The god Tammuz (probably) with grain growing from his shoulders A West Asian god Tammuz (or Dumuzi) was a West Asian god who personified growing food, like Persephone in Greece or Osiris in Egypt. [...]
Hades kidnaps Persephone (mosaic from Amphipolis, 300s BC) Persephone was the daughter of the goddess Demeter. One day Persephone was dancing with her friends in a sunny meadow, having a good time, picking [...]
Dionysos turns a ship into grapevines, and the bad sailors into dolphins (Athenian black-figure vase from the 500s BC) One story about Dionysos, which you can see painted on this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Egyptian god Anubis in the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Luxor (New Kingdom) Wolf head and black color Anubis was the way ancient Greek historians like Herodotus wrote the Egyptian [...]
