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  • Nyarlathotep (the Crawling Chaos) this being is one of the cosmic Outer Gods. ...forms, most of these reputed to be maddeningly horrific. Most of the Outer Gods have their own cults serving them; Nyarlathotep seems to serve these cults
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  • ...akali; an avatar of [[Kali]] following the design given by Narada. All the gods donated their special weapons, and Bhadrakali succeeded in destroying the d
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  • ...ods who were identified with the Hecatonchires and perhaps with three wind-gods Boreas, Notos and Zephyros.
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  • *'''Anaxim''' - Ill-conceived constructs crafted by gods of the forge. *'''Phaethon''' - Phaethons are the progeny of fire gods.
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  • ...ride on great horses and burn Midgard killing all the people, some of the gods, and all the fire giants themselves except a man and a woman set by [[Odin]
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  • In Albanian mythology, '''Tomor''' is the father of all gods and humans. *Lurker, Manfred (2004). The Routledge dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons. Routledge. pp. 186. ISBN 0415340187.
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  • ...to as upholding the movables and immovable Dharma. Adityas are beneficent Gods who act as protectors of all beings, who are provident and guard the world ...(light space), eleven gods in atmosphere (intermediate space), and eleven gods in earth (observer space). In the Satapatha Brahmana, the number of Āditya
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  • ...t that the gods themselves became exceedingly alarmed. Unsuccessfully, the gods attempted to distract the brothers through the enticement of maidens and by ...roceeded to conquer and to devastate the entire world. They even drove the gods from their celestial abode. Finally, Brahma was again moved to action.
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  • ...t that the gods themselves became exceedingly alarmed. Unsuccessfully, the gods attempted to distract the brothers through the enticement of maidens and by ...roceeded to conquer and to devastate the entire world. They even drove the gods from their celestial abode.
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  • ...s gods in pagan Prussian mythology. Both of them were believed as the same gods who takes care of the the underworld and the dead. They were described as a
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  • ...of the earth from Greek mythology. She was the first of all the people and gods to exist and from came every other god and goddess, including the titans.
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  • [[List of Potamoi]] - The gods of rivers and lakes.
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  • ...southern, northern and westerly) are his sons. They are commonly known as gods of wind. *Straižys, Vytautas; ''Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Balts'', Lietuvos Dangus (Sky of Lithuania), V
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  • *Jordan, Michael (2004-08). Dictionary of gods and goddesses. Infobase Publishing. p. 284. ISBN 9780816059232. *Lurker, Manfred (2004). The Routledge dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons. Psychology Press. p. 172. ISBN 9780415340
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  • ...ters ''D.M.'', which stood for ''dis manibus'', or "dedicated to the Manes-gods". The word was also used as a metaphor to refer to the underworld.
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  • ...wn blowing on a conch shell to raise or calm a storm. Triton and other sea gods were sometimes also depicted in ancient mosaics as Ichthyocentaurs. A pair of twin lesser-known Greek sea gods named Bythos (Sea-Depths) and Aphros (Sea-Foam) were depicted as ichthyocen
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  • The '''Yato-no-kami''' (夜刀の神, lit. "gods of the night-sword") are snake deities appearing in the ''Hitachi No Kuni F
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  • ...tamian mythology, '''Lahamu''' and '''Lahmu''' are twin deities, the first gods to be born from the chaos that was created by the merging of Apsu and Tiama ...is the mother of Anshar and Kishar, who were in turn parents of the first gods. She and her brother/husband are never mentioned separately.
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  • The '''Potamoi''' were the gods of the rivers, offsprings of [[Oceanus]] and [[Tethys]]. Their sisters were
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  • The Danavas revolted against the gods under the leadership of Bali and others, but were defeated. In the Rig Veda *Munro, W. D. (1911) ''Stories of Indian Gods & Heroes'' Harrap, London;
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  • '''Mangindusa''' or the ''lord of the heavens'' is one of the four holy gods in the Tagbanua mythology of Philippines. [[Category: Gods]]
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  • ...s on the gates that held the titans back from beginning a new war with the gods
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  • *Encyclopedia of Gods, Michael Jordon, Kyle Cathie Limited, 2002
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  • *[http://www.mythome.org/celtic.html Celtic Gods and Associates] *[http://www.paralumun.com/celticgod.htm Celtic Gods]
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  • His powers were so great that the gods grew alarmed and [[Skanda]], the god of war, was born in order to defeat hi
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  • ...eations of magicians. Although they may bring wealth to a human owner, the gods punish anyone who tries to make use of them.
