...d by Hupasiyas with a rope. Then the Sky God Teshub appears with the other gods and kills the dragon.
In the second version, after the two gods fight and Teshub loses, Illuyanka takes Teshub's eyes and heart. To avenge
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...e children of Echidna and Typhon. It was said that it had been sent by the gods (perhaps Dionysus) to prey upon the children of Thebes as a punishment for
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...ightning of springtime are brought on by Sky Women mating with the thunder gods; hence spring festivals included a celebration of the return of the rusalki
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The buta-kala are everywhere but their absence is felt mainly when the gods are distant or when human neglect or wrongdoing has alienated the Divinity.
...divinities when they feel neglected or forgotten. They may also serve the gods and carry out their orders.
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...phroditos''' (or ''Hermaphroditus'') is a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, the gods of male and female sexuality.
...he gods that they might permit her to remain united with him for ever. The gods granted the request, and the bodies of the youth and the nymph became unite
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...naras took birth in bears and monkeys attaining the shape and valor of the gods and goddesses who created them (Ramayana 1.17.17-18). After Vanaras were cr
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...erb musical skills. They guarded the Soma and made beautiful music for the gods in their palaces.
In Hindu theology, Gandharvas act as messengers between the gods and humans. In Hindu law, a Gandharva marriage is one contracted by mutual
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...'s name means the intoxicator, his strength is being feared by the king of gods, Indra. It has the ability to change its size to swallow the entire univers
...eavens. Seeing that Mada was going to swallow the entire universe with the gods still in it, Indra surrendered and asked that the sage call off the beast.
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In the later myth, it was offered by gods to serve goddess Durga or Parvati as mount for rewarding her victory. As Du
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...of this horse, but it eventually became the vehicle of Indra, king of the gods.
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...of the principal gods of the Aztecs and was the most prominent of several gods and goddesses of death and the underworld (see also Chalmecatl). The worshi
...rn on the sixth day of the 13-day week and was the fifth of the nine Night Gods of the Aztecs. He was also the secondary Week God for the tenth week of the
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...en. This "Boney-Thing" might have been one of the important skeletal death gods of the Classic Period depicted dancing on Maya ceramics. The way of the pow
...nd constellations were probably seen as the wayob of the ancestors and the gods.
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...ya]]s, a group of solar deities. They are the supreme keepers of order and gods of the law. Mitra has two assistants, [[Aryaman]] and [[Bhaga]].
Varuna and Mitra are the gods of the oath, often twinned or identified as Mitra-Varuna (a dvandva compoun
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...eating the word "earth" until the solid world rose from the seas. When the gods became angry with the first human beings, Hurukan unleashed the deluge whic
...vered with green feathers, and Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, the mother and father gods. As the result of their deliberations animals were created. But as yet man
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In return for the sacrifice of Porâsý, the gods lifted her soul and changed it into a small but intense point of light.
Since then, the gods destined the spirit of Porasy to light up the aurora.
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...os Trigaranus]] (the ‘bull with three cranes’), Jupiter, Vulcan, and other gods. The name Esus is a cognate of [[Zeus]] who as the tree-splitter is associa
...dentical with the HEUS of Lactantius, and the HESUS of Lucan, described as gods of the Gauls. The similarity of the last name to IESU, Welsh Jesus is obvio
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...ncient Turkic tradition, although dragons themselves are not worshipped as gods.
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...ntary archaic vessel (British Museum 1971.11-1.1) of ca 580 BCE, among the gods arriving at the wedding of Peleus and the sea-nymph [[Thetis]], is a fish-t
...urney "to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Okeanos, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own hou
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...ng. The latter was killed by the treacherous god Loki during a banquet the gods held at Aegir's undersea hall near the island of Hler (or Hlesey).
...while in his hall. He was also known for hosting elaborate parties for the gods. He is very similar to the Greek god [[Poseidon]].
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...the bounty of the earth, and plant would grow. The people cried out to the gods for an end to the wasting of the earth and famine,and eventually interventi
''Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus'' by Michael Simpson,
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