...s and Peters, 48) entreats his audience to put no stock in any demons, or “Gods” other than the one true Christian God, even if the working of spells app
...rked similarities. This becomes a parallel evolution of spells to foreign Gods or demons that were once acceptable, and framing them into a new Christian
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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 sound of barking dogs was the first sign of her approach in Greek and Roman literature. The frog, significantly a creature that can cross between two e
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...no circle of worshippers or so limited a circle as to be below the rank of gods, and with malevolent beings of all kinds. Demonology, though often referred
Excluded are souls conceived as inhabiting another world. But just as gods are not necessarily spiritual, demons may also be regarded as corporeal; va
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...have fire coming out of their hands and the skill to steal power from the gods.
...nster, produced by Goddess [[Gaia]] to aid her sons the giants against the gods and slain by [[Athena]]. Of the three Gorgons, only Medusa is mortal.
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...territory of Tanagra. A feast of Orion was held at Tanagra as late as the Roman Empire. They had a tomb of Orion most likely at the foot of Mount Cerycius
...ohde viewed Orion as an example of the Greeks erasing the line between the gods and mankind. That is, if Orion was in the heavens, other mortals could hope
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...'' or ''Διόνυσος'' also known as '''Bacchus''' in both Greek Mythology and Roman mythology and associated with the Italic '''Liber'''), the Thracian God of
In the Roman pantheon, '''Sabazius''' became an alternate name for '''Bacchus'''.
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...very old cultures, such as Greek mythology or [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]]. Some myths descended originally as part of an oral tradition a
...]] myth, which concerns itself with the pranks or tricks played by [[Deity|gods]] or heroes.
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...s on to the saint's life, compiled with reference to the readings from the Roman Catholic Church's liturgy commemorating that saint; then embellishes the bi
...he people that there were: What say ye: will ye have these devlls for your gods and worship them or have ye liefer that I hunt them out of this world in th
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...lamiae (Greek lamiai). Similar in type to other female monsters from Greco-Roman myth, such as the empuses and the mormolyces, she is distinguished from the
* Karl Kerényi, 1951. The Gods of the Greeks pp 38–40. Edition currently in print is Thames & Hudson rei
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...atiable anger against the chains of the [[Elder God (Cthulhu Mythos)|Elder Gods]] which had bound it there for an eternity.... Unable to resist, utterly po
...t to be no mere [[Cloacina]], but the mortician of all creatures, even the gods themselves. The extent of its power is unknown, though it could be like tha
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..."light-bearer" (from ''lux'', "light", and ''ferre'', "to bear, bring"), a Roman astrological term for the "'''Morning Star'''", the planet Venus.
==Roman tradition==
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...s]] and [[Persephone]] and asked permission to take Cerberus, to which the gods agreed as long as Hercules does not harm the hound. Some say, Persephone ga
*In Roman mythology, [[Aeneas]] lulled Cerberus to sleep with drugged honeycakes.
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...llenistic "Demon" eventually came to include many Semitic and Near Eastern gods as evaluated by Christianity.
...ere is no other besides him." This clearly statest that there are no other Gods besides the Hebrew God. It is NOT saying that there is no supernatural powe
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...ve yet no absolute power over the life of men: they are under Zeus and the gods, who can stop them in their course or hurry them on. (Il. xii. 402, xviii.
During the festival known as Anthesteria, the Keres were driven away. Their Roman equivalents were '''Letum''' (“death”) or the '''Tenebrae''' (“shadow
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...about 2500 BC in the Mari texts and in personal Amorite names in which the gods Ilu (El), Dagan, and Adad are especially common. Dagan is mentioned occasio
...rising some 200 deities and bore the titles BE-DINGIR-DINGIR, "Lord of the gods" and Bekalam, "Lord of the land". His consort was known only as Belatu, "La
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...were originally thought of as a race of minor nature and fertility [[deity|gods]], who are often pictured as youthful-seeming men and women of great beauty
...ph]]s of [[Category:Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], and [[vili]] and [[rusalki]] of [[Category:Slavic mythology|Sl
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...ed to disguise their [[Loa|lwa]] (sometimes spelled [[loa]]) or spirits as Roman Catholic [[saint]]s, a process called syncretism.
...t Haitian Vodou is simply a mix of West African religions with a veneer of Roman Catholicism would not be entirely correct. This would be ignoring numerous
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...d]], for example as a consort of the [[Great Goddess]] in [[Wicca]]. These gods usually reflect mythological figures such as [[Cernunnos]] or [[Pan]], and
[[Lucifer]], on the other hand, in the original Roman sense of "light-bringer", occasionally appears in the literature of certain
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...in their architecture. In Elam legends, a Griffin was presented to Elamite Gods. In Persian mythology, in particular during the Achaemenid dynasty, griffin
...made tentative connections, in ''Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times'', between the rich fossil beds around the Mediterranean and across t
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*The Aryan introduced patriarchal gods in India, but various matriarchal tribes, such as the Shabara of Orissa , c
...ble and sway under the impact of her dance. So, at the request of all the Gods, Shiva himself asked her to desist from this behaviour. However, she was to
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