Kumbh Mela is a Hindu religious festival in which Hindu pilgrims travel from all over the world to ritually bathe in the Ganges River.

Visiting the holy city of Mecca is a religious pilgrimage for Muslims, not Hindus.

Jerusalem is a site of spiritual and religious significance for Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

Mormons, as well as other religious groups, engage in religious missions, but the Kumbh Mela festival isn't focussed on proselytizing.

Some Hindus become ascetics, giving up their worldly possessions except for loincloths and begging bowls, but the Kumbh Mela festival isn't specifically an ascetic event.

The ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife that would be almost identical to life on Earth. They believed that they would be able to take their earthly possessions with them and make use of them in the afterlife. This belief was so ingrained that some rulers would be buried with their pets, slaves, even wives, so that they might be with them in the afterlife.

The Vedas are a collection of Hindu hymns, rituals and religious guidelines written during the Vedic Age of Indian history. The Vedas are thought to be the revelations of enlightened individuals and are the foundation upon which orthodox Hindu philosophy rests.

The Vedic Age is a period of Indian history that began with the arrival of the Aryans in India (approximately 1,500 BCE) and ended a millennium later. The Vedic Age is so named because this is the period of Indian history when the Vedas, the oldest preserved Hindu scriptures, were composed.

Zoroastrianism was the primary religion of the Persian Empire. It was founded by Zoroaster, sometimes called Zarathustra, sometime in antiquity. The first recorded mentions of Zoroastrianism appear in the early years of the First Persian Empire, circa 550 BCE. Zoroastrianism is a monotheistic religion, perhaps the world’s first.

Zoroaster, sometimes called Zarathustra, founded Zoroastrianism - the state religion of the Persian Empire.

Ahura Mazda is the name of the monotheistic God of Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism is one of the earliest monotheistic religions in the world. It emerged in Persia sometime around 1,000 BCE and soon became the dominant religion of this part of the world. There remain a few million practitioners of Zoroastrianism in the world, mostly concentrated in modern-day Iran and Pakistan.

Many paleolithic societies practiced animism, this means that they believed everything in the world around them was imbued with a soul. In the contemporary world there are still many examples of beliefs that fall under the category of animism.

Mummification refers to the ancient Egyptian process of preserving a body for burial. Mummification involved removing organs, drying them out, and wrapping the body in cloth. The purpose of mummification was to preserve the body for use in the afterlife. At first only the Pharaoh was mummified, but later it became an essential part of Egyptian culture and religious experience for most members of society.