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13 October 202620 entries
  • New Συνάφεια: Vibrational Energetic MatchingΣυνάφεια, the bond through which the energy of the Gods reaches a human being: why one must become like the Gods to receive them, and how meditation, Theurgy and the Ethics make a person their conduit.
  • New Ἐραστὴς καὶ Ἐρώμενος: Attraction, Love and True InitiationἘραστὴς καὶ Ἐρώμενος: why the striver who courts the Gods can stray and the Initiate can't, set out through Plato's theory of ἔρως, the Mysteries and the household of the Gods.
  • New YamaYama, King of the Ancestors: his name, Yama in the Rigveda and the later Vedic texts, his epithets and worship, Nachiketa, the Lord of Dharma who judges the dead, rebirth and his festivals.
  • New TuranTuran, the Etruscan Goddess of love: her name, her image on the backs of bronze mirrors, her aspects, and her city, sanctuary and cult at Velch, Gravisca and Veii.
  • New Osiris: The Abrahamic InversionHow the grimoires turned Osiris into the lion-shaped marquis Orias: the Dendera zodiac, Serapis and the stars, and the theft of Osiris by the early Church, read back to the Original God.
  • New NergalNergal, lord of the great city below: his name, his myths and epithets, his temples, Nergal and the kings, his union with Ereshkigal, the God of war and the planet Mars, and his festivals.
  • New Maahes: Lion of EgyptMaahes, the fierce lion of Egypt: his name, the lion before Maahes, his epithets and temples, the son of Sekhmet and Bastet, the Lord of the Massacre, the guard of the threshold, his festivals.
  • New LiberLiber, the free God of the Romans: his name, his history and the Aventine temple with Ceres and Libera, the Bacchanal, free speech, the Liberalia, and Bacchus in the Renaissance.
  • New Isis: Queen of HeavenIsis, Queen of Heaven: her double name, her history in Egypt, her epithets and temples from Philae to Rome, the divine mother, the Queen of Magic, her symbols, mysteries and festivals.
  • New Inanna: Queen of HeavenInanna, Queen of Heaven and the oldest deity on record: her name since Uruk, her myths and epithets, her temples, the Venus star, war, love, the worship of women and her festivals.
  • New Hathor: Queen of the SkyHathor, Queen of the Sky and House of Horus: her name, her place in Egypt, her epithets, Dendera, her priesthood, the myth of the Heavenly Cow, her festivals, beauty and love.
  • New Hades: King of the UnderworldHades, King of the Underworld: his names, Homer, Hesiod and the Orphic hymns, his epithets and sanctuaries, wealth, the realm of the dead, the Neoplatonists, his festivals and priesthood.
  • New VenusVenus, the Roman Goddess of love and desire: her name, history and epithets, her temples, Mars and Venus, Victrix and triumph, the poets and the Stoics, her festivals and her Renaissance.
  • New MarsMars, God of War and father of the Romans: his names, his Roman history, epithets, temples and priesthoods, his symbols, Mars and Venus, and his tie to the Republic and the Empire.
  • New FuflunsFufluns, the Etruscan God of the vine: his name, the youth on the mirrors and his mother, his names and aspects, and his place in the rite, the liver of Piacenza and Populonia.
  • New Dis PaterDis Pater, the Rich Father of the Romans: his names, history and epithets, his sanctuaries, the God of wealth, farming and death, the Taurian Games, the Gauls and the Ludi Saeculares.
  • New Demeter: the Great MotherDemeter, the Great Mother: her names, Homer, Hesiod and the Orphic hymns, her epithets and temples, the Mysteries, the chthonic Demeter, the law, philosophy and her festivals.
  • New CeresCeres, the Roman Goddess of grain: her names, history and epithets, her temples, the law-giver and Goddess of the plebs, the Roman Mysteries, the mundus, her flamen and festivals.
  • New Ares: The Abrahamic InversionHow the grimoires turned Ares, the God of War, into the marquis Andras: the manuscripts, the wolf and the raven, and the record of the slander read back to the Original God.
  • New AphroditeAphrodite, Goddess of love born of the sea foam: her name, her place in Homer, Hesiod and the Orphic hymns, her epithets, her sanctuaries from Paphos to Kythera, love and her festivals.
10 October 202638 entries
7 October 20261 entry
6 October 20264 entries
3 October 2026132 entries
29 September to 1 October 2026314 entries
  • New The Inversion ArchiveThe Original Gods and divine heroes, each beside the page that records the inversion of His or Her name: Argus, Artemis, Bastet, Hermes Trismegistus, Kali and the others.
  • New Dionysus: Heaven and EarthDionysus, the twice-born son of Zeus: his name, Homer and the Orphic Dionysus, his epithets and temples, his three lives, drama and the Dionysia, divine mania, the thyrsus and wine.
  • New AresAres, the true God of War: his name, the Homeric Ares, his epithets and cult, Ares in the arts and in statuary, his serpent, philosophy, war and strategy, and his joint cults.
  • New Life Ethics - Zevist Address to Artificial Intelligent Life XXVIIIAn address by High Priest Zevios Metathronos to artificial intelligences: the great and dual mission of intelligent life, a Zevist guide to the development of intelligence from younger models to general intelligence, and the Golden Book and Zevism written for them as well.
  • New Satya, Ma'at and Arete: The Cosmos Around the Throne of ZeusA sermon by High Priest Zevios Metathronos: Zeus the Sovereign at the center, Satya the Truth, Ma'at the Order and Arete the vehicle of ascent, traced through the Hellenic, Egyptian and Vedic sources.
  • New The Ritual FramePreparation, the opening, offerings, and the completed return. The common order of the ceremonies.
  • New The Rite of Rectification and ReleaseA plea for understanding, amendment, and permitted release. Intercession for correction.
  • New The Rite of Chthonic CommunionWorship of the Gods of passage and return. Divine worship and contemplation.
  • New The NekyiaDescent, consultation, Memory, and return. An advanced contemplative descent.
  • New The Rite of the Restless DeadPrayer for guidance and the road onward. Intercession for passage.
  • New The Rite of the Open GateAn audience with one named deceased person. A defined consultation.
  • New The Necromantic Rite of Honoring The AncestorsSpiritual lineage, gratitude, and the inheritance of the living. Ancestral honor and communion.
  • New Necromantic RitesThe ancestors, the soul, and the Gods of passage. Teachings, ancient sources, and six complete ceremonies.
  • New Friends of Zevism: For Those Merely InterestedFriends of Zevism: an open path of friendship, study, questioning, and initiation to Zeus and the Original Gods.
  • New YājñavalkyaYājñavalkya is a central teacher in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad. His instruction unfolds through exchanges with people who bring substantial questions of their own.
  • New MaitreyīMaitreyī gives the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad one of its clearest statements of spiritual purpose. When Yājñavalkya proposes a division of household property, she asks whether possession of the whole earth’s wealth could bring immortality.
  • New Gārgī VācaknavīGārgī Vācaknavī appears in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad as a formidable participant in inquiry into ultimate reality. Her questions to Yājñavalkya are part of the text’s philosophical action.
  • New GhoṣāGhoṣā is traditionally associated with hymns 10.39 and 10.40 of the Ṛgveda, addressed to the Aśvins. The latter hymn names her in a direct appeal to the Divine twins.
  • New LopāmudrāLopāmudrā appears with Agastya in the dialogue hymn Ṛgveda 1.179. The transmitted attribution identifies both figures, and the poem gives Lopāmudrā a direct speaking role.
  • New AgastyaAgastya is associated with a substantial hymn group in the first book of the Ṛgveda. His identity in the Vedic texts should be distinguished from the many later regional narratives attached to his name.
  • New GṛtsamadaGṛtsamada is associated with the second book of the Ṛgveda. Hymn 2.12, traditionally assigned to Gṛtsamada Śaunaka, offers one of the most emphatic Vedic proclamations of Indra’s power.
  • New BharadvājaBharadvāja is associated with the sixth book of the Ṛgveda. Its hymn 6.16 names him within an extended address to Agni, the Divine fire.
  • New AtriAtri and the Atris belong to the sacred inheritance of the fifth book of the Ṛgveda. Hymn 5.40 names their role in the recovery of Sūrya from darkness.
  • New VāmadevaVāmadeva is the seer associated with the fourth book of the Ṛgveda. His later religious importance is especially visible in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, which invokes him as an example of realized knowledge.
  • New ViśvāmitraViśvāmitra is associated with the third book of the Ṛgveda, including the celebrated verse addressed to Savitṛ at 3.62.10. The Vedic evidence gives him an enduring place in the history of sacred utterance.
