...im ('lhm) was found to be a word denoting the entire Canaanite [[Pantheon (gods)|pantheon]] (the family of El '''אל''', the [[patriarchy|patriarchal]] cr
...ctionis]] ''heh'' inserted to distinguish the [[Israelite]] God from other gods. He argues that ''elohim'' thus patterns with Abram/[[Abraham]] and Sarai/
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...that continuously strive to undermine the divine order established by the gods as related by numerous accounts from Hindu mythology. Hence, his name refle
...ower of this asura, the devas sought the aid of the trinity of the supreme gods, namely Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.
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...ho then set upon his father, castrated him, and set himself as king of the gods, with Rhea as his wife and queen.
Rhea gave birth to a new generation of gods to Cronos, but, in fear that they too would eventually overthrow him, he sw
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Mayura is associated with a number of gods and deities of the Hindus including the following:
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...word for Way or Path, and LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical
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..., thunder, heavenly fire or lightning and celestial elements in a triad of gods. He was also considered as the right hand and executor of Dievas‘s will.
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...of Naiad. They lived in freshwater lakes. Their parents were river or lake gods.
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...erred to as devas or demi-gods. Some Asuras were corrupted while some were gods in heaven. Both are children of Kashyapa. Asuras should not be confused wit
...sub-tribes would compete in making the most perfect ritual offering to the gods, seeking to outdo their peers in beauty of hymns sung, richness of offering
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...tutor. This puts him in a company of phallic or half-animal tutors of the gods, a group that includes Priapus, Cedalion and Chiron, but also includes Pall
*Karl Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks''.
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From Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men:
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...sacrifice with the intention of obtaining a son who could slay the King of Gods. Due to a mispronounciation, he instead obtained a son who would be slain b
...ras or Visvarupa. Vritra won the battle and swallowed Indra, but the other gods forced him to vomit Indra out. The battle continued and Indra was eventuall
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...attle against the asuras Shumbha and Nishumbha who had disenfranchised the gods from heaven. Raktabīja was wounded, but drops of blood falling on the grou
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...ions. There are many Aztec legends as to what she does to people (or other gods) who take her things.
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According to Euhemerist belief, all gods were living men. Vahagn came from the ranks of Armenian kings and he was th
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...world to relentlessly terrorize men and haul them back to the dark abode. Gods and humans alike, on earth or in hell, needed food and drink. But not the G
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...Gaia, a sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids.
...ncircling the world, and was by him the mother of numerous sons (the river gods) and numerous daughters (the Oceanids).
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Jeremy Black and Anthony Green: ''Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary''
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:"They sacrificed to demons [Hebrew: Shedim], no-gods,
:Gods they had never known,
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...intimately connected, powerful, hard to defeat and are even feared by the Gods. In their battle with Kalki, the 10th and final avatar of Lord Vishnu, the
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...eight which glows with eternal fires--its Greek name is the Chariot of the Gods; and four days' voyage from it is the cape called the Horn of the West, on
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