...erae''' .or '''Moirai''' (Greek ''Μοίραι'', the ''Apportioners''), are the Roman mythology equivalent: '''Parcae''', the ''sparing ones'', or '''Fatae'''; a
...ten depicted as old, ugly and unmerciful, they are most honoured among the gods because they distribute justly and have a share in every home.
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...ho then set upon his father, castrated him, and set himself as king of the gods, with Rhea as his wife and queen.
Rhea gave birth to a new generation of gods to Cronos, but, in fear that they too would eventually overthrow him, he sw
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...nd raging; he is seen as ruling tempests and the disasters they wreak. The gods cast out Yam from the heavenly mountain ''Sappan'' (modern Jebel ''Aqra'')
Of all the gods, despite being the champion of El, Yam holds special hostility against Baal
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...ropean religion and was closely linked to Latvian [[Auseklis]], Greek Eos, Roman Aurora, and Vedic Ushas. As the Christianization spread out in Lithuania, t
*Greimas, Algirdas Julien (1992). Of Gods and Men. Studies in Lithuanian Mythology. Indiana University Press. p. 77.
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...scribes him as delighting ''all'' the gods, and thus getting his name. The Roman counterpart to Pan is Faunus, (see below), another version of his name, whi
==Roman mythology: Faunus==
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...Madrid) 07.jpg|thumb|right|Heracles capturing the Cretan Bull. Detail of a Roman mosaic from Lliria, Spain]]
...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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...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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...-robed '''Moirae''' or '''Moerae''' were the personifications of destiny (Roman equivalent: '''Parcae''', "sparing ones", or '''Fata'''; also equivalent to
...to separate them from the Norns, the similar age-old fates, older than the gods, of a separate Indo-European tradition.
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...me, as well as [[Dis Pater]] and [[Orcus]], in [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]]; the corresponding Etruscan god was '''Aita'''. "Hades" is empl
...bstituted for the underworld as a whole. The [[Inferi Dii]] were the Roman gods of the underworld.
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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
In Greek and Roman mythology Pegasus sprang from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa when the hero
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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
Hera’s Roman equivalent is [[Juno]]. In Rome, with Jupiter and Minerva she shared the mo
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In Greek mythology, Zeus is the God of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods.
Zeus corresponds to the Roman god Jupiter.
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[[Image:Calydonian_hunt.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Calydonian Hunt shown on a Roman frieze (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)]]
...d ''Bibliotheke'' ("The Library") contains the gist of the tale, which the Roman poet Ovid took up with some colorful detail.
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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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...logy]], '''Thanatos''', meaning "death") was the personification of death (Roman equivalent: [[Mors]]), as well as a minor figure in Greek mythology.
...attractive option, Thanatos came to be seen as a beautiful young man. Many Roman sarcophagi depict him as a winged boy, much like '''Cupid'''.
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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
The Roman Catholic Church considers superstition to be [[sin|sinful]] in the sense th
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...art/Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical to other gods whose names contain mlk.
===Classical Greek and Roman accounts===
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...pass down from parent to child. As a genius, or spirit of the household in Roman mythology, he incited people to murder and other sins. The name became a ge
...'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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...nd Christian scriptures. Christian demonology is mainly studied within the Roman Catholic Church, although some other Christian churches do not deny the exi
.... 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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...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
...nicled by an unnamed rabbi in Fez during the 16th century, states that the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio encountered these beasts near the Strait o
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