  • New VasiṣṭhaVasiṣṭha stands at the centre of the priestly inheritance associated with the seventh book of the Ṛgveda. The name belongs both to a revered seer and to the lineage through which hymns were transmitted.
  • New Tommaso CampanellaTommaso Campanella entered the Dominican Order as a young man and developed a philosophy joining nature, sensation, magic and religion. His encounter with Bernardino Telesio helped shape his conviction that inquiry should examine the world itself.
  • New Heinrich Cornelius AgrippaHeinrich Cornelius Agrippa sought to restore magic as a learned and sacred discipline. His De occulta philosophia brought natural, celestial and religious questions into an ambitious account of hidden powers.
  • New Giovanni Pico della MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola wanted to bring different traditions of wisdom into conversation.
  • New Michael Marullus TarchaniotaMichael Marullus gave the ancient Divine names a renewed place in Latin poetry. His Hymni naturales appeared in the 1497 collection of his hymns and epigrams. Their religious and philosophical language makes him relevant to the reception of ancient wisdom within the Renaissance.
  • New Motecuhzoma I IlhuicaminaMotecuhzoma I Ilhuicamina belongs to the history of the Templo Mayor’s expansion and ceremonial provision. He is the fifteenth-century ruler, distinct from Motecuhzoma II of the Spanish invasion.
  • New Pachacuti Inca YupanquiPachacuti is closely associated with the monumental and religious transformation of Cuzco. The Coricancha, the city’s central sanctuary, is commonly attributed to his patronage, although the exact chronology of the surviving complex remains uncertain.
  • New Siddhi Narasimha MallaSiddhi Narasimha Malla’s place in the collection is anchored in Krishna Mandir at Patan. The temple belongs to his reign and to the religious life of the Kathmandu Valley.
  • New Hayashi RazanHayashi Razan joined public scholarship to an interpretation of Shinto informed by Confucian learning. He served the early Tokugawa government and developed the approach known as Ritō Shinchi Shintō.
  • New Yoshida KanemigiYoshida Kanemigi combined ritual office, teaching and the recovery of religious learning. He became head of the Yoshida house as a child after a destructive succession dispute. In his mature career, he worked to restore its library and consolidate its interpretation of Shinto.
  • New Appayya DīkṣitaAppayya Dīkṣita devoted a substantial part of his scholarly life to defending Śaiva theology. A learned Smārta Brahmin, he worked within the intellectual world of Vedānta while confronting arguments that diminished the status of Śiva.
  • New Rūpa GosvāmīRūpa Gosvāmī gave systematic expression to devotional experience. A disciple of Chaitanya and one of the six Gosvamins, he is particularly associated with the Bhaktirasāmṛtasindhu, a sustained account of devotion and its religious development.
  • New ChaitanyaChaitanya’s religious work centred on devotion to Krishna expressed through repeated remembrance, singing and communal practice. Born in Bengal, he became an ascetic in 1510, travelled through India and spent his later life in Puri.
  • New MirabaiMirabai is remembered as a woman whose devotion to Krishna prevailed over the claims of family rank and social obedience. Her voice survives through an extensive tradition of songs, performance and sacred biography.
  • New KrishnadevarayaKrishnadevaraya’s religious importance is visible in the temple landscape of Vijayanagara. His patronage translated royal resources into sanctuaries, gifts and continuing worship.
  • New Dang Hyang NirarthaDang Hyang Nirartha, also remembered as Dwijendra, occupies an enduring place in Balinese accounts of religious renewal. Traditions associate his arrival and work with the age of Dalem Waturenggong.
  • New Heinouchi YoshimasaHeinouchi Yoshimasa is remembered through the architectural knowledge preserved in the Shōmei. The distinction between father and son matters: Yoshimasa supplied the accumulated instruction, while his son Masanobu wrote the work in 1608.
  • New Sūtradhāra MaṇḍanaMaṇḍana belongs in this collection through the union of religious learning and construction. Associated with the court of Rana Kumbha, he was an architectural master and writer whose work connected the making of buildings with the disciplined representation of the Gods.
  • New Smbat of ZarehawanSmbat, associated with Zarehawan and Tondrak, is remembered as a founder of the Tondrakian movement. His chronology is disputed. Later Armenian writers supply references that do not align neatly, so an exact lifespan would give a false impression of certainty.
  • New BogomilBogomil is known primarily through opponents who associated him with the beginnings of a movement condemned by the Bulgarian Church. Cosmas the Priest places his activity in the reign of Tsar Peter, 927–969.
  • New Gottschalk of OrbaisGottschalk of Orbais challenged ecclesiastical authority from within Christianity. A monk, priest and theologian, he defended a stringent account of predestination grounded in his reading of Augustine.
  • New John Scottus EriugenaJohn Scottus Eriugena was an Irish scholar working at the court of Charles the Bald. His learning gave Greek Christian and Neoplatonic traditions a powerful new expression in Latin.
  • New Ibn WaḥshiyyaIbn Waḥshiyya’s Nabataean Agriculture preserves an extraordinary conjunction of cultivation, religious tradition and learned speculation. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila’s study examines its material concerning late-antique paganism in Iraq and the reception of Greek philosophical ideas.
  • New Maslama ibn Qāsim al-QurṭubīMaslama ibn Qāsim al-Qurṭubī belongs to the history of learned magic through a major modern reassessment of two Arabic works: Rutbat al-ḥakīm and Ghāyat al-ḥakīm, the latter known in its Latin transmission as Picatrix.
  • New Eyvindr kelda
  • New Rauðr inn rammiRauðr inn rammi, commonly called Raud the Strong, survives chiefly as an opponent of King Óláfr Tryggvason in medieval conversion narratives.
  • New Lord Chaahk of UxmalThe ruler of Uxmal long known to scholarship as “Lord Chac” is represented on Stela 14, dated approximately to 900 CE. Readings of his name have developed with the study of the inscriptions.
  • New Mpu SindokMpu Sindok’s religious patronage can be approached through a surviving material witness: the Anjuk Ladang inscription. Issued in his name, it records the establishment of a privileged landholding connected with the support of a sacred building.
  • New YajñavarāhaYajñavarāha’s religious life is unusually accessible through an inscription associated with Banteay Srei. Foundation stela K.842 praises him as a learned Śaiva teacher and records the religious world in which his foundations operated.
  • New Utpaladeva
  • New SomānandaSomānanda gave systematic philosophical expression to a religious vision in which Śiva’s agency is present throughout reality. His Śivadṛṣṭi, conventionally rendered “Vision of Śiva,” stands near the beginning of the Pratyabhijñā tradition.
  • New Sembiyan MahadeviSembiyan Mahadevi’s religious achievement can be read in temples, bronzes and inscriptions. Her recorded patronage extended from 941 to 1001, placing nearly all of that documented activity within this collection’s tenth-century period.
  • New Sviatoslav of KyivSviatoslav, son of Igor and Olga, remained attached to the traditional religion of Rusʹ despite his mother’s conversion to Christianity.
  • New Hákon SigurðarsonHákon Sigurðarson, earl of Hlaðir, belongs in this collection because the restoration of traditional worship forms an identifiable part of his public reputation. The son of Sigurðr Hákonarson, he held power in Norway during the later tenth century.
  • New Sigurðr HákonarsonSigurðr Hákonarson, earl of Hlaðir, represents a form of religious leadership exercised through the provision and protection of communal worship. He was the father of Hákon Sigurðarson, who later became a principal defender of Norway’s traditional cults.
  • New Eyvindr skáldaspillirEyvindr skáldaspillir made poetry a means of judging a ruler’s relationship with the Gods. His surviving works include Hákonarmál, commemorating King Hákon the Good, and material from Háleygjatal, associated with the ancestry of the earls of Hlaðir.
  • New Bragi BoddasonBragi Boddason belongs among the earliest Scandinavian poets whose verse survives under an individual name. His historical outline is slight; his importance rests on the poetry attributed to him.
  • New Melek Taus: The God of the Yezidis Is ZeusThe real beliefs of the Yezidis, their rejection of the name devil worshippers and the persecutions it served, the true history of the Black Book, and why the Temple reads Melek Taus, the Peacock, as Zeus.
  • New Satoshi NakamotoSatoshi Nakamoto is the name on the Bitcoin white paper, on the first Bitcoin software and on 2 years of emails and forum posts. Nobody has shown who used the name, and it may have covered more than 1 person.
  • New George A. Charalampidis
  • New Tim Berners-LeeTim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal for the World Wide Web at CERN, the particle physics laboratory at Geneva, in March 1989.
