« Il est interdit de… ». Rituels et procédures de régulation sensorielle dans le monde grec ancien : quelques pistes de réflexion by Adeline Grand-Clément

“…The norms depended on the places, the deities, and sometimes the period of the year. Among the documentation which provides us with information on the way the religious festivals were performed and the behaviour expected on the part of the worshippers entering the sanctuaries, we find a rich series of inscriptions, commonly called “sacred laws”. …”
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Implications of geoarchaeological investigations for the contextualization of sacred landscapes in the Nile Delta by E. Lange-Athinodorou

“…In the case of temples of goddesses of an ambivalent, even dangerous, nature, i.e. lioness goddesses and all female deities who could appear as such, the purpose of sacred lakes and canals exceeded their function as a water resource for basic practical and religious needs. …”
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«Unearthing the divine horrors» by Francesca Restelli

“…Lovecraft subtly weaves Christian themes into his mythos, introducing his eldritch terrors, deities reminiscent of Christian demonology. These entities, residing in abyssal depths, bear distinctly demonic attributes, highlighting the profound influence of Christian cosmology. …”
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Ai Apaec: ¿una divinidad suprema prehispánica o una manipulación en la traducción intercultural? by Patrycja Prządka-Giersz

“…Despite the numerous studies about the Moche pantheon of gods and goddesses, the problem of number and identity of the deities still poses innumerable questions and obstacles. …”
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Lute, Sword, Snake, and Parasol—The Formation of the Standard Iconography of the Four Heavenly Kings in Chinese Buddhist Art by Tianshu Zhu

“…They are among the most frequently represented protective deities in Buddhist art across different traditions. …”
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Mãe D’água’s Places. Non-Humans, Bodies and Illnesses In an Amazonian Quilombo by Manuela Tassan

“…The Mãe d’Água (“mother of water”) is an encantado (“enchanted”), an entity that belongs to the rich Afro-Indian-Brazilian pantheon of deities. This article intends to analyse the role that she plays in defining the relationship among places, human corporeity, and non-humans in an Amazonian community of descendants of African slaves (quilombo). …”
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Testing the big gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and ‘retake’ by Whitehouse, H, Francois, P, Savage, P, Turchin, P

“…This ‘Retake’ article presents a corrected and extended version of a Letter published in Nature (Whitehouse et al., 2019) which set out to test the Big Gods hypothesis proposing that beliefs in moralizing punitive deities drove the evolution of sociopolitical complexity in world history. …”

An evaluation of literature related to the phenomenon of building Shrines within the residence compound among Malaysian Indians by Arumugam, H., Subramaniam, M.

“…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. It is 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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Council of The Thirty and its Tasks in Ancient Egypt مجلس الثلاثين ومهامه في مصر القديمة by dr/Ahmed Salah Mohamed El-Shazly

“…Many gods were associated with the Council of Thirty, such as the god Khnum who bore the title nb mabAyw "lord of the Thirty", many other deities held the same title, such as Osiris, Horus, Anubis, Ptah, Isdes. …”
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Floristic composition of the kaan forests of Sagar Taluk: sacred landscape in the central Western Ghats, Karnataka, India by Shrikant Gunaga, N. Rajeshwari, R. Vasudeva, K. Ganeshaiah

“…In the Malnad region of the central Western Ghats, Karnataka, ethnic people conserve village forests called kaan forests as the abode of sylvan deities. Ethnic taboos have kept kaan forests in a virgin state over the course of centuries. …”
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Scriitorul Romulus Rusan, călător prin labirintul mediteraneean: demitizare și remitizare by Rodica Ileana STAN (OLTEANU MOLDOVAN)

“…The permanent oscillation between demythologizing and remythologizing in the lands of Greek, Islamic and Egyptian civilizations is a natural process for the writers Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan, in the trilogy A Journey to the Inner Sea, bearers of a light universe, passionate about myths, deities and legends.…”
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Zeus and Hera Souideptēnoi: The sanctuary at Belava mountain near Turres/Pirot by Gavrilović-Vitas Nadežda, Dana Dan

“…Unfortunately, illegal excavations were conducted on the area of the sanctuary by thieves, who stole the small reliefs offered to the deities venerated in the sanctuary, of which the authors of this paper could obtain the data of 31 fragmented votive plates, most of them inscribed. …”
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Rock Engravings and Sculptures of North Guwahati, Assam by Dwipen Bezbaruah, Geetanjali Devi

“…The findings of the present work comprises of some sculptures of Ganesa, Yama, Sage, Kali, deities, bull without head, human figures, broken piece of a tiger, remains of door frame or pillar and shrines. …”

Independence Day in a would-be Christian nation by Timo Kallinen

“…The ritual offering of libations to ancestral spirits and deities was considered the Ghanaian equivalent to Christian and Muslim prayers, and it has been performed side by side with them in all sorts of national events. …”
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Sacred Groves, the Brahmanical Hermit, and Some Remarks on ahiṃsā and Vegetarianism by Cinzia Pieruccini

“…Sacred groves host veneration of natural phenomena or elements of landscape, but also ancestral, local, folk or tribal gods and Sanskritised deities; the use of their resources is strictly regulated. …”
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Abosom, A Theological Issue in the Celebration of Odwira by the Akuapem of Ghana by Ernestina Afriyie

“…Akuapem Christians see the celebration of Odwira as bosomsom (service or worship of gods/deities/divinities) which conflicts with their faith as God commands that “Christians” should not worship abosom (Ex. 20: 3–4). …”
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An Athenian woman’s competence: the case of Xenokrateia by Josine Blok

“…For the latter possibility, a double relief dedicated by Kephisodotos to the hero Echelos and other deities (NM 1783) provides additional evidence. Xenokrateia’s dedication is exceptional for the detailed, qualitative analysis it allows, but it is not exceptional in quantitative terms: numerous dedications by women show them using similar competences. …”
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Początki kultu wodzów i władzy charyzmatycznej w Rzymie w okresie późnej republiki by Henryk Kowalski

“…Military victories of Roman military leaders deserved special honors or even certain forms of “worship” to which Hellenistic rulers were entitled as deities. A kind of distinguishing feature of the leaders were also the attributes that made up their charisma. …”
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Pleasure and Fear: On the Uneasy Relation between Indic Buddhist Monasticism and Art by Henry Albery

“…The second considers the aesthetics of fear associated with images of deities, the rejection of such objects as mere signs, and the resulting acts of theft and iconoclasm enacted upon them. …”
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Resistance Stories of African-Brazilian Women by Stela Nazareth Meneghel, Olga Farina, Silvia Regina Ramão

“…The workshops gave those women a space where they could tell and hear stories, take part in the rituals of the orixás [African-Brazilian deities] of the black culture and tell their personal histories using those experiences. …”
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