Materializations of oricha voice through divinations in Cuban Santería by Kristina Wirtz

“…In this essay I explore how oricha (deities’) voice is produced in and through Cuban Santería practices that render oricha speech audible, meaningful, and quotable. …”
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Os cem olhos do pavão by Marcelo Amato Cardoso

“…This beauty, concerning the imaginary, becomes a key element in the narratives and arts that associate the peacock with the Hindu and Buddhist deities, but also with the pride and the vanity. This article tries to show how the symbolism of the peacock was transmitted and adapted from Ancient India to Medieval Europe, where the bird figured in the Christian creativity as an emblem of the immortality of Christ and the preachers of the Church, along with hagiographical narratives and biblical images.…”
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A Comparative Study of Olodumare, the Yoruba Supreme Being and the Judea-Christian God by Segun Ogungbemi

“… This comparative study of Olodumare in Yoruba thought and the Judeo-Christian God reviews the reasons why these two deities from different cul­tures are so often equated, when they are not necessarily so. …”
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Esclaves et affranchis chez les Voconces au Haut-Empire : l’apport des inscriptions by Marianne Béraud, Nicolas Mathieu, Bernard Rémy

“…Sixty-seven inscriptions have been recorded (42 epitaphs, 21 dedications to deities and 4 varied texts) concerning slaves and freedmen and women. …”
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Olódumare and Esu in Yorubá Religious Thought by Benson Ohihon Igboin

“… Theological and philosophical debates on deities do not end easily; rather they open new vistas of understanding and further argumentation. …”
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Maya Intimacy with the Mountains: Pilgrimage, Sacrifice and Existential Economy by Jan Kapusta

“…Finally, I argue that the experience of interaction, communication and intimacy between the Maya and their mountain deities can be best defined as a dynamic participation in the course of the world – an existential economy of ‘working the world’.…”
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Disability and Human Diversity: A Reinterpretation of Ẹni-òòṣà1 Philosophy in Yorùbá Belief by Omotade Adegbindin

“…The paper employs the methods of hermeneutics, critical and conceptual analyses to facilitate an understanding that, within the context of Yorùbá belief, disability goes beyond the realm of human beings and involves the active participation of Yorùbá deities, especially Òrìṣà-ńlá or Ọbàtálá. Consequently, it questions the assumptions associated with the recognition of the dichotomy between “normality” and “abnormality” and confronts the mystical and/or mythographic representation of ẹni-òòṣà or persons with disabilities with a view to offering new insights into how persons with disabilities ought to be conceptualized in order to promote their inherent human dignity. …”
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“El rostro de los días”: sobre la corporalidad y las almas entre los mayas k’iche’ de Santiago Momostenango by Alonso Zamora Corona

“…Notable is the existence among the momostecos of the chikop, a soul with the form of a bird very similar to the “bird of the heart” of the Maya Tzeltal, which can be punished by the ancestral deities when people forget to do offerings at their patrilineage’s altars.…”
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La ruine angkorienne et le fromager : une mise en cloche d’un paysage fantasmé synonyme d’inaction ? by Sébastien Preuil

“…Today, although most Khmers do not appreciate this image of temples reclaimed by the forest which they consider as disrespectful of deities and a sign of the decline of their civilization, some monuments are voluntarily maintained by the Apsara Authority in a state of ruin in order to perpetuate romantic images which appeal to foreign tourists. …”
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The Concepts and Contextualization of Incantations in Nigerian Popular Music: Juju Music as Paradigm by Kayode Olusola

“… The Yoruba people like any other African tribe are enriched with magical and other traditional spiritual powers that are capable of invoking spirits and deities. These powers actualized with incantation as one of the Yoruba oral literature, to achieve a particular spiritual purpose. …”
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The Proliferation of Yorùbá Religion in the Atlantic during the Nineteenth Century: The Portability of the Orisha by Sheneese Thompson

