Communal sacrifice in the ritual space of the Eastern Khanty by Rud’ A.A.

“…Within the myr, the most extensive interaction between the world of humans and the world of deities of the Eastern Khanty happens. The structure of the myr includes sacrificial rituals devoted to the deities of the whole pantheon of the Easten Khanty, as well as shamanistic rituals and traditional fortunetelling. …”
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The Tharu of Dang : a study of social organisation, myth and ritual in West Nepal by McDonaugh, CEJS

“…While marriage is not governed by an ideology of alliance, analysis of prestations shows that affinal links are stressed towards wife-giving households and in the other direction the emphasis is on the continuing link of consanguinity with the women who have left the house on marriage, a link which corresponds at the ritual level to women’s continuing relation with their natal households’ deities.</p> <p>Part four examines ritual and myth showing that it is deities which define a house as such and distinguish gotyār. …”

Laurenti divo: Faunus, Pan and Silvanus in Virgil’s Aeneid by Lee Michael Fratantuono

“… Virgil employs various rural deities in his Aeneid as a means to explicate how the conflicted relationship between Aeneas’ Troy and Turnus’ Italy will be reconciled in the future Rome. …”
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Egyptomania, Sex and Ontology in Enki Bilal’s The Nikopol Trilogy (1980–1992) and Immortel, ad vitam (2004) by Uroš Matić

“…Taking this as a starting point, I will demonstrate that the question of appropriate sexual partners for deities in ancient Egyptian written sources also cannot be reduced to ontological differences. …”
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Old Kingdom sun cult on the basis of theophoric anthroponyms by Marie Peterková Hlouchová

“…That is why they chose powerful and protective deities, whereas the more abstract served the theologians and royal sphere.…”
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The Archaeology of Kṛṣṇa at Tiruveḷḷaṟai, a Site for Tamil Poetry in the 7th–9th Centuries by Charlotte Schmid

“…Alongside these Bhakti deities, others are present in these places of communication with the sacred. …”
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Purum taçque coya, Virgen Maria: The Feminine Sacred and the Virgin Mary in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Quechua Doctrinal Texts by Szymon Gruda

“…It enabled, however, a reading of the texts that construes a figure of Mary as analogous, perhaps even identical in some aspects, to female deities of the Andean religion. …”
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Rhetorical connections to the head-covers of Mesopotamian gods by Juhaenh Hmid Hasani

“…A research such as this (the discursive connections to the head-covers of the deities of the Mesopotamian civilization) aims to clarify the confusion that occurs through four chapters: The first chapter included: the research problem, the importance of research and the need for it, the objectives of the research, the temporal, spatial and objective limits of research, and the definition of terms. …”
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Arkaisk religion, komparation, norrøn og mesopotamisk by Hans J. Lundager Jensen

“…Jens Peter Schjødt has shown that in the Scandivian triad of deities in Uppsala, the paradigm can be seen as abstract relations, but not through the individual gods. …”
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À propos du κῦφι de la lettre fragmentaire P. Warr. 13. Le kyphi dans les papyrus grecs by Hélène Chouliara-Raïos

“…They confirm the occult and sacred character of kyphi preparation in temples, the exact proportions of its ingredients, its use in worship, magical practices, fumigation, divination and its connection to solar deities: Harpocrates (« Horus the child »), Harpebekis (« Horus-the-falcon ») and Socnopaios, the crocodile god. …”
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El dinamismo de las imágenes sagradas: análisis de las figuras de Marte, Término, Juventas y Júpiter en Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum 40-41, de Varrón by Guillermina Bogdan

“…Varro's work as an antiquarian is not limited to recording names and rites, deities and myths, but gives those deities a role in the construction of Roman memory. …”
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The Materiality of Myth by Sara Ann Knutson

“…This paper proposes an archaeological reading of Norse mythology to help explain how ancient Scandinavians understood the presence and role of deities, magic, and the supernatural in everyday life. …”
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Kami in šintoistična kozmogonija<br>Kami and Shintoist Cosmogony</br> by Maja Milčinski

“…The paper discusses the notion of kami, which reflects the basic Japanese way of considering nature, the land, deities and the people. The Japanese cosmogonic myths and the cosmic harmony of myriads of kami are presented as a contrast to the one absolute God in the monotheistic religions.…”
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THE SEVEN SPIRITS (Axw-sfxw) IN THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION by Radwan Sayed

“…These deities are named in association with a number of major deities, such as Ra, Osiris, Anubis, Thoth and the four sons of Horus, and they also have a very deep and profound relationship with the deceased and «Big Dipper» group of stars. …”
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Materializations of oricha voice through divinations in Cuban Santería by Kristina Wirtz

“…In this essay I explore how oricha (deities’) voice is produced in and through Cuban Santería practices that render oricha speech audible, meaningful, and quotable. …”
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Angels Raising Souls to Heaven: Images of Entering Life after Death during the Christianisation of Livonia and Prussia by Marius Ščavinskas

“…The research shows that in the earliest written sources describing ancient Balt and Finno-Ugric burials, there is no mention of spirits or deities acting as psychopomps, or of deities in charge of the deceased. …”
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KNIFE And KNIFE-WIELDERS in the BOOKS of AMDUAT and GATES (A Comparative Study) by Magda Gad

“…This last method is the subject of this article, as the author questions, whether those targeted by the knife in these Books were the same and whether knife-yielders were only deities or perhaps also other figures. Finally, the function of those deities is explored in other religious texts. …”
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Blessings on the Waves: Miraculous Encounters of Japanese Pilgrim Monks during Sea Voyages Transmitting Dharma from Southern Song China by Yi Liu

“…Specifically, this paper examines the structure and sources of biographical accounts detailing miraculous encounters between pilgrim monks and Buddhist deities during perilous situations at sea. By interpreting the role of these deities in the corpus of Buddhist literature and within Japanese Buddhist monasteries founded by pilgrim monks, this paper argues that the increasing emphasis on pilgrim monks’ attainment of divine protection in their biographical records suggests a growing concern for reinforcing the authority of their dharma lineages. …”
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Preserving Offerings, Prolonging Merit: Efficacy, Skillful Means, and Re-purposing in Plastic Buddhist Material Culture in Contemporary Sikkim by Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa

“…Using the framework of the seven bowls of water offerings, undertaken every morning to the Buddhas and deities in domestic shrine rooms, and ethnographic observations, as a way to frame discussions of changing material culture, I will interrogate how plastics are used and waste is re-purposed in Sikkimese interdimensional engagements in offerings to the deities and spirits. …”
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Mantra and its function in Zoroastrianism by Mojtaba Zurvani, hasan namian

“…In such rituals, the deities must be summoned through certain sacred chants. …”
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