While in Japan these mysterious ancestral monuments are off-limits to the general public, scientists are able to study them a ...

Noragami blends Shinto mythology with modern-day Japanese high school life. This mythology anime follows Hiyori, a girl who develops the ability for her soul to easily leave her body after saving ...

An expert on Japanese mythology looks at how serpents have been revered—and feared— through the ages in Japan. In Japan and throughout the world, snakes are prominent characters in mythology ...

WHAT DOES MYTHOLOGY SAY? The Mahakumbh Mela finds its origins in the ancient Hindu legend of "Samudra Manthan," or the churning of the cosmic ocean. According to mythology, gods and demons worked ...

Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon in February 1891, a Japanese chemist named Jokichi Takamine arrived by train in Peoria, Ill. He was there at the ...