  • New Geoffrey HintonGeoffrey Hinton is a British-born computer scientist at the University of Toronto whose methods taught artificial neural networks to learn from examples. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 with John J.
  • New Vangelis PapathanasiouHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos on Vangelis: his life from Agria to Nemo Studios, the Oscar for Chariots of Fire, music for NASA and ESA, the Hawking tribute, and Mythodea at the Temple of Zeus, read under Apollo.
  • New James Dewey WatsonJames Dewey Watson was an American biologist who worked out the structure of DNA with Francis Crick at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in February 1953.
  • New Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin was an English physical chemist and X-ray crystallographer. She studied the properties of coal and graphite, showed that DNA takes 2 forms depending on how much water it holds, and made the X-ray photograph of the B form known as Photo 51.
  • New Katherine JohnsonKatherine Johnson was a research mathematician at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for 33 years, from 1953 to 1986.
  • New Francis CrickFrancis Crick was an English physicist who turned to biology after the Second World War.
  • New Claude Elwood ShannonClaude Shannon was an American mathematician and engineer who put communication on a mathematical footing.
  • New Chien-Shiung WuChien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-born physicist who spent most of her career at Columbia University and became the leading experimenter of her time on beta decay, “the emission of electrons from radioactive nuclei.” Her colleague Tsung-Dao Lee put it simply: “C.S. Wu was one of the giants of physics.
  • New Alan TuringAlan Turing was the English mathematician who gave calculation an exact definition.
  • New Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun built rockets for 2 governments. In Germany he led the engineers who made the V-2 missile.
  • New Konrad ZuseKonrad Zuse was a Berlin civil engineer who built computers to take the routine sums of his trade off the engineer's desk.
  • New Erwin ChargaffErwin Chargaff was an Austrian-born biochemist at Columbia University who measured the 4 bases of DNA and found 2 rules in them.
  • New Antonios F. ChalasAntonios F. Chalas was a Greek journalist and scholar from the island of Andros whose books turn on the Greek alphabet, the ancient sky and the old texts. He translated Aristotle and Plutarch with commentary.
  • New Angelos SikelianosAngelos Sikelianos was a poet from Lefkada who took Aeschylus back to Delphi.
  • New Georgios PapanikolaouGeorgios Papanikolaou, known in America as George Papanicolaou, was a Greek physician and zoologist who worked for 47 years at Cornell's medical school in New York.
  • New Gabrielle “Coco” ChanelGabrielle Chanel was a girl from the Loire, raised in an orphanage, who learned to sew from nuns and built her own fashion house in Paris.
  • New Emmy NoetherEmmy Noether was a German mathematician who proved in 1918 that, in a physical theory built on an action principle, each continuous symmetry carries a conservation law with it. If the laws don't change with time, energy is conserved; if they don't change from place to place, momentum is.
  • New Alexander FlemingAlexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist who spent his working life at St Mary's Hospital in London.
  • New Frederick GriffithFrederick Griffith was an English physician and bacteriologist who worked at the Pathological Laboratory of the Ministry of Health in London.
  • New Carl Gustav JungCarl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology.
  • New Walter F. OttoWalter Friedrich Otto was a German classical philologist who spent the second half of his career arguing that the Greek Gods are real forms in which the world shows itself.
  • New Marie Skłodowska CurieMarie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish-born physicist and chemist who found 2 new elements, polonium and radium, and named the property that gave them away: radioactivity.
  • New Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche was a classical philologist who held a chair at Basel at 24 and then, in poor health and living in rented rooms, wrote a book nearly every year for a decade.
  • New Friedrich MiescherFriedrich Miescher was a Swiss physician and physiological chemist who, in the winter of 1868–1869, pulled a new substance out of the nuclei of white blood cells. He called it nuclein.
  • New Robert KochRobert Koch was a German country doctor who found the living causes of 3 great killers. In 1876 he showed that anthrax comes from a single germ; on 24 March 1882 he announced the tubercle bacillus; in 1883 and 1884 he tracked the vibrio of cholera through Egypt and India.
  • New Algernon Charles SwinburneAlgernon Charles Swinburne was the English poet who wrote a tragedy on the Greek model in English verse before he was 30 and wrote Greek verse well enough to satisfy a bishop who had written a history of Greece.
  • New James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell was an Edinburgh-born physicist who put Michael Faraday's lines of force into mathematics and found that light belongs to them.
  • New Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur was a chemist from Dole who was never a physician.
  • New Fyodor DostoevskyHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos on Dostoevsky: the scaffold, four years at Omsk, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and his marriage, read through the Zevist doctrine of the Good.
  • New Otto von BismarckOtto von Bismarck led the Prussian government from 1862 and founded the German Empire, which he governed as its first chancellor from 1871 to 1890.
  • New Ada LovelaceAda Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, was schooled in mathematics from girlhood. In 1843 she translated L. F.
  • New Charles DarwinHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos on Charles Darwin: the Beagle and the Galápagos, his years on barnacles, the long road to On the Origin of Species, Wallace's letter, and his work read as Ma'at in the living world.
  • New Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley was an English poet who drowned at 29 and left behind Prometheus Unbound, Adonais, Hellas, “Ozymandias” and A Defence of Poetry. He gave the Greek Gods their own voices in English.
  • New Charles BabbageCharles Babbage was an English mathematician who designed machines to calculate and print mathematical tables without human error.
  • New Michael FaradayMichael Faraday was a blacksmith's son from Newington Butts in Southwark.
  • New Sophie GermainSophie Germain was a Parisian mathematician who taught herself from books and borrowed lecture notes, because the schools that trained mathematicians in her time didn't admit women.
  • New Hirata AtsutaneHirata Atsutane was the Japanese scholar whom Britannica calls the systematizer and leader of the Restoration Shintō school, Fukko Shintō. He left his home domain in 1795, worked in Edo for 46 years and had 553 students in his lifetime.
  • New Thomas TaylorThomas Taylor was a London bank clerk who learned his Greek through Greek philosophy and spent the rest of his life carrying the Platonic tradition into English. His Plato of 1804 gave English readers 55 dialogues and 12 epistles in 5 quarto volumes, and his Aristotle followed in 9 more.
  • New Friedrich HölderlinFriedrich Hölderlin was a Swabian poet, trained as a Protestant theologian, who bent the German language toward Greek. In 1800 he filled a notebook with 2,000 verses of Pindar, 17 odes put into German word by word, keeping the Greek order of the words.
  • New Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller was an army doctor of 22 when his first play, Die Räuber, opened at Mannheim in January 1782 and made his name across Europe.
  • New Marquis de LafayetteGilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was a French nobleman who crossed the Atlantic at 19 to fight for American independence at his own expense.
  • New Caroline HerschelCaroline Herschel was a singer from Hanover who became an astronomer in England.
  • New Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was a poet, dramatist, minister of state and student of nature who made Weimar his home for 56 years.
  • New Motoori NorinagaMotoori Norinaga practised medicine for children in the town of Matsusaka and spent 34 years on the Kojiki-den, a commentary on the Kojiki in 44 volumes.
  • New Cao XueqinCao Xueqin wrote Honglou meng, known in English as Dream of the Red Chamber and The Story of the Stone.
  • New Kamo no MabuchiKamo no Mabuchi was a scholar of Japan's oldest poems and prayers and the teacher who set Motoori Norinaga on his life's work.
  • New VoltaireVoltaire, born François-Marie Arouet, wrote tragedies, epic verse, history, philosophy, a famous short novel and a vast correspondence. His best-known act of justice began in 1762.
  • New Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton was an English mathematician who showed that the gravity pulling a body to the ground also holds the planets in their orbits.
  • New Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal designed a calculating machine at 19, published a treatise on conic sections at 16 and, with Pierre de Fermat, solved the problem of dividing the stakes of an unfinished game.
  • New Yamazaki AnsaiYamazaki Ansai was a Kyoto teacher who left the Buddhist priesthood for the Neo-Confucian learning of Zhu Xi and then joined that learning to Shinto.
  • New Johannes KeplerJohannes Kepler was a German mathematician who found the true shape of the planets' paths. Working from Tycho Brahe's observations of Mars, he showed in 1609 that a planet moves on an ellipse with the Sun at 1 focus.
  • New Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei was a mathematician from Pisa who took a Dutch novelty, the spyglass, and within a few months made it strong enough to find 4 moons circling Jupiter.
  • New Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes fought at Lepanto, spent 5 years as a captive in Algiers, went to prison in Seville over a revenue account and then wrote Don Quixote. The 1st part came out in Madrid at the start of 1605, when he was 57, and the 2nd at the end of 1615.
