...sacrifice with the intention of obtaining a son who could slay the King of Gods. Due to a mispronounciation, he instead obtained a son who would be slain b
...ras or Visvarupa. Vritra won the battle and swallowed Indra, but the other gods forced him to vomit Indra out. The battle continued and Indra was eventuall
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...attle against the asuras Shumbha and Nishumbha who had disenfranchised the gods from heaven. Raktabīja was wounded, but drops of blood falling on the grou
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...ions. There are many Aztec legends as to what she does to people (or other gods) who take her things.
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According to Euhemerist belief, all gods were living men. Vahagn came from the ranks of Armenian kings and he was th
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...world to relentlessly terrorize men and haul them back to the dark abode. Gods and humans alike, on earth or in hell, needed food and drink. But not the G
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...Gaia, a sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids.
...ncircling the world, and was by him the mother of numerous sons (the river gods) and numerous daughters (the Oceanids).
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:"They sacrificed to demons [Hebrew: Shedim], no-gods,
:Gods they had never known,
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...intimately connected, powerful, hard to defeat and are even feared by the Gods. In their battle with Kalki, the 10th and final avatar of Lord Vishnu, the
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...eight which glows with eternal fires--its Greek name is the Chariot of the Gods; and four days' voyage from it is the cape called the Horn of the West, on
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...ated by the mother goddess Tiamat in order to wage war against the younger gods for the betrayal of her mate Apsu. Deadly warriors, they could fight either
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...tent in the long-drawn-out battle with the asuras. All the energies of the Gods became united and became supernova, throwing out flames in all directions.
...garments and utensils, garlands and rosaries of beads, all offered by the gods. With her golden body blazing with the splendour of a thousand suns, seated
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...a for slaying the horse-demon with such ease, by whose neighing alone, the gods were abandoning heaven. He further prophesies the great deeds that Krishna
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...llow rock far from the deathless gods and mortal men. There, then, did the gods appoint her a glorious house to dwell in: and she keeps guard in Arima bene
...olfe's ''Book of the Long Sun'', Echidna appears as the Great Queen of the gods and the wife of the chief god Pas.
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...He is described as the "contriver of all fraud". He mixed freely with the gods for a long time, even becoming [[Odin]]'s blood brother. Despite much resea
...igated badness as a kind of celestial con man. He would often bail out the gods after playing tricks on them, as illustrated by the myth in which he shears
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...hat relates with this god which has also been associated with the Assyrian gods Enlil and Ninurta.
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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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*[http://www.scns.com/earthen/other/seanachaidh/godaztec.html ''The Gods and Goddesses of the Aztecs'']
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...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.
...re of evil and good, and equally punish the transgressions of both men and Gods.
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During the battle between the Gigantes and the Olympian gods, Enceladus was disabled by a spear thrown by the goddess Athena. He was bur
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According to legend, ancient Old Ones, who predateded the Vedic and pre-Vedic gods, sought to take over mankind's place on earth. To this end, they took some
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'''Ba'al''' (ordinarily spelled Baal in English) is a a name used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant.
...There is no intimation in the OT that any of the Canaanite Baals were sun-gods, or that the worship of the sun (Shemesh), of which we have ample evidence,
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...netherworld Patalas and were always in constant opposition to the Devas or gods. Through the performance of various harsh and severe penances, this Asura
...es, Shumba and Nishumba subsequently commenced similar attacks on other gods like Kubera, Yama, Varuna and Vayu, successfully routing them and claiming
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...achinas look after the interests of humans, serve as intermediaries to the gods, and can bestow good fortune, such as fertility, power, and long life.
...he Shalakos (the Giant Couriers of the Rainmakers) and the Longhorns (Rain Gods of the North), and an enormous amount of food is prepared for both resident
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...kind of faun similar to the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion.
...ident how dusii would be a surviving form of the Roman [[Mane]]s, infernal gods who were shades of the dead, nor be thought of as aerial pirates.
