The highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains, formerly known as Clingmans Dome, has officially returned to its Cherokee name ...

Those living at the mountaintop site had a commanding view ... The carvings suggest it may have been dedicated to the god of the underworld. The site is at a strategic point on top of the Cerro ...

In Inca times this would have been the festival of Illapa, the Inca god of lightning ... Gold and silver veined the mountains, and herds of alpacas and llamas fattened in lush meadows.

When it comes to bad luck, there are few superstitions as pervasive in Western culture as that of Friday the 13th. Here’s why ...

charges into the grand gold halls of giants and gods. She and her people encounter hissing armies of the dead and statuesque winged Valkyries and beasts as tall as mountains. Nearly every ...

And I ask that you bow your heads: Almighty God, as we stand here at this moment ... and to the cold mountains of Korea. In the swift rush of great events, we find ourselves groping to know ...

We're throttling through the mountains in a pair of fume-filled Volgas ... we're eager to finally get to a fire, and the gods respond accordingly: In the morning it is raining.

The road curved into the hills and then into the mountains and began disintegrating ... Godi, unbalanced, toppled at once. Humphrey jumped on him. Leaning with his full weight of so kilograms ...

and all the secular gods of our civic religion. The authors of the three books under review—one, Stephen Breyer, a retired Supreme Court justice; the second, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the ...

Her board-sweeping success is unlikely to mark a total sea change in popular music, but it might at least signify that the ...

In his book “Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things,” Charles Panati traces the concept of the cursed back to Norse mythology, when Loki, the god of ... in shame to a mountaintop and labeled ...