...ffered it to the sacrificial fire. When there was no more meat left on his body, Lord Brahma appeared before him and offered a boon.
...anions of Kubera) and the humans. Thus he began to rule over all the three worlds. For millions of years Andhaka ruled in this fashion. The religion of the V
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...the Red River, near Adams, Tennessee. The animal, described as having the body of a dog and the head of a rabbit, vanished when Bell shot at it. This inci
...e family cat with some of the unidentified liquid which was found near the body of John Bell. The cat died.]]
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...e’s invisible to anyone else. If the yeilds to her seduction, he is ruined body and soul.
...or the Lhiannan. As she lives on her lover’s lives, the man gets ruined in body and soul.
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...out flames in all directions. Then that unique light, pervading the Three Worlds with its lustre, combined into one, and became a female form.</blockquote>
..., garlands and rosaries of beads, all offered by the gods. With her golden body blazing with the splendour of a thousand suns, seated on her lion vehicle,
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...to other worlds; Callahan sacrifices himself so Jake can survive. Mia, her body now physically separated from Susannah, gives birth to Mordred Deschain, th
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...ot in all directions until he had forced back the oceans and enveloped the worlds".
...ies revealed their doubts about the likelihood of any ascetic donating his body, Vishnu directed them to approach the sage (Rishi) Dadichi. When approached
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...156413713/ref=sr_1_1/102-2305931-9420165?ie=UTF8&s=books ''The Tale of the Body Thief'']
...a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance a
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...d the center axis which communicates between the spiritual and the earthly worlds or planes. It is through ritual that the king could bring the center axis i
...nce of natural endorphins, which are chemically related to opiates. As the body goes into shock, a hallucinatory vision occurs." Once the actual bloodletti
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...m the central gelatinous mass similar to the way the [[shoggoths]] extrude body parts. In the ''Delta Green'' setting, the "Greys" are actually puppets rem
...idence", the Mi-go engage in trade with the Martians from ''The War of the Worlds''.
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...orlds'', H.G. Wells describes the Martians as octopus-like creatures; the "body" consists of only a head with eyes, v-shaped lipless mouth, and two brunche
Eventually, Sherman journeyed to Mars in his astral or spirit body. He found that it harbored a thriving population of humanlike inhabitants w
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...strength of moving the seas and splitting the tops of mountains. Ravana’s body bore all the marks of one who had fought the devas: the thunderbolt of Indr
...r Ahiravana as king. He became supreme overlord of all asuras in the three worlds, making an alliance with the Nivatakavachas and Kalakeyas, two clans he was
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...r's distinctive style is characterized by the notion of hidden fantastical worlds existing side by side with our own (an idea he shares with contemporary Nei
...o (“The Boogeyman”), one of Dr. Frankenstein’s experiments, constructed of body parts from various corpses. He is literally a divided man; when Maria reads
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*''The Body Snatchers'', novel which was the basis for several adaptations (see "movies
...ing the adventures of both changelings, maladapted in their respective new worlds.
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...ted with a large head, abundant hair and beard, a huge belly, and a strong body. The term "ogre" can also mean a feared, over-authoritative, and abusive pe
...ntasy, Warcraft, Magic: The Gathering, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Two Worlds, Ogre Battle, Tekken 3, Eternal Lands, MechQuest, DragonFable, AdventureQue
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In the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] multiverse, especially in the worlds of Greyhawk, the Forgotten Realms and Eberron, '''dark elves''' are called
...dark elves are not a separate subrace of elves (in fact, the drow of other worlds do not exist on this one). In this setting, "dark elf" is a label given to
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The Hydra had the body of a serpent (sometimes represented as a dog) and many heads (the number of
*In the game Chrono Cross, there are two alternate worlds. In one, the Hydra have been hunted to extinction and no longer reside in
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...sides of their body, while most mammals have them placed underneath their body.
...y are somewhat more common in the World of Greyhawk than in other campaign worlds.
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...lity in wax, though this practice has never been documented in Egypt. The body of a Persian Princess which surfaced in 2004 in Pakistan turned out to have
...ns, which meant preserving the body forever. Egyptian culture believed the body was home in the [[afterlife]] to a person's [[Ka]] and Ba, without which it
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...al uncle Hziulquoigmnzhah, whose head dangles underneath his spheroid-like body.
