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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*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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...tes that human attention has been intentionally misdirected away from the underworld, where reptoids and the descendants of ancients civilizations live today, t
...o the Sanskrit word 'Sarpa', which was also used to describe great "Dragon-Gods" who ruled over, and created, the original Dravidian culture.
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...ginally meant "to cover". "Hel" later referred to the goddess of the Norse underworld, Hel. Compare [[Anglo-Saxon language |Anglo-Saxon]] ''helan'', Greek ''kaly
...the [[asphodel]]s fields. Like most ancient (pre-Christian) religions, the underworld was not viewed as negatively as it is in [[Christianity]].
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...s over Set and Ausar, being brought back from the dead becomes lord of the underworld. It is this drama that gives us the cosmic conflict between good and evil,
...d]], for example as a consort of the [[Great Goddess]] in [[Wicca]]. These gods usually reflect mythological figures such as [[Cernunnos]] or [[Pan]], and
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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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...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
...He is from Chinese Buddhism, and before that, from India. Enma rules the [[Underworld]], which makes him similar to [[Hades]], and he decides whether someone dea
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*Yato-no-kami - deadly snake-gods which infested a field
*Yomotsu-shikome - the hags of the underworld
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...rcus, and has apparently descended by several stages through the meanings "underworld, hell", "devil", "evil creature" and at last "ogre". "Orc" is also present
...ncy food source. They worship a pair of gods known as Gork and Mork (other gods were included in earlier editions of the game, but are no longer included).
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..., the [[Shadow people|shades]] that Odysseus meets on his journey to the [[Underworld]] are lured to the blood of freshly sacrificed rams, a fact that Odysseus u
...are also tales of [[kamaitachi]], a phenomenon where it was said that evil gods would thirst for human blood.
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* [[Cerberus]] - A three-headed dog known to guard the gates of the underworld in Greek mythology.
...at the giants would cross Bifrost, a great rainbow, at the Twilight of the Gods, breaking it with their weight and so destroying the world. Trolls figure i
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