The Image of the Real World and the World Beyond in the Slovene Folk Tradition<br>Podoba sveta in onstranstva v slovenskem ljudskem izročilu</br> by Zmago Šmitek

“…The world of people, deities, demons and souls of the deceased was installed in such “coordinate system”. …”
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Monotheistic tendencies of Egypt'sreligions of the pre-dynastic and early dynasticperiod by Oleh Shepetyak

“…The article provides a brief examination of the historical landmarks of Egyptian culture, its literary achievements inspection and analysis of earlier beliefs, which are at the center of the personality of Seth and Horus, and other deities who have the zeal of the late myth associated with them.…”
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Koncepcija sezonnogo otmykanija i zamykanija zemli v baltijskoj tradicii<br>The Concept of Earth’s Opening in Spring and Closing in Autumn</br> by Nijolė Laurinkienė

“…In the Baltic mythology and folklore, this being is a quite a late substitute for the earlier pagan deities.…”
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KESELARASAN MIKROKOSMOS-MAKROKOSMOS SEBAGAI DASAR PEMBANGUNAN MASA HINDU-BUDDHA DI INDONESIA by Baskoro Daru Tjahjono

“…Therefore, anything being produced at that time should reflect the harmony between micro and macrocosms, or in other words, between human and deities worlds. This could be exemplified by temples and royal palaces from that period. …”
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Entre dieux et mortels – le contact visuel sur les reliefs votifs grecs classiques by Lorenz E. Baumer

“…The analysis of the looks exchanged between gods and humans reveals a differentiated system adapted to the deities and the cultural context. It becomes evident that the sculptors carried out their works by representing a highly differentiated set of iconographic rules.…”
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Organized Pagan Cult in Kievan Rus’. The Invention of Foreign Elite or Evolution of Local Tradition?<br>Organizirani poganski kult v kijevski državi. Iznajdba tuje elite ali razvoj... by Roman Zaroff

“…And that personified and anthropomorphic Slavonic deities, known from medieval sources, were a foreign invention. …”
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A.B. Anokhin's letter “On shamanism among the Altai tribes” by Malinov A.V.

“…The main subject of the letter is female characters-deities in Altai shamanism, with whom Kam enters into an intimate relationship. …”
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From Eshu to Obatala: animals used in sacrificial rituals at Candomblé "terreiros" in Brazil by Brooks Sharon E, Alves Rômulo RN, Léo Neto Nivaldo A

“…The principal reason for sacrifice is to please supernatural deities known as orishas in order to keep life in harmony. …”
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On the Sonic Materialization of Buddhist History: Drum Speech in Southern Sri Lanka by Sykes, Jim

“…I argue that because of Buddhism’s Seventh Precept—which prohibits reveling sensuously in music and dance—Sinhala drumming was constructed as speech rather than music so that it would be acceptable as an offering to the Buddha and deities. Drum offerings for the Buddha and deities more closely approximate unmetered speech than drum offerings for demons (yakku). …”
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Terror and Salvation: Remarks on Some Hindu Gods and Their Depictions by Cinzia Pieruccini

“…For the purposes of the present collection of essays, this paper will shortly discuss how terrible deities appear to have well-defined roles in helping their devotees to feel protected and to govern fear. …”
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Of women and goddesses in Phoenician and Punic religiosities by Raquel Rodríguez Muñoz

“…In this paper we study the role of women in the Phoenician-Punic religion and its relationship with some female deities associated with fertility, which has favored the acceptance of assumptions that come from areas that have traditionally been characterized by severely criticizing the opposite of what you are applying. …”
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Percussion Music in Athenian Religious Rituals and Festivals by Angeliki Liveri

“…This paper aims to highlight their use, their association with the deities and their significance for the worshippers-participants and furthermore for the religious and cultural life of Athens.…”
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Insignias of Power in Congada: by Cleber de Sousa Carvalho, Sebastião Rios

“…In certain contexts, objects are endowed with powers and are configured as instruments that enable communication with their deities, whether Catholic saints or entities of the Afro-Brazilian pantheon. …”
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New Finds of Roman Rings from a Rich Grave in Cemetery III, Rusovce‑Gerulata by Jaroslava Schmidtová, Miroslava Daňová, Alena Šefčáková

“…The buried woman aged 40–49 had two rings on each hand, one of which was a signet ring with a gem depicting the Egyptian deities Serapis and Isis. Another unusual item was a bracelet composed of seven disks with side openings for a string. …”
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Les Filles d’Athéna et des Amazones en Amérique by Nicole Ollier

“…Greek history is a long series of wars and conflicts which inspires the woman poet Olga Broumas, and prompts her to find an antidote to this violence through poetry and touch, massaging the bodies of the ailing to reach and cure their souls. Pre-classical deities and fairy-tale heroines are reincarnated through new female characters who revisit these traditional writings, in Sappho’s wake. …”
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Skrita pričevanja o potresu leta 1348 v slovenskih deželah<br>Hidden Testimonies on the Earthquake of 1348 on the Territory of Slovenia</br> by Marija Klobčar

“…Studying comparative material based on studies of folklore associated with believing in water deities and folksong traditions has led to new insight into why the Kamnik Lake breached the natural dam: discovering that the spill actually occurred following an earthquake in 1348. …”
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Baśnie w Starej baśni Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego by Maciej Szargot

“…The Eastern tradition can be traced not only in the frame story, but also in the names of deities and beliefs.   …”
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Traktat o slovanskih bogovih iz XVII. stol.: M. Fren(t)zel, Dissertationes historicae tres de idolis Slavorum<br>Ein Traktat über die slawischen Götter aus dem XVII. Jh.: M. Fren(t... by Nikolai Mikhailov

“…The paper examines a mythological tractate of the Lusatian researcher Michael Frenzel (Fren{t}zel) on Slavic deities from the 17th century. The tractate (“three dissertations”), which contains an eclectic description of the Slavic and the Lusatian pantheons, is a typical case of the so-called “cabinet mythology”. …”
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Evil: Concept and Reality. Ethnolinguistics Perspective by Voica Radu-Călugăru

“…There is an opinion shared by many linguists and philologists that the myth derives from the names of various deities who personified the forces and phenomenal nature.…”
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The Orphic Theogonic Poems Attributed to Linos. Notes on the Testimony of Pausanias by Mariola Sobolewska

“…Pausanias writes that Linos propagated in his songs the genealogy of the first deities of the Greek pantheon. According to Pausanias, this genealogy was similar to the one in Hesiod’s Theogony. …”
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