Most if not all cultures have deities associated with the Earth's moon. This may not be surprising, since the position of the Moon has a major influence on seasonal changes. What may be surprising, though, is that some ancient peoples worshipped a moon god rather than the widely-known god...
Most of the world’sancient peoplespracticed cleanliness and personalhygiene, often for religious reasons, including, apparently, a wish to be pure in the eyes of their gods. TheBible, for example, has many adjurations and prohibitions about clean and unclean living. Religion,law, and custom ...
Hapi, sometimes transliterated as Hapy, is one of thefour sons of Horusin ancient Egyptian religion, depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the Underworld. Hapi was the son of Heru-ur and Isis orSerqet Serqet Serket /ˈsɜːrˌkɛt/ (also known as ...
How the ancient wonder was built is one of Egypt's biggest mysteries. But archaeologists do have insight into who built them—and what they hold inside.
Who is the most powerful Greek god? Zeusis the king of the Greek gods and the supreme ruler of Olympus. Zeus is the supreme deity in Ancient Greek religion and is also known as the Father, the god of thunder, or the “cloud-gatherer” because it was thought that he ruled the skies ...
the Ephesian Artemis. Those were seen as being the same goddess, but neither of them were seen as being the same goddess as Hera or Athena or any other. So it’s not that sort of all the pagan gods just devolve back into hypostases of one male and one female god; it’s that there...
For those who were seeking success in the ancient games of chance, sacrifices and elaborate rituals were performed to curryMacuilxochitl’s favour. The Aztecs believed that by offering this god his dues, they could appease his propensity for inducing recreational illusions and instead, harness his...
Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThe pyramids of Giza were royal tombs built for three different pharaohs. The northernmost and oldest pyramid of the group was built for Khufu (Greek: Cheops), the second king of the 4th dynasty. Called the Great Pyramid, it ...
that the construction of the Giza pyramids (and therefore, all early dynasty Egyptian pyramids), show an external influence as yet unidentified. While there is little argument that they were constructed in the time of the fourth dynasty pharaohs, the influences in design and construction are ...
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Giza pyramids belong to Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, and vandals and thieves looted them long ago. The southernmost is