Tag: Worship

Dīpāvali is better known as the day Rāma, victorious, is welcomed by the people of his kingdom, Ayodhya, as the day of Viṣṇu’s defeat of Bali, and the victory of Vikramāditya over the Śakas. Like the day that precedes it, Dīpāvali is a day for performing rituals for ancestor worship...

Baal has had a bad press. Ever since the authors of the Bible portrayed him as a wicked god, to whom worshippers would offer up the sacrifice of their first-born sons, Baal has had an image problem. It was not always thus. For hundreds of years before the Bible demonized him, Baal was loved and w...