In India eunuchs are known as Hijras or a third gender neither a he nor a she While they were once worshiped in the Hindu world and also worked for Islamic rulers they are now widely feared Even thoug ...

Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow, and also served as a messenger of the gods. Iris was a prominent figure in many ancient myths.

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

The director has famously avoided sex and female characters in his movies, but it'll be hard to stick to that trend with ...

Hindus follow several traditions and customs However most of the time some traditions are blindly followed without knowing their actual significance One such custom that is blindly followed is to appl ...

Chloe, often used as an alternative name for Demeter, the Greek goddess of fertility and agriculture, symbolizes new life and ...

What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand ... that of Apollo and Dionysus, two Greek gods who represented, respectively, ...

Did the gods of Ancient Greece, those figures of true divine power and often ... but inevitably altered significantly the distinct identity and power of the original Greek gods and goddesses. However, ...

As well as Mediterranean colours, images of Greek gods and goddesses adorn the walls ... While the menu will largely feature Greece’s traditional cuisine that’s familiar to food lovers ...

So pleasing the gods with smells that are offerings is part of a bigger realm of the sensory landscape of Greek religion," Platt told NPR. "There is religion embedded in everything in the ancient ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created ... use of perfumes and scented oils on the statues of gods and goddesses to make them appear more lifelike.