Who was the Norse god Loki?
Norse god Loki? (Snaptun Stone, Sweden, ca 1000 AD) Who was the god Loki? Loki was the German god of tricks. He was kind of like the Indian god Krishna, [...]
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Who were the Norse gods?
A Viking religious sacrifice (ca. 900 AD, Sweden) Northern European religion From their first appearance in historical literature around 100 BC, the Germans were polytheistic. They believed in many gods, [...]
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Freya – European goddess of love
Freya wearing her necklace (about 800 AD) Who is Freya? Freya is the only important goddess of the Germans. She was married to Odin, and she's a kind of fertility [...]
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Weighing souls in ancient Egypt
Anubis weighing the souls of the dead The Egyptians were among the first people to believe that if you were good during your life, you would have a good time [...]
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Who was the Egyptian god Thoth?
The Egyptian god Thoth (Old Kingdom tomb) What was Thoth the god of? Thoth was the Egyptian god of the mind - of intelligence, thinking, reason, and logic. He was [...]
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Who was the Egyptian god Ra?
The sun god Ra on his solar boat, traveling across the sky from east to west. From the New Kingdom tomb of Rameses III in the Valley of the Kings. [...]
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Who was Osiris? Egyptian god
Bringing offerings to Osiris(New Kingdom, ca. 1300 BC) Osiris was an ancient Egyptian god of growing things, like the Hindu god Indra or the Greek goddess Demeter. That's why sometimes [...]
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Egyptian goddess Mut
The lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, one way of showing the Egyptian goddess Mut (Vatican Museum, Rome) Mut means "mother" in Egyptian, and in Ancient Egypt people worshipped Mut as a mother [...]
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Why were there mummies in ancient Egypt?
Egyptian mummies were buried in coffins. This mummy is from the New Kingdom (Vatican Museum, Rome). Natural mummies in Egypt Because Egypt is a very dry place, where it hardly [...]
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Who was the Egyptian god Isis?
Isis and her baby Horus (Middle Kingdom, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Isis, Osiris, and Set The god Isis, in Egyptian mythology, was married to her [...]
