Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia - Dionysus
Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Worship
Dionysus is a god of mystery religious rites, such as those practiced in honor of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis near Athens. In the T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Dionysus In Neopaganism
Modern Neopagans view Dionysus in different lights, depending largely on the individual sects and the other gods worshipped by a sect. Di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Butes: Encyclopedia - Butes
In Greek mythology, the name Butes referred to four different people. Aphrodite's lover and a Sicilian king. He was the father of Eryx b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agave Mythology: Encyclopedia - Agave Mythology
Agave ("illustrious") was the queen of Thebes in Greek mythology, mother of Pentheus and daughter of Harmonia and Cadmus. She was a Maena...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zagreus: Encyclopedia - Zagreus
In Greek mythology, Zagreus was identified with the god Dionysus and was worshipped by followers of Orphism. According to the followers o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Priapus: Encyclopedia - Priapus
In Greek mythology, Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god of purely phallic character, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maenad: Encyclopedia - Maenad
In Greek mythology, Maenads [MEE-nads] were female worshippers of Dionysus, the Greek god of mystery, wine and intoxication, and the Roma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Semele: Encyclopedia - Semele
In Greek mythology, Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mother of Dionysus (the god and his votaries were both identified as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ariadne: Encyclopedia - Ariadne
Ariadne (from a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne, "utterly pure" ) was a fertility goddess of Crete, "the first divine personage of Greek m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Korybantes: Encyclopedia - Korybantes
The Korybantes, called the Kurbantes in Phrygia, were the crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bull Mythology: Encyclopedia - Bull Mythology
The worship of the Sacred Bull throughout the ancient world is most familiar in the episode of the idol of the Golden Calf made by Aaron ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cabeiri: Encyclopedia - Cabeiri
Cabeiri in Greek mythology, were a group of minor deities, of whose character and worship nothing certain is known. Their chief seats of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bel God: Encyclopedia - Bel God
Bel, signifying "lord" or "master", is a title rather than a genuine name, applied to various gods in Babylonian religion. The feminine f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animal Worship: Encyclopedia - Animal Worship
Animal worship is an ill-defined term, covering facts ranging from the worship of the real divine animal, commonly conceived as a "god-bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helios: Encyclopedia - Helios
In earlier Greek mythology, the sun was personified as a deity called Hêlios (Greek for "the sun"), whom Homer equates with the sun tita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horae: Encyclopedia - Horae
In Greek mythology, the Horae (Latin) or Horai (Greek; both words mean the "hours") were the three goddesses controlling orderly life. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athamas: Encyclopedia - Athamas
The king of Orchomenus in Greek mythology, Athamas ("rich harvest") was married first to the goddess Nephele with whom he had the twins P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antiope Mother Of Amphion: Encyclopedia - Antiope Mother Of Amphion
In Greek mythology, Antiope was the name of the daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus, according to Homer (Od. xi. 260); in later poe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabazios: Encyclopedia - Sabazios
Sabazios is the nomadic horseman sky and father god of the Phrygians. In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the '-zios' element i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ceres Mythology: Encyclopedia - Ceres Mythology
Jupiter Mars Quirinus Vesta Juno Fortuna Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Lares The Flamens Bona Dea Carmenta Camenae Dea Dia C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia - Hera
In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hêra (World Book «HIHR uh») (Greek Ἥρα or Ἥρη) was the wife and sister ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion: Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion
Greek religion is the polytheistic religion practiced in ancient Greece in form of cult practices, thus the practical counterpart of Gree...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charites: Encyclopedia - Charites
In Greek mythology, the Charites (Χάριτες; Greek: "Graces") were goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertilit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cybele: Encyclopedia - Cybele
Originally a Phrygian goddess, Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη, sometimes given the etymology "she of the hair" if her name is Greek, not Phry...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia - Orpheus
In Greek legend, Orpheus was the chief representative of the arts of song and the lyre, and of great importance in the religious history ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aphrodite: Encyclopedia - Aphrodite
