How did the Greeks explain the fact that their gods no longer interacted much with humans during the historical era?

Pleasing the gods. In her study of the use of Sanskrit ritual manuals in central India, the Indologist Gudrun Buhnemann noted that devotees, ancient and modern, observe elaborate rules for the use ...

Roman Goddess Names and Meanings . The Romans didn't just borrow architectural features from the Greeks — they also borrowed ...

Goddess Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, wisdom, and the arts, rides the graceful swan, known as Hamsa. The vahana of Maa Saraswati symbolizes the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

Over time, our connection with these deities has evolved from devotion to embodiment, guiding us into connecting with “the ...

Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for ...

Titled Wrath of the Triple Goddess, the new book is a follow-up to last year's The Chalice of the Gods, which came 14 years after the last book in the original series.

A ravishing goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite is the ultimate sex symbol — so irresistible, Hamilton wrote, that she “stole away even the wits of the wise.” Some authors call her a child of Zeus, ...

To seduce the nymph Callisto, Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, took the form of the goddess Artemis. Zeus took many lovers, but, according to the historian Xenophon (d. 354 BCE), ...

When devotees around the world lovingly welcome the goddess into their homes on Diwali, the festival of light, they will be sure to offer Lakshmi her favorite flower – the lotus.

In her classic study “Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal,” religion scholar June McDaniel discusses traditional practices for the worship of Kali, the ...