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  • ...Svadilfari. Sleipnir can be compared to the otherworldly horses of Celtic gods such as [[Manannan Mac Lir]] and [[In Dagda]]. ...rd was destroyed during a war between the Vanir and the Aesir, leaving the gods vulnerable to an attack by the giants.
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  • ...ology.They have powers useualy from the element they surrond. Not consided gods. not easy to find. Usaly nude,whereing leafs(wood nyph),or shells sealike c
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  • In Roman and Etruscan mythology, '''Mantus''' and his wife, [[Mania]] were gods of the underworld. They were associated with the city ''Mantua'' (Italian:
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  • ...nd as the world ends he will go out, make war against and triumph over the gods. And he will burn the whole world with fire" (Gimlé Gylfaginning, iv).</bl ...e world.". Surtur is the being who cleanses Asgard with fire after all the gods have fallen in battle at Ragnarok, the periodic destruction of Asgard. Only
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  • ...logy]], the '''Gigantes''' were a race of giants, who defied the olympians gods. ...ttempt to end the Olympian reign. They tested the strength of the Olympian gods in what is known as the ''Gigantomachia'' or Gigantomachy.
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  • ...lands#Great Ones|Great Ones]], and the [[Outer God#Lesser Outer Gods|Other Gods]] *[[The Other Gods]] (1933)
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  • ...of the bird goddess [[Siris]] or conceived by the pure waters of the Apsu-gods and the wide Earth. ...oping to control the fate of all things. In one version of the legend, the gods sent Lugalbanda to retrieve the tablets, who in turn, killed Anzu. In anoth
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  • ...hamadryad associated with it died as well. For that reason, dryads and the gods punished any mortals who harmed trees.
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  • ...thoth, the center of all infinity. He is by far known to be the only alien gods had a counterpart of the human, he has a son. His son is name Wilbur Whatel
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  • Fenrir is bound by the gods, but is ultimately destined to grow too large for his bonds and devours ''' ...Only the god '''Tyr''' was daring enough to feed the growing monster. The gods urged by the wolf's increasing strength and by prophecies that he would be
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  • ...le for both floods and droughts, and that he had been created by the other gods. ==Related gods==
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  • ...s are associated to Lithuanian Ūsinis and Latvian Ūsiņš (cf. Vedic Ushas), gods of horses. [[Category: Gods]]
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  • :Of all the gods | is Othin the greatest, :Of the fate of the gods, | the mighty in fight. - [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe03.htm Be
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  • ...cean, and gathered colossal boulders. He then dropped these on the warring gods and succeeded in stopping them.
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  • ...d by Hupasiyas with a rope. Then the Sky God Teshub appears with the other gods and kills the dragon. In the second version, after the two gods fight and Teshub loses, Illuyanka takes Teshub's eyes and heart. To avenge
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  • ...e children of Echidna and Typhon. It was said that it had been sent by the gods (perhaps Dionysus) to prey upon the children of Thebes as a punishment for
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  • ...ightning of springtime are brought on by Sky Women mating with the thunder gods; hence spring festivals included a celebration of the return of the rusalki
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  • The buta-kala are everywhere but their absence is felt mainly when the gods are distant or when human neglect or wrongdoing has alienated the Divinity. ...divinities when they feel neglected or forgotten. They may also serve the gods and carry out their orders.
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  • ...phroditos''' (or ''Hermaphroditus'') is a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, the gods of male and female sexuality. ...he gods that they might permit her to remain united with him for ever. The gods granted the request, and the bodies of the youth and the nymph became unite
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  • ...naras took birth in bears and monkeys attaining the shape and valor of the gods and goddesses who created them (Ramayana 1.17.17-18). After Vanaras were cr
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  • ...erb musical skills. They guarded the Soma and made beautiful music for the gods in their palaces. In Hindu theology, Gandharvas act as messengers between the gods and humans. In Hindu law, a Gandharva marriage is one contracted by mutual
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  • ...'s name means the intoxicator, his strength is being feared by the king of gods, Indra. It has the ability to change its size to swallow the entire univers ...eavens. Seeing that Mada was going to swallow the entire universe with the gods still in it, Indra surrendered and asked that the sage call off the beast.
