Plutarch in his Lives of Agis and Cleomenes mentions the Temple of Pasiphae at Thalamiae, an oracular site in ancient Laconia. Those w...

Sibyls were priestess of Apollo noted for their oracular abilities. They usually occupied temples that were connected to caves or grott...

The church of Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre is one of the oldest churches in Paris. It was consecrated by Pope Eugenius III in 1147, in ...

The legend of Daphne is included in Ovid's Metamorphoses and tells the tale of the wood nymph Daphe, who was desired and pursued by th...

In Jennifer Westwood's excellent book, Albion , mention is made of a carved figure outside All Saints Church in Braunston, Rutlandshire...

There is a very good reason why the First World War armistice between the Germans and the British happened on the 11th of November. It is a...

Religion is natural to mankind. It is one way we relate to the world around us. Nature and human experience have many aspects, so it na...

Tablet of Double-faced Tengu (1880) from Osugi shrine, Ibaraki Maybe it's because of the big nose and the red face — like some grotesq...

Goodmanham is now a small village in the Eastern part of Yorkshire, but in the 7th century it was the site of an important temple of th...

Christianity is essentially an alien religion that has no place outside the Middle East, never mind in the heart of the American Midwes...