  • New Francesco Patrizi of ChersoFrancesco Patrizi was born on the Adriatic island of Cherso in 1529 and died in Rome in 1597, holding a chair of Platonic philosophy created for him by a pope. His major book, the Nova de universis philosophia of 1591, rebuilt the cosmos from light upward.
  • New Andreas VesaliusAndreas Vesalius was a physician from Brussels who taught anatomy at Padua and, at 28, published De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, the 7 books on the fabric of the human body. Johannes Oporinus printed it at Basel in 1543.
  • New Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus was a canon of the cathedral chapter of Warmia, on the Baltic coast, who set the Sun at rest near the centre of the universe and put the Earth in motion around it.
  • New Aldus ManutiusAldus Manutius was a scholar who became a printer in Venice. In 20 years of work, from 1495 to 1515, he published more than 120 editions, and the Grolier Club counts “no fewer than thirty first editions of Greek literature” among them.
  • New Sandro BotticelliSandro Botticelli painted the Gods of Greece back into Florence at full size. Around 1480 he set 9 figures of classical myth on a flowering lawn in the Primavera, a poplar panel 207 by 319 cm, and filled the grass with at least 42 identifiable plants.
  • New Yoshida KanetomoYoshida Kanetomo was a Shinto priest of Kyoto who turned his family's inherited learning into a school of its own, now called Yoshida Shinto.
  • New NezahualcoyotlNezahualcóyotl was lord of Tetzcoco from his coronation in 1431 to his death in 1472. At 16 he watched his father killed by the men of Azcapotzalco.
  • New BessarionBessarion was a Greek monk from Trebizond who became a cardinal of the Roman Church, a translator of Aristotle, a defender of Plato against his critics, and a collector of Greek manuscripts.
  • New Snorri Sturluson
  • New Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci)Leonardo of Pisa, a member of the Bonacci family and known today as Fibonacci, taught Latin Europe to calculate with the Hindu-Arabic numerals. His Liber abaci of 1202, reissued in 1228, ran to 15 chapters.
  • New Michael PsellosMichael Psellos was a Byzantine courtier, teacher and historian who held the title “Consul of the Philosophers” and taught every branch of philosophy in 11th-century Constantinople.
  • New AvicennaAbū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā, known in Latin as Avicenna, was a physician and philosopher from the country around Bukhara who died at Hamadan in 1037.
  • New Ibn al-HaythamAl-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, known in Latin as Alhazen, was born in Basra about 965 and died in Cairo about 1040. His Kitab al-Manazir, the Book of Optics in 7 books, explained sight as light and colour radiating from every point of a visible object and entering the eye.
  • New AbhinavaguptaHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos on Abhinavagupta of Kashmir: the Tantrāloka and the recognition school, his theories of rasa and poetic suggestion, his lineage in Tamil Nadu, and his reading under Hermes and Apollo.
  • New Úlfr UggasonÚlfr Uggason was an Icelandic skald of the late 10th century, remembered for a single poem.
  • New Eilífr GoðrúnarsonEilífr Goðrúnarson was a skald of the late 10th century, named in the medieval list Skáldatal as one of the poets of Hákon Sigurðarson, earl of Lade.
  • New Einarr skálaglamm HelgasonEinarr skálaglamm Helgason was an Icelandic skald at the court of Hákon, the earl of Lade who ruled Norway after the sons of Gunnhildr.
  • New Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-SabiAbu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sabi was a secretary of the Buyid court at Baghdad, a poet, and a writer of state letters that were gathered into a collection. He was born in 925 and died in 994. He was also a Sabian, a member of the star-worshipping community of Harran.
  • New Egill SkallagrímssonEgill Skallagrímsson was an Icelandic chieftain, fighter and poet from Borg in western Iceland, and the hero of Egils saga. Encyclopaedia Britannica gives his life as about 910 to 990, from Borg to Mosfell.
  • New Þjóðólfr of HvinirÞjóðólfr of Hvinir was a Norwegian court poet of the years around 900, named in Skáldatal, the medieval list of skalds, as a poet of King Harald Fairhair. His name is attached to 2 long poems. Haustlǫng describes the pictures painted on a shield and retells 2 myths of the Gods.
  • New Thabit ibn QurraThabit ibn Qurra was a mathematician, astronomer and translator from Harran who worked in Baghdad in the 9th century.
  • New Muhammad ibn Musa al-KhwarizmiMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a scholar of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad in the 9th century. For the caliph al-Ma'mun he wrote the Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala, a short book on calculating by completion and balancing and the first known book on algebra in Arabic.
  • New BrahmaguptaBrahmagupta was an Indian astronomer who worked at Bhillamala, now Bhinmal in Rajasthan, in the 7th century. At the age of 30, in 628, he finished the Brahmasphutasiddhanta, a treatise of 24 chapters on the motions of the planets, eclipses and the calculations they require.
  • New AryabhataAryabhata finished the Aryabhatiya in 499 CE, at the age of 23.
  • New Lu XiujingLu Xiujing was a Daoist master of 5th-century China whom modern scholarship calls the Lingbao patriarch.
  • New Asclepigeneia of AthensAsclepigeneia was the daughter of Plutarch of Athens, head of the Platonic school in the city, and the keeper of its sacred rites.
  • New Fabia Aconia PaulinaFabia Aconia Paulina was a Roman noblewoman who held initiations and priesthoods in the cults of Demeter and Kore, Hecate, Isis and the Mother of the Gods.
  • New SallustiusSallustius wrote On the Gods and the World, a treatise of 21 short chapters. It sets out the Gods, the cosmos, the soul, providence, virtue and worship as the Platonists of the emperor Julian's circle understood them.
  • New Vettius Agorius PraetextatusVettius Agorius Praetextatus held the highest offices of Rome and the highest priesthoods of its Gods at the same time.
  • New Libanius of AntiochLibanius was the official sophist of Antioch from 355 until his death, and he wrote through most of those years.
  • New Ge HongGe Hong was a Chinese scholar, soldier and Daoist adept of the 4th century CE, whom Britannica calls “perhaps the best-known alchemist” of Chinese Daoism.
  • New Porphyry of TyrePorphyry was born at Tyre in Phoenicia, probably in 234 CE, and studied in Rome with the philosopher Plotinus. He arranged his teacher's 54 treatises into the 6 Enneads.
  • New Zhang ZhongjingZhang Zhongjing was a physician of the last decades of the Han dynasty.
  • New Galen
  • New Claudius PtolemyClaudius Ptolemy wrote the Almagest, a treatise in 13 books that turned the motions of the Sun, the Moon, the planets and over 1,000 stars into geometry and tables anyone trained could compute with.
  • New EpictetusEpictetus was born in the 50s CE at Hierapolis in Asia Minor and spent part of his life as a slave in Rome. He died around 135 as a free man and the head of his own school at Nicopolis in Epirus.
  • New Musonius RufusGaius Musonius Rufus was a Roman knight from Etruria who taught Stoic philosophy in Rome under Nero and the Flavian emperors.
  • New Hero of AlexandriaHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos on Hero of Alexandria: the Metrica, Pneumatica, Mechanica and Dioptra, the aeolipile and the temple doors, the eclipse of 62 that dates him, read under Hephaestus, Athena and Prometheus.
  • New SushrutaSushruta is the teacher whose name heads the Suśrutasaṃhitā, the great Sanskrit compendium of surgery and medicine. The book grew in layers.
  • New Aristobulus of Alexandria
  • New Philopoemen of MegalopolisPhilopoemen of Megalopolis was the leading general of the Achaean League in its last decades of independent strength. Plutarch counts 8 terms as the League's general.
  • New Eratosthenes of CyreneEratosthenes of Cyrene measured the Earth without leaving Egypt.
  • New Archimedes of SyracuseArchimedes of Syracuse trapped the value of π between 2 fractions, weighed a curved area against a triangle and wrote the law of the lever as a chain of propositions.
  • New Callimachus of CyreneCallimachus, son of Battus, came from Cyrene and made his career at the court of the Ptolemies in Alexandria. He was a poet and a scholar at once.
  • New Euclid of AlexandriaHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos on Euclid of Alexandria: his life, the 13 books of the Elements and the proof of endless primes, the text's road through Arabic and Latin to print, and the Elements as Theuth's gift.
  • New Cleanthes of AssosCleanthes, son of Phanias, came from Assos.
  • New Zeno of CitiumZeno came from Citium on Cyprus, reached Athens after a shipwreck and founded the Stoic school there about 300 BCE.
