We’ve always had a fascination with the stars, bright beacons of light that come alive when the sky darkens. They’ve been revered as gods, used to mark changes in the seasons, and as a way to navigate the globe. It’s difficult to trace back when exactly people started looking up ...
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In "Pyramids of Mars," Tom Baker's Doctor says Sutekh was so evil that cultures across the universe designed their gods to look like him — which is, y'know, a bit dismissive of thousands of years of ancient Egyptian history. So it's fitting that the first Doctor actor born in Africa...
(月食) happened when gods were angry.But Wang Zhenyi thought differently.She believed in facts and observation.In order to explain those "strange" events,she did some experiments.In one,she used a round table as the Earth,a lamp as the Sun and a mirror as the M...
Germanic and Nordic-speaking people took after the Romans when it came to days of the week, but they changed the names to match their own planetary gods. In Norse mythology, the moon was guided by the god Mani, who pulled the moon across the sky via chariot after his sister, the goddes...
In her time,many people expected the stars to tell what was going to happen.They thought certain events in the sky,such as lunar eclipses(月食) happened when gods were angry.But Wang Zhenyi thought differently.In order to explain those " strange" events,she did some(...
Giant planets are also called “Jovian Planets”.The term Jovian comes from Jove, the king of the gods in Roman mythology, and also the early name of Jupiter. Therefore, Jovian describes the other giant planets as being Jupiter-like. All Jovian planets were also once known as “G...
Mormon men are working with the promise that they, too, will eventually become gods and be given a planet of their own to populate. This will be accomplished by their intercourse with many wives who will bear millions of spirit children to inhabit the bodies of the people on their planet....
Interestingly, most heavenly bodies, especially the planets and natural satellites in the Solar System, are named after Roman gods. Ancient civilization also used to worship these celestial bodies, particularly the sun and the moon.
even amidst all the sorrows of a fallen world his glory. We learn in Section 132 what the end is for God’s worthy sons and daughters. “Then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be gods, because they have all power.” ...