...them, or to avoid another form of soul punishment, which is wandering the earth. Last but not least, it is also considered as a soul that has not been able
...ody at birth (not at conception), just as the infant is about to leave the mother's body, and prepares to live whatever normal life span has been allotted to
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She was the Great Goddess, Mother, Creatrix, Ruler, called the Goddess of All Things.
...ed his body around it seven times at Eurynome's bidding. As it opened, the earth spilled forth, born populated with animals and plants.
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...the heavens, this lunar maiden descended on a snowfall to investigate the earth, only to discover she could no longer return to the sky. She still appears
...nto ravines if she is ignored. In Aomori she takes on the character of the mother ghost called ubume, harassing people into holding her child, which then bec
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...ruit from the tree. God then expelled all of them from [[Heaven]] and onto Earth, to wander about, as a punishment. Then Adam sought to repent to God, and G
...ic Verses", the protagonist Gibreel Farishta is nicknamed "Shaitan" by his mother in a complex dream sequence. The mutated Saladin Chamcha is also, albeit mo
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...''Bal des Sauvages'' (later known as the ''Bal des Ardents'') at the Queen Mother's Paris hotel, January 28, 1393. In the midst of the festivities, a stray s
...y that (in his fictional timeline) the 'actual' Druedain of ancient Middle-earth, were the origin of the legendary Woodwoses of more recent folklore.
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Loki was the father (and in one instance the mother) of many beasts, humans and [[monster]]s.
...tracting his horse while disguised as a mare—thereby he became the ''mother'' of Odin's eight-legged horse [[Sleipnir]]. He also commissioned [[Gungnir
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...est of the first generation of [[Titan]]s, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky. He overthrew his father, Uranus, and ruled during the
..., by a few accounts, semen) that spilled out from Uranus and fell upon the earth, the [[Giants|Gigantes]], [[Erinyes]], and [[Meliae]] were produced. From t
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...]] were given power over the sea and the [[Underworld]], respectively. The earth was to be ruled in common by all three.
her mother, wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes in place of the infant Zeus. Cronus t
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They’ve been inside the earth, too — there are openings which human beings know nothing of —
Tsathoggua dwells deep beneath the earth in [[K'n-yan#N'kai|N'kai]]. Tsathoggua once dwelt inside Mount Voormithadre
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...bolgs' last king was Eochaid Mac Eirc, whose wife, Tailtiu, was the foster mother of Lugh Lamfata, the Danann hero and solar god.
.... The Fir Bolg, according to one legend, were involved in carrying bags of earth at one point in their history, hence the "Men of Bags" interpretation. Othe
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...es without your children." From that point on, Maria is doomed to roam the Earth in search of her children in the rivers and streams of the Americas.
...times and she replies with the same answer. God then damns her to walk the earth in search of her children. According to this tale, it is wise to avoid La L
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...ional movement largely conceives of Kali as a straightforwardly benevolent mother-goddess. Therefore, Kali is associated with many devis goddesses as well as
...invaders. Kali's fierceness is due both to her ties to the pre-Aryan Great Mother Goddess, as well as her place at Shiva's side as his consort, which gives h
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...nt, sometimes wrathful, interactions with the creatures of both heaven and earth.
...d take it upon themselves to preserve the mineral riches found deep in the earth's bowels from the grasping hands of greedy pillagers.
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Typhon was an offspring of Gaea ("Earth") and Tartarus, born in Cilicia.
...ished, being angry beyond measure with the mighty Herakles ... She was the mother of Khimaira who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-foot
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...eing the eldest. His brothers were Vibhishana and Kumbhakarna. Through his mother, he was related to the daityas Maricha and Subahu. Kaikesi also produced a
...avana', meaning "(He) Of the terrifying roar", given to him by Shiva - the earth is said to have quaked at Ravana's cry of pain when the mountain was pinned
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...d records that she was among the offspring of [[Gaia]] and [[Uranus]], the Earth and Sky. In ''Theogony'' he ascribed to Hecate such wide-ranging and fundam
...ds, as the division was at the first from the beginning, privilege both in earth, and in heaven, and in sea".''
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...in the course of the hunt, threatened to kill every beast on Earth. Mother Earth objected and sent a giant scorpion to kill Orion. The creature succeeded, a
...this as the remnant of a lost form of the myth in which Merope was Orion's mother (converted by later generations to his stepmother and then to the present f
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...he name of Śyena, where this mighty bird is said to have brought nectar to earth from heaven. The Puranas, which came into existence much later, mention Gar
...well-known for his aversion to snakes, a dislike he had acquired from his mother, Vinata.
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...piece together enough evidence to convict her killers had to ask Lesley's mother to positively identify her daughter's voice on the tape, as she screamed, g
None of Hindley's relatives, not even her elderly mother, were among the dozen or so mourners at her funeral at Cambridge City Crema
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...conned in this film, and he exacts revenge on the girl who decapitated his mother. Jason (Steve Daskewisz) returns to Crystal Lake, guarding it from all intr
...an impenetrable metal body. He is eventually blown into space, landing on Earth 2. ''Freddy vs. Jason'' (2003) is a crossover in which present-day Jason ba
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