If the ancients’ identification of Nergal with the planet Mars has a rational basis, it will provide us with an invaluable foundation upon which to launch a comparative analysis of ancient mythology. Nearly every ancient culture of which we have sufficient record has preserved traditions of a great war-god whose primary functions included leading the battle-charge and defending the kingdom agai...

Background: Poor understanding of childhood convulsion among parents contributes largely to morbidity and mortality resulting from convulsion in developing countries. Aims and Objectives: This study evaluated the knowledge and attitude of women regarding childhood convulsion in Tegbesun, a peri-urban community in Ilorin, Nigeria. Methods: This community based study comprised of 500 women aged b...

darius offered the political order of “king of kings” to solve the political crisis of his era. he legitimized it based on an order of gods. in his belief, the nature of politics was based on a dualistic religious worldview that is the fight between true divinity and false divinity’s will and performance in the world. in addition, the chief true divinity’s law was introduced as the principle or...

Teaching and learning theoretical subjects, such as History, although important, is considered by many students to be non-appealing. Alternative teaching approaches include the use of educational games augmented reality (AR) applications, or more recently, AR games. Such are increase students’ interest for subject lead better outcomes. However, studies about in classroom sparse further research...

The late imperial-educated Chinese interacted with a very large array of gods through various means, especially spirit-writing, for which we have abundant detailed records. While few prominent been studied in this context, there are currently no comprehensive studies the connections between humans and gods. Using records thirteen different spirit-writing altars parts world sixteenth nineteenth ...

Hindu medicine correctly judged by him is a composite system. It consists of a Dravidian system on which was superimposed an Aryan system on which in its turn was superimposed a Buddhist system. The Dravidian system centres round Dhanvantari who does not figure in the vedic pantheon of the Aryan immigrants. He is one of the 14 jewels churned out of the milky ocean at the beginning of time when ...

Abstract The paper examines doctrinal and political reasons to explain why the Ancient Greek religion did not feature a distinct class of professional priests as suppliers religious goods. Doctrinal relate worshiping multitude powerful anthropomorphic gods with flawed characters; absence founder scripture; lack doctrine code moral behaviour piety manifested mass participation in rituals. These ...

Abstract Psychological and cultural evolutionary accounts of human sociality propose that beliefs in punitive monitoring gods care about moral norms facilitate cooperation. While there is some evidence to suggest belief supernatural punishment generally induce cooperative behaviour, the effect a deity's explicitly postulated concerns on cooperation remains unclear. Here, we report pre-registere...

This article discusses the functions of myth in Achebe’s Arrow Gods using Euhemerism as a reality measuring stick. The considers form and nature through what it calls “definition perspectives”. Using this definition perspectives, paper myth-ritual perspective, structural approach perspective functional perspectives defining myth. Having established that is believe gods are men deified for their...