duncan1890 / Getty Images Egyptian gods and goddesses were an essential part of ancient life. So much so, in fact, that there ...

Dungeons & Dragons has a wide variety of benevolent, petty, and cruel gods and goddesses. These are the strongest of them all ...

The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally ...

Hinduism is one of the world's oldest religions in the world, with roots stretching back over 4,000 years. According to The Pew Research Center, there are about 1 billion Hindus in the world, ...

We meet Homer, famous writer of Ancient Greece, who introduces us to the Olympians - twelve of the most important gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece - and also Ancient Greek beliefs about the ...

But why did they go to all that effort? Well, that comes down to their religion which celebrated lots of different gods and goddesses each with their own role to play. Ancient Egyptians believed ...

Ancient Greeks believed in supernatural causes for almost all events and attributed them to the goddess Tyche. The Romans believed in her, too, renaming her Fortuna. The English word fortune is ...

In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state religion – called the di consentes – paralleled the gods of Greek mythology. Although they kept Latin names and images ...

In India where light skin is coveted, a new campaign is re-imagining popular Hindu gods and goddesses with a darker skin, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi. The desire for fairer skin is not ...