In Japan and throughout the world, snakes are prominent characters in mythology, from menacing creatures to guardian deities ... appear in Japanese folklore in myriad forms: as gods, symbols ...

In the grand scope of Marvel’s cosmology, Thor is only one god among many pantheons, as a new Storm story is reminding ...

In Hinduism, Kali represents the vengeful feminine form of Vishnu, the protector of the universe. Vishnu, working in tandem ...

In Egyptian mythology, gods and goddesses could transform into animals, but only one, Bastet, goddess of home and fertility, was believed to be able to take on the form of a cat. A magnificent ...

Stribog – god of wealth and winds. Mokosh – one of the few female goddesses in the Slavic pantheon, but her origins likely go back to the mythology of Finno-Ugric tribes. She was linked with the cult ...

The ritual is based on a Japanese myth that the gods' loud laughter opened a rock cave in which the sun goddess had locked herself. After the chief priest gave a signal, participants laughed ...

So revered was he that the Romans took him wholesale and instead of giving him a Roman flavour, as they did with the other gods and goddesses, he remained a foreign part of the pantheon with his ...

The Romans liked him so much that they didn’t even change his name or mythology when they adopted the Greek gods as their own. Meanwhile, Artemis was the goddess of the hunt, wilderness and wild ...

As befitting a game from the quintessential Japanese RPG series ... moved on from its original Greek mythology theme. In fact, as mentioned in our five-star God of War review, we couldn't be ...