...hich had no light at all, but which had had great civilisations and mighty gods before ever the reptilian quadrupeds of [[K'n-yan#Yoth|Yoth]] had come into
...com/wri/non-fict/other/family_tree_of_the_gods.html The Family Tree of the Gods]" in the ''The Acolyte'' (Summer 1934). URL accessed on [[April 29]], [[200
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...rown by his own son, [[Zeus]]. He was not imprisoned in the depths of the underworld, [[Tartarus]], like most other Titans, but instead fled.
..., just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods [[Demeter]], [[Hera]], [[Hades]], [[Hestia]], and [[Poseidon]] by Rhea, he
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...art/Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical to other gods whose names contain mlk.
...efeated Carthage, the Carthaginian nobles believed they had displeased the gods by substituting low-born children for their own children. They attempted to
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...to separate them from the Norns, the similar age-old fates, older than the gods, of a separate Indo-European tradition.
...ar their power extends. It is possible that they determine the fate of the gods as well. In any case, not even the most powerful is willing to trifle with
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...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.
...accompanies Arkantos and Ajax on their adventures in Greece, Egypt and the underworld.
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...onnected with Sidae in Boeotia, and that the pomegranate, as a sign of the Underworld, is connected with her descent there.
...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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...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
...nal, living being of light, closely associated with both the stars and the gods (with whom it shared some characteristics, but was not truly divine itself)
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...na the boon of near invulnerability, making him immune from destruction by gods or (other) demons; he also acquired the capacity to change his form. He was
...fused. Ravana then asked for absolute invulnerability and supremacy before gods and heavenly spirits, other demons, serpents and wild beasts. Contemptuous
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...ional notion that vampires could be repelled by the cross. Clerics of evil gods can rebuke and control the undead in a similar fashion, by means of [[necro
*[[Underworld]]
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*In the webcomic Gods of Arr-Kelaan, as a character.
*[[Underworld]]
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In the Odyssey (XI, Nekyia), Odysseus makes a voyage to [[Hades]], the [[Underworld]], and raises the spirits of the dead using spells which he had learnt from
...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
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..., daughter of Cadmus, a mortal woman, and his father Zeus, the king of the gods.
...n, Dionysus was the son of [[Zeus]] and [[Persephone]], the queen of the [[Underworld]]. [[Hera]] again attempted to kill the child, this time by sending Titans
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...hcraft and haunting ghosts, who came forth with her from the depths of the underworld. Many lurid details were conjured up by later writers, assembled in the Sud
* Karl Kerényi, 1951. The Gods of the Greeks pp 38–40. Edition currently in print is Thames & Hudson rei
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...traits at the same time, for example with the animal-headed human forms of gods in Egyptian mythology (such as [[Ra]], [[Sobek]] and others) as well as cre
...vs. lycanthrope movies ''[[Underworld (2003 movie)|Underworld]]'' and ''[[Underworld: Evolution]]'', loosely inspired by the games. This simultaneous subcultur
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...Hades ” because of their contribution to the increasing population of the Underworld.
...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.
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...were rationing out the elixir of immortality, the nāgas grabbed a cup. The gods were able to retrieve the cup, but in doing so, spilled a few drops on the
...nectar of immortality from the the strong-hold of Indran ,king of the semi-gods himself, Garuda managed to buy the freedom of Vinata in exchange for giving
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...l and Misharu as a judge of the dead. A late Babylonian text makes him the underworld prison warder of the seven children of the god Emmesharra.
...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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...fering the trauma of her rape, after roaming the world followed him to the underworld, vowing vengeance upon the male gender. Ninlil. [http://www.britannica.com/
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...site of the myth of the Danaids. Beneath the waters was an entrance to the Underworld, and the Hydra was its guardian (Kerenyi 1959, p. 143...)
*The Hydra was used in the DC Comics storyline ''Challenge of the Gods'' for the character Wonder Woman to battle.
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...]] myth, which concerns itself with the pranks or tricks played by [[Deity|gods]] or heroes.
...to account for the local epithet of one of the [[Twelve Olympians|Olympian gods]], to interpret depictions of half-remembered figures, events, or account f
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