The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

Archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) said in a translated ...

A rare Egyptian coffin image may show the Milky Way crossing the sky-goddess Nut, says a University of Portsmouth scientist.

In ancient Egypt, the goddess Hathor was not only known for her powers over love and fertility, but also for her close ...

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Wiccans will worship a Triple Goddess (Maiden, Mother, and Crone), and a Horned God. Others bring back gods from the European pre-Christian religions, like Thor, Artemis, Brigid, or Isis. A few look ...

The idea of the primitive has long been a potent and highly influential current in British thought and history.footnote 1 In particular, the period 1918–30 saw primitivism established as an important ...