According to legend, ancient Old Ones, who predateded the Vedic and pre-Vedic gods, sought to take over mankind's place on earth. To this end, they took some
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'''Ba'al''' (ordinarily spelled Baal in English) is a a name used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant.
...There is no intimation in the OT that any of the Canaanite Baals were sun-gods, or that the worship of the sun (Shemesh), of which we have ample evidence,
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...netherworld Patalas and were always in constant opposition to the Devas or gods. Through the performance of various harsh and severe penances, this Asura
...es, Shumba and Nishumba subsequently commenced similar attacks on other gods like Kubera, Yama, Varuna and Vayu, successfully routing them and claiming
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...achinas look after the interests of humans, serve as intermediaries to the gods, and can bestow good fortune, such as fertility, power, and long life.
...he Shalakos (the Giant Couriers of the Rainmakers) and the Longhorns (Rain Gods of the North), and an enormous amount of food is prepared for both resident
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...kind of faun similar to the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion.
...ident how dusii would be a surviving form of the Roman [[Mane]]s, infernal gods who were shades of the dead, nor be thought of as aerial pirates.
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...ated [[Nodens]] from the Dunsanian cycle and leagued him with the ''Elder Gods'' against the ''Old Ones''. Derleth also introduced a good versus evil dich
...rces of his mythos, there were, initially, the Elder Gods... [T]hese Elder Gods were benign deities, representing the forces of good, and existed peacefull
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...the flesh of the primal being Ymir before being gifted with reason by the gods.
...h. This may potentially mean that dwarfs formed humans, and that the three gods gave them life.
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==Snake-gods==
...Coatlicue, and the Voodoo snake-spirits Damballah, Simbi and Petro. Snake-gods were more often portrayed as hybrids or shape-shifters; for example, North
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:They injure the images of the gods ;
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: “I am the Bennu bird, the Heart-Soul of Ra, the Guide of the Gods to the Tuat.”.''[[Book of the Dead]]''
...e, the deceased says, "I am the Benu, the soul of Ra, and the guide of the gods in the Duat." In another verse, he says, "I am pure. My purity is the purit
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Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods features a modern adaptation of Hinzelmann as who sacrifices children in or
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*Greimas, Algirdas Julien (1992). Of Gods and Men. Studies in Lithuanian Mythology. Indiana University Press. p. 77.
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...r them, the Vision Serpent was direct link between the spirit realm of the gods and the physical world. (Schele and Friedel, 1990:395).
...ious event involved bloodletting because it provided a medium by which the gods could be called upon to witness and actually participate in the ceremony. S
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Dragon gods, in general, have few temples. There are shrines in Io's honor, usually tak
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...ian Pantheon of classical [[Greek Mythology]], '''Hêra''' was queen of the Gods and Goddesses, as well as wife and sister of [[Zeus]]. Many of the older te
Unlike some Greek gods, Hera's name is not analyzable as a Greek or Indo-European word. She there
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*Ely, Talfourd – ''The Gods of Greece and Rome'', Dover. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486427986/q
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In Greek mythology, Zeus is the God of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods.
==Zeus, Father of Gods==
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...''[[Vishnu]]''', and '''[[Shiva]]'''), but Mahishashur defeated all of the gods including the trinity themselves. He unleashed a reign of terror on earth,
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...em in their religion, and the two deities were equated and considered twin gods. They were both equal and opposed. Thus Tezcatlipoca was called "Black Tezc
...uatl, lord and lady of the duality, and were the creators of all the other gods, as well as the world and man.
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...as]]) and brought all the worlds under his control. He began to harass the gods and torture the saints and other devotees of Vishnu.
...emigods were able to calm [[Narasimha]]'s fury, not even Shiva. So all the gods and goddesses called His consort, the goddess Lakshmi, but she was also una
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...fire-sacrifice, called yagna, but personified are also seen as devas. All gods taken together are worshipped as the Vishvedevas. Varuna, identified by som
...uous tasks under their diligence that they are sometimes called themselves gods under the Supreme One God. The Hindu trinity is composed of Brahma, Vishnu
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...od Shiva, who lives in the Himalayas and are considered as Upa-devas, semi-gods.
