For the Hittite religion of “Thousand Gods Hatti” scholarship has identified different ways categorization: State pantheon, Local cults, “circle” and numeric group are most widely used categories based on several criteria, such as linguistics, geography, cultural milieu. The present paper aims to better define state question about hierarchy within pantheon one hand, further investigate notion i...

Early Interaction with Buddhism (552–710): Between 538 and 552, new religions came to Japan from China and Korea. The arrival of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism initiated new dynamics of religious interaction. In early Shinto, each community probably worshipped its local deity according to provincial custom. But under the influence of other faiths, the adherents of Shinto gradually organized...

We admire Simonton's valiant attempt to bring all of creativity under a single dimension. We offer a view that is sometimes complementary and sometimes distinct from Simonton's model: Our own multidimensional amusement park theoretical model, which tries to integrate domain-specific and domain-general points of view. We eagerly await future research on Simonton's model and are curious of how hi...