[[Category: Death deities]]
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It is thought that female deities are older than male ones in Mesopotamia, and Tiamat may have begun as part
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In monotheistic religions, the deities of other religions are sometimes interpreted or created as demons. The evo
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...to flight. After experiencing such a humiliating defeat, the three supreme deities realised that they were powerless to stop Mahishasura by themselves and dec
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...no rival. Give me sole lordship over all the living entities and presiding deities, and give me all the glories obtained by that position. Furthermore, give m
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...that only a weapon made from the bones of a sage could slay him. When the deities revealed their doubts about the likelihood of any ascetic donating his body
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...he simplest rituals involve nothing more than prayers or sacrifices to the deities before fishing or traveling by water.
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==Protective spirits and deities==
...s of tengu on other sacred mountains have adopted similar images for their deities, such as Sanjakubō (三尺坊) or Akiba Gongen (秋葉権現) of Akiba and
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In Norse mythology the '''valkyries''' are dísir, minor female deities, who are described as battle-maidens who ride in the ranks of the gods or s
...e mythological poems of the Poetic ''Edda'' the valkyries are supernatural deities of unknown parentage; they are described as battle-maidens who ride in the
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...w of protective spirits, and at the top the symbols of the main Babylonian deities. Bronze. 13.3 cms high. Dating to around 625-539 B.C.E.).
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...is not described in late-antique sources independently of Greek and Roman deities, the common functionality of the others lay in their ability to impregnate
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...Dé Danann]], although most scholars consider him to be of an older race of deities.
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...]], the '''Titans''' (Greek Τιτάν, plural Τιτάνες) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. At the beginning, there were 12
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In the Ulster Cycle, the Tuatha Dé Danann was still seen as Celtic deities. However, in the Fenian Cycle, the Dananns had degenerated into nothing mor
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...ngs. It is the Vision Serpent who provides the medium for contacting these deities. The vision serpent thus came to be the method in which ancestors or Gods m
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...used the Orcgate Wars in which the pious gray orcs called avatars of their deities down to help them, and the Mulhorandi and Untheric people did the same. Led
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...in the 2nd Edition of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons rulebook ''Deities & Demigods'', that any mortal seeing R'lyeh instantly becomes insane becaus
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...e bulls Mnevis and Buchis.) Unlike the cults of most of the other Egyptian deities, the worship of the Apis bull was continued by the Greeks and after them by
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The Aztecs assimilated them in their religion, and the two deities were equated and considered twin gods. They were both equal and opposed. Th
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...lar systems, clerics can attempt to "turn" undead by invoking their patron deities or channeling "positive energy" (other-dimensional life energy). This force
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