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  • In the later myth, it was offered by gods to serve goddess Durga or Parvati as mount for rewarding her victory. As Du
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  • ...of this horse, but it eventually became the vehicle of Indra, king of the gods.
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  • ...of the principal gods of the Aztecs and was the most prominent of several gods and goddesses of death and the underworld (see also Chalmecatl). The worshi ...rn on the sixth day of the 13-day week and was the fifth of the nine Night Gods of the Aztecs. He was also the secondary Week God for the tenth week of the
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  • ...en. This "Boney-Thing" might have been one of the important skeletal death gods of the Classic Period depicted dancing on Maya ceramics. The way of the pow ...nd constellations were probably seen as the wayob of the ancestors and the gods.
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  • ...ya]]s, a group of solar deities. They are the supreme keepers of order and gods of the law. Mitra has two assistants, [[Aryaman]] and [[Bhaga]]. Varuna and Mitra are the gods of the oath, often twinned or identified as Mitra-Varuna (a dvandva compoun
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  • ...eating the word "earth" until the solid world rose from the seas. When the gods became angry with the first human beings, Hurukan unleashed the deluge whic ...vered with green feathers, and Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, the mother and father gods. As the result of their deliberations animals were created. But as yet man
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  • In return for the sacrifice of Porâsý, the gods lifted her soul and changed it into a small but intense point of light. Since then, the gods destined the spirit of Porasy to light up the aurora.
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  • ...os Trigaranus]] (the ‘bull with three cranes’), Jupiter, Vulcan, and other gods. The name Esus is a cognate of [[Zeus]] who as the tree-splitter is associa ...dentical with the HEUS of Lactantius, and the HESUS of Lucan, described as gods of the Gauls. The similarity of the last name to IESU, Welsh Jesus is obvio
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  • ...ncient Turkic tradition, although dragons themselves are not worshipped as gods.
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  • ...ntary archaic vessel (British Museum 1971.11-1.1) of ca 580 BCE, among the gods arriving at the wedding of Peleus and the sea-nymph [[Thetis]], is a fish-t ...urney "to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Okeanos, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own hou
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  • ...ng. The latter was killed by the treacherous god Loki during a banquet the gods held at Aegir's undersea hall near the island of Hler (or Hlesey). ...while in his hall. He was also known for hosting elaborate parties for the gods. He is very similar to the Greek god [[Poseidon]].
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  • ...the bounty of the earth, and plant would grow. The people cried out to the gods for an end to the wasting of the earth and famine,and eventually interventi ''Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus'' by Michael Simpson,
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  • Tornarsuk is the head of the protective gods known as the tornat. He is also the master of the whales and seals.
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  • ...ar. She is in some ways similar to Babylonian Tiamat, dragon mother of the gods and goddesses.
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  • ...d pestle busily pounding away and making the Elixir of Immortality for the gods (and sometimes rice flour to make moon cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival). ===Man-like Gods and Deified Men in Mexican Cosmolore by Anna-Britta Hellbom===
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  • ...konost came from the name of Greek demi-goddess [[Alcyone]] transformed by gods into a kingfisher.
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  • Ages ago, The gods created a new world. They argued over who should rule
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  • Petsuchoi were worshipped as gods, and were adorned with jewels and gold. When the Petsuchos died, it was rep
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  • ..., as maggots were thought to, in the dead flesh (i.e. earth or stone). The gods later gifted them with intelligence and human-like appearance. They are skilled metal-workers and the makers of most of the artifacts of the gods, both [[Æsir]] and [[Vanir]]. Among their most famous creations are the sp
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  • ...or animals, and are often more cruel than other gods. These trouble-making gods are regarded as having come from Samoa. The Tongan word ''tangi lauʻaitu'' ...ey were from time to time slaughtered in order to provide sacrifice to the gods. There still exists at Mangaia the remains of a great oven named ''te umu A
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  • ...letely forgotten, and new ones were created. In ancient Jewish lore, pagan gods of neighbouring cultures were classed as extremely pernicious in order to p
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  • ...tha (Russian: Gafiya). Her existence was mentioned in a list of Lithuanian gods by Jan Łasicki that was published in 1615. *Jonas Trikūnas, ed (1999). Of Gods & Holidays: The Baltic Heritage. Tvermė. pp. 85–87. ISBN 9986-476-27-5.
