Often Zeus would send the Centaurs to punish gods and humans who had offended him. The hostility between man and Centaurs is
...s a close representation of a saint. He was a father figure to many of the gods' children. They were given to him so he could teach them great knowledge of
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...ain character. It is said that Longinus is meant to be in the hands of the gods, and not to be wielded by mere angels, referring to the fact that Ein is an
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...'s house privately, and there kill himself upon the altar of his household gods, to bring divine vengeance upon him; but the fear of torture put him off th
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...with his thunderbolt but Garuda proved a superior warrior and defeated the gods and continued unscathed on his journey to Patala.
...were about to consume the amrita Garuda had just brought them, the chasing gods entered Patala and Indra seized and took away the cup of amrita. Anyway, th
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...story. Here the god is called Cenncroithi, interpreted as "the head of all gods", and when his image falls the silver and gold covering it crumble to dust,
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The obyriths are so ancient that they predate mortal life, and even the gods. They rarely have a humanoid shape, and some say that just looking at an o
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...ohde viewed Orion as an example of the Greeks erasing the line between the gods and mankind. That is, if Orion was in the heavens, other mortals could hope
...the founders of the modern study of Greek mythology, wrote about Orion in Gods of the Greeks (1951). Kerényi portrays Orion as a giant of Titanic vigor a
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.... This idea can also been associated with the depiction of certain ancient gods like [[Baal]], [[Moloch]], the [[shedu]], etc, which were portrayed as bull
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...est was settled by pagan Anglo-Saxons who worshipped their own pantheon of gods, including [[Woden]] who rode across the night's sky with his own [[Wild Hu
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...s and Peters, 48) entreats his audience to put no stock in any demons, or “Gods” other than the one true Christian God, even if the working of spells app
...rked similarities. This becomes a parallel evolution of spells to foreign Gods or demons that were once acceptable, and framing them into a new Christian
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...beings like the [[Yakshas]], another as a sort of Titans or enemies of the gods, and lastly, as blood-drinking [[ghouls]] which has become the most common
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...ent healing arts, e.g. cheiromancy, or the art of divining the will of the gods through the interpretation of the patterns of the hands.
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...son of an idol maker in the Chaldean city of Ur, would have known of these gods. (Midrash [http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_abraham
...nslations of Sumerian cuneiform tablets to equate the ancient mesopotamian gods with the fallen angels (the "sons of Elohim" in Genesis). Seeing that all
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...atiable anger against the chains of the [[Elder God (Cthulhu Mythos)|Elder Gods]] which had bound it there for an eternity.... Unable to resist, utterly po
...t to be no mere [[Cloacina]], but the mortician of all creatures, even the gods themselves. The extent of its power is unknown, though it could be like tha
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...have fire coming out of their hands and the skill to steal power from the gods.
...nster, produced by Goddess [[Gaia]] to aid her sons the giants against the gods and slain by [[Athena]]. Of the three Gorgons, only Medusa is mortal.
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..., daughter of Cadmus, a mortal woman, and his father Zeus, the king of the gods.
...iants, he descended into [[Hades]] to restore her, with his mother, to the gods on Olympus; in others, he had her crown put into the heavens as the constel
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...at the lives had been sucked from the murder victims by the ghosts of dead gods. Nothing is said to the police, however, as the only known person to work s
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...were rationing out the elixir of immortality, the nāgas grabbed a cup. The gods were able to retrieve the cup, but in doing so, spilled a few drops on the
...nectar of immortality from the the strong-hold of Indran ,king of the semi-gods himself, Garuda managed to buy the freedom of Vinata in exchange for giving
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...rkert among others suggests that the archaic groups or societies of lesser gods mirror real cult associations: "it may be surmised that smith guilds lie be
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