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...ated [[Nodens]] from the Dunsanian cycle and leagued him with the ''Elder Gods'' against the ''Old Ones''. Derleth also introduced a good versus evil dich
...rces of his mythos, there were, initially, the Elder Gods... [T]hese Elder Gods were benign deities, representing the forces of good, and existed peacefull
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...the flesh of the primal being Ymir before being gifted with reason by the gods.
...h. This may potentially mean that dwarfs formed humans, and that the three gods gave them life.
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==Snake-gods==
...Coatlicue, and the Voodoo snake-spirits Damballah, Simbi and Petro. Snake-gods were more often portrayed as hybrids or shape-shifters; for example, North
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:They injure the images of the gods ;
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: “I am the Bennu bird, the Heart-Soul of Ra, the Guide of the Gods to the Tuat.”.''[[Book of the Dead]]''
...e, the deceased says, "I am the Benu, the soul of Ra, and the guide of the gods in the Duat." In another verse, he says, "I am pure. My purity is the purit
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Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods features a modern adaptation of Hinzelmann as who sacrifices children in or
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*Greimas, Algirdas Julien (1992). Of Gods and Men. Studies in Lithuanian Mythology. Indiana University Press. p. 77.
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...r them, the Vision Serpent was direct link between the spirit realm of the gods and the physical world. (Schele and Friedel, 1990:395).
...ious event involved bloodletting because it provided a medium by which the gods could be called upon to witness and actually participate in the ceremony. S
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Dragon gods, in general, have few temples. There are shrines in Io's honor, usually tak
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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
Unlike some Greek gods, Hera's name is not analyzable as a Greek or Indo-European word. She there
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*Ely, Talfourd – ''The Gods of Greece and Rome'', Dover. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486427986/q
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In Greek mythology, Zeus is the God of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods.
==Zeus, Father of Gods==
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...''[[Vishnu]]''', and '''[[Shiva]]'''), but Mahishashur defeated all of the gods including the trinity themselves. He unleashed a reign of terror on earth,
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...em in their religion, and the two deities were equated and considered twin gods. They were both equal and opposed. Thus Tezcatlipoca was called "Black Tezc
...uatl, lord and lady of the duality, and were the creators of all the other gods, as well as the world and man.
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...as]]) and brought all the worlds under his control. He began to harass the gods and torture the saints and other devotees of Vishnu.
...emigods were able to calm [[Narasimha]]'s fury, not even Shiva. So all the gods and goddesses called His consort, the goddess Lakshmi, but she was also una
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...fire-sacrifice, called yagna, but personified are also seen as devas. All gods taken together are worshipped as the Vishvedevas. Varuna, identified by som
...uous tasks under their diligence that they are sometimes called themselves gods under the Supreme One God. The Hindu trinity is composed of Brahma, Vishnu
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...od Shiva, who lives in the Himalayas and are considered as Upa-devas, semi-gods.
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...out every sort of horrible sound, for sometimes it was speech such as the gods could understand, but at other times, the sound of a bellowing bull, proud-
...against the Titans; Typhon was so fearsome and dangerous, that the younger gods feared to face the monsters. Zeus tried to fight Typhon, until the monster
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Ancient mythologists placed Abraxas among the Egyptian gods. Abraxas was also the Persian sun god, and in Syria he was a form of Iao (a
...number of days in a year. Abraxas, they thought, had under his command 365 gods, to whom they attributed 365 virtues, one for each day.
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*Karl Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'', p. 52.
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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
...d opinion of his greatness, and he attempted to fly on Pegasus to join the gods on Olympus. An enraged Zeus sent an insect to annoy Pegasus, causing the ho
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...of the gods. Ragnarok in Norse mythology was the final battle between the gods of Asgard and the many monsters of the world.
...oples considered the birth of "freaks" representations of the wrath of the gods, a demonstration, as it were. The first so-named monstra were the showpiece
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...ic [[Apollo]], the reveller and god of trees [[Dionysus]], and with rustic gods such as [[Pan]] and [[Hermes]] (as the god of shepherds).
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*Littleton, C. Scott, ed., Gods, Goddesses & Mythology. Tarrytown: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2005.
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