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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