...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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Recently works '''satyrs''' have become more human, with fewer animal characteristics, until only the tail remains to show that they are satyrs.
...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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...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
...e ''balams'' (magicians) of Yucatán were said to guard the maize fields in animal form. Variants of this belief assert that the shapeshifter does not recogni
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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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...him back to health using his magical powers, which entailed tying the dead animal's antlers on Herne's head. In return, however, Herne had to give up his hun
...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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...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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The tomte is connected to farm animals in general, but his most treasured animal was the horse. Belief had it that you could see which horse was the tomte's
...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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Often Zeus would send the Centaurs to punish gods and humans who had offended him. The hostility between man and Centaurs is
...on horses. The theory goes that such riders would appear as half-man, half-animal. (Bernal Díaz del Castillo reported that the Aztecs had this misapprehensi
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...strange foot symbolizes she may be a higher being who could shapeshift to animal form. He noticed Bertha with a strange foot exist in many languages (German
...hta, and this has become the name of her entourage, as well as the name of animal masks worn in parades and festivals in the mountainous regions of Austria.
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...igin. Yet, the sound’s amplitude was too large to be produced by any known animal species, and its source remains a mystery. According to NOAA, the readings
...'', 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
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...oncept. The word is derived from Greek ''therion'' (Θηριον), meaning "wild animal" or "beast", and ''anthrōpos'' (ανθρωπος), meaning "man".
...olf]]), the term is often used to refer to shape changing to any non-human animal form.
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...e's belief set, its superstitions may relate to [[cemetery|cemeteries]], [[animal]]s, [[demon]]s, a [[devil]], deceased [[ancestor]]s, the [[weather]], [[gam
...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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...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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...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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...as well as binding, magnification, and making contracts, weather control, animal control, and provacation]. Demons use variants and combinations of these p
.... 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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...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
The she-dog is the animal most commonly associated with Hecate. She was sometimes called the 'Black s
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Chiron is the noblest specimen of a combination of the human and animal forms in the ancient works of art; for while the centaurs generally express
...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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...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
...t at night in search of its own food, in the form of human blood, decaying animal flesh, brackish water, or even faeces. Nobody was safe from this walking c
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...w converts, early Christian missionaries would often adopt and adapt local gods, sometimes turning them into obscure saints.)
...naissance onwards, elaborate variations on the Green Man theme, often with animal heads rather than human faces, appear in many media other than carvings (in
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...hat my death not be brought about by any weapon, nor by any human being or animal. Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving. Grant
...er one of these, as he is a form of Vishnu incarnate as a part-human, part-animal. He comes upon Hiranyakashipu at twilight (when it is neither day nor night
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