The following are Japanese death deities but are usually not referred to as shinigami:
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...tation of Shiva associated with annihilation and one of the most important deities of Nepal, sacred to Hindus and Buddhists alike. According to the Puranas, i
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...east 2300 BCE, Dagan was the head of the city pantheon comprising some 200 deities and bore the titles BE-DINGIR-DINGIR, "Lord of the gods" and Bekalam, "Lord
...lton|Milton's]] epic poem ''[[wikipedia:Samson Agonistes]]'' as one of the deities the Philistines worship.
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Of all the mythos deities, Shub-Niggurath is probably the most extensively worshiped. Her worshipers
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Pan is one of the prototype deities invoked in the neopagan archetype of the [[Horned God]].
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...sa-no-O is expelled from Heaven, he encounters two Kuni-tsu-Kami ("earthly deities") near the head of the Hi River in Izumo Province. They are weeping because
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If the latter is true, then the Fates would be the most powerful of all deities.
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...n [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9004111190 Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible] (DDD)) repeats the common claim that ''elohim'' is
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...ed the dead body of Osiris, with the assistance of the other main funerary deities involved - Nepthys, and Isis.
...escribing the Procession of Isis he says, Immediately after these came the Deities, condescending to walk upon human feet, the foremost among them rearing ter
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...pulative, secretive, and mercenary by nature, often acting as soldiers for deities in their own private wars, or even at times aiding both sides of the Blood
...ream larva, phaethon, xixecal, hecatoncheires) - the unwanted offspring of deities (ELH)[varies]
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...pear in many other supplements such as first edition ''Fiend Folio'' and ''Deities and Demigods'' (all three editions).
|''Empires of the Sands'', reported dead in ''Demihuman Deities''.
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...everal religions, the names of any earlier foreign or "[[Paganism|pagan]]" deities often became synonymous with the concept of an adversarial entity.
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...g is included without purpose. Starting with their various accompaniments, deities are usually portrayed holding objects in their hands and these objects alwa
...objects are considered right-hand proper, while others are for left-handed deities.
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In Buddhism, the nāgas are the enemies of the [[Garuḍa]]s, minor deities resembling gigantic eagles, who eat them. They learned how to keep from bei
Nāgas both live on Mount Sumeru, among the other minor deities, and in various parts of the human-inhabited earth. Some of them are water-
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...nterpret depictions of half-remembered figures, events, or account for the deities' attributes or [[entheogen]]s, even to make sense of ancient icons, much as
* [[List of deities]]
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...f Typhon makes it clear that the Olympian gods are the heirs of the animal deities of Egypt. Typhon is then an avatar of the god Set.
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[[Category: Death deities]]
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Like most Hindu deities, He is known by many other names, including '''Senthil, Saravaṇa, Kārthi
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...ient Canaanite manuscripts that deal with Shahar, one of their own [[deity|deities]].
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Like these other Oriental dragons, Japanese ones are usually water deities associated with rainfall and bodies of water, and typically depicted as lar
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...en" and the magical powers indicate Medusa was a bronze-age deity, and yet deities are not beheaded by mortals and terrible ones are not really terrible if th
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...eme deity of all dragons is known as [[Io (Dungeons & Dragons)|Io]]. Other deities often included in the draconic pantheon of gods include [[Aasterinian]], [[
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...the city-state, on behalf of the deities, as directed by the will of those deities. This shift represents the first major usurpation of power by distancing m
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In [[Chaldea]]n mythology the seven evil deities were known as ''shedu'', meaning storm-demons. They were represented in [[B
...the writers of the Tanach applied the word as a dylogism to the Canaanite deities in the two passages quoted. But they also spoke of "the destroyer" (Exodus
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...vil, predating Christianity by centuries. It is associated with pagan sun deities and Heaven. In ancient times, the cross symbolized divine protection and p
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#. ^ a b c d van der Toorn, Becking, van der Horst (1999), Dictionary of Deities and Demons in The Bible, Second Extensively Revised Edition, Entry: Demon,
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...take on the classes of [[Rogue]], [[Shadow Knight]], and [[Warrior]]. The deities that they follow are those of evil like their creator Innoruuk, or the god
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...nd her consort the God (sometimes known as the [[Horned God]]). These two deities are usually thought of as equal complements to each other, and together rep
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..., while others could be dismissed as myths. Volcanoes were once considered deities and natural calamities the actions of gods and people sacrificed animals or
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...itons. Other parallels can be drawn with Rhea, Demeter, Artemis, and other deities.
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In the classical Olympian mythology of Greece, all the deities had human form, though they could assume their animal natures as well. All
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...ce of suffering. While conventional Buddhist religion has an assortment of deities and venerated beings, the mystical sects of Buddhism at minimum avoid affir
...ersian]] and Indic god [[Mithra]] and other [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] deities.
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...his Acropolis, and as associated in this particular spot with theCharites, deities of the life that blossoms and yields fruit. Neither in this place nor befor
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...aimed to have connected these creatures to the Nommo, a race of amphibious deities worshiped by the Dogon tribe of Mali. It is a subject of some debate as to
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...vine relics — a short step from the old Pagan techniques of numerous deities, amulets and talismans.
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...th of which were considered most important by the worshippers of planetary deities at the time.
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...ted tenets of other religions, popular belief endows Taoist Hell with many deities and spirits who punish sin in a variety of horrible ways.
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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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...Lovecraft is probably influential on King's invention of bizarre, ancient deities, subtle connections between all of his tales, and the integration of fabric
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...art as winged human forms, unlike classical pagan depictions of the major deities, follow the iconic conventions of lesser winged gods, such as [[Eos]], [[Er
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...vil, predating Christianity by centuries. It is associated with pagan sun deities and Heaven. In ancient times, the cross symbolized divine protection and p
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