Who was the Norse god Odin?
Viking stone, 600s AD, from Gotland, Sweden. Odin is riding his horse, Sleipnir. Sometime before 300 AD, people started to think of Odin (or Wotan) as the chief of the [...]
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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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Egyptian religion – Gods of ancient Egypt
Egyptian religion: Weighing the souls of the dead Polytheism and Egyptian religion As in the rest of Africa, the people of ancient Egypt were polytheistic throughout the Old Kingdom, the [...]
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Egyptian god Horus – Gods of Ancient Egypt
Good luck charm of the eye of the god Horus (Old Kingdom, ca. 2000 BC) Horus was the son of Re Horus was an Egyptian god, originally from Upper Egypt [...]
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Who invented taxes? History of taxes
History of taxes: Subjects bring tribute to Persepolis (Iran, ca. 480 BC) What are taxes? Taxes have been around for a long time. They are the main way people pay [...]
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Who was Lei Kung? Ancient Chinese gods
A bolt of lightning in the sky Lei Kung was the Chinese god of thunder, and his wife, Lei Zi, was the goddess of lightning. He makes thunder with his [...]
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Who was Guanyin? Chinese god
The god Guanyin, from the Liao Dynasty (about 1000 AD) Guanyin and the underworld Guanyin was a Chinese Buddhist god based on a real woman, the way Guanti was based on [...]
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Who was Guanti? Chinese god of war
Guanti (Ming Dynasty) What's Guanti's backstory? Like Cheng-Huang, Guanti was a god based on a real man. According to the story, he was born poor and when he was a child he [...]
