The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

The objects of pagan worship—sun, moon, and stars, beasts and creeping things—in the Bible are mere creations of the God of the universe. He it was, the sovereign Lord of All, who assigned man ...

It is chanted in all Orthodox Churches throughout the world during the five Fridays in Great Lent and constitutes a very ...

The captain, a pagan, didn’t like the look of him and demanded that Patrick ... Helias!” – the name of the Greek sun god. The rock disappeared. Patrick took it as a kind of epiphany. He later wrote: ...

For the likes of pagans and druids ... They hold out their hands to worship the sun and welcome its energy and warmth. There is a carnival atmosphere, with music, dancing, incense-burning and ...

Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

It is alleged that in the fourth century the Church and Emperor Constantine replaced the Sabbath with the pagan "DAY OF THE SUN", i.e. Sunday ... disapproved of their worship on Sunday.

During the 1st millennium BCE, as solar worship waned, Osiris and his consort Isis gained prominence. Horus as a sun god forms part ... it has absorbed elements of Paganism and other polytheistic ...

But she was driven onto a rock and sank with only one survivor who later The Christian practice of establishing churches and places of worship on ... in which the sun travels.

Some attribute the introduction of the Celtic Cross to Patrick, as it incorporates the pagan tradition of sun-worship with the symbol of the traditional Christian cross. Others say that Patrick ...

To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do ...

Pagans still worship Isis to this day ... Being the goddess of the sky, Nut was also believed to swallow the sun in the evening and give birth to it again in the morning. On five special days ...