...the sky; the eyes, the sun; back, the moon; the wings, the wind; feet, the earth; and the tail, the planets. It is sometimes pictured with a fiery ball repr
...At conception, this remarkable bird delivers the soul of the infant to its mother's womb.
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...the creator of heaven and earth) and Anahit (the moon, the Great Lady and Mother Deity). During the Hellenistic period, Astghik was coupled with the Greek A
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...y and mathematics alike. It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other na
...d, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them a
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...ones" in remembrance of their indulgence when Orest seek refuge after his mother’s murder. They are sometimes represented by flies which harass their vict
...his son Cronus. It is also thought that they were the daughters of Mother Earth and Darkness, or of Cronus and Eurynome, or Cronus and Night. Their number
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<blockquote>A dragon horse is the vital spirit of Heaven and Earth. As a being its shape consists of a horse's body, yet it has dragon scales.
...aven creates divine things; the holy sage takes them as models. Heaven and earth change and transform; the holy sage imitates them. In the heavens hang imag
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...eations of God. The Vidyadhras with siddhas are said to have milked Mother Earth (Prithvi), who had assumed the form of cow by using sage Kapila as the calf
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'''Echidna''' was called the "Mother of All Monsters" and described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a c
...her a glorious house to dwell in: and she keeps guard in Arima beneath the earth, grim Echidna, a nymph who dies not nor grows old all her days.'' (''[[Theo
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...uated somewhere in the southern region. After this time they may return to Earth in new bodies.
...mountain to chop firewood was eaten by a tiger beast, leaving his widowed mother in deep sorrow. So she went to Pan-Guan Cui, and he instantly dealt with it
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...e primeval flood, in the form of the wind, ceaselessly repeating the word "earth" until the solid world rose from the seas. When the gods became angry with
...tz, the serpent covered with green feathers, and Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, the mother and father gods. As the result of their deliberations animals were created.
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...the child of Devaki, was in fact the daughter of Yashoda, Krishna's foster-mother. Infuriated n upohearing this, Kamsa called the demon Keshi and ordered him
...the form of a huge horse, who galloped at the speed of thoughts, wore the earth with his hooves and scattered celestial vehicles and clouds in the sky with
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<blockquote>Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and stea
:Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth
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...sipattle. The youngest of seven sons, Assipattle lived with his father and mother and brothers on a farm by a burn. All his family worked hard on the farm sa
Assipattle's mother and father despaired of him and his brothers cursed him for a fool, kicking
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...r christened before death. It is said that they are destined to wander the earth eternally while practicing their collection of pranks.
...n known to come to people’s houses crying and whimpering for the love of a mother. They feed off cultivated gardens and seem to have a bizarre fondness for w
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...dragon with a hundred heads, to guard the precious tree which Gaia (Mother Earth) had given to her, Queen of the Heavens, at her wedding to Zeus. So Ladon w
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...father, [[Uranus]] ("Heaven"), at the urgings of their mother, [[Gaia]] ("Earth").
...] as the youngest set of children of [[Uranus]], heaven, and [[Gaia]], the Earth:
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...Tiamat can also be derived from the Sumerian ''ti'', "life", and ''ama'', "mother". Burkert even attempts a linguistic connection to Tethys. The later form t
...o about 2000 BCE). At the beginning, the heavens did not yet exist nor the earth below, there was nothing but two elements - Apsu, "the first, the begetter"
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...n Revelation, Apollyon opens the gates of the abyss and unleashes upon the earth his swarms of demons locusts, who then proceed to torture those of mankind
...the key to the abyss and releases these demon hordes on the people of the earth
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...oolboy; or himself being banished from Heaven and becoming a mere human on Earth.
...to free herself from the pond using her magical powers. She heads down to earth, intent to re-unite with Xu Xian, transforming herself to a human being as
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...ultures snakes symbolized the umbilical cord, joining all humans to Mother Earth. The Great Goddess often had snakes as her familiars - sometimes twining ar
...s of the Solomon Islands (each with different responsibilities), the Aztec Mother Goddess Coatlicue, and the Voodoo snake-spirits Damballah, Simbi and Petro.
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...t became of the second, non-hairy son is a mystery, as he did not join his mother and siblings on tour and is mentioned only sporadically before that point.
Moung Phoset worked primarily as a carpenter, and he, his mother, and his sister earned extra income by exhibiting themselves to European vi
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