We may wonder whether the power that Minos really had to appease, when he became newly ensconced as King on Crete in 2000 BC, might not have been that of a female deity like the Egyptian Cow goddess ...

The two heads at the top of the palette on either side depict the Goddess Hathor, a sky goddess and a mighty mother figure.

In their new book, Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge explore the origins of colors found rocks, animals, plants, and even space—including these 10 historical pigments with surprising backstories.

With my hair pulled up, your eye goes straight to the platinum volume. Willow Smith's goddess braids were done in a soft, caramel brown from the start of the braid to the ends. But because her ...

To understand how much majesty, colour and, well, life, can come from death, stand and stare at the walls of the Temple of ...

Goddess worship is one of the longest standing religious traditions in Hinduism. Arthur Basham, a well-known historian of India wrote: The theme of shakti perhaps grew out of a conflict and eventual ...

When, after five or six weeks, he did not reappear, a movement began to merge, or syncretize, with the God who brought His ...

In India where light skin is coveted, a new campaign is re-imagining popular Hindu gods and goddesses with a darker skin, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi. The desire for fairer skin is not ...

We meet Homer, famous writer of Ancient Greece, who introduces us to the Olympians - twelve of the most important gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece - and also Ancient Greek beliefs about the ...

Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...