in accordance with the usual depiction of the death god. The presence of this sculpture strongly indicates that the temple was intended as a place of ritual veneration for the flatulent divinity.

The Aztec god of death and lord of the underworld ... At the heart of Aztec religious life stood the Great Temple, or Templo ...

The ceremony takes place at a modest temple to Santa Muerte ... to stem from Mictecacihuatl, an Aztec goddess who presided over a festival of death every August. After conquering Mexico in ...

But what happens after death? In this, the ancients looked to Hades, god of the underworld ... The Erechtheion, a temple to Athena, occupies the most sacred ground on Athens’s Acropolis.

The Rabbit God is in the shape of a rabbit man. In Chinese mythology, there was a rabbit that lived on the moon. Every day it ...

Any observer can see the outside progress of earthquake-proofing granite temple on Temple Square, but what has happened to ...

The Lord God lives in his holy temple yet abides in our midst ... as is the anniversary of death. Some or all of the following prayers may be used at the graveside of a family member or friend.

On Tisha B’Av, I learned of the loss of another temple — not, God forbid, a violent destruction ... still reeling from the ...

Young British Hindus explain and discuss their beliefs about life after death, karma and reincarnation. A visit to a Mandir (temple) leads to a brief explanation of Hindu views on other religions as ...

At that moment the curtain hanging in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split apart, the graves broke open, and many of God's people who had died were ...

My life as a clergy person has been rather atypical from what most people probably think of when they learn that someone is ...