The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City ... to resemble the face of Tláloc, the Aztec god of rain, water and fertility. In fact, the adornment of the children ...

It contained the remains of at least 42 children sacrificed to Tlaloc, the god of rain and fertility, in an attempt to end a ...

A team from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Archaeology and the German University of Tübengen have fully unearthed the entrance of a well-preserved 2,000-year-old temple in Sohag, Egypt.

the rain god, during a severe drought that ravaged the Basin of Mexico. Leonardo López Luján, director of INAH’s Templo Mayor Project, recently revisited this discovery. “At first ...

It is obvious from the model of Minoan religion devised by Evans that he was influenced by the theories put forward by James Frazer in The Golden Bough (1890), that prehistoric religion centered on a ...

An exhibition at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts emphasizes the stories and rituals surrounding religious artworks and objects.

During the Mexican War of Independence against Spain ... This Marian shrine, however, had been preceded on Tepeyac hill by the pagan temple honoring the earth and fertility goddess, Tonantzin--our ...

Though the inscriptions also portray Egyptian fertility god Min, his wife Repit, commonly depicted as a lioness, and their son, the child-god Kolanthes. “Once again, the goddess Repit can be ...

The inscriptions depict Egyptian fertility god Min and his wife Repit, commonly depicted as a lioness, and their son, the child-god Kolanthes. In one inscription, this Egyptian deities are ...

Source: Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. A majestic temple of the fertility god was found in Egypt. Interestingly, archaeologists have unearthed a secret entrance to the ancient building, ...

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