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  • ...or a boon that would enable him to see, and that he would not be killed by gods, demons, or humans, or even by the great Vishnu himself. Brahma was in a fi ...ing that Andhaka did was to invade heaven. He defeated Indra and the other gods and made them pay taxes to the demons. Next he defeated the snakes (nagas),
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  • ...race with superhuman strength, described as standing in opposition to the gods, although they frequently mingled with or were even married to these, both ...light, and in comfort their homes do not differ greatly from those of the gods.
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  • ...e Greek myths, long before the coming of Zeus and the rest of the Olympian gods, Ophion and Eurynome ruled Olympus as king and queen. He was displaced as r
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  • ...(Dungeons & Dragons)|dragons]] and a member of the default pantheon of D&D gods. ...gons)|Bahamut]], [[Chronepsis]], [[Faluzure]], and Tiamat. Other draconic gods may be present in different campaign settings.
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  • ...that the Sirena bring their victims under the sea and offer them to their gods. Others claimed that the Sirena takes the life out by drowning men while at
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  • ...nsort Apsu, the 'sweet' water, Tiamat mothered the first generation of the gods. ...serpents, storm demons, fish-men, scorpion-men and many others that became gods and goddesses.
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  • * Allardice, Pamela. Myths, Gods and Fantasy: A Sourcebook. Dorset, Prism Press, 1991.
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  • * Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955. * Kerenyi, Karl, (1951) 1980. The Gods of the Greeks especially pp 135-6. [3] [4]
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  • The '''Manucaudiata''' or '''Manuqdewata''' (bird of the gods) is a legendary bird that is believed to be from paradise.
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  • *Jonas Trikūnas, ed (1999). Of Gods & Holidays: The Baltic Heritage. Tvermė. pp. 75–77. *Jonas Trikūnas, ed (1999). Of Gods & Holidays: The Baltic Heritage. Tvermė. pp. 120–124.
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  • [[Category:Roman gods]] [[Category:Underworld gods]]
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  • Stheno's head was displayed when she died for all the gods to mock.
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  • ...ped by Arameans was also called "The Lord" (Ba`al) and ruled over the high gods assembled on the holy mount of Heaven. Other spellings: Bael, Baël (French ...as one specific demon was created when Christianity regarded ancient pagan gods as demons and demonology divided the demonic population of Hell in several
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  • ...earful and would attack human beings, however most would not be enemies to gods or humans, instead living calmly in their domains.
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  • ...e of the native Chamorros, went also the practice of the worship of native gods and ancestor cults. Scholars believe that the concept of the tricky Taotao
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  • ...u, the Sun.[1] Humbaba was also the guardian of the Cedar Forest where the gods lived. ...s death approaches, and Gilgamesh is oppressed with his own mortality, the gods remind him of his great feats: "...having fetched cedar, the unique tree, f
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  • ...n literally means "heaven; the heavens; sky" or figuratively "Heaven; God; gods", tianlong can denote "heavenly dragon; celestial dragon" or "holy dragon; ...uddhist terminology, ''tianlong'' means either "heavenly [[Naga]]s (dragon gods)" or "Devas and Nāgas".
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  • '''Mo-o''' are a type of dragons that were worshipped as ghost-gods by the ancient Hawaiians. The New Zealanders used the same names for some of their large reptile gods. They, however, spelled the word with a "k," calling it mo-ko, and it was a
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  • ...ory is that in the region of Naucratis in Egypt there dwelt one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own nam
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  • ...heir children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." - 2 Kings 17:31. This often leads to the concept that child Like other pagan gods, Adramelech is considered a demon in Judeo-Christian tradition. Adramelech
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  • ...im ('lhm) was found to be a word denoting the entire Canaanite [[Pantheon (gods)|pantheon]] (the family of El '''אל''', the [[patriarchy|patriarchal]] cr ...ctionis]] ''heh'' inserted to distinguish the [[Israelite]] God from other gods. He argues that ''elohim'' thus patterns with Abram/[[Abraham]] and Sarai/
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  • ...that continuously strive to undermine the divine order established by the gods as related by numerous accounts from Hindu mythology. Hence, his name refle ...ower of this asura, the devas sought the aid of the trinity of the supreme gods, namely Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.