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...out every sort of horrible sound, for sometimes it was speech such as the gods could understand, but at other times, the sound of a bellowing bull, proud-
...against the Titans; Typhon was so fearsome and dangerous, that the younger gods feared to face the monsters. Zeus tried to fight Typhon, until the monster
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Ancient mythologists placed Abraxas among the Egyptian gods. Abraxas was also the Persian sun god, and in Syria he was a form of Iao (a
...number of days in a year. Abraxas, they thought, had under his command 365 gods, to whom they attributed 365 virtues, one for each day.
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*Karl Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'', p. 52.
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...ble to capture the horse by using a golden bridle, a gift from Athena. The gods then gave him Pegasus for killing the monster Chimera but when he attempted
...d opinion of his greatness, and he attempted to fly on Pegasus to join the gods on Olympus. An enraged Zeus sent an insect to annoy Pegasus, causing the ho
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...of the gods. Ragnarok in Norse mythology was the final battle between the gods of Asgard and the many monsters of the world.
...oples considered the birth of "freaks" representations of the wrath of the gods, a demonstration, as it were. The first so-named monstra were the showpiece
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...ic [[Apollo]], the reveller and god of trees [[Dionysus]], and with rustic gods such as [[Pan]] and [[Hermes]] (as the god of shepherds).
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*Littleton, C. Scott, ed., Gods, Goddesses & Mythology. Tarrytown: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2005.
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...ation during rituals. Most similar to the veve are the drawings of zemi or gods of the Taino religion.
...generally the older, more beneficent spirits, and are associated with the gods of Africa. Their traditional colour is white (as opposed to the specific co
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...agbanua mythology, the diwatas are considered equivalent to other creation gods such as, Bathala and Kan-Laon, in the sense that, they are also creators of
In other parts of the Philippines, diwata is analogous to the Greek gods and goddesses. Some of the famous Diwata are:
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.... They danced to the music made by their husbands, usually in the various gods' palaces.
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...cal axis around which these worlds are situated, with Ásgard, realm of the gods, at the top and the Hel, located in Niflheim, at the bottom. Midgard, our w
...y conflagration of Surtr, the rebirth of the world and a new generation of gods and men are positive indications.
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...r Burkert points out, "When in the ''[[Iliad]]'' [xx.4 - 9] Zeus calls the gods into assembly on Mount Olympus, it is not only the well-known Twelve Olympi
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...acter featured within the famed ancient Chinese novel ''Investiture of the Gods''.
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...mikaze) which means “When devil’s wind comes from a foreign place, may the gods send a counter-wind (from Ise; Ise is a strong Shinto area)"</blockquote>.
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* Aston, William George. 1905. Shinto: (the Way of the Gods). Longmans, Green, and Co.
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...the sea. He jumped in the ocean and refused to go back on land. The sea gods nearby heard his prayers and transformed him into a sea god. Ovid describe
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*Lurker, Manfred (2004). The Routledge dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons
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..., she is also viewed as the mother goddess and one of the chief Lithuanian gods. Žemyna is the epitome of fertile earth and her duty includes nourishing o
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...cultures, the Feathered Serpent was more often seen as a messenger between gods and men, and was sometimes known as the Vision Serpent.
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...times. They may have once been believed to be the beings who preceded the gods, similar to the Greek [[Titans]].
...sent the gods of human civilization. Alternatively, they may represent the gods of a proposed pre-Goidelic population of Ireland
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...ich are closely linked with kingship (“strong bull” was a common title for gods and pharaohs). Sometimes the Apis bull was pictured with the sun-disk betwe
...ike of both groups, despite the curses of the Egyptian priests against the gods of the previous foreign rulers (i.e Set who was lauded by the Hyksos). Alex
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...ient Igbo. He served as the Alusi or God of Bargains. Like most Trickster Gods, the deity was a force of Chaos and Change, thus in his more violent aspect
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* Znayenko, Myroslava T.: The gods of the ancient Slavs: Tatishchev and the beginnings of Slavic mythology (Pa
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...the sibling progenitors Izanagi and Izanami gave birth to the islands and gods of Japan. After Izanami died from burns during the childbirth of the fire d
...d it frequently manifests itself as a god of the sea. The old Japanese sea-gods were often female water-snakes. The cultural influences which reached Japan
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...me for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerica, one of the main gods of many Mexican and northern Central American civilizations and also the na
===Quetzalcoatl and other Gods===
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...re was a species of drama known as the satyric; it parodied the legends of gods and heroes, and the chorus was composed of satyrs and sileni. In the Atheni
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...ecious things that were brought to light in the Churning of the Ocean. The gods presented her to the sapta-rishis and she became the property of the sage V
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...at Latvian vilkacis is no evil being. They are even called "Dieva suņi" ( "Gods' dogs" ), although it is not clear, which god is meant - the Latvian divini
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* The creature is mentioned in chapter 10 of the novel ''American Gods'' by Neil Gaiman.
