...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
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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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...d associated with it died as well. For these reasons, dryads and the Greek gods punished any mortals who harmed trees without first propitiating the tree-n
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...including the Álfar (elves), Dvergar (dwarves), Jötnar (giants), and even gods, the Æsir and Vanir. Landvættir (land spirits) are chthonic guardians of
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...deities, who are described as battle-maidens who ride in the ranks of the gods or serve the drinks in Valhalla.
...rentage; they are described as battle-maidens who ride in the ranks of the gods or serve the drinks in Valhalla; they are invariably given unworldly names
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...w converts, early Christian missionaries would often adopt and adapt local gods, sometimes turning them into obscure saints.)
...esearch by the University of Wales into the meaning of the names of Celtic gods and goddesses shows that one Celtic deity, Viridios, has a name meaning "Gr
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...art/Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical to other gods whose names contain mlk.
...efeated Carthage, the Carthaginian nobles believed they had displeased the gods by substituting low-born children for their own children. They attempted to
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...include [[Aasterinian]], [[Chronepsis]], and [[Faluzure]]. Other draconic gods may be present in different campaign settings.
...gons and their servitors and uses the standard D&D dragon races and dragon gods. It has detailed rules for creating and playing dragon PCs and NPCs, includ
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...nor took anything away of all that was her portion among the former Titan gods: but she holds, as the division was at the first from the beginning, privil
...with Selene and the moon, extolling her as supreme Goddess, mother of the gods. In this form, as a threefold goddess, Hecate continues to have followers i
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* Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods returns to the traditional legend, depicting Hinzelmann as an ambivalent sp
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...rock reliefs at Maltai, however, the creature accompanies three different gods, Assur, Ellil (Enlil) and another god, most likely Nabu.
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...he people that there were: What say ye: will ye have these devlls for your gods and worship them or have ye liefer that I hunt them out of this world in th
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Often Zeus would send the Centaurs to punish gods and humans who had offended him. The hostility between man and Centaurs is
...s a close representation of a saint. He was a father figure to many of the gods' children. They were given to him so he could teach them great knowledge of
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...ain character. It is said that Longinus is meant to be in the hands of the gods, and not to be wielded by mere angels, referring to the fact that Ein is an
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...'s house privately, and there kill himself upon the altar of his household gods, to bring divine vengeance upon him; but the fear of torture put him off th
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...with his thunderbolt but Garuda proved a superior warrior and defeated the gods and continued unscathed on his journey to Patala.
...were about to consume the amrita Garuda had just brought them, the chasing gods entered Patala and Indra seized and took away the cup of amrita. Anyway, th
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...story. Here the god is called Cenncroithi, interpreted as "the head of all gods", and when his image falls the silver and gold covering it crumble to dust,
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The obyriths are so ancient that they predate mortal life, and even the gods. They rarely have a humanoid shape, and some say that just looking at an o
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...ohde viewed Orion as an example of the Greeks erasing the line between the gods and mankind. That is, if Orion was in the heavens, other mortals could hope
...the founders of the modern study of Greek mythology, wrote about Orion in Gods of the Greeks (1951). Kerényi portrays Orion as a giant of Titanic vigor a
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.... This idea can also been associated with the depiction of certain ancient gods like [[Baal]], [[Moloch]], the [[shedu]], etc, which were portrayed as bull
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...est was settled by pagan Anglo-Saxons who worshipped their own pantheon of gods, including [[Woden]] who rode across the night's sky with his own [[Wild Hu
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...s and Peters, 48) entreats his audience to put no stock in any demons, or “Gods” other than the one true Christian God, even if the working of spells app
...rked similarities. This becomes a parallel evolution of spells to foreign Gods or demons that were once acceptable, and framing them into a new Christian
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...beings like the [[Yakshas]], another as a sort of Titans or enemies of the gods, and lastly, as blood-drinking [[ghouls]] which has become the most common
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...ent healing arts, e.g. cheiromancy, or the art of divining the will of the gods through the interpretation of the patterns of the hands.
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...son of an idol maker in the Chaldean city of Ur, would have known of these gods. (Midrash [http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_abraham
...nslations of Sumerian cuneiform tablets to equate the ancient mesopotamian gods with the fallen angels (the "sons of Elohim" in Genesis). Seeing that all
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...atiable anger against the chains of the [[Elder God (Cthulhu Mythos)|Elder Gods]] which had bound it there for an eternity.... Unable to resist, utterly po
...t to be no mere [[Cloacina]], but the mortician of all creatures, even the gods themselves. The extent of its power is unknown, though it could be like tha
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...have fire coming out of their hands and the skill to steal power from the gods.
