These 15 Greek god animals served as sacred symbols and divine messengers in ancient mythology — and their meanings still ...

Greek god Plouton blends wealth with the inevitable end of everyone, exemplifying that life and death are two sides of the ...

Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

Reader Lee Zimmer brings a curious fact to this columnist’s attention. The exteriors of several buildings in Spokane have what most of us consider to be a medical symbol – the caduceus, a winged staff ...

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, ...

Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt by P Boylan (Oxford, 1922) The Origins of Osiris and his Cult by JG Griffiths (Leiden, 1980) A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses by G Hart (London, 1986) The Gods ...

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 ...