They worship their tribal gods with animal sacrifices and offerings, and some Tibetan influence is evident.
He paid for his mutiny against the gods with 12 years of madness.
Spells, creepy gods with animal heads, and corpses wrapped in sheets: Hunefer's mummification has them all.
The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings.
In Iran there were two gods with martial traits quite similar to those of Vedic Indra, Mitra, and Vrthraghna.
And finally, thanks to Internet Hippo for this: ANCIENT ROMANS: We must appease the gods with a sacrifice.
But he spoke of the pagan gods with contempt and forbade certain types of worship, principally nocturnal sacrifices.
They therefore provided the gods with houses (the temples) that were richly supplied with lands, which people cultivated for them.
From the saga of the Trojan war onwards, you have gods who assist the hero, gods who deter the hero, gods with helpful priests/priestesses and gods with fanatical followers.
Pagan woodland gods with three-foot fingernails conduct bizarre chalice rituals along to the hallucinatory I'll See You There.
Writing a history of 20th-century music is best done by one of those Hindu gods with many arms.