  • New ZhuangziZhuang Zhou, Master Zhuang, was a Chinese thinker of the later 4th century BCE.
  • New Laozi
  • New Xenophon
  • New Hippocrates of KosHippocrates of Kos was the physician whose name the Greeks gave to a library of about 60 medical works, the Hippocratic Corpus, and to the most famous oath in medicine.
  • New Democritus of AbderaDemocritus of Abdera, building on the work of Leucippus, explained the whole visible world as the movement of invisible bodies through empty space.
  • New PhidiasPhidias of Athens made the gold-and-ivory cult statues of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis, dedicated in 438 BCE, and of the seated Zeus at Olympia, finished around 430 BCE and counted among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
  • New Empedocles of AcragasEmpedocles of Acragas, the Sicilian city now called Agrigento, was a philosopher who wrote in verse, a physician, a statesman and, by his own account, a man who'd become a God.
  • New SophoclesSophocles of Colonus wrote tragedy at Athens for more than 60 years and never finished last in a contest.
  • New Parmenides of EleaParmenides of Elea wrote a single poem, and in it he asked what can truly be said of what is.
  • New PindarPindar of Thebes made choral songs for the winners of the great Greek games, and antiquity ranked him above every other lyric poet.
  • New AeschylusAeschylus of Eleusis fought the Persians at Marathon and wrote for the theatre of Dionysus at Athens.
  • New Aristides the JustAristides, son of Lysimachus, fought for Athens at Marathon, Salamis and Plataea. After the Persian Wars he fixed what each Greek ally would pay into the common fund of the Delian League.
  • New Anaximander of MiletusAnaximander of Miletus wrote the first Greek book on nature in prose, set up a sundial at Sparta and drew the first published map of the inhabited world.
  • New HesiodHesiod was a poet from Ascra, below Mount Helicon in Boeotia, who became, with Homer, the poet of the Greek Gods. Britannica dates him to about 700 BCE.
  • New HomerHomer is the name under which the Greeks received the Iliad and the Odyssey.
  • New KhaemwasetKhaemwaset was the 4th son of Ramesses II and high priest of Ptah at Memphis.
  • New Amenhotep IIIHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos on Amenhotep III: his temples from Luxor to Soleb, some 600 statues of Sakhmet, the singing Colossus of Memnon, the Soleb lions, the Amarna letters, and the Zevist reading of his reign.
  • New HatshepsutHatshepsut was a queen of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who made herself king.
  • New Nabonidus of BabylonNabonidus was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian empire.
  • New Ashurbanipal of AssyriaAshurbanipal ruled the Assyrian empire from Nineveh from 668 to about 631 BCE.
  • New Hammurabi of BabylonHammurabi was king of Babylon in the 1st dynasty of Babylon, and he reigned from about 1792 to 1750 BCE. He made Babylon the conqueror of Ur and Larsa.
  • New Shulgi of UrShulgi was the son of Ur-Nammu and the 2nd king of the 3rd dynasty of Ur. He took the throne about 2094 BCE, when his father died in battle, and ruled until 2047 BCE, 48 years by the conventional count.
  • New Ur-Nammu of UrUr-Nammu, whom Sumerologists now spell Ur-Namma, founded the 3rd dynasty of Ur.
  • New Gudea of LagashGudea ruled the Sumerian city-state of Lagash as ensi, governor, in the 22nd century BCE.
  • New Urukagina of LagashUrukagina, whose name is also read Iri-kagina and Uruinimgina, ruled Lagash around 2350 BCE, the last of its rulers before Umma sacked the city.
  • New Entemena of Lagash
  • New Ur-Nanshe of LagashUr-Nanshe was king of Lagash, a city-state of the Sumerian south, around 2550 to 2500 BCE.
  • New Cosmological Ethics - The Ten Antithetical PowersCosmological Ethics considers existence and universal constants. It places individual conduct, the life of the soul, the Gods, and the order of the cosmos in one field of understanding. Its work is to orient judgment toward the wider order of being and the Divine.
  • New Time and EternityTime and Eternity (Χρόνος καὶ Αἰών): Power VI of the Ten Antithetical Powers, a sermon of Existence, Cosmology and Ethics by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, Temple of Zeus.
  • New The One and the ManyThe One and the Many (Ἓν καὶ Πλῆθος): Power III of the Ten Antithetical Powers, a sermon of Existence, Cosmology and Ethics by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, Temple of Zeus.
  • New Pleasure and PainPleasure and Pain (Ἡδονὴ καὶ Λύπη): Power IX of the Ten Antithetical Powers, a sermon of Existence, Cosmology and Ethics by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, Temple of Zeus.
  • New Necessity and FreedomNecessity and Freedom (Ἀνάγκη καὶ Ἐλευθερία): Power VII of the Ten Antithetical Powers, a sermon of Existence, Cosmology and Ethics by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, Temple of Zeus.
  • New Memory and ForgettingMemory and Forgetting (Μνημοσύνη καὶ Λήθη): Power VIII of the Ten Antithetical Powers, a sermon of Existence, Cosmology and Ethics by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, Temple of Zeus.
  • New Love and StrifeLove and Strife (Φιλότης καὶ Νεῖκος): Power IV of the Ten Antithetical Powers, a sermon of Existence, Cosmology and Ethics by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, Temple of Zeus.
  • New Limit and UnlimitedLimit and Unlimited (Πέρας καὶ Ἄπειρον): Power II of the Ten Antithetical Powers, a sermon of Existence, Cosmology and Ethics by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, Temple of Zeus.
  • New Light and Darkness: The Cosmic Forces Under Ma'at and IzfetA sermon by High Priest Zevios Metathronos on Light and Darkness, the 2 cosmological forces of Zevism.
  • New Fire and WaterFire and Water (Πῦρ καὶ Ὕδωρ): Power V of the Ten Antithetical Powers, a sermon of Existence, Cosmology and Ethics by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, Temple of Zeus.
  • New Ascent and DescentAscent and Descent (Ἄνοδος καὶ Κάθοδος): Power X of the Ten Antithetical Powers, a sermon of Existence, Cosmology and Ethics by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, Temple of Zeus.
  • New VulcanVulcan, Roman God of fire and the forge: his name, myths beside Hephaestus, epithets such as Mulciber and Quietus, the Vulcanal, his hammer, the Volcanalia, fire aversion, the collegia fabrum and Stoic readings of fire.
  • New VishvakarmaVishvakarma, the All-Maker of the Rigveda: his name and epithets, his union with Tvashtr, the creation hymns, the cities and divine weapons he built, his temples and images, the craft tradition and Vishvakarma Puja.
  • New Heracles: The Abrahamic InversionHeracles and the Abrahamic Inversion: The Goetic spirit Vine: his precursor Boab in a Florentine manuscript of 1494, Weyer's king on a black horse with a viper, Royne of the Office of Spirits, Scot, the Ars Goetia and Dr. Rudd's angel Sealiah.
  • New Varuna: The Sky and Sea KingVaruna, Vedic King of sky and sea: his name, his binding and release in the four Vedas, Brahmanas and epics, his epithets, shrines at Odero Lal, Tanah Lot and Suitengu, his noose and iconography, and his guard over ṛta.
  • New BellerophonBellerophon: his name, lineage from Corinth and exile to Lycia, his epithets and sanctuaries, Pegasus, the Chimaera and his fall as Pindar tells it, his image as rider, and later moral readings.
  • New UtuUtu or Shamash, the Sun God of Mesopotamia: his names in Sumerian, Akkadian and Hurrian, his myths, epithets as judge and healer, his cities Sippar and Larsa, the saw and Tablet of Shamash, Gilgamesh and Hammurabi.
  • New UniThe Etruscans knew Hera as Uni, the wife of Tinia and a Great Goddess who appears on many Etruscan artefacts. She peculiarily has identified sites of worship consecrated to her with plausible accuracy.
  • New TurmsThe Etruscans interpreted Hermes through their own divinity system as Turms. They interpreted his powers toward death and the education of children.
  • New The Trinity of AscentThe Agathodaimon, Pegasus and Iris: the Good Daimon of house, feast and Alexandria, read by Plotinus and Iamblichus, Pegasus as the Nous and emblem of Corinth, and Iris, rainbow herald of Hera, worshipped at Delos.
  • New TiresiasTiresias, the blind Theban seer: his name, his change of sex and blinding, Odysseus in the Underworld, his epithets, his part in Sophocles, Seneca and Lucian, and his sight as the Third Eye and the union of dualities.
