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Ancient Egyptian Religion
Egyptian religion was a combination of beliefs and practices which, in the modern day, would include Egyptian mythology, science, medicine, psychiatry, magic, spiritualism, herbology, as well as the modern understanding...
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Maya Religion
Maya religious beliefs are formed on the notion that virtually everything in the world contains k'uh, or sacredness. K'uh and k'uhul, similar terms which are used to explain the spirituality of all inanimate and animate things...
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Seven Japanese Gods of Luck Festival (Shichifukujin) - Hatsu Konpira
At Kotohiragu Shrine a small shrine in Tokyo, they have a small festival with a small parade of the Shichifukujin, the Seven Lucky Gods of Japan. Hatsu Konpira is the shrine's first fair...
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Ragnarök - The Cataclysmic Battle of Norse Mythology
Ragnarök is the cataclysmic battle between the forces of chaos and those of order in Norse mythology, ending the world and killing most of the gods and their adversaries, leading to the birth of a new...
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God
God' is the common word for the identity of a higher being in the universe beyond our world, the creator of all known existence, and who rules in conjunction with lower gradients of divinity (angels). In Greek, theikos ("divine") meant...
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Ancient Greece
Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, known in Greek as Hellas or Ellada, and consisting of a mainland and an archipelago of islands. Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle...
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The Twelve Olympian Gods of Ancient Greece
The Twelve Olympian Gods (Greek: Δωδεκάθεον, Dodekatheon) represent the core pantheon of ancient Greek religion, embodying divine authority over the natural world, human affairs, and cosmic order. Traditionally...
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Japanese Mythology | Izanagi and Izanami and the Birth of Gods | LittleArtTalks
The creation story of Japan illustrated with Japanese Art. The birth of the gods Izanagi, Izamani, Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Takehaya Susanoo, and why the emperor is divine...
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Anu - Mesopotamian Father of the Gods
Anu (also known as An) is an early Mesopotamian sky god who was later viewed as the Father of the Gods and ruler of the heavens, a position which then passed to his son Enlil. He is the son of the couple Anshar...
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Theogony (Generations of the Gods) by Hesiod, c. 700 BCE
An infographic illustrating Hesiod's Theogony (literally meaning "Birth of the Gods") - the earliest known and the only complete account of the origins of the universe and the gods according to...