A team of researchers led by Daniel Iborra Pellín, from the University of Alicante, has presented new evidence about the name and worship of the Iberian Dea Mater, the chief female deity of the Iberians during the Iron Age. According to the study published in the journal Complutum, this deity, a symbol of fertility and […]
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Shabaka Stone, the most notable preserved document of Egyptian thought, recounting the myth of creation
The Shabaka Stone is a granite slab from the 25th Egyptian Dynasty, housed in the British Museum, containing the Memphite theology that regarded Ptah as the supreme god and creator. Ptah was the “master builder”, the inventor of masonry, and the patron of architects and craftsmen. According to some specialists, this is the most notable […]
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When Euhemerus of Messina Found the Record of the Birth and Death of Zeus, Uranus, and Cronus
Many lost works of Antiquity can be reconstructed to a considerable extent thanks to extensive citations of them found in later authors, as we saw in the article about Sanchuniaton. Another such case is the Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library) of Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian of the 1st century BC. Of the 40 volumes of […]
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Pan, the only Greek God whose Death is Attested in Historical Sources
The god Pan was a significant deity of nature in ancient Greece, dwelling in meadows and mountains. Portrayed as half-man and half-goat, with horns and hooves similar to satyrs, he was the god of the wild, shepherds, flocks, fields, and forests. He was particularly revered in Arcadia, where it was believed he was born. The […]
