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Danu (Irish Goddess)

Danu is known as the mother goddess of the Tuath De (the Tuatha Dé Danann) of Irish Mythology. She is believed to be the eponymous goddess after whom the Tuatha Dé Danann are named. The name of this mythical, legendary […]

Sky Father

Sky Father is a term from comparative mythology for the recurring concept within religions of the world for a sky god that the people name with respect and reverence, “father”. The sky father is usually the progenitor of the gods, […]

Brahma

Brahma is the Hindu god associated with creation, knowledge, and the Vedas. He is featured prominently in creation myths, and in a number of places is associated with Prajapati. Ancient Vedic Religion often knows Prajapati as the Hiranyagarbha, however in […]

Hiranyagarbha: The Golden Embryo of Creation

In Vedic Cosmology the Hiranyagarbha is the source that all creation emanated from. In the formless, darkness of the Universe before creation, God created the Hiranyagarbha in the primordial waters. Out of this golden embryo all of creation emanated. Hiranyagarbha […]

Vedic Religion

Vedic Religion is the earliest layers of the religion of India, the ancient religion that made its way into India carried by the Aryan people (“noble” or “royal” people) who were the children of the ancestors of the ancient Iranian […]

Hvergelmir

Hvergelmir is a place within the cosmos of Norse Religion, where the waters of the Earth rise, deep beneath the roots of Yggdrasil. The great spring under the roots of the cosmic tree is said to be in the land […]

Nastrond

Nastrond (written with the appropriate accents as Náströnd) is one of the halls in the afterlife, Hel, according to Norse Religion. While there are many good halls, Náströnd is not one of them. Nastrond translates to “Strand of the Dead” […]

Aesir

The Aesir are the gods of Norse Religion, a tribe of divine, supernatural beings who feature heavily in their myths and legends relating to life, death, the creation of the world, and the creation of humanity. An exact definition of […]

How Grain Came To Sumer (Sumerian Myth, Translation)

The story of How grain came to Sumer is the account within Sumerian Religion of the distant ages of deep antiquity before humans had known grain, and how it eventually came to be domesticated in their lands of southern Mesopotamia. […]

Adapa

Adapa is an ancient figure from Sumerian Religion, who was preserved in historical records for over a thousand years. It is not exactly clear what he was, or the exact role he played in ancient religion, because the accounts vary. […]