...Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] and [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], but [[Hades]] also included [[Elysium]], a place for the rewar
...t epics of European literature include episodes that occur in Hell. In the Roman poet [[Virgil]]'s Latin epic, the ''[[Aeneid]]'', Aeneas descends into Dis
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...Lamia (monster)]], a nocturnal bird that fed on human flesh and blood. The Roman strix is the source of the Romanian vampire, the ''[[Strigoi]]'' and the Al
...e - the Orthodox church believed incorrupt bodies were vampires, while the Roman church believed they were saints.
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*[[Mors]] (Roman)
...f its fire and enters the perpetual night realm called Yominokuni that the gods thereto retire. After Izanagi, her husband, failed in the attempt to reclai
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...t at times '' 'Elohim'' (powers), ''bnēi 'Elohim'', ''bnēi Elim'' (sons of gods) (i.e. members of the class of divine beings) were general terms for beings
...he heathen, and we have there the first step of the process by which these gods became evil angels, an idea expanded by [[John Milton|Milton]] in ''[[Parad
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...nciful connections link the ram-god of Mendes with the syncretic Ptolemaic-Roman [[Harpocrates]]. Harpocrates was a granter of fertility, but he was not ass
Crowley also identified Baphomet with himself. In ''The Equinox of the Gods'' he describes another card from the Tarot, this time "Lust" (Atu XI), "It
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...to practice it on the basis that it usually involves the worship of other gods. Rabbis of the Talmud also condemned magic when it produced something other
...by witches" (using practices indistinguishable from Witchcraft). Combining Roman Catholic beliefs and practices and traditional West African religious belie
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...o-Conception#The Rosicrucian conception of God and the scheme of evolution|gods]].'' This "College of Invisibles" is regarded as the source permanently be
...the Mysteries of Mithras: New Evidence from a Cult Vessel. The Journal of Roman Studies. 90 pp145-180]
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...to the 'primitive' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian gods: see the explicit rejection of human sacrifice in the cannibal feast prepar
...trine of transubstantiation has nothing to do with acquiring divinity. The Roman Catholic Church is not pantheistic. Transubstantiation is the belief that C
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...e powerful. Blood is viewed by pagan religions as the sustenance of their gods, maintaining their power and immortality through the sacrifice of humans an
...where it was believed to possess healing powers. According to one source, Roman soldier were issued daily rations of garlic before battle to give them cour
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