Long Lost Ancient Egyptian Tomb
... of Bastet who was originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of the sun but evolved into into Bast, the tamer cat goddess. But what about the dozens of mummified mice? 70 ... the mummified mice might have represented, or to which goddess or god they might have been related to, an article ...
ashley cowie - 07/04/2019 - 14:04
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Provocative Yet Sacred: The Ancient Egyptian Festival of Drunkenness
... with this suggestion, and sent his Eye in the form of the goddess Hathor to punish mankind. In the meantime, the humans ... Hathor, who was transformed into a lion (or the warlike goddess Sekhmet), descended and slew mankind in the desert. In one version of the story, the goddess went on a rampage, and was about to wipe out all of ...
dhwty - 03/02/2016 - 14:46
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Explainer: The Story of Demeter and Persephone
... and others have very limited parts to play. The goddess Demeter is an interesting case of this. As an Olympian goddess and fertility figure, she was very important in ... Resisted Temptation How Did Greek God Hephaestus Score the Goddess of Love? Fresco of Hades abducting Persephone. (Yann ...
ancient-origins - 05/12/2019 - 01:59
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A Mother-Daughter Power Team: How Did Two Faustinas Transform Roman Society?
... affected the entire Empire. Faustina the Elder, The Mother Goddess Annia Galeria Faustina, in history known as Faustina ... Faustina had a massive support of women who saw her as a goddess of wisdom and someone who opened the cages on ...
Natalia Klimczak - 13/03/2017 - 02:57
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Sky Religion in Ancient Egypt: Temples and Magick - Part I
... Sky, the most famous of which is that of Nut or Nuit. Nut, goddess of sky and heavenly bodies in Ancient Egypt. ( Public ... available surface. One such book is that of Nut, the sky goddess. Nut or Nuit was a sky goddess; Geb was the Earth god. This is a reversal of the ...
Chris Morgan - 13/08/2016 - 16:56
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Did the mythical Saraswati river of the ancient Vedas really exist?
... on its banks. It was even elevated to the level of a goddess. Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom and nature. She is ... a name meaning “having many pools”, is also the goddess of the river Saraswati, and she is nearly always ...
aprilholloway - 07/10/2014 - 01:45
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Asherah: God’s Forgotten Wife
... Asherah was revered as Athirat, Earth Mother and Fertility Goddess. Upon entering the region, the ancient Israelites ... of Asherah. The Ugarit excavation of 1928 put Asherah, the goddess, on the map again, after having lost her place for ... of Eden parable. The ruling elite propagandized against goddess worship by integrating the story of the fall of ...
anya leonard - 26/08/2018 - 22:41
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The Twelve Most Important Gods in Norse Mythology
... female gods in Norse mythology are called Asynja. The main goddess is Frigg. Gold Pendant Found in Denmark Depicts Norse ... of the twelve most important gods, and the main goddess Frigg: Odin (Old Norse: Óðinn) is the most ... among the goddesses and the queen of Asgard. She is goddess of love and fate, described as having the power of ...
ancient-origins - 22/10/2017 - 18:56
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The Magic of Heka: Ancient Egyptian Rituals That Have Crossed Cultures and Time
... a Revolt with His Abilities Maat: The Ancient Egyptian Goddess of Truth, Justice and Morality Tomb Curses of Ancient ... to him in Lower (northern) Egypt. There was also a goddess called Weret Hekau 'Great of Magic'. Originally this ... just an epithet, applied to a number of goddesses. As a goddess in her own right, Weret Hekau was usually shown in ...
Natalia Klimczak - 17/09/2016 - 14:51
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What’s the Truth Behind the All-Seeing Eye of Providence?
... his uncle Seth. This eye was magically restored by the goddess Hathor, who is believed to have been either Horus’ ... the ‘Eye of Ra’ to destroy them. The Eye of Ra was a goddess (different goddesses, including Hathor, Sekhmet, and ... Seeing the scale of the destruction wrought by the goddess, Ra regretted his action, and called his daughter to ...
dhwty - 26/12/2019 - 13:57
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Neo-pagans are building a temple to practice the ancient Norse religion
... ring. Hanging on the birch tree, which is sacred to the goddess Frigg, hangs a birch trumpet. (Achird photo/ ...
Mark Miller - 05/03/2015 - 19:06
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Deities or Vampires? Hecate and other Blood-Drinking Spirits of Ancient Times
... cholera may be behind 17th century vampire graves A Goddess of Magic and her Daughters Hecate is one of the most ... The woman was losing, so Druga asked for help from the goddess Kali. According to the descriptions from a Devi ... she devoured those hordes of the foes of the devas.'' The goddess Ambika leading the eight Matrikas in battle against ...
Natalia Klimczak - 13/06/2016 - 00:37
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Helen of Troy, The Beauty Who Sparked the Trojan War
... older myth, Helen’s parents were Zeus and Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance. In this version, too, Helen hatched ... a great event among the Olympians: the marriage of the goddess Thetis to the mortal Peleus. All the gods were ... on which is written “for the most beautiful.” Each goddess claims the apple is meant for her and the ensuing ...
Miriam Kamil - 16/03/2019 - 20:29
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The Age of the Gods: A Japanese Creation Myth
... hundred people.” The fire god was the father of the sun goddess, Amaterasu , the Moon Goddess, and the God of Force, or Impetuous Male. The Sun Goddess and the Impetuous Male carried on with creation by ...
beth - 10/03/2020 - 18:39
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Tammuz and Jesus: More Than a Distant Connection?
... Tammuz is his death at the hands of his lover, the goddess of love, Inanna. According to the myth, Inanna went ... throne of the queen of the underworld. Because she was the goddess of love and sex, all sexual activity on earth ceased ... dead. Love is a Battlefield: The Legend of Ishtar, First Goddess of Love and War The Truth Behind the Christ Myth: ...
Caleb Strom - 08/02/2018 - 22:48