World Mythology

“Great Time”. One of the destructive aspects of Shiva in Vedic Hinduism, time being seen as the destroyer of all things.

In Egyptian myth, Yaaru (Iaru, Aalu) are the fields of the nether-world, located in the realm of the dead, the domain of Osiris. It is a beautiful place (an equivalent of Eden) were the deceased can perform their favorite activities. These fields are tilled to provide the dead with food. It is represented as a [...]

The name for Egyptian supernatural powers.

A name of Osiris in his capacity of god and judge of the dead in the underworld. The name probably means “good being.”

A common name for the Other World.

Thoth is the name given by the Greeks to the Egyptian god Djeheuty. Thoth was the god of wisdom, inventor of writing, patron of scribes and the divine mediator. He is most often represented as a man with the head of an ibis, holding a scribal palette and reed pen. He could also be shown [...]

The holy land, a common name for the Other World.

The four sons of Horus who assist the deceased during their journey to the underworld. They protect to canopic jars (jars where the viscera are kept after mummification). Their heads are depicted on the lids of those jars. They are Imset (human), Hapi (baboon), Duamutef (jackal), and Kebechsenef (falcon). They represent the four cardinal directions [...]

The embodiment of the sky. In the Ennead of Heliopolis he is the son of Atum and brother-husband of Tefnut. He was one of the first deities to be created by Atum, either from his semen or the muscus of his notrils. With Tefnut he became the father of Nut (the sky) and Seb (the [...]

“She who causes the throat to breath”. An Egyptian scorpion-goddess, and an early a tutelary deity of the Egyptian monarchs. She is one of the goddess who guards the canopic jars containing the viscera of the deceased. From this association she came to be a tutelary goddess of the dead. She is represented as a [...]