The skies of July and August offer an excellent view of the constellation Sagittarius. Easy to spot and full of fascinating deep-sky objects, Sagittarius is an ideal subject for study for both astronomers and stargazers. …

Mnemosyne, the Titan of memory. Memory was an essential skill in ancient Greece, as it predated written language and was the only way to remember what had been said or to keep a record of …

Samskaras or sánskaras are, in Indian philosophy and mythological religions, mental impressions, memories, or psychological imprints. In Hindu philosophies, samskaras are the basis for the development of the theory of karma. According to several schools …

The Chilam Balam books are handwritten, mainly in the Mayan miscellanies of the 17th and 18th centuries, which bear the names of the small Yucatecan villages where they were originally kept, and preserve important traditional …

The qilin, or kirin in Japanese, is a mythical chimeric creature with hooves known in China and other East Asian cultures, which is said to appear with the arrival or imminent death of a wise …

The three-legged crow is a creature found in various East Asian mythologies and arts. It has also been found on ancient coins from Lycia and Pamphylia. The earliest forms of the tripedal crow are found …

In Egyptian mythology, Ptah (Ancient Egyptian: ptḥ, probably vocalized as Pitaḥ in Ancient Egyptian) is the demiurge of Memphis, god of craftsmen and architects. In the Memphis triad, he is the husband of Sekhmet and …

The goddess Manat Manat (Arabic: Manat Arabic pronunciation: (maˈnaː) was a Semitic goddess worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. She was one of …

In Abrahamic religions, fallen angels are angels who were cast out of heaven. The term “fallen angel” does not appear in the Bible or other Abrahamic scriptures, but is used for angels who were cast …

Dagon, also known as Dagan, was a fertility deity who eventually became an important Semitic god. The Philistines, a community of Canaanites, were an Aegean people who settled on the southern coast of what is …