These 15 Greek god animals served as sacred symbols and divine messengers in ancient mythology — and their meanings still ...
The Rod of Asclepius remains a symbol of health and medicine around the world to this day. Asclepius was a demi-god son of ...
Greek god Plouton blends wealth with the inevitable end of everyone, exemplifying that life and death are two sides of the ...
One of the reasons Joan Hufnagle enjoys visiting the Sovereign Bank in downtown Pottsville is the architectural accents on its historical building. “That’s Mercury,” the Pottsville woman said Jan. 31, ...
As any Jewish child learns, his faith, like others, is filled with symbols, traditions, rituals, rites, and words that only time and practice will make familiar. In Judaism, a different language, ...
Extracted from: Visible religion (Leiden) 4 (5) 1985-1986, pages 63-72. The ancient Egyptian writing system is at once pictorial, phonetic and symbolic. The number of hieroglyphic symbols are thought ...