His bestsellers make the Olympian gods and goddesses feel like modern-day superheroes, with his latest focusing on the patron of wine and theater, Dionysos. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports.

All our dresses have names, but this one in particular was inspired by the divinely beautiful and curvaceous celestial maidens of Hindu mythology. Apsara is a female spirit of the clouds and the ...

The religion's earliest adherents worshipped two deities, one of each sex: "the Mother Goddess, the birthgiver, who brings into existence all life," and the "Horned God," a male hunter who died ...

Modern technology has made more religious ... trend where new additions are made to the Hindu pantheon of gods and goddesses. Earlier, the lower socio-economic segment worshipped Gods that the ...

Pune: The goddess has taken centre stage this Durga Puja with her image on blouses, saris and even denim jackets. Forget subtle hints of devotion — think bold and intricate depictions of the ...

So it was with the world’s first goddess of love ... temples of the great gods and ask for help to rescue her mistress. Ishtar’s instructions that her handmaiden dress in appropriately sombre ...

The most important and widely recognised of these are the God and Goddess (or pantheons ... Women play a prominent role in the modern Pagan movement, and Goddess worship features in most Pagan ...

there is one name that brings them all under the visual memory of modern India: Raja Ravi Varma. Mythology, literature, and history took on a new life in his paintings -- one that reached from the ...

Ptah was head of three gods and goddesses who were worshipped at Memphis (near modern-day Cairo); the other two were his wife, Sekhmet, a lion-headed goddess who brought destruction upon the ...