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Are Canaanite Goddesses Associated with Pigs?
Many goddesses are associated with pigs, mostly because of their fertility. For example, the pig was sacred to Isis, and the Greeks sacrificed pigs to Demeter, and also in sacrificial rituals at certain Attic festivals. But I don't recall pigs being…
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Indus valley or Harrapan civilization myths/beliefs
What r the religious beliefs associated with the early Indus valley civilization or Harrapan civilization?
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When was a pair of Greek and Roman gods first identified?
There is a canonical correspondence between some Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, for example Ares and Mars.
However, these two were originally different deities and quite different in nature.
My question concerns pairs of Greek and Roman gods…
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Looking for a mythological flying creatures that has saved human life
Can anyone help me? I am looking for a mythological flying creature(s) that has saved human life?
I am asking for a project in progress. Thanks.
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Do gods know all other gods?
In the Odyssey, Hermes takes flight to Ogygia, Calypso's island, at Zeus's command to tell Calypso to let Odysseus go home. When he arrives Calypso recognizes him right away because:
the gods all know each other, no matter how far they live from…
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What is the origin, mythical or historical, of the idea that having sex with a god grants power?
I read about this for the first time in "La ultima bruja" (2017), a book about witches. In this book, there's a chapter in which a girl has to have sexual relationships with a Wolf God so He grants her power to become a witch.
I've seen this idea…
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What is an Half Angel Half Demon?
I read in a Solomon Grimoire that there was a species of Angels called Half Angels Half Demons. I haven't found any other information on them. Does anybody know?
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Have Humans ever gone to war against Gods or Entities before?
Was there a time back then when Humans would make a war against a God or an Entity? How did those wars turn out for the two side? Were humans strong enough to make that challenge?
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Persian Zeus in Xenophon's Cyropaedia
In the Cyropaedia, the fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, there are, at least, 26 instances of "Zeus", in many cases used like... "By Zeus!"
This is interpretatio graeca, of course, but, if we reverse the process, who would be that god of the…
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Is it a tapestry or a scroll?
I have always known it as the Fates creating a Tapestry of Fate. But an answer to a previous question states that Ovid called it a scroll of fate.
... and he remembered in the scroll of fate, there is a time appointed when...
Is it just Ovid who…
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Relationship of Mithra and Varuna
Just need an answer about the two gods Mithra and Varuna, their situation actually.
I know that Mithra isn't worshiped at all, but I read and suspect personally that his name still remains in the "Indian subconscious", where it seems that he became…
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Are Minos and the Minotaur duplication of the same figure?
While reading the story of Minos and the Minotaur, I noticed that both of them have nearly identical origins:
Both are sired by a white bull (a transformed Zeus or a gift from Poseidon)
Their mother is royalty and seduced (Princess Europa or Queen…
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What is the origin of the story that kefir grains were given to Orthodox Christians in the Northern Caucasus by the Prophet Mohammed?
Several websites (for example, here and here) report the story that kefir grains, which are used in the making of the fermented milk drink kefir, were given to Orthodox Christians in the Northern Caucasus by the Prophet Mohammed. According to the…
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What is the difference between a phantom and a ghost?
These are compared as such: a phantom is a ghost, but a ghost is not a phantom. The meaning of that is every phantom is a ghost, but phantoms have characteristics that prevents every ghost from being a phantom. What are those differences? I have…
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Why are the domains of sexuality and fertility commonly associated with battle & war?
For example, Semitic Astarte/Babylonian Ishtar, Hittite Shaushka, Slavic Radegast, Irish Anann, etc. In studying mythology and folklore, I can't help but notice that violence and sex are often associated and I can't help but suspect that there's a…
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