..."light-bearer" (from ''lux'', "light", and ''ferre'', "to bear, bring"), a Roman astrological term for the "'''Morning Star'''", the planet Venus.
==Roman tradition==
29 KB (4,719 words) - 20:35, 2 October 2009
...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.
17 KB (2,859 words) - 05:00, 12 June 2010
...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
31 KB (5,004 words) - 17:16, 18 April 2007
...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
11 KB (1,943 words) - 18:36, 18 April 2007
...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
16 KB (2,706 words) - 10:35, 14 July 2010
...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
37 KB (6,068 words) - 10:22, 16 September 2010
...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
24 KB (3,985 words) - 09:40, 18 May 2012
...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
21 KB (3,312 words) - 01:36, 22 January 2012
...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
19 KB (3,081 words) - 15:46, 18 January 2012
*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
30 KB (4,940 words) - 17:53, 1 February 2008
...Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] and [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], but [[Hades]] also included [[Elysium]], a place for the rewar
...t epics of European literature include episodes that occur in Hell. In the Roman poet [[Virgil]]'s Latin epic, the ''[[Aeneid]]'', Aeneas descends into Dis
31 KB (5,072 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2007
...Lamia (monster)]], a nocturnal bird that fed on human flesh and blood. The Roman strix is the source of the Romanian vampire, the ''[[Strigoi]]'' and the Al
...e - the Orthodox church believed incorrupt bodies were vampires, while the Roman church believed they were saints.
34 KB (5,579 words) - 23:26, 20 July 2010
*[[Mors]] (Roman)
...f its fire and enters the perpetual night realm called Yominokuni that the gods thereto retire. After Izanagi, her husband, failed in the attempt to reclai
37 KB (6,421 words) - 11:32, 2 September 2008
...t at times '' 'Elohim'' (powers), ''bnēi 'Elohim'', ''bnēi Elim'' (sons of gods) (i.e. members of the class of divine beings) were general terms for beings
...he heathen, and we have there the first step of the process by which these gods became evil angels, an idea expanded by [[John Milton|Milton]] in ''[[Parad
52 KB (8,282 words) - 04:36, 18 July 2010
...nciful connections link the ram-god of Mendes with the syncretic Ptolemaic-Roman [[Harpocrates]]. Harpocrates was a granter of fertility, but he was not ass
Crowley also identified Baphomet with himself. In ''The Equinox of the Gods'' he describes another card from the Tarot, this time "Lust" (Atu XI), "It
18 KB (2,882 words) - 15:57, 24 January 2008
...to practice it on the basis that it usually involves the worship of other gods. Rabbis of the Talmud also condemned magic when it produced something other
...by witches" (using practices indistinguishable from Witchcraft). Combining Roman Catholic beliefs and practices and traditional West African religious belie
27 KB (4,267 words) - 22:04, 15 April 2008
...o-Conception#The Rosicrucian conception of God and the scheme of evolution|gods]].'' This "College of Invisibles" is regarded as the source permanently be
...the Mysteries of Mithras: New Evidence from a Cult Vessel. The Journal of Roman Studies. 90 pp145-180]
45 KB (6,596 words) - 17:30, 18 April 2007
...to the 'primitive' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian gods: see the explicit rejection of human sacrifice in the cannibal feast prepar
...trine of transubstantiation has nothing to do with acquiring divinity. The Roman Catholic Church is not pantheistic. Transubstantiation is the belief that C
45 KB (7,219 words) - 21:35, 2 October 2010
...e powerful. Blood is viewed by pagan religions as the sustenance of their gods, maintaining their power and immortality through the sacrifice of humans an
...where it was believed to possess healing powers. According to one source, Roman soldier were issued daily rations of garlic before battle to give them cour
63 KB (10,866 words) - 19:07, 20 June 2010
