In 1992, a deposit of broken marble statues was discovered during the excavations of the Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi (modern Banias) in northern Israel. From the 245 fragments recovered, twenty-eight statues carved in the Graeco-Roman tradition and representing mainstr…
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The nature of royal inscriptions is such that it can be extremely difficult to judge the sincerity behind the rhetoric. These texts are replete with statements of self aggrandizement, hyperbole, and exaggeration. Among the many claims within the inscriptions is that the kings we…
The fifth pharaoh of the Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty (Middle Kingdom), Khakaure Senwosret III (reigned ca. 1878-40 B.C.E.) constructed his pyramid complex at Dahshur, a site at the southern end of the Memphite necropolis, a traditional burial place for Egyptian monarchs. At the cen…
The invasion of Mesoamerica by the Spanish in the 16th century generated a shift from a religion that worshipped many gods, each of which represented the gifts of the land, into one that centered in the belief of a single god. Though the attempted eradication of the ancient reli…
This study interrogates the ritual function of Aztec agricultural deities across various media to discover how material objects were perceived as animate and sacred. In addition, it addresses the following themes as they relate to the objects themselves: the instantiation of sac…
Ancient civilizations had great respect for Fire-worshipping. Indus civilization was highly popular for its Fire-worshiping. This Fire-worship is known as Yajn͂ a. The word Yajn͂ a itself is a vast term. It covers many factors of human life starting from birth to death. Not only F…
In Late Antique Rome the worship of the sun penetrated into Christian belief and practice. This is usually explained in terms of a type of syncretism, where the sun god in Roman religion during this time (often seen as being at the apex of the pantheon) was conflated with the Ch…
The aim of this thesis is to show the impact that Black and African culture has on the entertainment industry specifically in the USA. The first portion of the discussion retraces Black and African cultural influences in the 1920’s, beginning with Black-owned newspapers, then on…
In 2009, the Peruvian government apologized to its citizens of African descent for the exclusion enacted against them from the colonial period to the present. While this gesture initiated a long-awaited process of addressing the history of enslavement and its lasting impacts for…
This thesis spotlights one of Yunnan’s most important Buddhist deities – Acuoye Guanyin. This bodhisattva, also known as the Luck of Yunnan, is unique to the Yunnan region. Acuoye Guanyin played a pivotal role in the political rise of the Nanzhao Kingdom and continued to serve a…