Discourses of faith: popular religiosity in the work of Jorge Hidalgo and José Emilio Leyva by Yuricel Moreno Zaldívar

“…From engraving, painting, drawing and sculpture, both have recreated deities, various symbolic elements, orality, among other aspects that are part of the social imaginary in Cuba. …”
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Slovenskite panteoni vo likovniot medium: Svarog<br>The Slavic Pantheons in Visual Medium: Svarog</br> by Nikos Čausidis

“…The article represents a segment of global research emanating from the visual images of the Slavic deities, mostly manifested on archaeological finds, in this particular case, early Slavic artefacts (the plates of a cult character, and the so-called radiate-headed fibulae) found in the Balkans. …”
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The Mongolian Ideology of Tenggerism and Khubilai Khan by Shagdar Bira

“…The enhanced cult of the imperial court and the colorful ceremonies of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tantric deities (such as Mahakala and Sitapatra), introduced by Khubilai Khan at the initiative of ‘Phags-pa Bla-ma, contained a demonstration of Buddhist god-like nature of a worldwide empire. …”
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Nature feature tracking solution for outdoor augmented reality by Yeo, Shi Jing

“…In this Final Year Project (FYP), the aim is to use technology to aid in the teaching of different religious deities and their associated iconographies. This project will be focused on shrines found in both Singapore and Sri Lanka. …”
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“Before him went pestilence” (Hab 3:5): Biblical Lexis and Semantic Field of the Epidemics by Jozef Jančovič

“…Major works on the subject proceed from the assumption that these terms were demons in the ancient Near East or that they were deities who became demonised by the authors of the Hebrew Bible. …”
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The Beast Initiate: The Lycanthropy of Heracles by Carl Anton Paul Ruck

“…The deifying milk-flower of the goddess was a ritual of adoption into the family of the celestial deities, that Hera performed also with two other bastard sons of Zeus, Hermes and Dionysus. …”
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Lovely Ugly Bes! Animalistic Aspects in Ancient Egyptian Popular Religion by Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter

“…Drawing connections with similarly stunted figures, great and small cats, sacred cows, baboons, demonic monsters, universal gods and infant deities, this article will focus on the animalistic associations of the Bes figure to illustrate that this leonine dwarf encompassed a wider religious significance than apotropaic and regenerative functions alone. …”
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We Have Been Visited: Divine Encounter through the Lukan Benedictus (Luke 1:68–79) by David Seal

“…Third, I will explain the ancient perception that deities had a superior ability to name persons, places, and objects. …”
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Du visible à l’invisible : les supports du pouvoir en pays akan (Afrique de l’Ouest) by Claude‑Hélène Perrot

“…They are to be found among the objects that indicate the power exercised in the invisible world by the komyen, ‘priestesses’ that perform mediation between human beings and the deities or genii, the bosson. Certain objects such as sabres and chairs borrow their forms from the regalia, differing only in the material (the sabre blades are not made of iron but wood) and the colour (they are all whitened with kaolin, especially the chairs). …”
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Can Pollution Bring Balance to the Hidden Land? by Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

“…These ritual performances are intended to dispel negative forces and create the conditions of prosperity and health for all of the beings – including humans, spirits and deities – resident in Sikkim’s sacred landscape and throughout the cosmos. …”
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Further Books of Note: What is Psychic Sensibility? by Alejandro Parra, and Supernatural America: A Cultural History by Laurence R. Samuel by Stanley Krippner

“…The word supernatural is generally connected with deities or spirits, and Samuels could have avoided this connotation by using “occult” or “paranormal.” …”
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Japan’s Sacred Sumo and the Exclusion of Women: The Olympic Male Sumo Wrestler (Part 1) by Lindsey E. DeWitt

“…The Japan Sumo Association, a quasi-governmental corporation, champions itself as the custodian of a divine affair cultivated by male deities and mortal men, and exclusive of women. The Sumo Association bans women and girls from entering or even touching the wrestling ring, lest they violate sumo tradition and taint their so-called sacred battlefield. …”
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Tiberius on Capri and the Limits of Roman Sex Culture by Bill Gladhill

“…Children become “bracelet workers”, little fishes or hybrid, hooved deities or woodland goddesses. Normative stages and transitions of human development are obliterated and replaced by an assemblage of activity that orbits the sexual organs of the emperor. …”
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Abodes of the vajra‑yoginīs: Mount Maṇicūḍa and Paśupatikṣetra as envisaged in the Tridalakamala and Maṇiśailamahāvadāna by Amber Moore

“…Literature composed in Newar (Nepāl Bhāṣā) and Sanskrit continues to link the pantheon of Buddhist tantric deities to religious figures and multivalent sites in the Kathmandu Valley. …”
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Gender Trouble in the Early Lingbao Scriptures by Jiefeng Lu

“…On the one hand, the early Lingbao scriptures accept the social gender system of “differences between men and women” as the decision of all deities, and incorporate the “chastity” virtue of women advocated by Confucianism. …”
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Worshipping Artemis and Hera: The Healing Landscape of Ancient Greece by Michaela Senkova

“…Investigating votives dedicated to the two deities, this paper surveys ways in which the healing landscape of ancient Greece may have functioned in regard to female patients. …”
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Possession and (body) politics: The transformation of healing rituals in Sri Lanka by Eva Ambos

“…The latter points to the integration of ecstatic priests and priestess who become possessed by deities into the yaktovil rituals, where possession is typically related to demons or ghosts. …”
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Complementarity between Art and Anthropology: Experiences among kolam makers in South India by Anna Laine

“… As their first daily task, women in South India draw geometrical images, kolams, in front of their homes to greet the deities. These images engender and reinforce moods in the community, they construct feminine gender and they define the landscape as social. …”
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When Yogis Become Warriors—The Embodied Spirituality of Kaḷaripayaṯṯu by Maciej Karasinski-Sroka

“…These <i>kaḷari</i>s had their own training routines, initiations and patron deities. <i>Kaḷari</i>s were not only training grounds, but temples consecrated with daily rituals and spiritual exercises performed in the presence of masters of the art called <i>gurukkal</i>s. …”
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A Goddess with Bird’s Claws: An Exploration of the Image of Magu by Qiongke Geng, Yongfeng Huang

“…When Daoism incorporated Magu into its system of deities, the image of Magu was remodeled to conform to the teachings of Daoism, thus making Magu a beautiful, kind-hearted immortal with high moral sentiments.…”
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