The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

As any Jewish child learns, his faith, like others, is filled with symbols, traditions, rituals, rites, and words that only time and practice will make familiar. In Judaism, a different language, ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a rare bronze bust of the Egyptian goddess Isis at Satala, revealing diverse practices in ...

Archiv für Religionspsychologie / Archive for the Psychology of Religion, Vol. 25 (2003), pp. 113-128 (16 pages) The current methods in psychoanalytic studies of God images and representations have ...

Karnak temple, a Unesco World Heritage site near Luxor, was developed about 4,600 years ago after a group of elites used complex flooding techniques to create a place of worship, a study has found.

In ancient Greece, lifelike—and, in some cases, larger-than-life—statues of gods and goddesses towered over temples, inspiring acolytes to seek blessings and present offerings. The majority of these ...