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  • ...ho then set upon his father, castrated him, and set himself as king of the gods, with Rhea as his wife and queen. Rhea gave birth to a new generation of gods to Cronos, but, in fear that they too would eventually overthrow him, he sw
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  • Mayura is associated with a number of gods and deities of the Hindus including the following:
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  • ...word for Way or Path, and LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical
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  • ..., thunder, heavenly fire or lightning and celestial elements in a triad of gods. He was also considered as the right hand and executor of Dievas‘s will.
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  • ...of Naiad. They lived in freshwater lakes. Their parents were river or lake gods.
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  • ...erred to as devas or demi-gods. Some Asuras were corrupted while some were gods in heaven. Both are children of Kashyapa. Asuras should not be confused wit ...sub-tribes would compete in making the most perfect ritual offering to the gods, seeking to outdo their peers in beauty of hymns sung, richness of offering
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  • ...tutor. This puts him in a company of phallic or half-animal tutors of the gods, a group that includes Priapus, Cedalion and Chiron, but also includes Pall *Karl Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks''.
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  • From Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men:
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  • ...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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  • Jeremy Black and Anthony Green: ''Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary''
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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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  • ...ation during rituals. Most similar to the veve are the drawings of zemi or gods of the Taino religion. ...generally the older, more beneficent spirits, and are associated with the gods of Africa. Their traditional colour is white (as opposed to the specific co
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  • ...agbanua mythology, the diwatas are considered equivalent to other creation gods such as, Bathala and Kan-Laon, in the sense that, they are also creators of In other parts of the Philippines, diwata is analogous to the Greek gods and goddesses. Some of the famous Diwata are:
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  • .... They danced to the music made by their husbands, usually in the various gods' palaces.
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  • ...cal axis around which these worlds are situated, with Ásgard, realm of the gods, at the top and the Hel, located in Niflheim, at the bottom. Midgard, our w ...y conflagration of Surtr, the rebirth of the world and a new generation of gods and men are positive indications.
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  • ...r Burkert points out, "When in the ''[[Iliad]]'' [xx.4 - 9] Zeus calls the gods into assembly on Mount Olympus, it is not only the well-known Twelve Olympi
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  • ...acter featured within the famed ancient Chinese novel ''Investiture of the Gods''.
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  • ...mikaze) which means “When devil’s wind comes from a foreign place, may the gods send a counter-wind (from Ise; Ise is a strong Shinto area)"</blockquote>.
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  • * Aston, William George. 1905. Shinto: (the Way of the Gods). Longmans, Green, and Co.
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  • ...the sea. He jumped in the ocean and refused to go back on land. The sea gods nearby heard his prayers and transformed him into a sea god. Ovid describe
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  • *Lurker, Manfred (2004). The Routledge dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons
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  • ..., she is also viewed as the mother goddess and one of the chief Lithuanian gods. Žemyna is the epitome of fertile earth and her duty includes nourishing o
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  • ...cultures, the Feathered Serpent was more often seen as a messenger between gods and men, and was sometimes known as the Vision Serpent.
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  • ...times. They may have once been believed to be the beings who preceded the gods, similar to the Greek [[Titans]]. ...sent the gods of human civilization. Alternatively, they may represent the gods of a proposed pre-Goidelic population of Ireland
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  • ...ich are closely linked with kingship (“strong bull” was a common title for gods and pharaohs). Sometimes the Apis bull was pictured with the sun-disk betwe ...ike of both groups, despite the curses of the Egyptian priests against the gods of the previous foreign rulers (i.e Set who was lauded by the Hyksos). Alex
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  • ...ient Igbo. He served as the Alusi or God of Bargains. Like most Trickster Gods, the deity was a force of Chaos and Change, thus in his more violent aspect
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  • *Karl Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'' (Thames & hudson)
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  • * Znayenko, Myroslava T.: The gods of the ancient Slavs: Tatishchev and the beginnings of Slavic mythology (Pa
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  • ...the sibling progenitors Izanagi and Izanami gave birth to the islands and gods of Japan. After Izanami died from burns during the childbirth of the fire d ...d it frequently manifests itself as a god of the sea. The old Japanese sea-gods were often female water-snakes. The cultural influences which reached Japan
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  • ...me for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerica, one of the main gods of many Mexican and northern Central American civilizations and also the na ===Quetzalcoatl and other Gods===
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  • ...re was a species of drama known as the satyric; it parodied the legends of gods and heroes, and the chorus was composed of satyrs and sileni. In the Atheni *Ely, Talfourd – ''The Gods of Greece and Rome'', Dover. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486427986/q
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  • ...ecious things that were brought to light in the Churning of the Ocean. The gods presented her to the sapta-rishis and she became the property of the sage V
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  • ...at Latvian vilkacis is no evil being. They are even called "Dieva suņi" ( "Gods' dogs" ), although it is not clear, which god is meant - the Latvian divini
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  • *Greimas, Algirdas Julien (1992). Of Gods and Men. Studies in Lithuanian Mythology. Indiana University Press. p. 111.
