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Table of Contents God is dead The literally dead gods Mortal/Eternal gods Tezcatlipoca and Nanauatzin Osiris Izanagi and Izanami Immortal/Eternal God Jesus Conclusion To say that ‘God is dead’ does not make him dead. It is like a boy venting his anger on his daddy for grounding him for two weeks. In reaction, he utters: ‘I wish my dad died.’ At that moment of seething resentment, he wanted him dead, but did he mean it? When inconvenienced or in a tight corner, we want immediate solutions or answers to our problems or questions. Usually, in human minds auto-suggestions of relief or balancing acts pop up. The boy’s strength cannot match his dad’s, so he resorted to a verbal duel.    To say that ‘God is dead’ is like a verbal duel that arises from one’s feelings of dread, frustration, or despair. It is a declaration that has no foundation. A God that is immortal does not die. This claim may be influenced by some Christian background. Reviewing the ideas of ‘god-death’ or ‘deicide’ can b

Audio – The Aesir vs the Vanir – The gods at war Table of Contents Introduction Norse Mythology The different deities under the Aesir Family The different deities under the Vanir Family Other deities Ullr Loki Conclusion Introduction ‘The gods at war’ is a phrase or statement I have chosen as a theme that will help me understand the claim about the many conflicts between the Aesir and the Vanir gods and goddesses. The Aesir gods and goddesses are Odin, Frigg, Höðr, Thor, Baldr, and Tyr. Then, the Vanir gods and goddesses are Njörðr, Nerthus, Freyja, Freyr, Óðr, Hnoss, Gersemi, Skírnir, Kvasir, Gullveig. There is Jotnar, the giant gods who are constantly warring with the Aesir gods and goddesses and they are seen as chaotic and destructive. Then comes Kvasir. According to Norse mythology, Kvasir is a creation borne from the mixture of the saliva of the Aesir and Vanir gods and goddesses at the end of their wars. Kvasir is considered a wise god and he went up and down their sovereig

Table of Contents Supreme Being (Worships and Venerations) Mulungu   Mumbi  Mwatuangi  Ngai  Asa  Ancestors Totems Here is a brief account of the religious beliefs of the Akamba. Spanning through Central Bantu, the Akamba ethnic group is estimated to be about 4.4 million people and occupies Southeastern Kenya in areas, such as Kangundo, Kibwezi, Kitui, Machakos, Makueni and Mwingi Districts and the Ukamba. A swathe of the Akamba population can also be found in the Mazeras and Kwale Districts of the Coast Province in Shiba Hills. The Akamba languages are Kikamba and Swahili. Globally, the Akamba are not exclusively a Kenyan or African tribe. They can be found in Uganda, Tanzania, and Paraguay, which makes it partly an indigenous group and partly an autochthonal group. Argument from migration theory suggests that Akamba came from Kilimanjaro (a word that means ‘mountain of whiteness’), basing their arguments on the similarity of certain cultural features with the Wachagga people of Kili

Table of Contents Who are the Anishinaabe? Ningaabi-anang –  The Evening Star of the West Odjiig-anang – The Fisher Star Reclaiming Summer from Kababoonka In Anishinaabe’s cosmology, legend has it that Odjiig, a hunter disguised as a fisher ascended to the sphere of Sky Fathers and gave his life to reclaim Niibin, the summer season from Kababoonka. In this writing, we will give a narration of this ancient Anishinaabe mythology. Who are the Anishinaabe? For clarity’s sake, we would like to explain the difference between ‘Anishinaabe’ and ‘Anishinaabeg’. ‘Anishinaabe’ is used to describe the people while ‘Anishinaabeg’, which is the plural form, is used to indicate membership and belonging to that group. The term ‘Anishinaabe’ describes linguistically and culturally related indigenous peoples residing in  today’s United States and Canada. [i]  They have for the past 1000 years lived in the North American Great Lakes area and the Canadian Shield. Memberships to this cultural group in

Table of Contents The naming of the gods Gods' Names - Satisfactory or Undesirable? Adad   Allah   Anat   Anu   Ashur Baal   Dagon Elohim Ishtar   Marduk   Shamash Yahweh  (or YHWH)  This writing argues that these names of God-gods of ancient times were satisfactory while their actions could be construed as undesirable, hence the polytheistic nature of their religions. The naming of the gods Many ancient religions associated meanings with the names given to the gods; meanings that arguably were derived from their life situations. Gods’ names were contextualized from roles that were deemed beyond the natural activities of humans or what humans could not naturally control. Such feats were attributed to the supernatural. We see these definite names of gods in ancient Mesopotamia as classical examples. One god could not have dealt with all the human problems or sorrows of their times. It is believed that the Semitic world shares many things in common. The Sumerians did not speak Semiti