Goddess

rather seductive. She is a very beautiful female goddess, even Odysseus is impressed by her beauty and he addressed that she was more pretty compare to his wife Penelope. Odysseus and Calypso were lovers for years until the order of Zeus separated them. Another seductive goddess female character that has an affair with Odysseus is Circe, the daughter of the sun god, Helios. She made Odysseus and his man stay in her island for one year. Circe as a goddess knows the danger that Odysseus and his…

Before the second millennium, pastoral nomads and settled people had very little contact. They would trade goods that the other society did not possess. Eventually, the pastoralists came to the conclusions that living a settled life was more beneficial. Being in a settled area was better for organized government and growing crops. Pastoral nomads invaded the city-states around them and eventually took over. Now, there are primary sources historians can use to discover what was life like when all…

understand ancient life for the common Israelite and Judahite. In regard to their religious practices, the Hebrew Bible does not fully agree on what the people worshipped. Small clay figurines, like the Judean pillar figurines, which possibly depicted the goddess Asherah, were located within houses at several sites across the Levant. One site has an unusual centaur figurine, likely supporting a relationship with Cyprus. Protective amulets with either Egyptian influence or invoking YHWH have been…

A creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how the people first came to inhabit it. For example, two of them are the Genesis story and the Chinese story. Although the two stories have a great deal of dissimilarities they also have a number of indistinguishable elements. Both creation stories have some things in common. First, in both stories humans were made from the earth. The Chinese story states that Nu Wa sculpted humans from the mud. “From the edge of the pond she…

hunter-gather society, structured a gynocratic civilization centered entirely on females. Paleolithic women were often worshipped for their miraculous life-giving capabilities, and were honored as reincarnations or priestesses of the preeminent Mother Goddess, who, as the Paleolithic people believed, “embodied the bounty of the earth.” Women unfailingly made substantial decisions for their communities, and confidently led their husbands and children into the light of new technologies and art…

Sumer is known as one of the first recorded civilizations in human history. It was established in ancient Mesopotamia, in what is known today as modern day Iraq. Sumer was nestled in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Fertile Crescent. This stretch of land was completely isolated, with dry desert sands surrounding it in all directions. The date when this civilization was established is still unknown, and secular sources believe that it was between 6000-4000 BC. Many Christians…

Often depicted wearing a necklace of skull and wielding bloody weapons it easy to see how she is referred to as the terrible goddess and is feared by those who see her. But through destruction come creation and preservation. Kali represents the transitions of reincarnation, the removing of the atman/soul by destruction or death of the body. As she walked through the harlot’s street…

would use to fashion their weapons, the Koa tree. Not only would the tree provide the Koa their name, it would provide then as with all their battle tools, which were vast and diverse, suitable for all types of battlefield combat.”Haumea was the goddess of the childbirth in hawaiian mythology. The beliefs and practices of the indigenous people of the ethnogeographic group of pacific islands known as polynesia (from greek poly ‘many’ and nesoi…

phenomena and to worship and honor in hope for good luck and fortune. In Homer’s The Odyssey, gods and goddesses play a very significant role in Odysseus’s journey back to Ithaca. They both hinder and help Odysseus’s progress by using their powers. The goddess Athena and the god Poseidon, demonstrate how greatly they can impact Odysseus’s voyage. Athena indirectly helps Odysseus by placing thoughts inside other characters’ heads and giving them qualities they did not possess before.…

The name, what it is and means discovery The planet is named Venus which came from a Roman goddess of love and beauty. As the Roman goddess of love , according to the sources the goddess Venus was born fully from the sea. Her father was Uranus made with Saturn, they believed that when blood fell into the sea mixed with foam which created Venus. She was known for her love and beauty and had many men lovers. Venus has on temple called Venus Gentrix (Venus the Mother) which is in Captoline…