DanMachi takes a game-like approach to its mythological world, offering a fresh perspective on classic folklore. ...

For historians of Slavic religions, this lack of source material was a challenge – a call to resort to other methods and reconstruction, like drawing ... (For the Slavic Myth of Creation, go here.) ...

Although Plato “invented” the myth of Er, he did draw upon pre-existing elements of Greek and Egyptian mythology and cosmology. The Myth Er, a hero from Pamphylia, was slain in battle but came ...

The Mritunjay Mahadev Temple in Varanasi, known for its revered Shiva shrine, features a mythologically significant well ...

Vico applauded these authors for drawing on their cultural inheritance ... Though Jung acknowledged that “the whole mythological complex of the dying and resurgent god” is “a well-known primordial ...

Recent discoveries in Pompeii include an eerie painting of a child, spectacular dining room, and more insights into the ...

Classical Greek mythology was rich in supernatural snake ... An archaeologist’s drawing of another giant snake engraving. Carved into a rockface in the Orinoco valley over a thousand years ...

Recently, the name "Kalki 2898 AD" has been making waves, drawing curiosity about its connection to the revered Kalki avatar ...

Since the 1980s, a popular "geomyth" has spread that the griffin's unique appearance was inspired by the fossilized skeleton ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include an extraordinary posthumous collection from Gboyega Odubanjo and JH Prynne’s ...

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries asked which tradition those lawmakers wanted to uphold: “Slavery? Rape? Kidnap?” ...