In Hebrew Baby Names the meaning of the name Ham is: Hot. One of the sons of Noah in the Old Testament : Father of a multitude. In the Old Testament patriarch Abram’s name was changed to Abraham when it was revealed he would be father of the Hebrew nation.Read More →
And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the watersRead More →
The Five Percenters was an offshoot of the Nation of Islam founded in Harlem in 1965 under Clarence Edward Smith, also known as Clarence 13X and other names. What religion does Wu Tang follow? Bambaataa and Rakim evidence the claim that, at least for the beginning of the genre, IslamRead More →
The friends Hermes and Apollo have a great deal in common. They are both gods of shepherds, flocks, and music. Hermes is a teenage Apollo, and his statues, herms, were to be found in gymnasia. Are Hermes and Apollo Brothers? Apollo was the son of Zeus (king of all theRead More →
Facts about Hephaestus Hephaestus was the only ugly god among perfectly beautiful immortals. Hephaestus was born deformed and was cast out of heaven by one or both of his parents when they noticed that he was imperfect. He was the workman of the immortals: he made their dwellings, furnishings, andRead More →
Solar deities, gods personifying the sun, are sovereign and all-seeing. The sun is often a prime attribute of or is identified with the Supreme Deity. In ancient Egypt the sun god Re was the dominant figure among the high gods and retained this position from early in that civilization’s history.Read More →
Ares was the Greek god of war and perhaps the most unpopular of all the Olympian gods because of his quick temper, aggressiveness, and unquenchable thirst for conflict. He famously seduced Aphrodite, unsuccessfully fought with Hercules, and enraged Poseidon by killing his son Halirrhothios. Who is Aries God? Ares (/ˈɛəriːz/;Read More →
Ra was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: the sky, the Earth, and the underworld. He was the god of the sun, order, kings and the sky. Ra was portrayed as a falcon and shared characteristics with the sky-god Horus. Who was the first god? BrahmaRead More →
Aphrodite is the Goddess of Fertility. She was also the mother of Eros – the God of Love – and had quite the romantic life by taking on many lovers. In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love, sex, beauty and fertility and Aphrodite’s counterpart. Is there a goddessRead More →
According to the Journal Sentinel style book, God must be capitalized “in references to the deity of all monotheistic religions.” The lowercase “god” is only used in reference to gods and goddesses of polytheistic religions. … And when monotheistic believers named their deity, they called him “God.” Do you capitalizeRead More →