...fear of ghosts and other supernatural beings, such as spirits and [[Deity|gods]], has been said by some scholars to be a mechanism of social control. See
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...bstituted for the underworld as a whole. The [[Inferi Dii]] were the Roman gods of the underworld.
...s]]: together they accounted for half of the [[Twelve Olympians|Olympian]] gods.
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...believed to be a leopard god or goddess masquerading as human. When these gods mate with humans, offspring can be produced, and these children sometimes g
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...e same theme -the birth of Erichthonius-, surrounded by the other Olympian gods in a rich and ornate style, was used to decorate a later classical calyx cr
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...is the Homeric hymn to Pan, which describes him as delighting ''all'' the gods, and thus getting his name. The Roman counterpart to Pan is Faunus, (see be
*Kerenyi, Karl, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'' (Thames & hudson)
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He has also produced the film ''[[Gods and Monsters]]'' which received major critical acclaim.
* [http://www.godsandmonsters.net/ ''Gods and Monsters'' official website]
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...0,000 soldiers of the Milky Way, he drank too much during a celebration of gods and attempted to flirt with Cháng'é, the beautiful moon goddess, resultin
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...sion. The texts of Buddhism are full of descriptions of the palaces of the gods, but in Burmese art heaven is imbued with a gentle elegance and affection,
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...heir kings so that they would be recognizable to both the people and their gods eternally. Therefore, the process of mummification was developed over a pe
...nal, living being of light, closely associated with both the stars and the gods (with whom it shared some characteristics, but was not truly divine itself)
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...ecree Saint Birgitta warns against the worship of ''tompta gudhi'', "tomte gods". Folklore added other negative beliefs about the tomte, such as that havin
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...na the boon of near invulnerability, making him immune from destruction by gods or (other) demons; he also acquired the capacity to change his form. He was
...fused. Ravana then asked for absolute invulnerability and supremacy before gods and heavenly spirits, other demons, serpents and wild beasts. Contemptuous
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...ewty's profession; but rather than acting as a messenger and scribe to the gods themselves, Anubis serves the dead as a recorder of their deeds and as a fi
However, as lesser of the two gods of the underworld, he gradually became considered the son of Osiris, but Os
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...arently it had been they who had formed the court or escort of the ancient gods when they sat enthroned on the trees. These Wood-Wives were principally fou
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...Western zombies. A Jiang Shi is a main character in the 1991 comedy ''The Gods Must Be Crazy III''.
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..., just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods [[Demeter]], [[Hera]], [[Hades]], [[Hestia]], and [[Poseidon]] by Rhea, he
...d Cronus a force of chaos along with disorder, believing that the Olympian gods had brought an era of peace and order by seizing power from the crude and m
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Kirin also makes an appearance as the strongest of the "gods" in Final Fantasy XI.
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...e gods, as a slave feared a cruel and capricious master. "Such fear of the gods (''[[deisidaimonia]]'') was what the Romans meant by 'superstition' (Veyne
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Medusa was a Gorgon, one of three sisters and daughters of ancient, pre-titan gods, [[Phorcys]] and [[Ceto]].
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...no circle of worshippers or so limited a circle as to be below the rank of gods, and with malevolent beings of all kinds. Demonology, though often referred
Excluded are souls conceived as inhabiting another world. But just as gods are not necessarily spiritual, demons may also be regarded as corporeal; va
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...is a story, found nowhere else in mythology, that at one time the Olympian gods were trying to overthrow Zeus but were stopped when the sea nymph Thetis br
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