Zeii medicinei în coloniile milesiene de la Pontul Euxin: cult și reprezentare iconografică by Remus Mihai Feraru

“…At an early stage, during the 4th century BC, the cult of Asclepius was introduced into the pantheons of Olbia and Panticapaion. In a second stage, from the 3rd century BC onwards, the cult of the gods of medicine became widespread in Thrace, Lower Moesia, and on the southern and western shores of the Pontus Euxinus, especially after Thrace became a Roman province (46 AD). …”
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A ESCRITA BIOGRÁFICA: IMPASSES, TENSÕES E NOVAS PERSPECTIVAS by João Muniz Junior

“…This work is an adaptation of one of the chapters of our Master's thesis, entitled “Biography and history: pantheonization and iconoclasm in narratives by Raimundo Magalhaes Junior” defended in 2015, by in the Graduate Program in History at UNESP-Assis. …”
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Some Observations on Vārāhī in Bihar and Bengal by Claudine Bautze-Picron

“… The sheer intensity of the encounter between the Buddhist and Hindu pantheons in ‘Eastern India’ (comprising the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and present Bangladesh) from the 7th to the 12th century, was unmatched in any other region.1 It left, above all, a visual and textual trail in the Buddhist iconography, as attested by the presence of two Mātṛkas (Mothers) among the members of Māra’s army attacking the Buddha on the night of his Awakening, Brahmanical deities being incorporated into the Buddhist world: Vārāhī appears in the Jagdishpur sculpture, and Cāmuṇḍā in a large fragment from a sculpture which must have been as large as the Jagdishpur image and used to stand in Lakhisarai, more fragments of it being preserved in the Indian Museum (Fig. 1).2 Further, the key component of Vārāhī iconography,3 the hog head, became an integral part of the images of Buddhist deities like Mārīcī and Vajravārāhī. …”
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The Cosmopolitan Vernacular: Korean Shamans (<i>Mudang</i>) in the Global Spirituality Market by Liora Sarfati

“…In contrast, vernacular religions have maintained their local uniqueness in terms of pantheons, belief systems, practices, and ritual objects—even into the 21st century. …”
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Foreigners and Religion at Ugarit by František Válek

“…Hurrian traditions thus influenced both Ugaritic cults and divine pantheons. Egyptian influences, in contrast, are observable mostly in art and material evidence. …”
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Gender and Pan-Species Democracy in the Anthropocene by Veronica Strang

“…In religious terms, they have moved from worshipping female, male or androgynous non-human deities, to valorising pantheons of deities that, over time, became semi-human and then human in form. …”
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Functions of Shamans in the Buryat Epic Tradition by Natalia N. Nikolaeva, Liudmila S. Dampilova

“…Shamanic and epic texts of Mongols are characterized by identical mythological patterns of world order, unified heavenly pantheons, coherent and synonymous ideas and concepts. …”
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EMERGENCY ALARMS IN LAHORE AS EPSILON VARIANT OF COVID-19 IS DETECTED by Hassan Sohail Butt, Taimoor Hassan

“…According to the medical experts, the patient takes several weeks to recuperate from Epsilon strain in contrast with the other types of infections. Medical pantheons opine that this Epsilon variant found in Lahore is highly contagious and communicable as the Delta variant and this variant is said to be 20 per cent more transmissible. …”
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