Curated category
Avian humanoids
- HorusHorus looked down from the sky with two eyes: the Sun on his right, the Moon on his left. When this falcon god flew across the heavens, ancient Egyptians…
- Victoria (mythology)Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory, had no myths of her own. That absence is the most striking thing about her. Every culture that has ever fought a war…
- ErosEros, the Greek god of love and sex, has been worshipped, argued over, and reimagined for roughly three thousand years, and the figure most people picture…
- AngelAngels appear in the oldest surviving script humanity ever wrote. The word itself traces back to Mycenaean Greek, preserved in Linear B syllabic writing…
- Uranus (mythology)Uranus is one of the oldest divine figures in Greek religion, a being so ancient and so vast that he was not a god who ruled the sky but the sky itself.
- ThothThoth is an ancient Egyptian deity whose name, in one interpretation, means "he who is like the ibis." He governed a domain so vast it seems almost…
- EosEos, the Greek goddess of the dawn, rose every morning from the edge of the river Oceanus and scattered light across the sky before her brother Helios, the…
- IsisIsis was one of the most consequential figures in the religious history of the ancient world. She began as a relatively minor character in the royal rituals…
- ErinyesThe Erinyes live in Erebus, older than any Olympian god, and their job is to make sure no oath goes unpunished. A formulaic curse in the Iliad names them…
- Iris (mythology)The ancient Greek noun for rainbow also meant the halo of the Moon. An inscription from Corinth reveals an original form with a digamma that eventually…
- RaRa was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun, and the Egyptians called themselves the "Cattle of Ra." The name fit a strange origin story.
- NephthysNephthys stands at the edge of everything the ancient Egyptians feared and needed most: darkness, death, and the passage of souls into whatever came next.