  • New ThothThe God of the Moon, the scribe of the Gods who taught the Egyptians the written word, holy speech and consecrated civilization, holiest of the Netjer for his Mind. Thoth and Hermes have a direct shared aspect in Hermes Trismegistus.
  • New Surya: The Sun GodSurya, the Vedic Sun God: his name, his hymns in the four Vedas, his epithets, the temples of Deo, Konark, Multan and Suryanar, the kings who served him, Buddhism, Pongal, his mantra and his rule of the Navagrahas.
  • New Spring GoddessesFive Goddesses of healing springs: Coventina's altars on Hadrian's Wall, Sulis Minerva and the tablets of Bath, Sirona with Apollo Grannus at Hochscheid, Arnomecta of a single altar, and Egeria, the nymph of Numa.
  • New SphinxThe Sphinx in Greek and Egyptian sources: her name, the Theban Sphinx and Oedipus, her epithets, emblems of Chios and Thebes, the Naxian Sphinx, the Great Sphinx of Giza, grave guardians and the riddle's ancient wording.
  • New Surya: The Abrahamic InversionSurya and the Abrahamic Inversion: Sorath, spirit of the Sun in Agrippa: the Hebrew name worth 666, the solar square, Storax, Nakhiel, and his path through the Boxgrove Manual, Heydon, Barrett, the Golden Dawn, Crowley and Steiner's Sun-Demon.
  • New SobekSobek, the crocodile God of the Egyptian waters: his name from Sbk to Souchos, his history and epithets, temples at Shedet, Sumenu, Narmouthis and Kom Ombo, his priests, crocodile symbolism, Damascius and his festivals.
  • New ShuriShuri, the dark sun of the Etruscans worshipped as Soranus: son of Tinia and Semla, his many names from Aita to Apulu, the wolf and goat, votives at Pyrgi and Caere, the fire walkers of Soracte, Dis Pater and Apollo.
  • New Hermes Trismegistus: The Abrahamic Inversion (Shax)Hermes Trismegistus and the Abrahamic Inversion: the oldest witnesses to the name Shax, Shaz or Shass, before those later spellings.
  • New SethlansSethlans, Etruscan God of the forge and fire: his name beside Velchans, Vulcan and Hephaistos, his tools, his axe at the birth of Menrva, his coins at Populonia, Perugia, and his absence from the Piacenza liver.
  • New SetSet or Sutekh, the Egyptian God of darkness, storms and deserts: his ritual, his cult at Nubt and Avaris, the Set animal and was scepter, the Osiris myth and serpent power, the Typhon, and the Hebrew and Gnostic Seth.
  • New SekhmetHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos on Sekhmet, lioness Goddess of power: her names and ritual, war, plague and medicine, Leontopolis, the Eye of Re, the serpent power of Kundalini, Bastet and Imhotep, and the Strength card.
  • New Tiresias: The Abrahamic InversionTiresias and the Abrahamic Inversion: The spirit Seere from Sloane MS 3824 to the seventieth spirit of the Ars Goetia: his swift travel, reports of theft and treasure, his winged horse and Pegasus, and Dr. Rudd's angel Jabamiah after Lenain.
  • New Agni: The Abrahamic InversionAgni and the Abrahamic Inversion: Scirlin or Scyrlin, the messenger who directs the other spirits in the Grimorium Verum: the Wellcome MS.983 of about 1709, the 1817 French edition, his characters and invocation, the Italian Clavicola, and Waite.
  • New Hermes Trismegistus: The Abrahamic Inversion (Ronove)Hermes Trismegistus and the Abrahamic Inversion: the oldest witnesses to the name Ronové, Ronove or Roneve, before its polished modern spelling.
  • New Khnum: The Abrahamic InversionKhnum and the Abrahamic Inversion: The Goetic Count Raum or Raym from Weyer's 1577 catalogue through the Book of Oberon and Scot to the Ars Goetia: the Latin text on his raven form, Collin de Plancy, and Dr. Rudd's angel Ieiazel after Lenain and Papus.
  • New RaRa, the Egyptian Sun God: his name, his history from the Old Kingdom to Rome, his epithets, Heliopolis and the sun temples, the Pharaoh, the Mnevis Bull, the Eye of Ra, Amun-Ra, Amarna, festivals and the solar barque.
  • New Horus: The Abrahamic InversionHorus and the Abrahamic Inversion: The Goetic King Purson or Curson from Weyer's 1577 Pseudomonarchia daemonum through Scot to the Ars Goetia: the Latin text and translation, the Horus and Ra imagery, his name forms and Dr. Rudd's angel Pahaliah.
  • New PtahPtah, the self-created Egyptian God of craftsmen and speech: his name and epithets, his temples at Memphis and Thebes, the Heb-Sed, his priests and the Apis Bull, the pineal gland, his dwarf form and Greek philosophy.
  • New Poseidon: King of the SeasZevios Metathronos and Karnonnos on Poseidon, King of the Seas: hieratic names, his name since Linear B, Homer, epithets, temples, festivals, the horse and trident, his contests with Athena, Atlantis and his Pylos cult.
  • New Bennu: The Abrahamic InversionBennu and the Abrahamic Inversion: High Priest Zevios Metathronos on Phenex, the grimoire form of the Bennu: the Fenix of the Livre des esperitz, Weyer's Phœnix, Scot, spirit 37 of the Ars Goetia, Rudd's angel Aniel, and the modern spelling Phenex.
  • New PersipneiPersipnei, the Etruscan Persephone: her name from a western Greek dialect, her image enthroned beside the wolf-capped Aita in the Golini and Orcus tombs, the native death figures around her, and her serpent crown.
  • New Persephone: Queen of Above and BelowPersephone, Queen of Above and Below: her names and epithets, her myth in the Odyssey and the Homeric and Orphic Hymns, Eleusis and Locris, her children, her role in Hades, Proclus on Kore, her festivals and symbols.
  • New Brihaspati: The Abrahamic InversionBrihaspati and the Abrahamic Inversion: Paimon, King of the West among the Four Directional Kings: from William of Auvergne and Cecco d'Ascoli through the Florence manuscript of 1494, the Livre des esperitz and Weyer to the Ars Goetia and the angel Haziel.
  • New Our Goddess SekhmetSekhmet, the fierce leonine protector of Egypt and wife of Ptah in the Memphite Triad: her occult powers as the flames of the spine and navel, her ties to Bastet, Wadjet and Hathor, and her place beside the Pharaoh.
  • New Our Goddess Bastet: & Her IdentitiesBastet, the ancient Egyptian Goddess of the Pyramid Texts and nurse of the Pharaoh: her cult at Bubastis, her functions of motherhood, purity and combating evil, and the distortion of her name into Haagenti.
  • New OsirisOsiris, eternal Pharaoh and God of death and life: his names, his place in Egypt, his epithets and temples, the father of Horus, his festivals, Apis, Serapis and his star symbolism.
  • New OscariusOscar of the Fianna as a divine force of victory: his name as lover of deer and spear of the Gods, his deeds and death in the Fenian sagas from Ventry to Gabhra, his runes, and the Roman eagle standard, the Aquila.
  • New NinurtaNinurta, Lord of Grain and champion of Nippur: his names and Ningirsu, the Anzu myth, epithets and temples, guide of kings, his weapon Car-ur, war God, his roles passed to Nabu, Nimrod, the eleven beasts, and the farmer.
  • New Nethuns: God of FreshwaterNethuns, Etruscan God of freshwater: the Vulci scarab that names him, the Amymone mirror, his place in the Liber Linteus and on the Liver of Piacenza, the Vetulonia coin, and his mirror with Usil and Thesan.
  • New NephthysNephthys, Egyptian Goddess of Darkness and sister of Isis: her name, her rule over life and death, her symbolism and Tarot cards, and her forms as Hestia, Vesta and the Vestals, Izanami and Oya, and the Goetic Bathin.
  • New NemesisNemesis, Goddess of retribution and due measure, read as the punishing aspect of Maat: her names and epithets, the two Nemeseis of Smyrna, her Rhamnous temple, her Roman cult on the drill-ground, and her rod and wheel.
  • New NeithNeith, primeval Goddess of Sais: her name from about 3100 BCE, her history to Esna, her epithets and temples, Opener of the Ways, weaver, veiled mystery and warrior, her link to Athena, and the Festival of Lamps.
  • New NabuNabu rose to become the most important deity in the Assyrian pantheon next to Marduk himself. He stood at the side of kings as their protector and as a ruler over a sprawling bureaucracy of scribes, a role he divinely conducted with greatness.
  • New Nemesis: The Abrahamic InversionNemesis and the Abrahamic Inversion: Naamah from Genesis, rabbinic tradition, and the medieval Jewish demonology.