...of — some of them are in these very Vermont hills — and great worlds of unknown life down there; blue-litten K’n-yan, red-litten Yoth, and bla
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...e garden. / That apparition, sole of men, he saw. / For know there are two worlds of life and death: / One that which thou beholdest; but the other / Is unde
...he touch, but was non-physical (one girl passed through the doppelgänger's body).
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...ately fans the flames for itself and is consumed in the fire. Once the old body was consumed, the phoenix would be reborn from a worm, its marrow, or an eg
...wish legend states that at the end of each 1000-year period, the phoenix's body becomes small and featherless like a baby's and then he grows up all over a
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The head, by human standards, is large in comparison with the body. Facial features show a pair of eyes described as large, sunken or deeply s
...of the legs and feet. Some pathologists indicate that that section of the body was not developed as we would anticipate,showing that some of these beings
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...n during the conversation. Some of the images even appear as a clear "full body" snapshot of the deceased individual, often standing in the foreground of a
...who have identified themselves as nature energies or as beings from "other worlds" (extraterrestrials), while some suggest that the sounds and images seen an
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...ned by C. S. Lewis - A strange, jointed insect consisting of a cylindrical body and many thin legs.
...inhabited by a wide amount of unknown and strange creatures. Luckily, our worlds are now cut off from one another.
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...Shiva without Shakti is Shava." Kali ('''Life Energy''' or Shakti) and the body together are called Shiva. Thus the saying, "Every person is God (Shiva)".
...udra'', or similarly, their legs may be in a ritual pose or ''asana''. The body pose or ''bhanga'' can have special significance, as well as the throne or
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...of the universe and humanity. In modern usage, ''mythology'' is either the body of myths from a particular culture or religion (as in ''Greek mythology'',
...century, in the meaning "an exposition of myths". The current meaning of "body of myths" itself dates to 1781 (OED). The adjective ''mythical'' dates to 1
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...e). See also Eridanos. The Styx forms the boundary between upper and lower worlds.
...nd knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
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...k on one side and light on the other, symbolizing the boundary between the worlds. The yew has long been associated with the [[Underworld]].
...possibly symbolized by the rope), as well as severing the link between the body and spirit at death. The key is significant to Hecate's role as ''gatekeepe
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'''Jewish mythology''' is a body of stories that explains or symbolizes Jewish beliefs. ''Jewish folklore''
...olklorists And Their Major Contributions'' Peninnah Schram, from ''Opening Worlds of Words'', Peninnah Schram and Cherie Karo Schwartz
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...imad Bhagavatam that souls may experience re-birth in hellish, or heavenly worlds before returning to this Earth again, if their actions have been of a parti
...(Jellinek, l.c. ii. 94, Midr. Teh. to Ps. xi.). When the soul forsakes the body its voice goes from one end of the world to the other, but is not heard (Ge
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...y or occult about this. We have already seen identity shift from matter to body to mind, each of which involved a decentering or dis-identifying with the l
...ng earlier and many modern Rosicrucianists as an [[Plane (cosmology)|inner worlds]] Order, comprised of great "Adepts." When compared to human beings, the co
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...(actually written by him) that purported to reveal a highly secret ruling body called the Palladium which controlled the organization and had a Satanic ag
...flesh on earth, any and all sympathy for them or their cause, outside the worlds of [[Seaven deadly sins|sin]] and rebellion, has ceased. See [http://mercy.
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...a basis for spiritual rectification.<ref> 1, William C. Chittick, Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-‘Arabī and the Problem of Religious Diversity. Albany, N.Y.: Sta
...hell" will never occur. Similar or related phrases include: "Over my dead body," "When hell freezes over," "A snowball's chance in hell," "When the devil
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These demons were supposed to enter the body and cause the disease while overwhelming or "seizing" the victim (hence "se
...asuras live in Patala above [[Naraka]] ([[Hell]]), one of the three Lokas (worlds, dimensions of existence). The Patala loka exists below Bhu(r)loka (which i
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...h planar or space travel as Krynn is connected to other Dungeons & Dragons worlds (where orcs exist) through the Planescape and Spelljammer settings.
...any similarities between them besides the differences of their origins and body type.
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