Aphrodite (World Book «AF roh DY tee») (Αφροδίτη, "risen from sea-foam") is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Aphrodite - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hestia: Encyclopedia - Hestia
In Greek mythology, virginal Hestia is the goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family, who received the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hephaestus: Encyclopedia - Hephaestus
Hephaestus (World Book «hih FEHS tuhs») (Greek: Ἡφαιστος Hêphaistos) is the Greek god whose approximate Roman equivalent is V...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baalbek: Encyclopedia - Baalbek
Modern Baalbek (Arabic: بعلبك) is a town in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon, altitude 3,850 ft (1,170 m), situated east of the Litani Ri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Historicity Of Jesus: Encyclopedia - Historicity Of Jesus
The historicity of Jesus (i.e., his existence as an actual historical figure), is accepted by three major world religions, Christianity, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnos: Encyclopedia - Lemnos
Lemnos (mod. Limnos Greek: Λήμνος Turkish: Limni), an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. The island, part of the Greek ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dionysus: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Dionysus
Dionysus A major Greek god, the son of Zeus and Semele.   He was the patron of wine and drama and generally of those experiences...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Death Of Orpheus
According to a Late Antique summary of Aeschylus's lost play Bassarids, Orpheus at the end of his life disdained the worship of all gods ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Christianity/jesus Pre-4th Century Christianity And Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Christianity/jesus Pre-4th Century Christianity And Syncretism - Mithras Sol Invictus
Worship of Mithras (known as Mithraism) developed in the Roman army during the first century BC, though it is currently unknown how this ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Syncretism In Rome
The Romans, identifying themselves as common heirs to a very similar civilization, identified Greek deities with similar figures in the E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Cult
Hera was especially worshipped, as "Argive Hera" (Hera Argeia), at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Demeter: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Demeter
Demeter (Greek) (possibly from Doric da earth + meter mother)   The Earth-Mother; one of the great Olympian deities, in popular m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horae: Encyclopedia Ii - Horae - First Generation
The first generation consisted of Thallo, Auxo, and Carpo, who were the goddesses of the seasons (the Greeks only recognized spring, summ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animal Worship: Encyclopedia Ii - Animal Worship - Classification By Inward Meaning
Treating cults according to their meaning, which is not necessarily identical with the cause which first led to the deification of the an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helios: Encyclopedia Ii - Helios - Helios And Apollo
Apollo as he appears in Homer, a plague-dealing god with a silver (not golden) bow has no solar features. But by Hellenistic times Apollo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera's Jealousies
Hera - Echo. For a time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus' affairs by incessantly talking. When Hera discov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horae: Encyclopedia Ii - Horae - Second Generation
The second generation comprised Eunomia, Dike, and Eirene, who were law and order goddesses that maintained the stability of society. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helios: Encyclopedia Ii - Helios - Helios And Apollo
Apollo as he appears in Homer, a plague-dealing god with a silver (not golden) bow has no solar features. But by Hellenistic times Apollo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baalbek: Encyclopedia Ii - Baalbek - Heliopolis The City Of The Sun
Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt) was made a colonia by the Roman Empire in 15 BC and a legion was stationed there. Work...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baalbek: Encyclopedia Ii - Baalbek - Heliopolis, The City Of The Sun
Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt) was made a colonia by the Roman Empire in 15 BC and a legion was stationed there. Work...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anacreon Poet: Encyclopedia Ii - Anacreon Poet - Poetry
Anacreon had a reputation as a composer of hymns, as well as of those bacchanalian and amatory lyrics which are commonly associated with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poseidon: Encyclopedia Ii - Poseidon - Worship
In the historical period, Poseidon was often referred to by the epithets Enosichthon, Seischthon and Ennosigaios, all meaning "earth-shak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charites: Encyclopedia Ii - Charites - Regional Differences
Although the Graces usually numbered three, according to the Spartans, Cleta, not Thalia, was the third, and other Graces are sometimes m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Religion - Overview
It is perhaps misleading to speak of "Greek religion" as a unified system of dogma or ritual; perhaps the most conspicuous aspect of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apollo: Encyclopedia Ii - Apollo - Worship
