...as]]) and brought all the worlds under his control. He began to harass the gods and torture the saints and other devotees of Vishnu.
...emigods were able to calm [[Narasimha]]'s fury, not even Shiva. So all the gods and goddesses called His consort, the goddess Lakshmi, but she was also una
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...fire-sacrifice, called yagna, but personified are also seen as devas. All gods taken together are worshipped as the Vishvedevas. Varuna, identified by som
...uous tasks under their diligence that they are sometimes called themselves gods under the Supreme One God. The Hindu trinity is composed of Brahma, Vishnu
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...od Shiva, who lives in the Himalayas and are considered as Upa-devas, semi-gods.
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...out every sort of horrible sound, for sometimes it was speech such as the gods could understand, but at other times, the sound of a bellowing bull, proud-
...against the Titans; Typhon was so fearsome and dangerous, that the younger gods feared to face the monsters. Zeus tried to fight Typhon, until the monster
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Ancient mythologists placed Abraxas among the Egyptian gods. Abraxas was also the Persian sun god, and in Syria he was a form of Iao (a
...number of days in a year. Abraxas, they thought, had under his command 365 gods, to whom they attributed 365 virtues, one for each day.
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*Karl Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'', p. 52.
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...ble to capture the horse by using a golden bridle, a gift from Athena. The gods then gave him Pegasus for killing the monster Chimera but when he attempted
...d opinion of his greatness, and he attempted to fly on Pegasus to join the gods on Olympus. An enraged Zeus sent an insect to annoy Pegasus, causing the ho
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...of the gods. Ragnarok in Norse mythology was the final battle between the gods of Asgard and the many monsters of the world.
...oples considered the birth of "freaks" representations of the wrath of the gods, a demonstration, as it were. The first so-named monstra were the showpiece
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...ic [[Apollo]], the reveller and god of trees [[Dionysus]], and with rustic gods such as [[Pan]] and [[Hermes]] (as the god of shepherds).
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*Littleton, C. Scott, ed., Gods, Goddesses & Mythology. Tarrytown: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2005.
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...ation during rituals. Most similar to the veve are the drawings of zemi or gods of the Taino religion.
...generally the older, more beneficent spirits, and are associated with the gods of Africa. Their traditional colour is white (as opposed to the specific co
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...agbanua mythology, the diwatas are considered equivalent to other creation gods such as, Bathala and Kan-Laon, in the sense that, they are also creators of
In other parts of the Philippines, diwata is analogous to the Greek gods and goddesses. Some of the famous Diwata are:
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.... They danced to the music made by their husbands, usually in the various gods' palaces.
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...cal axis around which these worlds are situated, with Ásgard, realm of the gods, at the top and the Hel, located in Niflheim, at the bottom. Midgard, our w
...y conflagration of Surtr, the rebirth of the world and a new generation of gods and men are positive indications.
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...r Burkert points out, "When in the ''[[Iliad]]'' [xx.4 - 9] Zeus calls the gods into assembly on Mount Olympus, it is not only the well-known Twelve Olympi
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...acter featured within the famed ancient Chinese novel ''Investiture of the Gods''.
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...mikaze) which means “When devil’s wind comes from a foreign place, may the gods send a counter-wind (from Ise; Ise is a strong Shinto area)"</blockquote>.
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* Aston, William George. 1905. Shinto: (the Way of the Gods). Longmans, Green, and Co.
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...the sea. He jumped in the ocean and refused to go back on land. The sea gods nearby heard his prayers and transformed him into a sea god. Ovid describe
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*Lurker, Manfred (2004). The Routledge dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons
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