That winter day in January 1664 marked an exceptional event in the reign of King Pratap Malla of Kathmandu. It was 15 Paush ...

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Odunde Festival — five decades of celebrating African heritage and spiritual ...

As calls for decolonization and reparations for the transatlantic slave trade gain momentum globally, African church leaders, ...

Goddess, a new musical playing at The Public Theater, is many things: a mystical drama reaching back to the mists of time, a dual love story with both comic and tragic fates, a murder mystery, a bold ...

This title might be a bit of a misnomer – pretty much all fantasy is inspired by world mythology, though the rate of ...

The GrioTrio relates a story of the ancient gods. The goddess of evil, Watamaraka, is mother to the beautiful and pure-hearted Marimba. Watamaraka decrees Marimba will be the goddess of war, but ...

The goddess was believed to be the wife of Ptah, the god of craftsmanship and architects ... and many of her sculptures were transported throughout Egypt, Thebes, and parts of Africa. For worshippers, ...

Many African indigenous religions see creation as existing in three tiers, or levels. At the top, there’s the spirit realm, where the gods and goddesses are. Those often include a supreme ...

As a scholar of South Asian religions, I know that stories found in the “Puranas,” religious texts likely composed between the second and 10th centuries, describe why gods and goddesses favor ...

in West Africa – as the embodiment of heat, work and strength. He and his sister Mawu, the goddess of the Moon, were central to the Vodun (Voodoo) tradition, together balancing the day and night. The ...