The ancient Egyptians mummified animals for they belief that were of a sacred status. Despite hadn’t been worshipping those animals, sanctified them their symbolic significance in which believed would bring closer to the deity. Even though, animal deities had nothing but embodied appearance or symbol divine powers, mummification fill place with blessings, protection and avail afterlife as food ...

In Hindu practices and narratives, otherworldly nonhuman beings appear with bodies feelings. this article, I draw from ethnographic fieldwork as well philology to outline the widespread perception of divine presence or emotion “heat”. This embodied idea multi-sensual “aesthetic blend”, propose call it, can be found in very diverse cultural historical traditions South Asia. It is more than a con...

Although there is a consensus on religious revival in China, it must be noted that popular religion and institutional religions such as Buddhism Daoism adopt different strategies to survive the state’s regulations. Many temples used facilitate worship of local deities have establish some form intangible cultural heritage or emphasize deity’s history folklore de-religionize. During this process,...

Such imaginative descriptions will have been influenced by mythical beliefs in sirens and mermaids. The Greek sirens were singing bird-women who lured sailors to their death, as described by Homer (I945 :c. Iooo B.C.) in the Odyssey and interpreted in terms of classical religious mythology by Robert Graves (I955). TIhe mermaid or water-nymph type of siren of nautical tradition originates in the...

We examine empirical evidence for religious prosociality, the hypothesis that religions facilitate costly behaviors that benefit other people. Although sociological surveys reveal an association between self-reports of religiosity and prosociality, experiments measuring religiosity and actual prosocial behavior suggest that this association emerges primarily in contexts where reputational conce...

Lepcha, Bhutia and Nepalis, three ethnic groups of Sikkim practicing traditional medicines have a strong belief of different supernatural forces and deities. The study is an attempt to focus on the beliefs, practices and prospects of folk healers of Sikkim. The study was conducted in whole Sikkim and the data were collected by the field survey and personal interviews of 102 identified folk heal...

The "attention schema" theory provides one possible account of the biological basis of consciousness, tracing the evolution of awareness through steps from the advent of selective signal enhancement about half a billion years ago to the top-down control of attention, to an internal model of attention (which allows a brain, for the first time, to attribute to itself that it has a mind that is aw...