Apollo is considered to have dominion over plague, beauty, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apollo: Encyclopedia Ii - Apollo - Worship
Apollo is considered to have dominion over plague, beauty, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animal Worship: Encyclopedia Ii - Animal Worship - Animal Cults
Animal worship - Bear. The bear enjoys a large measure of respect from all cultures that come in contact with it, which shows itself in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aphrodite: Encyclopedia Ii - Aphrodite - Worship
The epithet Aphrodite Acidalia was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used to bathe in, located in Boeotia (Virgil I, 7...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnos: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnos - Mythic Lemnos
In ancient times the island was sacred to Hephaestus, who as the legend tells fell on Lemnos when his father Zeus hurled him headlong out...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Plant Souls
Just as human souls are assigned to animals, so too are trees and plants often credited with souls, both human and animal in form. All ov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thracians: Encyclopedia Ii - Thracians - Sources
The Iliad records that the Thracians from around the Hellespont and also the Thracian Cicones fought on the side of the Trojans (Iliad, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Religion - Worship
The most widespread public act of worship in ancient Greece was sacrifice, whether of grain or the blood sacrifice of animals. The temple...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Religion - Worship
The most widespread public act of worship in ancient Greece was sacrifice, whether of grain or the blood sacrifice of animals. In general...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thetis: Encyclopedia Ii - Thetis - Thetis And The Other Gods
Apollodorus writes that Thetis was once courted by both Zeus and Poseidon - she was given to the mortal Peleus only because of the prophe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Object Souls
Some cultures do not make a distinction between animate and inanimate objects. Natural phenomenon, geographic features, everyday objects,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Animism And Death
In many parts of the world it is held that the human body is the seat of more than one soul. On the island of Nias four are distinguished...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euhemerus: Encyclopedia Ii - Euhemerus - Euhemerism And The Early Christians
Euhemerus - Cyprian. The early Christian apologists deployed the euhemerist argument to support their position that pagan mythology was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mycenaean Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Mycenaean Greece - Mycenaean Civilization
The Mycenaean period flourished between the arrival of the proto-Greeks in the Aegean around 1600 BC and the collapse of their Bronze-Age...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Images Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Images Of Jesus - Christian Images Of Jesus
The earliest Christians did not often depict Jesus, if they did at all, using instead symbols such as the Ichthys (fish), the Labarum (or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serapeum: Encyclopedia Ii - Serapeum - Destruction Of The Serapeum
Bishop Theophilus of Alexandria was Nicene patriarch when the decrees of emperor Theodosius I forbade public observances of any but Chris...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Overview
In some animistic worldviews found in hunter-gatherer cultures, the human being is often regarded as on a roughly equal footing with anim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eros Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eros Mythology - Conceptions Of Eros
Throughout Greek thought, there appear to be two sides to the conception of Eros; in the first, he is a primeval deity who embodies not o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cybele: Encyclopedia Ii - Cybele - Cult History
Cybele - Overview: Anatolia Greece and Rome. At Pessinos in Phrygia, an archaic version of Cybele had been venerated as Agdistis since ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Religion - Overview
It is perhaps misleading to speak of "Greek religion." In the first place, the Greeks did not have a term for "religion" in the sense of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jason: Encyclopedia Ii - Jason - The Quest For The Golden Fleece
Jason assembled a great group of heroes and a huge ship called the Argo. Together, the heroes were known as the Argonauts. They included ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Religion - Suppression Of Paganism
In the late 4th century, the Imperial courts were predominantly Christian; Christianity had relatively few internal quarrels; and a deep ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Religion - Revival Of Paganism
Many neo-pagan religious paths, such as Wicca, use aspects of ancient Greek religions in their practice; Hellenic polytheism focuses excl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orion Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Orion Mythology - Orion And Side
Orion's first episode, represented as a "marriage," associates him with Side, quite literally the "pomegranate", in a consecration to tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Legend Of Osiris And Isis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legend Of Osiris And Isis - The Moon And The Oxyrhynchus