...nster, produced by Goddess [[Gaia]] to aid her sons the giants against the gods and slain by [[Athena]]. Of the three Gorgons, only Medusa is mortal.
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..., daughter of Cadmus, a mortal woman, and his father Zeus, the king of the gods.
...iants, he descended into [[Hades]] to restore her, with his mother, to the gods on Olympus; in others, he had her crown put into the heavens as the constel
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...at the lives had been sucked from the murder victims by the ghosts of dead gods. Nothing is said to the police, however, as the only known person to work s
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...were rationing out the elixir of immortality, the nāgas grabbed a cup. The gods were able to retrieve the cup, but in doing so, spilled a few drops on the
...nectar of immortality from the the strong-hold of Indran ,king of the semi-gods himself, Garuda managed to buy the freedom of Vinata in exchange for giving
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...rkert among others suggests that the archaic groups or societies of lesser gods mirror real cult associations: "it may be surmised that smith guilds lie be
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...generally conservative by nature, being very devoted to their pantheon of gods, and are distrustful of "outlanders". Dunmer culture is split between the s
...eator Innoruuk, or the god Solusek Ro. They may also swear fealty to other gods like Bristlebane or Rallos Zek.
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...-central Greece north of the Gulf of Patras, held annual sacrifices to the gods. One year the king forgot to include the Great Artemis in his offerings (''
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...hough in newer works it is stated that the Mi-go are at war with the Elder Gods. Their moral system is completely alien, making them seem highly malicious
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...ional notion that vampires could be repelled by the cross. Clerics of evil gods can rebuke and control the undead in a similar fashion, by means of [[necro
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*The Aryan introduced patriarchal gods in India, but various matriarchal tribes, such as the Shabara of Orissa , c
...ble and sway under the impact of her dance. So, at the request of all the Gods, Shiva himself asked her to desist from this behaviour. However, she was to
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...Persona spinoffs, a shinigami class of demons includes many death-related gods borrowed from mythology, such as Chernobog, Persephone, Ankou, Hades, Mot,
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...tween the legends of heroes and mythology proper, between the myths of the gods and those of the heroes, which are often entwined with them or at least bor
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...maller construction was used by Siberian pagans to hold figurines of their gods. Recalling the late matriarchy among Siberian peoples, a common picture of
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...he supernatural and an afterlife. (See Einstein's forword to ''Man and his Gods'' by Homer W. Smith, Grosset & Dunlap, N.Y., 1957). However, believers also
...of gods and people sacrificed animals or even other people to please their gods. If our current understanding is the gauge of supernaturality, its realm is
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...隠) meaning to hide or conceal, as oni were originally invisible spirits or gods which caused disasters, disease, and other unpleasant things. These nebulou
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*Reginheim. 2002. ''Forgotten Gods.'' ([http://www.geocities.com/reginheim/forgottengods.html Online]). File r
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...about 2500 BC in the Mari texts and in personal Amorite names in which the gods Ilu (El), Dagan, and Adad are especially common. Dagan is mentioned occasio
...rising some 200 deities and bore the titles BE-DINGIR-DINGIR, "Lord of the gods" and Bekalam, "Lord of the land". His consort was known only as Belatu, "La
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...ure is really a leopard god or goddess masquerading as a human. When these gods mate with humans, offspring can be produced, and these children sometimes g
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*In the webcomic Gods of Arr-Kelaan, as a character.
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...]] myth, which concerns itself with the pranks or tricks played by [[Deity|gods]] or heroes.
...to account for the local epithet of one of the [[Twelve Olympians|Olympian gods]], to interpret depictions of half-remembered figures, events, or account f
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...o the Sanskrit word 'Sarpa', which was also used to describe great "Dragon-Gods" who ruled over, and created, the original Dravidian culture.
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...of this tale explains the reason he told her to shut her eyes was because gods revert to their true forms whenever they do the basest of things, such as e
...Yuga of the next Kalpa. The author comments, "Unlike most battles between gods and demons, however, this apparent victory is immediately undercut, for Kal
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...were originally thought of as a race of minor nature and fertility [[deity|gods]], who are often pictured as youthful-seeming men and women of great beauty
...elves, and they were probably elves, since they were not counted among the gods. Two other mentioned servants were [[Fimafeng]] (who was murdered by [[Loki
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...ruler of the layer now dominated by Yeenoghu. Slain by the "Killer of the Gods" Ma Yuan.
|''Eldritch Wizardry''; ''Monster Manual'' (1977), page 17; Dead Gods; ''Dungeon'' #89; ''Book of Vile Darkness'', page 136; ''Fiendish Codex I:
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...f the Mountain) of the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur, became king of the Gods by slaying Tiamat by shooting the arrows of his winds down her throat, cutt
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...], whereas Francis Barrett asserted that Beelzebub was the prince of false gods.
