The early church believed that after his death Christ descended into hell in order to rescue the souls of the righteous.

The ancient Greeks associated the entrance to Hades with a real-life location in ancient Greece. Where was this place?

Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...

The story is about Melinoë traveling to iconic locations from Greek mythology to rescue her family ... lead them to places like Mount Olympus and Tartarus.

Some have their roots in stories and literature of the macabre. Others have emerged from mythology's darkest corners, and the deepest shadows of the underworld. These Victorian-styled and goth ...

Some have their roots in stories and literature of the macabre. Others have emerged from mythology's darkest corners, and the deepest shadows of the underworld. These Victorian-styled and ...

With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was said to depict an "Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq" in 2023. The winged bull figure is lamassu, a likeness ...

Let’s start by looking at Taoist canonization, which refers to the process of elevating a deity within Taoism — the Jade Emperor, for example — usually through religious scriptures composed by priests ...