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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Relief decorated handles of ceramic paterae from Sirmium, Singidunum and Viminacium by Popović Ivana

“…The decoration on handles 1 and 2 was executed under the influence of the ornamental design of silver paterae from Gaul, while the motif of the goddesses' busts on handles 3 and 4 is the local adaptation of existing ornamental motifs. The busts of female deities also embellish two handles from Singidunum (nos. 6 and 7) and one handle from Viminacium (no. 8). …”
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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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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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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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Plongées et visions en mer grecque by Samuel Verdan, Camille Semenzato

“…Focusing on this means of perception, we discuss several ways of ‘seeing’: from divers’ visual acuity to the divinatory knowledge attributed to sea deities (of whom Glaucus was the main representative), not forgetting the colour ‘glaucous’ specifically used to describe the waves, or someone’s gaze. …”
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"Tonalism": Name, Soul, Destiny and Identity Determined by the 260-Day Calendar in Mesoamerica by Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo

“…Besides having conventional personal names, both human beings and deities carry day-names from the 260-day calendar. …”
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The altar sculpture of the Tubten Shedrub Ling temple in Kyzyl by Batorova Elena A.

“…The famous sculptor Dashi Namdakov made six monumental sculptures of Buddhist deities – Buddha Shakyamuni, Maitreya, White Tara, Green Tara, Kalachakra, and Vajrabhairava. …”
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Yamaubamotívumok értelmezése a japán népmesékben és legendákban by Melinda Papp

“…It belongs to the world of monsters and spirits called yōkai 妖怪 that inhabit Japanese myths and legends and that have been explained as personifications of supernatural phenomena originally venerated as deities. A close examination of yamauba motifs shows that yamauba, too, is linked with ancient beliefs regarding fertility and agricultural production as well as with the cult of sacred mountains. …”
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Comparing Moralities in the Abrahamic and Indic Religions Using Cognitive Science: Kindness, Peace, and Love versus Justice, Violence, and Hate by Aria Nakissa

“…The article considers how moral intuitions shape Abrahamic/Indic moral teachings, which, in turn, impact: (1) Abrahamic/Indic doctrines concerning politics, law, and war; (2) Abrahamic/Indic doctrines concerning individual ethics, and moral behavior proper to monastics and laypersons; and (3) Abrahamic/Indic doctrines concerning theological matters, such as the nature of the universe, souls, and deities.…”
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The idea of becoming an individual in the context of early Christianity by Pavlo Pavlenko

“…Under such conditions of life, the world around itself no longer seemed to man to be self-sufficient, harmonious, stable, "good" and warded by a cohort of traditional deities. Yes, and the gods themselves were now turned out to be incapable, unable to change the unceasing flow of fatal doom.…”
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De l’objet artisanal à l’offrande votive. Regards actualisés sur l’iconographie des terres cuites archaïques de Métaponte by Eukene Bilbao Zubiri

“…Coroplathy, a mass-produced craft produce by the extensive use of the technique of moulding, has been approached mainly through its ritual function in order to characterise cults and identify venerated deities. This research carried out in the Greek city of Metapontum (Basilicata, Italy) offers a new work perspective on this material. …”
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FOOD AND THE PROCESS OF TRANSTERRITORIZALIZATION IN CANDOMBLÉ, UMBANDA AND QUIMBANDA IN BOCAIÚVA, MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL by Daniel Coelho, Fábio Silva

“…In this sense, the present work aims to analyze the phenomenon of transterritorialization of Ilê Caboclo Pena Branca e Ogum Rompe Mato and Zambi-Iris, terrariums in the municipality of Bocaiúva, Minas Gerais, Brazil, focusing on the hierophanic sense of the food and coadunar elements of the offerings made to the deities in both terreiros. The methodology adopted was structured in a bibliographic review on the subject and a set of interviews, observations and photographic records in the field work. …”
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The Emergence and Spread of the Buddhist Tārā Cult in India between 7th Century CE and 11th Century CE with Special Reference to the Sirpur Tārā Bronzes by Saurabh Singh

“…Numerous bronze images of the Buddha and Buddhist deities such as Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, Tara etc. were found from Sirpur. …”
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Un fer de lance sanskrit en pays tamoul : vēl et polysémie iconique by Charlotte Schmid

“…Taking into account the iconographic data allows to consider the polysemy of a Tamil term and locate the neosemantism induced by the rivalry between three deities, Indra, Śiva and Skanda-Murukaṉ, as well as by the encounter of two literary traditions.…”
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