Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the alleged extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him ...

The elephant is an important part of many religions. Elephants play a central role in Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religions ...

People have worshipped god since the beginning of recorded time. Some have been demigods, or half-human, or semi-divine.

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

American Gods on Starz features Mousa Kraish as The Jinn. But what is a jinn, also spelled djinn — and known in the west as a genie? The jinn come from Arabian and Islamic mythology and are ...

American Gods premieres tonight on Starz. The new television series is an adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s 2001 novel about the Old Gods of the old traditions and the New Gods of the modern world coming ...