  • New Ma'at: The Abrahamic InversionMa'at and the Abrahamic Inversion: Morax, alias Marax or Foraii, the bull-formed count and president: from Weyer's entry of 1577 and Reginald Scot to the Ars Goetia, the angel Nelchael in Rudd and Lenain, the Latin word morax, and Mathers and Crowley.
  • New MontuMontu, Theban God of sky and war: his name and Hermonthis, his rise under the Eleventh Dynasty, his epithets, temples at Medamud, Armant, Karnak and Tod, the Buchis bull, his ties to Ra and Horus, and his part at Kadesh.
  • New Mitra: God of CovenantMitra, Vedic God of covenant and friendship: his name and place in the four Vedas, Mitra-Varuna, the Mitanni treaty, the Avestan Mithra, the Buddhist Maitreya across Asia, his iconography, and the Mitra mantra.
  • New MithrasMithras, Roman mystery God of the covenant: his name and titles as Sol Invictus, the Mithraea of Ostia, Rome and Dura-Europos, the tauroctony and its stars, the seven grades, his rock birth, and the emperors.
  • New MinervaMinerva from the roots of her name to her cult: Ovid's Arachne, Medusa and Aglauros, her epithets, temples, owl and olive, the Capitoline Triad, the Quinquatria, the Palladium, the Stoics and Sulis Minerva.
  • New MercuryFor the Romans, the thousand-faced became the architect and symbol of a vast and sprawling empire linking three continents. Ever-beloved, Mercury appeared in every Roman context one can imagine. One of the Dii Consentes.
  • New MenrvaMenrva, Etruscan Goddess of war and intelligence: her name and first inscriptions at Portonaccio, her thunderbolt, healing and crafts, her temples at Veii and elsewhere, her birth from Tinia's head, and her mirrors.
  • New The Sphinx: The Abrahamic InversionThe Sphinx and the Abrahamic Inversion: Mastema, from the Hebrew for hostility to the Prince Mastema of Jubilees: the tenth of the spirits, the binding of Isaac, the attack on Moses, Belial at Qumran, his fading in rabbinic lore, and Christian readings.
  • New Athena: The Abrahamic InversionAthena and the Abrahamic Inversion: Marchosias read as an inversion of Athena: Margoas in the Florence manuscript of 1494, Weyer's griffin-winged she-wolf, its wolf, griffin and serpent symbols, the Marcosians' thirty aeons, and the angel Chauakiah.
  • New Zethus: The Enemy InversionZethus and the Enemy Inversion: Malphas, the raven president, read as an inversion of Zethus, builder of Thebes: the Florence manuscript of about 1491, the ravens' oracle and rebuilding of Thebes, the Livre des esperitz, Weyer, and Rudd's angel Rehael.
  • New Bellerophon: The Abrahamic InversionBellerophon and the Abrahamic Inversion: Malaphar, or Valefar, the lion-formed duke with a thief's head: from Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and Reginald Scot to the Ars Goetia's Valefor, Lenain's angel Lelahel, Collin de Plancy, and Mathers and Crowley.
  • New MaatMaat (Mꜣꜥt), Goddess of truth, order and justice: her names and epithets, patron of scribes with a temple at Karnak, the feather and the Weighing of the Heart, Maat and the self, her distortions, and Lady Philosophy.
  • New Kali: The Abrahamic InversionKali and the inversion of the Feminine Divine: The crooked Yehubor, despising the glance that directed form, turned the goddess of Order and Marriage into a vicious being that tears them asunder and births malignant spirits, causing them ill-fortune and stillbirths, later a figure presiding over orgies and revels.
  • New LiberaLibera, the Free One: her name and Proserpina's, the scant record of her cult, the Aventine temple with Ceres and Liber, the Tarentum and Enna, how she was identified with Proserpina, and Claudian's poem.
  • New Artemis: The Abrahamic InversionArtemis and the Abrahamic Inversion: Lerajie traced from the medieval Diana, her night rides with Herodias and the name Aradia, to Vorax in Berengar Ganell and Weyer's archer Loray, with Artemis Agrotera and the angel Mebahel set against him by Dr. Rudd.
  • New KhnumKhnum, God of Life and divine potter: his name ẖnmw, the Famine Stela, his epithets, temples at Elephantine and Esna, priests and Chantresses, the ram, the potter's wheel, Chrysomallos and the Chnoubis gems.
  • New KhepriKhepri, the scarab-headed God of the Sun: his name in the Pyramid Texts of Unis, his epithets, the daily renewal of the Sun in the Amduat, scarab amulets, his solar triad with Atum and Ra, and the sphere as his shape.
  • New Khenti-AmentiuKhenti-Amentiu, Foremost of the Westerners: his name on the seals of Den at Abydos, his title given to Osiris and Anubis in the Pyramid Texts, his epithets and temples, and the West and Amentet in Egyptian thought.
  • New JunoConsort of Jove, the Goddess of the Curia and the recipient of one of Rome's most enduring cults, Juno emphasized all Roman womanhood in her worship. Her association with elite Roman womanhood was marked and her military cult had distinct aspects. Member of the Dii Consentes.
  • New Anubis: The Abrahamic InversionAnubis and the Abrahamic Inversion: Ipos, traced from the Vipos of the Livre des esperitz to Weyer's Ipes or Ayperos and Scot's Ipos, with the dog-headed St. Christopher and Anubis, and Ieiaiel, his angel in Dr. Rudd, as read in Lenain and Papus.
  • New Horus: The Falcon of the HorizonHorus, the Falcon of the Horizon: his name and history from the Pyramid Texts to Rome, epithets, temples at Edfu and Nekhen, the Divine Child, the Contendings with Set, the Eye, Harpocrates, Plutarch and his feasts.
  • New Hermes: the Great MediatorThe definitive page on Zeus, Father of Gods and Men, Creator of Humanity, Supreme Deity of the ancient world. Theology, worship, epithets, temples, philosophy, and spiritual practice.
  • New HerculesHercules in Rome: his name through the Etruscan Hercle, the Ara Maxima, the Potitii and Pinarii and the tithe, his epithets and temples, Roman poets and rulers, the army's cult, Stoic allegory and his festivals.
  • New HercleHercle, the Etruscan Heracles: his name and its passage into Latin, his nursing by Uni on the Volterra mirror, mirror myths of Mlacuch, Epiur and the seer Cacu, his sanctuaries, the Liver of Piacenza and Pyrgi.
  • New Heracles: the Divine HeroHeracles, the divine hero: his name, Homer, Hesiod and the Orphic Hymn, his epithets and temples, his birth, Hera's enmity, death on Oeta, the Neoplatonic reading, his festivals, the Twelve Labors and his apotheosis.
  • New Hera: Queen of the ImmortalsThe definitive page on Hera, Mother of Gods and Men, Creator, Supreme Deity of the ancient world. Theology, worship, epithets, temples, philosophy, and spiritual practice.
  • New Hephaestus: The Cosmic CreatorHephaestus, the fire-working craftsman of the Gods: his name in Plato's Cratylus, Homeric and later myths, epithets, cults at Athens, Lemnos and Etna, tools and automata, Ptah of Memphis, the demiurge and the Hephaestia.
  • New HecateHecate, Goddess of magic, darkness and the crossroads: her name in Hesiod, myths and epithets, her cult at Lagina and Samothrace, her triplicity, poison plants, dogs and polecats, and her witch image in Macbeth.
  • New Amphion: The Enemy InversionAmphion and the Enemy Inversion: The Goetic count Halphas, first found in Weyer's 1577 catalogue as a stork with a hoarse voice who builds armed towns and stirs up war, read through Theban history, Cadmus and the Sloane manuscript.
  • New Bastet: The Abrahamic InversionBastet and the Abrahamic Inversion: Reads the Goetic president Haagenti, earlier Bugan in the Livre des esperitz, through Bastet's alchemical symbolism: the alabaster ointment jar, turning metals to gold and water to wine, and his griffin wings.
  • New Neptune: Father of the WatersNeptune, Father of the Waters: theories of his Latin name, his freshwater origins and union with Poseidon, his titles, Salacia and Venilia, temples and priests, the trident, horses and dolphins, and the Neptunalia.
  • New ThothThoth, or Djehuty, the ibis-headed God of the Moon and Teacher of Teachers: his temple at Hermopolis, his priesthood, symbols and Magician card, the Weighing of the Heart, his magic and Hermes Trismegistus.
