The ancient Greek gods, the immortal characters of Greek mythology, remain a fascination around the world as do their unusual ...

According to Egyptian legend, the goddess Sekhmet was created by Ra, who wanted her to destroy humans who were disobedient to ...

When she learned that her daughter, Persephone, had been abducted by Hades, her grief robbed the world of vitality ... link between gods and men, guiding men to know the divine will.” Artemis, ...

In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state religion – called the di consentes – paralleled the gods of Greek mythology. Although they kept Latin names and images ...

Zeus was the king of the gods. Each god and goddess had power over a different aspect of life or the world. Click below to find out a bit more about them. The Greeks built temples to their gods ...

"This week", I typed, "we're spinning the globe, looking at some of the world's religions around seven hundred years ago, and at how different cultures used objects to bring gods and humans nearer ...