Since early times, religion was the axis of life in ancient Egypt. Artistic creations revolved around it. Early Egyptians showed a great deal of respect to religion's views on religious afterlife and resurrection after death. They also cared about all sacred religious rites associated with ...
the capital of the kingdom of Bithynia.1They expected to meet Prusias, king of Bithynia, a friend and ally of the Roman people. But the man who appeared in front of them had his head shaved and
the religion of the Orphic mysteries, a cult of Dionysus (Bacchus) ascribed to Orpheus as its founder, especially its rites of initiation and doctrines of original sin, salvation, and purification through reincarnations. AlsoOrphicism. —Orphic,n., adj. ...
dressed in long black coats and black hats entered thru the rear of the church. One of the two men walked to the middle of the church while the other stayed at the back of the church. They both then reached under their
which generously donates to social-justice organizations while opening an artificial-intelligence research center in China — despite the latter's horrifying record of human-rights abuses (often in service to these very corporations). Like the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, state entities, corporations...
“Your Celebration is a Sham”—Indepedence Day in an Age of Cruelty (2019) and Fourth of July 2020: Last Rites for a Dying America? are the most recent examples. In light of the January 6 insurrection and all the calamitous behavior in its wake, one could write volumes about the ...
The Budhanilkantha Temple is famous for its daily rites that take place for Vishnu’s lying statue. Major celebrations occur during Haribondhini Ekadashi festival when this temple sees a huge influx of Kerala devotees. Is taking pictures allowed in Budhanilkantha Temple?
The President of Egypt, at Al Azhar University in Cairo,recently did everyone a favor by putting on the table, from inside of the Islamic world itself, the question of its public conduct and inner soul as they relate to the Muslim religion. Does its conduct, as manifest in its deeds, fl...
the cult of Demeter is associated with the sons of Kodros, not with the Eumolpidai; indeed the genos in charge of the rites at Ephesos is explicitly descended fromthe kings of Athens, and not from an Eleusinian ancestor. My second observation is to note that the Ionian epigraphic evidence...
Sister Veritas said she felt that Havel was “with God” more profoundly than many observant Catholics, but she admitted that he had neither asked for nor received the last rites before he died. One of his last conversations was with the Dalai Lama, whom he considered a spiritual guru. But...