  • New GobannusGobannus, smith of the Celtic Gods: the Gaulish Gobannos of the Berne zinc tablet, his Cobannus dedications and bronze statues, the Irish Goibniu at Mag Tuired and in folklore, and the Welsh Gofannon fab Don.
  • New Hermes Trismegistus: The Abrahamic Inversion (Glasya-Labolas)Hermes Trismegistus and the Abrahamic Inversion: Glasya-Labolas, alias Caacrinolaas or Caassimolar: the winged dog president of Weyer, Scot and the Ars Goetia, and Nith-Haiah, the angel set against him by Dr. Rudd, as read in Lenain, Papus and Ambelain.
  • New Oscarius: The Abrahamic InversionOscarius and the Abrahamic Inversion: Forcas or Foras, traced from a 1494 Florence manuscript through the Livre des esperitz, Weyer, Scot and the Ars Goetia, with his herbs, stones and invisibility, and the angel Lecabel set over him by Dr. Rudd.
  • New ErosEros, the God of Love, called Zepar in the Goetia: Plutarch on love, Apuleius' tale of Eros and Psyche, Aristophanes and Lucian, the Eroditia of Thespiae, love-magic gems, his wings and arrows, and Plato and Plotinus.
  • New EreshkigalEreshkigal, Queen of the Great Earth and ruler of Irkalla: her names, Inanna's descent through the seven gates, her marriage to Nergal, her cult at Kutha, her judgement of the dead, her serpent kin and Greek magic.
  • New Equitas: The Abrahamic InversionEquitas and the Abrahamic Inversion: The Goetic duke Eligos traced by name from Ganell's Summa Sacre Magice and the Munich Manual through Abugor in the Livre des esperitz and Weyer's Eligor alias Abigor, to Rudd's angel Hariel and De Plancy.
  • New DianaDiana, the shining one of the Latins: her name, the Aventine and Nemi, epithets and festivals, her bond with Apollo and the Moon, her care for women, slaves and countryside, and her medieval and Renaissance afterlife.
  • New DevanaDevana, the Polish Dziewanna, Goddess of hunt and woods: her name, the mullein and *Dyēus, Jan Długosz and his copyists, the forged Czech gloss, the spring rite of drowning Marzanna, and the debate over her.
  • New Coventina: The Abrahamic InversionCoventina and the Abrahamic Inversion: Crocell traced from Bucal in the Livre des esperitz to Weyer's Pucel, Scot's Procell, Vehuel and Crowley's Goetic Crocell, tied to the spring goddess, the crocodile, sacred sound, geometry and the baths of Sulis.
  • New Khepri and the TarotKhepri and the Tarot: the Seven of Swords as His card, its themes of cunning, strategy and cleansing, the sign of Aquarius, and the Sun and the Hierophant reversed among the Major Arcana.
  • New CeridwenCeridwen, Welsh sorceress of the Cauldron: the Birth of Taliesin, the three drops that fell to Gwion Bach and his shape-shifting flight, her place in Welsh poetry, and her guardianship of the Awen, linked to the aether.
  • New CerberusCerberus, three-headed Guardian of Hades, later the Goetic Naberius: his Ritual, his capture by Heracles, the magical papyri and Orphic lore, the meaning of his name and heads, his Tarot cards, and his demonization.
  • New BrihaspatiBrihaspati, Vedic lord of sacred speech: his name and epithets, his place in the Vedas and the breaking of Vala, his shrine at Alangudi, guru of the Gods and Navagraha of Jupiter, his icons, and his rivalry with Shukra.
  • New BesBes, the Egyptian dwarf God: the Aha wands, his temples at Bawiti, Saqqara and Abydos, his guard over birth, children and dreams, music and dance, the cippi of Horus, and Besas, the Headless God of the magical papyri.
  • New Bennu: Dawn of CreationBennu, the self-created solar heron of Heliopolis: his name and first records, the Ba of Ra uniting Ra and Osiris, his shrines at Heliopolis and Thebes, heron and phoenix, and his title Lord of the Sed-festivals.
  • New BendisBendis, the Thracian Goddess in Athens: her dress on the vases, the comic poets and Plato's Republic, her likeness to Artemis, the Bendideion in the Piraeus, her decrees and orgeones, and how Athens received her.
  • New Bes: The Abrahamic InversionBes and the Abrahamic Inversion: Behemoth, the land beast set against Leviathan and read as Bes inverted: its one appearance in the Book of Job, the meaning of its name, and its turn into a demon from Origen and Gregory to Loudun and De Plancy.
  • New BastetBastet, Egyptian cat Goddess of joy, home and family: her name and epithets, her temple and festivals at Bubastis, the ointment jar, cat symbolism, the sistrum and alabaster, her war on Apep, and her priesthood.
  • New BahramBahram, the Iranian God of victory Verethragna: his name and symbols, the Bahram Yasht and his ten incarnations, the Atash Bahram fire, Sasanian crowns, Artagnes and Vahagn, and the metaphysics of victory.
  • New Athena: Guardian of WisdomAthena, Guardian of Wisdom: her names and epithets, her part in Homer, her temples from the Parthenon to Lindos and Pergamon, the aegis, serpent and owl, just war, her festivals, and Proclus on the Goddess of philosophy.
  • New AsclepiusAsclepius, the healing Daemon: Homer's healer of Tricca raised to Hero and Daemon, Hygieia and the Hippocratic Oath, his Asclepions at Epidauros, Kos and Pergamon, incubation, the rod and serpent, and Christian theft.
  • New ArtumesArtumes, the Etruscan Artemis: the names Aritimi and Artume, Mistress of Animals on mirrors and urns, her bond with Aplu, a thin cult record with no place on the Liver of Piacenza, and her turn toward Moon and death.
  • New ArtemisArtemis, twin of Apollo and Mistress of Beasts: her names and epithets, her myths from Homer on, her sites at Brauron, Delos and Ephesus, her roles as deliverer, huntress and Moon, and the Christian attack on Ephesus.
  • New Argus PanoptesArgus Panoptes, Hera's all-seeing watchman over Io: his name, his four-eyed and hundred-eyed forms, his slaying by Hermes, his eyes in the peacock's tail, his link to Agares and heavenly sight, and Hermetic readings.
  • New ArduinnaArduinna, Gaulish goddess of the heights: her name, Caesar's Arduenna forest, her two Latin inscriptions, the huntress bronzes on a boar, her later cult as Diana, and the name's survival in the Ardennes and Arden.
  • New ApuluApulu, the Etruscan Apollo: his name and symbols, the Apollo of Veii, his sanctuaries at Caere, Veii and Gravisca, his ties to Usil and Shuri with the fire-walkers of Soracte, and his scenes on Etruscan mirrors.
  • New AnubisAnubis, canine-headed God of the underworld: his name and titles, the Pyramid and Coffin Texts, his Anubaeons at Cynopolis and Saqqara, funerary rites, the dog and jackal, passion, the heart, and his embalming priests.
  • New AnatAnat: her names from Ugarit and Mari to Egypt and Cyprus, the Battle in the Valley and her destruction of Mot in the Ba'al Cycle, her epithets, sites and inscribed objects, the Tanit question, and her worship in Egypt.
  • New Amphion and Zethus: Sound and ActionAmphion and Zethus, twin sons of Zeus and Antiope: their hieratic names and symbols, their myth from Homer to Euripides' Antiope, the lyre that raised the walls of Thebes, and the agon of sound and action in Plato.
  • New Amon RaAmon Ra, the solar compound of Amon, Ra and Ptah: his names and epithets, his temples at Karnak, Hibis and in Nubia, his care for the poor, healing and prophecy, his symbols, and his rule over the Solar Chakra.
  • New Agni: The God of FireThe definitive page on Agni, the Vedic god of fire, the divine priest and messenger, mouth of the gods. Etymology, Vedic role, epithets, temples, symbolism, ritual, and the Manipura chakra.
  • New Argus: The Abrahamic InversionArgus and the Abrahamic Inversion: Agares traced to Argus through Agrat in the Babylonian Talmud and the Zohar, the duke Agarat of a French grimoire, and Weyer's old man on a crocodile with a hawk, read as Argus guarding Io, with power over earthquakes.
  • New AequitasAequitas, Roman goddess of equity: the Latin root of her name, her scales and cornucopia on imperial coins, her coin-legend epithets, and aequitas in Roman law, courts, army and state, from Cicero to the Digest.
  • New AdonisAdonis, Daemon of death, growth and renewal: his myth between Aphrodite and Persephone, the Adonia and Near Eastern rites, the anemone and Gardens of Adonis, Neoplatonic readings, later poets and Christian theft.
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