Whether or not you’re familiar with the source material behind American Gods, something that’s becoming increasingly apparent for both longtime fans and recent converts alike is that there’s ...

They have now asked how this composite indicator of social complexity relates to the presence, or absence, of moralising gods. Seshat divides the globe arbitrarily into 30 regions.

In God and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, Adrienne Mayor opens up ancient history to new interpretations by adopting a rather capacious definition of technology, one that ...

January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological ...

We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence of sects devoted to the worship of artificial intelligence (AI).

Many Gods and heroic beings had superhuman vision or were all seeing. Heimdell the god who protected Bifrost the rainbow bridge to Asgard had supersight and was considered all seeing. Odin’s ravens ...

Often gods are imagined as powerful controllers of those aspects of the material world over which we have limited control. Farmers had grain gods, hunters had animal gods, seafarers had sea gods ...

In The Valley of the Gods, the promising but now permanently "on hold" adventure from the team behind Firewatch, had some eye-popping water technology.