Myrrh ( Commiphora sp) has a history older than humankind. Deeply connected to death, healing and the divine, myrrh is a smoky, strongly...

A small kingdom with a big kick, Ugarit has an independent pantheon of Godesses and Gods, central administration, trade routes inland or...

Nabu is the inventor of writing in Mesopotamian mythology. Patron of scribes, wisdom and literacy, the God Nabu goes back to Sumer in 3rd...

Asherah (Ashera) is one of the most powerful goddesses of the ancient world. She's mentioned in Hebrew texts, in records of Ugarit as...

Usually known collectively, the Kotharat (Kôṯarātu) are seven patron goddesses of pregnancy, childbirth, nursing mothers and infants....

In the Mesopotamian mythologies some gods, goddesses, sukkals , sacred animals or heroes appear as duos, dyads or doubles. Some are born...

Ornithomancy is first recorded during the Hittite Empire (c. 1450 - 1180). From ancient Greek "take omens from the flight and cries of...

Turquoise is beloved for thousands of years by people from royals to the richly challenged. The world's first known turquoise mine is...

Nefertum (Nefertem) is a creature of eternal beauty. At the time of Creation he rises from the waters as a blue lotus flower, which is...

Sekhmet is Goddess of War and medicine. Sites of worship include Memphis, Egypt, with husband Ptah and son Nefertum in a divine...

An ancient creator God of Egypt, Ptah is deity of creativity, artists, crafters, architects, sculptors, stone masons, metal workers and...

The Hippopotamus Goddess of Egypt is Taweret, a protector deity of pregnant women, childbirth and infants. Her ferocious appearance...

Anu (c. 4000 - 500 BCE) King of the Gods is the oldest known god on record. An ancient creator deity, he descends from the embodiment of...

One of the crystals known since ancient times, amethyst holds it own characteristics, magic and myth. Purple is hard to get ancient...

Hepat (Hebat, Ḫalabatu) is a primary deity or patron goddess of Aleppo, a bustling crossroads town in northern Syria. In the 3rd...

Puduḫepa ( Puduḫepa, Pudu-Kheb ) is one of the greatest women of the ancient world. In the 13th century BCE she rules beside her...

Allani reigns over the Land of the Dead or Underworld in Hurrian myth. She's influenced by the Hittite Sun Goddess of the Earth ,...

Šauška (Shaushka) is the Great Goddess of the ancient Hurrian pantheon. She's cognate with goddesses Ishtar and Inanna . Her domains are...

The Hittites are first noted in tablets of trade found at the karum of Kanesh ( Kültepe ) in Anatolia, modern day Turkey. The Hittite...

With the favored practice of naming early civilizations after their grave types, here is the Catacomb culture. The progressive and...