Most of the figurines follow the same iconography. The snakes she holds are likely nonvenomous, symbolizing the goddess’s control over life and death. These ivory figurines, sometimes adorned ...

bearing the mesmerizingly horrific likeness of the earth goddess Tlaltecuhtli (pronounced tlal-TEK-tli)—the symbol of the Aztec life and death cycle, squatting to give birth while drinking her ...

Sackler Gallery Inlay of mummy figure with human head Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Figurine of the goddess Neith Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Inlay of a ...

Here's how to get your hands on them. Maja, Goddess of Life and Death is one of the optional bosses that you can encounter in ...

These are their only documents, and among the most eloquent of them are groups of highly distinctive stone statues ... goddess, transforming organic waste and excrement into healthy new life ...

The 3,900-year-old tomb of priestess Idy is revealing new insights into women’s roles in Egypt’s Middle Kingdom.

But what happens after death? In this, the ancients looked to ... As described by Homer, the gods and goddesses who ruled from Olympus possessed human traits such as lust, petulance, jealousy ...

The former physical therapist-turned-artist reimagines Demeter and other mythological figures in modern New York City scenes ...

But nine thousand years ago the dry scrubland surrounding the settlement was a grassy plain that teamed with life and was ... the ‘Mother Goddess’, it is a clay figurine of a corpulent woman ...