...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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..., she is also viewed as the mother goddess and one of the chief Lithuanian gods. Žemyna is the epitome of fertile earth and her duty includes nourishing o
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...cultures, the Feathered Serpent was more often seen as a messenger between gods and men, and was sometimes known as the Vision Serpent.
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...times. They may have once been believed to be the beings who preceded the gods, similar to the Greek [[Titans]].
...sent the gods of human civilization. Alternatively, they may represent the gods of a proposed pre-Goidelic population of Ireland
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...ich are closely linked with kingship (“strong bull” was a common title for gods and pharaohs). Sometimes the Apis bull was pictured with the sun-disk betwe
...ike of both groups, despite the curses of the Egyptian priests against the gods of the previous foreign rulers (i.e Set who was lauded by the Hyksos). Alex
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...ient Igbo. He served as the Alusi or God of Bargains. Like most Trickster Gods, the deity was a force of Chaos and Change, thus in his more violent aspect
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*Karl Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'' (Thames & hudson)
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* Znayenko, Myroslava T.: The gods of the ancient Slavs: Tatishchev and the beginnings of Slavic mythology (Pa
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...the sibling progenitors Izanagi and Izanami gave birth to the islands and gods of Japan. After Izanami died from burns during the childbirth of the fire d
...d it frequently manifests itself as a god of the sea. The old Japanese sea-gods were often female water-snakes. The cultural influences which reached Japan
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...me for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerica, one of the main gods of many Mexican and northern Central American civilizations and also the na
===Quetzalcoatl and other Gods===
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...re was a species of drama known as the satyric; it parodied the legends of gods and heroes, and the chorus was composed of satyrs and sileni. In the Atheni
*Ely, Talfourd – ''The Gods of Greece and Rome'', Dover. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486427986/q
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