Curated category
Justice gods
- JesusVirtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically. This consensus stands firm despite the challenge posed by the Gospels…
- Jupiter (god)The Latin name Iuppiter originated as a vocative compound of the Old Latin vocative Iou and pater, meaning father. This form replaced the earlier Old Latin…
- ShivaThe Sanskrit word shiva means auspicious, propitious, gracious, and kind. Monier-Williams published this definition in his 1899 dictionary of the language.
- ThothThe name Thoth emerges from the ancient Egyptian phrase meaning he is like the ibis. Linguists reconstruct this as *di-hauti, though the exact pronunciation…
- VarunaIn the Rigveda, composed between 1900 and 1200 BCE, Varuna stands as a central figure among the earliest Hindu deities. He appears in numerous hymns…
- BaldrThe Old Norse name Baldr means brave or defiant, yet also lord and prince. This theonym stems from Proto-Germanic *Balðraz, which translates to hero or…
- TýrThe name Týr stems from the Proto-Germanic word Tīwaz, which simply means 'God'. This single term served as a title or epithet that eventually became…