In late Egyptian thought, the righteous dead were sometimes said to become the stars, and thus the moon was occasionally seen as having a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jason: Encyclopedia Ii - Jason - The Quest For The Golden Fleece
Jason assembled a great group of heroes and a huge ship called the Argo. Together, the heroes were known as the Argonauts. They included ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aphrodite: Encyclopedia Ii - Aphrodite - Birth
"Foam-arisen" Aphrodite was born of the sea foam near Paphos, Cyprus after Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals and the elder god's blood and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Evil Spirits
Side by side with the doctrine of separable souls with which we have so far been concerned, exists the belief in a great host of unattach...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Differences Between Animism And Religion
Animism is commonly described as the most primitive form of religion, but properly speaking it is not a religion at all. Animism is in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Syncretism In Ancient Greece
Syncretism was an essential feature of Greek paganism. Hellenistic culture in the age that followed Alexander the Great was itself syncre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phrygia: Encyclopedia Ii - Phrygia - Culture
The Mother Goddess as worshiped in Phrygia was Cybele. In her typical Phrygian form she wears a long belted dress, a polos, or high cylin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christianization: Encyclopedia Ii - Christianization - Overview
This practice of Christianization has at times been relatively peaceful and at times has been a very violent process, ranging from inspir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Animism And The Origin Of Religion
Two animistic theories of the origin of religion have been put forward. The one, often termed the "ghost theory," mainly associated with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melqart: Encyclopedia Ii - Melqart - Cult
The historian Herodotus recorded (2.44): In the wish to get the best information that I could on these matters, I made a voyage to Tyre i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Religion - Theology
Theology did not come naturally to a faith this diverse and essentially local. At the time of the Homeric epics, the Greeks were familiar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acropolis Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - Acropolis Athens - The Periclean Building Program
Most of the major temples were rebuilt under the leadership of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens (460–430 BC). Phidias, a great ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achilles: Encyclopedia Ii - Achilles - Other Stories About Achilles
Some post-Homeric sources claim that in order to keep Achilles safe from the war, Thetis (or, in some versions, Peleus) hid the young man...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acropolis, Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - Acropolis, Athens - The Periclean Building Program
Most of the major temples were rebuilt under the leadership of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens (460–430 BC). Phidias, a great ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Modern Syncretic Religions
Recently developed religious systems that exhibit marked syncretism include the New World religions Candomblé, Vodun, and Santería, whi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lesbos Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Lesbos Island - History
According to myths, Lesbos was the patron god of the island. Macar is reputed to be the first king whose daughters bequeathed their names...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Literature - Classical And Pre-classical Antiquity
This period of Greek literature stretches the oldest surviving written works in the Greek language until the 4th century and the rise of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Parallels With Christianity
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between the legends of Diony...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Parallels With Christianity
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between Dionysus and Jesus; ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Other Stories
When Hephaestus bound Hera to a magical chair, Dionysus got him drunk and brought him back to Olympus after he had passed out. For this a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Childhood
The legend goes that Zeus took the infant Dionysus and gave him in charge to the rain-nymphs of Nysa, who nourished his infancy and child...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Birth
Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Birth
Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Modern Interpretations
In his book The Birth of Tragedy, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche contrasted Dionysus with the god Apollo as a symbol of the b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Midas
Once, Dionysus found his old school master and foster father, Silenus, missing. The old man had been drinking, and had wandered away drun...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Vi - D
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages VI - D . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. ...   » Read the article