Un exemple de genre fluide dans la nécropole du Céramique ? by Isabelle Algrain

“…Yet, even if classical Athens seems to portray a strictly binary society, some deities and individuals have the distinctive feature of blurring the gender boundaries. …”
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Sociokarma and Kindred Spirits: An Acknowledgement by Susanne Kerekes

“…In other words, “collective karma” must also address entanglements; Entanglements of not only individual agents, be they persons or institutions, but also of ancestors, ghosts, deities, and various material culture—an agency of relations. …”
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Identités sonores réelles et fantasmées dans l’Antiquité : à chacun sa percussion ? by Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

“…Rattlesnakes, roptres, bells, drums and many others are thus associated with different worship practices, even specifically with certain deities. The reception of these objects in later eras reinforced this idea of exclusivity: the sistrum of Isis, the cymbals of Cybele, the rattlesnakes and the tambourines of Dionysus, etc. …”
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Functions of Shamans in the Buryat Epic Tradition by Natalia N. Nikolaeva, Liudmila S. Dampilova

“…The functions of male shaman deities are nominal and not that significant for the plot. …”
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To the question of expansion of the pontic syncretic cult of Mēn—Mithra—Attis in Bosporus by Suvorova, N.I.

“…The connection of these cults with the Kabeiri’s earlier cult of agricultural deities can be clearly observed. As for the studied figurines, the fact that they were discovered on Lower Don, as well as in remote regions of Rostov Oblast, demonstrates that this Pontic syncretic cult was popular among settlers of the eastern periphery of Bosporan Kingdom and neighboring territories in 1st c. …”
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The sanctuary of the Temple à redans in Ai Khanum (Hellenistic Bactria): cults and ritual practices by Laurianne Martinez­‑Sève

“…The lands extending on either side of the courtyard also belonged to its properties and were used for economic activities. At least two deities were honoured by rituals that generally left few traces. …”
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Cultes impériaux et pouvoir impérial : diffusion et circulation des cultes des empereurs dans le monde romain by Gabrielle Frija

“…They created various forms of worship and integrated the imperial deities into their local religious structures. Thus, all the inhabitants of the Empire participated in a cult to the emperor, but these cults never become a unified imperial religion. …”
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An evolving trend in religious practices amongst Malaysian Hindus: A case study of shrines within the residence compound of Hindus, a new phenomenon? by Manimaran, S.

“…The best exemplification of the differences is the religious practice of Malaysian Hindus as they have introduced a new trend in the Hindu religious practice by building shrines for deities within their residence compound. Itis a new phenomenon amongst the Malaysian Hindu community and also it is envisaged as a problem in the nation as most shrines built illegally without the consent of the local authorities. …”
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Contrôler un territoire, contrôler un sanctuaire : aspects religieux de la fondation de Berytus by Anne-Rose Hošek

“…The investigation into the position of the Heliopolitan sanctuary in the new civic environment leads us to reconsider the epigraphic evidence referring to the Heliopolitan deities.…”
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Esclaves et affranchis chez les Voconces au Haut-Empire : l’apport des inscriptions by Marianne Béraud, Nicolas Mathieu, Bernard Rémy

“…Sixty-seven inscriptions have been recorded (42 epitaphs, 21 dedications to deities and 4 varied texts) concerning slaves and freedmen and women. …”
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Sacred Songs and Decolonial Collective Voices from Elvira Espejo Ayca's Voice. Kirki Qhañi. Petaca de las poéticas andinas (2022) by Adriana Sánchez Gutiérrez

“…The song-poems preserve Inca meanings and aesthetics that the indigenous people used during Colonization to maintain good relations with the Spanish domain and, in turn, mask those referring to the Inca deities. Some songs have been taken up to unravel the lyrical resources of colonial times and recreate the original songs of the ancestors with the community of Kurmi Wasi School in Bolivia, a musical production that was recorded under the name of Sami Kirki in 2018, which was included in the last Espejo’s book Kirki Qhañi (2022).…”
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The Emergence of the Osiris Cult in the Italian Peninsula and Its Main Features: A Reassessment by Maria Diletta Pubblico

“…In the Roman period, the cult of Osiris, together with other Egyptian deities, reached the Italian peninsula through the sea trade. …”
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Depicting the gods: metal figurines in Roman Britain by Emma Durham

“…The figurines from Britain comprise a wide range of types depicting Roman and Gallo-Roman deities, human figures, birds and animals. The spatial and social distribution of the major types will also be discussed.…”
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Les cultes privés chez les Romains (iiie s. avant – iiie s. après J.-C.) by Marie-Odile Charles-Laforge

“…Throughout our period, private cults do not seem to change : what essentially changes is the expansion of the family pantheon to new deities and the introduction of the “imperial cult” at the level of domus and compitum.…”
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Sireny, ili stranstvie po strane smerti<br>Sirene ali potovanje po deželi smrti</br> by Mikhail Yevzlin

“…It is the aim of this paper to reinterpret Old Greek »singing« deities, the sirens, described mainly in Homer’s Odyssey, but also in later sources from antiquity. …”
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Ramayana and Animism in "Wayang" Puppet Theatre by Matthew Isaac Cohen

“…Episodes depict interactions between humans, ogres, monkeys, deities, and other nonhuman persons, activating the potential of the medium for representing transformation and theatrically mining the suspension of natural laws. …”
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House personhood in rural Andean Bolivia by Jonathan Alderman

“…This paper examines the role of the house as a living being in itself and a conduit between its inhabitants and local place deities. In the rural Andes, houses (traditionally made from adobe but increasingly from brick) materially connect their inhabitants with a sacred landscape, and rituals performed at their construction create the house as a living being in its own right. …”
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The Controversy over the Buddhas of Bamiyan by Pierre Centlivres

“…This analogy helps the author emphasize the uncertainty regarding the identification of the victims: were they ‘the people’ in general, abstract deities, or specific communities? The article then elaborates on the argumentation and self-justification presented by the Taliban, and underlies their sense of indignation at a protest coming from ‘Christian’ countries, which they saw as exclusively concerned with saving ‘idols’ but ignorant of the ordeal endured by the Afghans. …”
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A Sacrificial View of Life by Roberto Di Ceglie

“…Sacrifice as a practice aimed at honoring deities by offering them something as a sign of propitiation or worship is usually studied from the viewpoint of numerous disciplines and religious cultures, from which equally numerous interpretations follow. …”
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Olódumare and Esu in Yorubá Religious Thought by Benson Ohihon Igboin

“… Theological and philosophical debates on deities do not end easily; rather they open new vistas of understanding and further argumentation. …”
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