... legitimacy as a poet and scholar like Dante or Petrarch. In his major mythographic work, the Genealogie deorum gentilium, (never finished), he imagines himself as having descended from the gods, a hero like Ulysses on an epic journey. Using classical and biblical myths in the same...

...This chapter discusses the Creator Gods, Obatala and Oduduwa, as they are worshipped in Africa and Cuba. The Obatala is the oldest and most important orisha in the Yoruba pantheon and is one of the few gods that is known to all Yoruba-speaking people and their neighbors. The Oduduwa, on the other...

...Chapter 5 features a detailed study of solar and lunar deities in Borgia Group codices and their relationship with deities in Aztec religion. This chapter outlines iconographic features associated with the Sun God Tonatiuh, and related solar gods, such as Piltzintecuhtli, a nocturnal aspect...

...The chapter looks closely at Conrad's texts and tries to analyze the subject of presence of false gods of imperialism prevalent in the texts. Occurrence of false gods in Conrad's writings points toward his awareness about the colonizers proving to be their own enemies. Especially in the situations...

...This chapter explicates the various narrative strands of Native American healing chants or medicine texts (the author's coinage) and concentrates on the particular strands that feature ancient tribal gods, hero warriors, plants such as corn and tobacco, primal animals, tricksters, and the earth...

... and, in the case of late works like Twilight Sleep, The Glimpses of the Moon, Hudson River Bracketed, and The Gods Arrive, shapes them in fundamental and complex—if sometimes inconsistent—ways. Specifically, Wharton uses references to Orientalism...

...This chapter discusses the two Gods of the Sea, Olokun and Yemonja. Yemonja is the goddess of water, wetlands, and the river Ogun, but in Cuba she is called Yemayá and is associated with the Virgin de Regla. Nevertheless, she is still believed to be a powerful deity. In Africa and Cuba, Olokun...

...This chapter discusses the Messenger of the Gods, Elegbara, who is one of the three most revered orishas in Yorubaland in Africa. He is acknowledged as a powerful orisha who carries offerings of human beings to the gods, and whose support is indispensable in fulfilling one's life and destiny...

...On a “meta” level, the questions of time and identity central to these works are dealt with through Joyce’s radically different narrative styles and Homer’s gods. Alongside the Odyssey’s pairing of Athena and Poseidon as fixity and flux, gods and styles are simultaneously multiple...

... in the Borgia Group codices that can be related to solar eclipses and lunar eclipse events. The last section focuses on the iconography related to eclipse imagery in Aztec art and a dramatic representation of a total eclipse event on Codex Borgia 40, represented by Venus gods attacking the Sun God and cutting...