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- Isis (20790 bytes)
3: ...ther of Horus, and was worshipped as the archetypical wife and mother.
7: ...t literary inscriptions are found, but her cult became prominent late in Egyptian history, when it beg...
16: ...s unpronounced'') Modern pronunciation is theoretical although echoes of the original pronunciation re...
20: ...hin their mother's womb. Temples dedicated specifically to Isis become wide-spread only in the Roman t...
22: ... the [[Chaldean mythology|Semitic]] [[goddess]] [[Astarte]], apparently due to the similarity of names and ... - Hathor (11883 bytes)
4: ...''house of [[Horus]]'') was originally a personification of the [[milky way]], which was seen as the m...
6: ...d'' and ''Mistress of the Sanctuary of Women''. Because of the aspect of motherhood, her priests were ...
8: ...s seen as the mother of Horus. Symbolically she became the divine mother of the pharoah, who was ident...
12: ...ta|delta]]), with the pharaoh often pictured as a calf standing next to her. As divine mother, she was...
14: ...d 7 of them, any 7, which was perceived as a mystical number (it divides the [[lunar month]] into 4 eq... - Carthage (20744 bytes)
1: ...e islands of [[Sicily]], [[Sardinia]], and [[Corsica]].]]
3: ...2;T''), was an ancient city in [[North Africa]] located on the eastern side of [[Lake Tunis]], across ...
5: ==Founding of Carthage==
6: In approximately [[814 BC]], Carthage was founded by [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]] set...
8: ... city began a systematic conquest of both the African interior and the coastal lands. - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...ut this time of year around AD 30-33. (''Easter'' can also refer to the season of the church year, las...
4: ...ughter of the Passover lambs (perhaps for theological reasons). This would put the Last Supper slightl...
6: ...]] and [[historian]] [[Bede]], this month was dedicated to the [[pagan]] [[fertility goddess]] [[Eostr...
59: ...lar—but not identical—to the [[Hebrew Calendar]]. The precise date of Easter has often bee...
61: ...stern Orthodox churches use the original [[Julian calendar]], their dates are not usually aligned in t... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
4: ...in [[Boeotia]] ([[Virgil]] I, 720). She was also called ''Kypris'' or ''Cytherea'' {{Greek myth (Olym...
10: ...lling ''Astarte''); her [[Etruscan mythology|Etruscan]] equivalent was [[Turan (goddess)|Turan]].
16: ...of Rhea, the [[Earth Mother]], whom Homer has relocated to Olympus. After this story, Aphrodite herse...
18: ...htaroth]]. It is said that she first tentatively came ashore at [[Cytherea]], a stopping place for tr...
25: ...oom without supper -->). And she is the original cause of the [[Trojan War]] itself: not only did she...
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