If the ancients’ identification of Nergal with the planet Mars has a rational basis, it will provide us with an invaluable foundation upon which to launch a comparative analysis of ancient mythology. Nearly every ancient culture of which we have sufficient record has preserved traditions of a great war-god whose primary functions included leading the battle-charge and defending the kingdom agai...

darius offered the political order of “king of kings” to solve the political crisis of his era. he legitimized it based on an order of gods. in his belief, the nature of politics was based on a dualistic religious worldview that is the fight between true divinity and false divinity’s will and performance in the world. in addition, the chief true divinity’s law was introduced as the principle or...

The late imperial-educated Chinese interacted with a very large array of gods through various means, especially spirit-writing, for which we have abundant detailed records. While few prominent been studied in this context, there are currently no comprehensive studies the connections between humans and gods. Using records thirteen different spirit-writing altars parts world sixteenth nineteenth ...

Abstract The paper examines doctrinal and political reasons to explain why the Ancient Greek religion did not feature a distinct class of professional priests as suppliers religious goods. Doctrinal relate worshiping multitude powerful anthropomorphic gods with flawed characters; absence founder scripture; lack doctrine code moral behaviour piety manifested mass participation in rituals. These ...

in this study, the performance of aquacrop model to predict yield production of winter wheat (roshan and gods varieties), water and solute balance of soil profile was evaluated under water and salinity stresses. field experiments were conducted with three levels of saline irrigation water including: s1, s2 and s3corresponding to 1.4, 4.5 and 9.6 ds/m, respectively, and four levels of irrigation...

Abstract Psychological and cultural evolutionary accounts of human sociality propose that beliefs in punitive monitoring gods care about moral norms facilitate cooperation. While there is some evidence to suggest belief supernatural punishment generally induce cooperative behaviour, the effect a deity's explicitly postulated concerns on cooperation remains unclear. Here, we report pre-registere...

This article discusses the functions of myth in Achebe’s Arrow Gods using Euhemerism as a reality measuring stick. The considers form and nature through what it calls “definition perspectives”. Using this definition perspectives, paper myth-ritual perspective, structural approach perspective functional perspectives defining myth. Having established that is believe gods are men deified for their...