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The two known gods of the derro are [[Diirinka]] and [[Diinkarazan]].
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...onslaught of his light! If you speak, your face will be overturned by the gods. Your heart will be seized by the lynx (Mafdet), your reins will be bound b
...your ropes, O Ra, that Apep may fall to your snaring or be trapped by the gods of north, south, east and west in their traps ... All is now well, O Ra! Pr
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The yakṣas may have originally been the tutelary gods of forests and villages, and were later viewed as the steward deities of th
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:The daughter of Heaven is one of the Gods, her brothers
...154891926/ref=sr_1_1/104-8059691-6811967?ie=UTF8&s=books Green A, Black J. Gods: ''Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: an Illustrated Dictionary'']
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...ature, and they are frequently in conflict with the gods, be they Olympian gods or Norse. There are also historical stories featuring giants in the Old Tes
They were involved in a conflict with the Olympian gods called the ''Gigantomachy'' (Γιγαντομαχία), which was eventuall
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...", Gregory, Lady Augusta. "Part I Book IV: His Three Calls to Cormac" in ''Gods and Fighting Men'' (Colyn Smyth, Buckinghamshire, 1903) [http://www.sacred-
*Gods and Fighting Men, Lady Gregory; 1904 [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/
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...and in American Gods appears at times as a cat living with other Egyptian gods Thoth and Anubis, who now survive as small-town morticians, throughout the
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Varuna and Mitra are the gods of the oath, often twinned or identified as Mitra-Varuna (a dvandva compoun
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...ad perished far from the shores of home, away from the protection of their gods. Other explanations for their origin claim that they are the reincarnated s
...nged deer, isolated from their gods. After committing a single murder, the gods' favor would be restored and the angry soul within the peryton calmed.
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...them." Goibniu, Creidhne and Luchta are referred to as Trí Dé Dána ("three gods of craftsmanship"), and the Dagda's name is interpreted in medieval texts a
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...times, Poseidon had significantly more importance than Zeus. The change of gods was due to the replacement of the Mycenean culture and religion, with a lat
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...hich had no light at all, but which had had great civilisations and mighty gods before ever the reptilian quadrupeds of [[K'n-yan#Yoth|Yoth]] had come into
...com/wri/non-fict/other/family_tree_of_the_gods.html The Family Tree of the Gods]" in the ''The Acolyte'' (Summer 1934). URL accessed on [[April 29]], [[200
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* Hagen, R. Hagen, R. Egypt; People, Gods, Pharaohs, Rose-Marie & Rainer Hagen, (Barnes and Noble Books, New York), c
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...to separate them from the Norns, the similar age-old fates, older than the gods, of a separate Indo-European tradition.
...ar their power extends. It is possible that they determine the fate of the gods as well. In any case, not even the most powerful is willing to trifle with
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...'', a Bran Mak Morn tale by Robert E. Howard mention is made of the "black gods of R'lyeh". Lovecraft was a friend and correspondent of Howard and their wo
...has a dream in which she encounters a temple inhabited by priests of "Old Gods", whose intent is to raise the city of R'lyeh from the depths. She also fin
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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
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...It was realized by the gods that only the son born of Shiva could lead the gods to victory over Tarakasuran, Surapadman and their demon companions. They pl
Murugan became the supreme general of the demi-gods then escorted the devas and led the army of the devas to victory against th
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...Apollonios Rhodios's Argonautika. It is also said that Hera, queen of the gods, persuaded the Sirens to enter a singing contest with the Muses. The Muses
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Enki, lord of the hegal the Anunna-gods possess.
in the dining halls of the gods.
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...conjure protective circles against demons, and freeze humans, demons, and gods alike.
...ribe gives him the title of "Handsome Monkey-King". After angering several gods and coming to the attention of the Jade Emperor, he is given a minor positi
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...believed to be the ancestors, the spirits of nature, or the goddesses and gods themselves.