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* Karl Kerényi, 1951. The Gods of the Greeks pp 38–40. Edition currently in print is Thames & Hudson rei
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And Álfheim the gods to Frey once gave<br/>
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But the gods were not unkind and it so happened that one of them felt motivated to check
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...llenistic "Demon" eventually came to include many Semitic and Near Eastern gods as evaluated by Christianity.
...ere is no other besides him." This clearly statest that there are no other Gods besides the Hebrew God. It is NOT saying that there is no supernatural powe
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...d to rejoin the world of men. Unfortunatly he cannot reach the home of the gods. Simurgh sees him and pities him. She takes Zal to his father and gives him
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...t in the Gathas: In Zoroaster's view the daevas are "wrong gods" or "false gods" that are to be rejected, but they are not yet demons.[2]
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*"Ifrit" is used in [[wikipedia:Neil Gaiman]]'s novel, ''[[wikipedia:American Gods]]''. The ifrit drives a New York taxi cab, and gives a ride to a man named
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...ppa are also said to favor) into the local river in order to appease water gods and hungry ghosts.
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...r of the giants ([[Formorian]]s) who had monstrous forms, and against whom gods and mortals waged war.
...reland she appears to have been the earlier Danu, the mother of the Danann gods and people, and Anu, the mountain-hag associated with "the Paps of Anu". Sh
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...t rank to come into his presence, so I have no resource but to pray to the gods of the country and to Buddha that my lord may regain his health."
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...ve yet no absolute power over the life of men: they are under Zeus and the gods, who can stop them in their course or hurry them on. (Il. xii. 402, xviii.
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...apanese mythology, sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami (revered spirits or gods).
Tengu are worshipped as beneficial kami (gods or revered spirits) in various Japanese religious cults. For example, the t
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...nt demigods 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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...ever, as a caveat, Jefferson said that they could not set themselves up as gods, or they would risk being evicted from American soil.
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...oned in various ways," explains de Visser (1913:135), "but mostly as water-gods, serpent- or dragon-shaped."
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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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...llonios Rhodios's ''Argonautika''. It is also said that Hera, queen of the gods, persuaded the Sirens to enter a singing contest with the [[Muse]]s. The Mu
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...ncy food source. They worship a pair of gods known as Gork and Mork (other gods were included in earlier editions of the game, but are no longer included).
...wn perspective. The orcs are presented as being the creations of a race of gods, called the Sheul. While similar to the Middle-earth legendarium, the orcs
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*The Hydra was used in the DC Comics storyline ''Challenge of the Gods'' for the character Wonder Woman to battle.
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...ed to Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of approval by the gods for his reign. He promised to sacrifice the bull as an offering, and as a s
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In Derleth's "The Return of Hastur", first published in March 1939, the two gods even meet face-to-face, albeit briefly. Many mythos authors, however, rarel
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*''The Monarch of the Glen, An American Gods Novella'', by Neil Gaiman 2004
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...iamat]] and other similar monsters who represented the sea as a foe to the gods in [[mythology|myth]]s of nearby cultures.
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...is speaking of the fall of Babylon and along with it the fall of her false gods Helel and Shahar. In Judaism there is no concept of a devil or a fallen go
...the Resurrection'' (1980), Lucifer is identified as the King of the White gods.
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...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
*There are also death gods called [[Shinigami]], which are closer to the Western tradition of the Grim
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The exact names of the Gods of traditional Wicca remain an initiatory secret according to current Gardn
...ccans, particularly those following a solitary path, simply refer to their Gods as "The God and The Goddess". There are also Wiccan groups that acknowledge
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...erse (fiction)|parallel universe]], as in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s novel ''[[The Gods Themselves]]''.
* The evolution of the human race (''[[Men Like Gods]]''), 1923
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...all his political opponents assassinated, priests killed and all images of gods destroyed. To put fear into his enemies, he ate the hearts of those he murd
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...ng series "Blood Sword", the player will face three simulacrums of ancient gods. Azidahaka was described as a serpentine creature with three human heads.
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