:There are nine main Narasimha deities, collectively known as ''Navanarasimha'':
...no rival. Give me sole lordship over all the living entities and presiding deities, and give me all the glories obtained by that position. Furthermore, give m
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...was the youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea and the brother of the deities Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and [[Hera]].
Besides deities, he also fathered many mortals. In some of his human liaisons Zeus used dev
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...A series of their dedications to Epona and other Celtic, Roman and German deities was found in Rome, at the Lateran (Spiedel, 1994). As '''Epane''' she is at
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As protective deities or genii, larger than life-size statue-blocks of lamassi were placed on ei
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They could also be minor deities, much like the (light) elves, which suggests how they could have acquired t
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...y rooted not only in poetry but in belief and ritual; the worship of these deities is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a spe
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...res around the world, the Green Man is often related to natural vegetative deities springing up in different cultures throughout the ages. Primarily it is int
Parallels have been drawn between the Green Man and various deities and [[mythology|myth]]ical figures such as [[Cernunnos]], [[Sylvanus]], [[D
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Loa have been associated with Catholic saints and African deities and their appearance often carry their distinctive features.
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...versal power of Zeus over the ancient natural world: "the worship of these deities," Burkert confirms, "is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably
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...s is referred to in ''Devi Mahatmya''. She is one of the most popular folk deities in Bengal, and a number of poems and literary compositions in Bengali calle
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[[Category: Death deities]]
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It is thought that female deities are older than male ones in Mesopotamia, and Tiamat may have begun as part
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In monotheistic religions, the deities of other religions are sometimes interpreted or created as demons. The evo
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...to flight. After experiencing such a humiliating defeat, the three supreme deities realised that they were powerless to stop Mahishasura by themselves and dec
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...no rival. Give me sole lordship over all the living entities and presiding deities, and give me all the glories obtained by that position. Furthermore, give m
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...that only a weapon made from the bones of a sage could slay him. When the deities revealed their doubts about the likelihood of any ascetic donating his body
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...he simplest rituals involve nothing more than prayers or sacrifices to the deities before fishing or traveling by water.
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==Protective spirits and deities==
...s of tengu on other sacred mountains have adopted similar images for their deities, such as Sanjakubō (三尺坊) or Akiba Gongen (秋葉権現) of Akiba and
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In Norse mythology the '''valkyries''' are dísir, minor female deities, who are described as battle-maidens who ride in the ranks of the gods or s
...e mythological poems of the Poetic ''Edda'' the valkyries are supernatural deities of unknown parentage; they are described as battle-maidens who ride in the
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...w of protective spirits, and at the top the symbols of the main Babylonian deities. Bronze. 13.3 cms high. Dating to around 625-539 B.C.E.).
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...is not described in late-antique sources independently of Greek and Roman deities, the common functionality of the others lay in their ability to impregnate
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...Dé Danann]], although most scholars consider him to be of an older race of deities.
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...]], the '''Titans''' (Greek Τιτάν, plural Τιτάνες) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. At the beginning, there were 12
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In the Ulster Cycle, the Tuatha Dé Danann was still seen as Celtic deities. However, in the Fenian Cycle, the Dananns had degenerated into nothing mor
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...ngs. It is the Vision Serpent who provides the medium for contacting these deities. The vision serpent thus came to be the method in which ancestors or Gods m
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...used the Orcgate Wars in which the pious gray orcs called avatars of their deities down to help them, and the Mulhorandi and Untheric people did the same. Led
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...in the 2nd Edition of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons rulebook ''Deities & Demigods'', that any mortal seeing R'lyeh instantly becomes insane becaus
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...e bulls Mnevis and Buchis.) Unlike the cults of most of the other Egyptian deities, the worship of the Apis bull was continued by the Greeks and after them by
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The Aztecs assimilated them in their religion, and the two deities were equated and considered twin gods. They were both equal and opposed. Th
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...lar systems, clerics can attempt to "turn" undead by invoking their patron deities or channeling "positive energy" (other-dimensional life energy). This force
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The following are Japanese death deities but are usually not referred to as shinigami:
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...tation of Shiva associated with annihilation and one of the most important deities of Nepal, sacred to Hindus and Buddhists alike. According to the Puranas, i
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...east 2300 BCE, Dagan was the head of the city pantheon comprising some 200 deities and bore the titles BE-DINGIR-DINGIR, "Lord of the gods" and Bekalam, "Lord
...lton|Milton's]] epic poem ''[[wikipedia:Samson Agonistes]]'' as one of the deities the Philistines worship.
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Of all the mythos deities, Shub-Niggurath is probably the most extensively worshiped. Her worshipers
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Pan is one of the prototype deities invoked in the neopagan archetype of the [[Horned God]].
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...sa-no-O is expelled from Heaven, he encounters two Kuni-tsu-Kami ("earthly deities") near the head of the Hi River in Izumo Province. They are weeping because
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If the latter is true, then the Fates would be the most powerful of all deities.
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...n [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9004111190 Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible] (DDD)) repeats the common claim that ''elohim'' is
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...ed the dead body of Osiris, with the assistance of the other main funerary deities involved - Nepthys, and Isis.
...escribing the Procession of Isis he says, Immediately after these came the Deities, condescending to walk upon human feet, the foremost among them rearing ter
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...pulative, secretive, and mercenary by nature, often acting as soldiers for deities in their own private wars, or even at times aiding both sides of the Blood
...ream larva, phaethon, xixecal, hecatoncheires) - the unwanted offspring of deities (ELH)[varies]
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...pear in many other supplements such as first edition ''Fiend Folio'' and ''Deities and Demigods'' (all three editions).
|''Empires of the Sands'', reported dead in ''Demihuman Deities''.
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...everal religions, the names of any earlier foreign or "[[Paganism|pagan]]" deities often became synonymous with the concept of an adversarial entity.
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...g is included without purpose. Starting with their various accompaniments, deities are usually portrayed holding objects in their hands and these objects alwa
...objects are considered right-hand proper, while others are for left-handed deities.
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In Buddhism, the nāgas are the enemies of the [[Garuḍa]]s, minor deities resembling gigantic eagles, who eat them. They learned how to keep from bei
Nāgas both live on Mount Sumeru, among the other minor deities, and in various parts of the human-inhabited earth. Some of them are water-
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...nterpret depictions of half-remembered figures, events, or account for the deities' attributes or [[entheogen]]s, even to make sense of ancient icons, much as
* [[List of deities]]
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...f Typhon makes it clear that the Olympian gods are the heirs of the animal deities of Egypt. Typhon is then an avatar of the god Set.
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[[Category: Death deities]]
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Like most Hindu deities, He is known by many other names, including '''Senthil, Saravaṇa, Kārthi
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...ient Canaanite manuscripts that deal with Shahar, one of their own [[deity|deities]].
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Like these other Oriental dragons, Japanese ones are usually water deities associated with rainfall and bodies of water, and typically depicted as lar
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