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...d from Hebrew 'Chium', an epithet given to several Assyrian and Babylonian gods. Epigraphy does not confirm this etymology. It could also be the demonizati
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...amongst [[Wiccan]]-influenced Neopagans, which unites numerous male nature gods out of such widely-dispersed and historically unconnected [[mythology|mytho
...bulls and goats, sacred stags and ibexes serve as examples. Not all horned gods and their priests were male; [[Astarte]] and [[Isis]] (borrowing an attribu
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...ntually, Daksha held a yagna (a ritualistic sacrifice) and invited all the gods, but not Sati and Shiva. Sati came to the yagna alone, where Daksha publicl
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...rm of enjoyment in a region midway between the earth and the heaven of the gods, or to undergo their measure of punishment in Naraka, the nether world, sit
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...fear of ghosts and other supernatural beings, such as spirits and [[Deity|gods]], has been said by some scholars to be a mechanism of social control. See
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...bstituted for the underworld as a whole. The [[Inferi Dii]] were the Roman gods of the underworld.
...s]]: together they accounted for half of the [[Twelve Olympians|Olympian]] gods.
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...believed to be a leopard god or goddess masquerading as human. When these gods mate with humans, offspring can be produced, and these children sometimes g
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...e same theme -the birth of Erichthonius-, surrounded by the other Olympian gods in a rich and ornate style, was used to decorate a later classical calyx cr
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...is the Homeric hymn to Pan, which describes him as delighting ''all'' the gods, and thus getting his name. The Roman counterpart to Pan is Faunus, (see be
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He has also produced the film ''[[Gods and Monsters]]'' which received major critical acclaim.
* [http://www.godsandmonsters.net/ ''Gods and Monsters'' official website]
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...0,000 soldiers of the Milky Way, he drank too much during a celebration of gods and attempted to flirt with Cháng'é, the beautiful moon goddess, resultin
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...sion. The texts of Buddhism are full of descriptions of the palaces of the gods, but in Burmese art heaven is imbued with a gentle elegance and affection,
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...heir kings so that they would be recognizable to both the people and their gods eternally. Therefore, the process of mummification was developed over a pe
...nal, living being of light, closely associated with both the stars and the gods (with whom it shared some characteristics, but was not truly divine itself)
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...ecree Saint Birgitta warns against the worship of ''tompta gudhi'', "tomte gods". Folklore added other negative beliefs about the tomte, such as that havin
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...na the boon of near invulnerability, making him immune from destruction by gods or (other) demons; he also acquired the capacity to change his form. He was
...fused. Ravana then asked for absolute invulnerability and supremacy before gods and heavenly spirits, other demons, serpents and wild beasts. Contemptuous
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...ewty's profession; but rather than acting as a messenger and scribe to the gods themselves, Anubis serves the dead as a recorder of their deeds and as a fi
However, as lesser of the two gods of the underworld, he gradually became considered the son of Osiris, but Os
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...arently it had been they who had formed the court or escort of the ancient gods when they sat enthroned on the trees. These Wood-Wives were principally fou
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...Western zombies. A Jiang Shi is a main character in the 1991 comedy ''The Gods Must Be Crazy III''.
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..., just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods [[Demeter]], [[Hera]], [[Hades]], [[Hestia]], and [[Poseidon]] by Rhea, he
...d Cronus a force of chaos along with disorder, believing that the Olympian gods had brought an era of peace and order by seizing power from the crude and m
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Kirin also makes an appearance as the strongest of the "gods" in Final Fantasy XI.
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...e gods, as a slave feared a cruel and capricious master. "Such fear of the gods (''[[deisidaimonia]]'') was what the Romans meant by 'superstition' (Veyne
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Medusa was a Gorgon, one of three sisters and daughters of ancient, pre-titan gods, [[Phorcys]] and [[Ceto]].
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...no circle of worshippers or so limited a circle as to be below the rank of gods, and with malevolent beings of all kinds. Demonology, though often referred
Excluded are souls conceived as inhabiting another world. But just as gods are not necessarily spiritual, demons may also be regarded as corporeal; va
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...is a story, found nowhere else in mythology, that at one time the Olympian gods were trying to overthrow Zeus but were stopped when the sea nymph Thetis br
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