Now, after the day's first #MATW2026 coffee pause, we have Moritz Hinsch (LMU): "Letters to the Gods? The Materiality of Writing Oracles" https://dmratzan.github.io/2026-nyu-lmu-materialities/papers.html#hinsch In which he considers the materiality of the lead oracle tablets from Dodona for what they reveal about literacy, writing, and religious belief

#ancientGeography #ancientReligion #archaeology #classics #epigraphy

Adversarial figures in ancient religions were often complex agents within a broader moral and cosmic framework, not simply embodiments of evil.

Understanding these archetypes reveals how later traditions reshaped opposition into absolute dualism. 🔥📖

#Brewminate #AncientReligion #Mythology

https://brewminate.com/luciferian-archetypes-adversarial-figures-ancient-religions/

Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 14 new and 118 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 10 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one of the new additions. Authored by Jeffrey Becker, we now have a place resource for the Sanctuary of Palaimon (Palaimonium), a Roman sanctuary located at Isthmia and dedicated to an embodiment of the Isthmian games: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/343393024

In the attached map image, you can also see the remains of the Temple of Poseidon at Isthmia lying to the north of the Palaimonium. This larger temple has had its own Pleiades place resource (also authored by Jeffrey Becker) since 2019: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/107524051

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #ancientReligion #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS

MYTHBUSTING HISTORY

Myth:

Judaism is the oldest religion in the world.

Truth:

Judaism is among the oldest monotheistic religions, but earlier religious systems flourished in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley. Sumerian religion alone predates it by millennia. Religion evolved; it did not begin with monotheism.

#Brewminate #MythbustingHistory #AncientReligion

Isis and Mithras offered initiation, secrecy, and personal meaning in the Graeco-Roman world.

Their popularity shows how religion functioned as lived experience rather than abstract belief in the ancient Mediterranean. 🕯️

#Brewminate #AncientReligion #RomanHistory

https://brewminate.com/the-mysteries-of-isis-and-mithras-in-the-ancient-graeco-roman-world/

The #Arabian Wheel of the Year-just NOT like Wicca!

“…Though in earlier #Babylonian times #Aries was represented as a hired laborer rather than a ram.”

#Nabataea #Nabataeans #ArabianPaganism #Archaeology #AncientNearEast #AncientNearEastReligion #Polytheism #AncientReligion #Astrology
https://medium.com/@arabianpaganism/an-arabian-wheel-of-the-year-5c510b984a66

Archaeoethnologica: Traveling & Invocation to the Gods in Antiquity - Talk / A Viagem e a Invocação aos Deuses na Antiguidade - Palestra

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-viagem-e-invocacao-aos-deuses.html

#Antiquity #AncientHistory #Voyage #Rome #RomanWest #Gods #religion #AncientReligion #HistoryofReligions #talk #online

Archaeoethnologica: Traveling & Invocation to the Gods in Antiquity - Talk / A Viagem e a Invocação aos Deuses na Antiguidade - Palestra

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-viagem-e-invocacao-aos-deuses.html

#Antiquity #AncientHistory #Voyage #Rome #RomanWest #Gods #religion #AncientReligion #HistoryofReligions #talk #online