Devotees offer flowers and flower garlands to Hindu deities such as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth ... the Indologist Gudrun Buhnemann noted that devotees, ancient and modern, observe elaborate ...

which is the period of the writing of the “Puranas,” or the ancient lore of the Hindu deities, these two deities appear to have merged into a single goddess, known as Shri, Lakshmi or Shri ...

Have you ever reached for a nail cutter or planned a haircut, only to have an elder sternly warn, "Not today—it’s Tuesday!" ...

(What are the ancient origins of your zodiac sign?) Chapple adds that in later Hindu traditions, “the idea is that if you want money, you think about Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth; if you want ...

Goddess Laxmi is the consort of Lord Vishnu ... Vedic astrology, also known as Vastu Shastra, is an ancient Hindu science that harmonizes energies, by channeling positive energies into our ...

The exhibition traces how religious imagery took hold in South Asia and beyond through serpent spirits and wide-hipped ...

Deities once represented abstractly — through thrones, footprints or trees — began to take anthropomorphic forms. Ancient India: Living Traditions, which opens at the British Museum this week ...