Saivite deities of Andhradeśa

In the Introduction there is a discussion of methodologies for the study of ancient deities. In the monograph as a whole a conceptual approach to the goddess Fortuna will be propos...

Goddess traditions in South Asia have been a subject of significant academic interest since the advent of serious religious studies. This book examines a wide range of themes acros...

Covering 30,000 years of goddess worship, this fascinating book is the first and most comprehensive biographical dictionary devoted exclusively to mythological deities. S...

Spanning ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 B.C.E. to C.E. 400), theHandbook of Egyptian Mythologyis the only complete survey of Egyptian mythology of its kind available in English...

Feared as the ruler of snakes, Manasā, a late entrant to the pantheon of Hindu deities, is a fiercely partisan goddess who is vengeful to her adversaries and bountiful to her adher...

This chapter focuses upon the literary representations of the importance of rituals, religious offices, and cult traditions in the time of the Second Sophistic. The “real-life” sop...

Authoritative, comprehensive reference incorporating the latest research on tales, literary and oral sources, and the broad-reaching cultural legacy of Norse mythology. The bo...