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, ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek dining was sacred with simple, high-quality ingredients like tuna and honey cakes connecting humans with the gods.

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, ...

Throughout human history, symbols and rituals have served as powerful connectors between the physical world and spiritual realms. These ancient practices encapsulate complex beliefs, serve social ...

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 ...