Xiwangmu (西王母), or Queen Mother of the West, is an ancient Chinese goddess who tends to the Peaches of Immortality, serves as a guardian to all Daoist women, and is married to the Jade Emperor. Who is the Jade Emperor? One of the most important and popular figures in Chinese mythol...
Fr. Andrew: Right, and modern Greek, you still call people Kyrios and Kyria, which is “lord” and “lady.” Fr. Stephen: And “sir” comes from “sire,” and all that. So it was used kind of that same way. For example, the famous founder of Kabbalism, they call him the Baal...
Heading back to India, the Indian Rhinoceros is also a prime suspect in Marco Polo’s thirteenth-century description of a unicorn: “They have wild elephants and plenty of unicorns, which are scarcely smaller than an elephant. The unicorn has the hair of a buffalo and feet like an elephant...
as when Enki becomes Ptah in Egypt or the Peacemaker in North America, Shiva in India, Prometheus in Greece, Aquarius in Rome and, later, Lucifer in Northern Europe. He is Loki or Odin to Scandinavian
theTitanswas over, and the age of the gods began. Soon after this, the gods received their titles. Demeter became the goddess of agriculture. She taught humans how to plant, plow, and nurture the earth to provide food. Her Roman name was Ceres, which is where we get the word “cereal...