...is a symbol for the goddess '''Wadjet''', one of the earliest of Egyptian deities, who often was depicted as a cobra. The center of her cult was in Per-Wadje
...eir separate cults kept them from becoming merged as with so many Egyptian deities. Together they were known as, '''The Two Ladies''', who became the joint pr
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...res that can morph into several distincts shapes including wereanimals and deities.
...erstand as the collection of beliefs, stories and traditions pertaining to deities and monsters for a given cultural or (and) racial group.
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In Chaldean mythology the seven evil deities were known as "shedim," storm-demons, represented in ox-like form. They wer
...The term became pejorative in the context of Judaism because these foreign deities were regarded as evil. The chief of the Shedim according to the T.B. Pesach
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...e compendium#Yig|Yig]]. The denizens of K'n-yan often place idols of these deities in near proximity, as in the following passage from "The Mound": "<nowiki>[
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[[Category: Death deities]]
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[[Category: Lithuanian deities]]
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'''Asura''' are a group of power-seeking deities in Hindu mythology, sometimes referred to as [[demon]]s. They are opposed t
...ipped as deities among the Hindu dharma. They are a group of power-seeking deities, sometimes referred to as devas or demi-gods. Some Asuras were corrupted wh
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...(Dungeons & Dragons)|demons]], [[Devil (Dungeons & Dragons)|devils]], evil deities and other evil creatures. Although their evil ancestor may be many generati
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...lands of Unther and Mulhorand, where they are the descendants of the good deities who walked among the mortals there.
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[[Category:Death deities]]
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...Phorcydes, all of which were archaic beings either of the sea or chthonic deities.
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When the twin deities, the Aswins, wished to become complete immortals by drinking the elixir of
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Taranis, as a personification of thunder, is often identified with similar deities found in other Indo-European pantheons.
*[http://www.daire.org/names/deities.html Some Major Celtic Gods and Goddesses]
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.... Together with Varuna, he counted among the [[Aditya]]s, a group of solar deities. They are the supreme keepers of order and gods of the law. Mitra has two a
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*Coulter, Charles Russell and Patricia Turner, eds. Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-7864-0317-9
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...talks about the gory sacrificial offerings proffered to a triad of Celtic deities: [[Teutates]], Hesus (sic), and [[Taranis]]. Among a pair of later commenta
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...centered on the Great Old Ones, a fearsome assortment of ancient, powerful deities that once ruled the Earth. They are presently quiescent, having fallen into
Despite his notoriety, Cthulhu is not the most powerful of the deities nor is he the theological center of the mythos. Instead, this position is h
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...escribed both as an entity having a literal existence, just as the various deities of the Vedic pantheon are shown existing around the Buddha, and also is des
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...Mictlan, the world of the dead. Cihuateteo are servants of the Aztec moon deities Tezcatlipoca and Tlazolteotl.
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...runa and Vayu, successfully routing them and claiming the domains of these deities for themselves.
...ments from the gods Indra, Brahma, Isha, Vishnu and Kartikeya. From these deities, emerged the Matrikas or the embodiment of their female energies. Armed wi
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