Hellenism, Supplementary and Historical Topics
A Genuinely Remarkable Spread By the height of the Roman Empire, temples to Isis existed not just across Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean, but as far away as Britain, with evidence of her cult at sites including London. For an Egyptian deity to achieve this kind of...
Hellenism, Mythology and Archetype Breakdowns
A God With a Documented Origin Story Most ancient deities have origins lost somewhere in prehistory, accumulated slowly across centuries of local cult practice we can barely trace. Serapis is unusual because we can point to a specific historical moment and a specific...
