Hindu deities

Akhenaten’s ‘Worship of the Aten’ displayed concepts that were too anachronistically advanced for Ancient Egypt and its people. This resulted in the decline of the Ancient Egyptian Empire and Akhenaten’s purposeful exclusion from official records. Akhenaten founded a new religion that was completely divergent from the millennia old worship of Ma’at, moving the capital of Egypt and converting the Empire into a monotheistic society centred around the Aten - or sun. However the premise of the…

IN WICCA, THE DIVINE, or deity, is greater than creation, and yet it is creation. It is immanent in all things, but it is also distant and beyond our grasp. It is too vast for us to comprehend in its entirety, but we can begin to experience it through our rela- tionship with the gods, who are facets of the divine. As I mentioned briefly in chap- ter 2, the two main aspects of deity that Wiccans work with are simply called the Goddess and the God. They are the female and male “halves” of the…

Borrowed from the Romans, who called the days after the then known planets which were named originally after their gods, the Scandinavian did the same, and as a Germanic language, the English language inherited these. Sunday and Monday were named after the Sun and moon, Tuesday translates to Týr’s day (the god of war and law and justice), Wednesday means Odin’s day, Thursday is Thor’s day, and Friday represents either the goddess of marriage (who is married to Odin) Frigg or the goddess Freyja.…

As one of the oldest cradles of civilizations, Ancient Egypt has an enormous system of mythology just like other famous civilizations. In these myths and legends, different gods are famous for their different personalities and symbolizations. For example, Bastet is recognized as the goddess of fire, cats, home and pregnant women; Anubis is widely known as the god of the dead; Osiris, almost the most important god in the myths of Ancient Egypt, is usually considered as the god of the dead,…

The story of the flood is occurs in both The Epic of Gilgamesh and the story of Noah from the bible. In The Epic of Gilgamesh There is a king called Utnapishtim who rules over Shuruppak. The gods decided to destroy his kingdom without telling him. However one of the gods, Ea, told Utnapishtim that a horrible flood was coming and that he needed to make a boat to save his family. In the story of Noah God tells Moses that he doesn’t like how his people are doing evil acts. God then says that he is…

In the beginning of this novel Eliade introduces a claim very prematurely. Eliade claims that, whereas for non-religious man the spatial aspect of the world is basically experienced as uniformly neutral, for religious man it was experienced as non-homogeneous, partly sacred and partly not so. In particular, religious man experienced the world as having a sacred center and sought to live there. Eliade ensures his claim that modern, non-religious men experience the special aspect of his world as…

Theoretically, the religion of lust became the principal nucleus of the majority of early societies and the goddesses were its utmost promoters. Although, this spiritual evil should not have laid claim to the label of Mother Goddess, but Mother Whore, as ancient goddess worship and prostitution were basically Siamese twins. Not surprisingly, a large amount of the early goddess characteristics took on the same likeness as the others due to people resettling; quite frequently their common…

goddess in the Ancient Egyption time. Isis started out as an obscure goddesses with only few towers made for her, but eventually in later times more were made for her until she was the most important of the Ancient Egyptian deities. As a mourner, she was she was a principal deity in rites connected to the dead; she was a healer, she cured the sick and brought the to life, and as a mother she was respected by most women. Isis was the daughter of the earth god Geb and the and the sky goddesses…

Goddess on page 175, represents this views of polytheistic society in the era of 1600 BCE. She is holding 2 snakes in its hands and showing male and female representation. This image tells us the multiple perspectives the believers have on its Deities. The era is hunter and gatherer, the Goddess was first portrayed as fertility and life and death-giver, but as the humans progressed inland and discovered other…

The World on the Turtle’s Back and The Genesis The World on the Turtle’s Back and The Genesis both give explanations as to why the world works in such a way. Although these creation stories come from different hemispheres of the world they share many archetypes such origin stories, temptresses and sibling rivalries. Similar Archetypes are found in a lot of literature but some of them have their own twist, which gives us more insight into their culture and beliefs. The creator of earth in the…