Myths and legends from around the world share stories of amazing gods and goddesses with special powers and unique weapons. Who were these figures, and why did they matter to people in the past?
Stories also mention mythological creatures and mysterious ancient places. While historians, archaeologists, and scientists have confirmed some myths, many characters, creatures, and locations remain a mystery. Still, these myths continue to hold cultural and historical importance for many people.
In this section, we will explore some of the most interesting stories and step into the magical world of myths and legends.
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The story of how Pandora, out of curiosity, opened a box and unleashed all kinds of misery on our world is a well-known old Greek tale that has been retold in countless versions. Pandora’s Box,
Angela Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In Egyptian mythology, Wadjet is a goddess depicted as a cobra and worshiped in Lower Egypt. Wadjet was represented as a cobra-uraeus. The Uraeus (“rearing cobra”), in the upright form of an Egyptian cobra, symbolized
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Edfu temple is one of the most sacred buildings in Egypt. Known today as Idfu, the ancient city of Edfu located in Upper Egypt, located sixty miles south of Luxor owes its importance to
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In ancient Egyptian mythology, Zep Tepi can be translated as the ‘First Time.’ It was during Zep Tepi Gods established their kingdom on Earth in Egypt and performed their deeds that were later described in
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Unlike mythologies from other ancient cultures, Egyptian mythology does not have many terrible creatures. The most frightening monster creature in this mythology was Apophis (known in Greek as Apophis and in Egypt as Apep), a
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Biblical story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis explains why people speak different languages. The Choctaw, a Native American Indian tribe that traditionally lived in what is now southeastern Mississippi, also talk about
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Destroyed by King Murdoch O’Brien of Munster in 1101, the little-known stone ringfort Grianán Of Aileach was once home to the Kingdom of Ailech. Situated on top of Greenan Mountain at Inishowen in County Donegal,
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Judaculla Rock in North Carolina is one of the greatest mysteries in North America. The 230-square-foot soapstone boulder is covered with more than fifteen hundred ancient carvings and petroglyphs, and is by no means
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In ancient Egyptian religion, Ra (Re) was the god of the sun and creation, who was born each morning in the East and died each night in the West. In the night, he traveled through
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Stories of mysterious beings who dwell in secret underground worlds are common among many Native American tribes. According to local accounts, these individuals avoid contact with the outside world and can only be seen on rare
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The primeval goose shares a close relation with certain deities from ancient Egyptian mythology. Among these is Gengen-Wer, an archaic Egyptian god represented by a goose. This deity was seen as an embodiment of creative
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – According to a surviving clay tablet dated by the scribe who wrote around 2125 BC during the reign of King Utukhegal of Erech (Uruk), we read: ‘ After the Flood, a dramatic and devastating event,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In the religion of the ancient Egyptians, Nefertum (in Greek: Iphtimis) is the personification of the refreshing and most beautiful smell, which, according to the myths, was to set free the creative energy of Re-Atum,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In the Rigveda, a collection of hymns, the authors appeal to many gods, and one of them is the goddess Aditi, who is believed to be the most mysterious deity of the Indian pantheon. She
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In the Prose Edda book “Gylfaginning,” an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician, Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), described the goddess Lofn, who “let people live together, women and men, even if previously it was for them forbidden or considered illegal”
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The ancient civilization of Sumer still hides many secrets. Representatives of this unique culture left behind many art pieces, pottery, writing, hydraulic engineering, and monumental ziggurats, artificial mountains of sunbaked brick with exterior staircases that