“…The Yorùbá pantheon is boundless; this paper will explore the transportability of the orisha through three of the representative deities that arrived in the New World: Ogun, Shango, and Oshun.  …”
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The Dynamics of Traditional Religion in the Political Economy of Ìkòrodú by Adéyẹmí Balógun

“…While this traffic was sustained by socio-political institutions such as the Oloja and the Osugbo cult, the role of religious groups – including the Ifá priests, Màgbó, Líw`ẹ and Agẹmọ – remained highly influential because they represent the deities and spirits which shaped Ìkòrodú’s inhabitants’ views about social life, economic activities and political institutions. …”
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Political Tool of “Immoral Rituals” and Resilience of Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea by Nam-lin Hur

“…In Confucian terms, immoral rituals specified those that were dedicated to “ghosts or deities who do not deserve worship”, and, in most cases, they referred to non-Confucian prayer rituals. …”
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L’enterrement d’une triade divine féminine à Lugdunum : étude du dépôt de la place d’Albon à Lyon (Métropole de Lyon) by Lucas Guillaud, Emmanuel Bernot, Aline Colombier-Gougouzian, Amaury Gilles, Nicolas Garnier

“…In Lyon, most dedications are made by individuals who add the epiclesis Augusta to the name of the deities, known as the Matrae. This adjective emphasizes the official character of the cult. …”
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Toponymie littorale aux îles Marquises, Fenua ‘Enata/Henua ‘Enana, Polynésie orientale (Polynésie française) by Pierre Ottino-Garanger, Marie-Noëlle Ottino-Garanger

“…They give us information on natural features, important characteristics or events, and sometimes tell a story, refer to ancient times, deities and local heroes, often pan-Polynesian. They mostly demonstrate the importance of the coast and sea in the Marquesan culture, where fishing and fishermen play an essential part, still to this day, and even more in ancient times. …”
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Landschaftsgedächtnis und Geschlechterdiskurse in ausgewählten Werken von Elsa Bernstein und Maria Waser by Monika Mańczyk-Krygiel

“…However, its subversive aspect should be emphasized because, in the cult of the Mother of God, one can find strong reminiscences of the cult of the Great Goddess and other ancient fertility deities. Therefore, old beliefs are not lost forever; they remain part of the cultural heritage and are waiting to be rediscovered. …”
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Ombres et lumières croisées : l’appropriation prométhéenne de la lumière dans les peintures de Wright of Derby (1734-97) et John Martin (1789-1854) by Muriel Adrien

“…In a similar promethean vein, the mythological connotations of Wright’s Italian paintings also tend to extol mankind, in that the viewers can easily identify with the mythological deities associated with the depicted light shows. …”
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Dépôts et pratiques symboliques dans l’établissement aristocratique gaulois de Varennes-sur-Seine, la Justice (Seine-et-Marne) by Jean-Marc Séguier, Ginette Auxiette, Fabien Pilon

“…It is suggested that this assemblage is a propitiatory or consecration offering, perhaps even constituting the portions reserved for the deities of a commensal meal. The decomposing juices from the meat were likely intended as nourishment for the subterranean deities, which makes it possible to compare this structure to the hollow altars of Latin sanctuaries. …”
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La maison aux esprits : configurations spatiales, pluralité religieuse et syncrétismes dans l’espace domestique afro-cubain by Katerina Kerestetzi

“…Such homes generally house a wide range of ritual objects belonging to different religious worlds, such as blood-covered Palo Monte pots; statues and icons of Catholic saints; and effigies of Santería’s deities. How is the domestic space transformed into a ritual one? …”
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Sacral Space of Ethnic Buryatia: The Cult of Healing Springs by Marina M. Sodnompilova

“…The paper traces certain chains of changes in statuses of such springs: from ‘water of immortality’ once granted by deities — to symbols of holiness of Buddhist hierarchs whose efforts gave birth to a number of such arshans. …”
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