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  • * The creature is mentioned in chapter 10 of the novel ''American Gods'' by Neil Gaiman.
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  • The two known gods of the derro are [[Diirinka]] and [[Diinkarazan]].
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  • ...onslaught of his light! If you speak, your face will be overturned by the gods. Your heart will be seized by the lynx (Mafdet), your reins will be bound b ...your ropes, O Ra, that Apep may fall to your snaring or be trapped by the gods of north, south, east and west in their traps ... All is now well, O Ra! Pr
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  • The yakṣas may have originally been the tutelary gods of forests and villages, and were later viewed as the steward deities of th
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  • :The daughter of Heaven is one of the Gods, her brothers ...154891926/ref=sr_1_1/104-8059691-6811967?ie=UTF8&s=books Green A, Black J. Gods: ''Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: an Illustrated Dictionary'']
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  • ...ature, and they are frequently in conflict with the gods, be they Olympian gods or Norse. There are also historical stories featuring giants in the Old Tes They were involved in a conflict with the Olympian gods called the ''Gigantomachy'' (Γιγαντομαχία), which was eventuall
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  • ...", Gregory, Lady Augusta. "Part I Book IV: His Three Calls to Cormac" in ''Gods and Fighting Men'' (Colyn Smyth, Buckinghamshire, 1903) [http://www.sacred- *Gods and Fighting Men, Lady Gregory; 1904 [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/
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  • ...and in American Gods appears at times as a cat living with other Egyptian gods Thoth and Anubis, who now survive as small-town morticians, throughout the
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  • Varuna and Mitra are the gods of the oath, often twinned or identified as Mitra-Varuna (a dvandva compoun
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  • ...ad perished far from the shores of home, away from the protection of their gods. Other explanations for their origin claim that they are the reincarnated s ...nged deer, isolated from their gods. After committing a single murder, the gods' favor would be restored and the angry soul within the peryton calmed.
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  • ...them." Goibniu, Creidhne and Luchta are referred to as Trí Dé Dána ("three gods of craftsmanship"), and the Dagda's name is interpreted in medieval texts a
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  • ...times, Poseidon had significantly more importance than Zeus. The change of gods was due to the replacement of the Mycenean culture and religion, with a lat
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  • ...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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  • * Hagen, R. Hagen, R. Egypt; People, Gods, Pharaohs, Rose-Marie & Rainer Hagen, (Barnes and Noble Books, New York), c
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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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  • ...'', a Bran Mak Morn tale by Robert E. Howard mention is made of the "black gods of R'lyeh". Lovecraft was a friend and correspondent of Howard and their wo ...has a dream in which she encounters a temple inhabited by priests of "Old Gods", whose intent is to raise the city of R'lyeh from the depths. She also fin
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  • ...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
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  • ...It was realized by the gods that only the son born of Shiva could lead the gods to victory over Tarakasuran, Surapadman and their demon companions. They pl Murugan became the supreme general of the demi-gods then escorted the devas and led the army of the devas to victory against th
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  • ...Apollonios Rhodios's Argonautika. It is also said that Hera, queen of the gods, persuaded the Sirens to enter a singing contest with the Muses. The Muses
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  • Enki, lord of the hegal the Anunna-gods possess. in the dining halls of the gods.
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  • ...conjure protective circles against demons, and freeze humans, demons, and gods alike. ...ribe gives him the title of "Handsome Monkey-King". After angering several gods and coming to the attention of the Jade Emperor, he is given a minor positi
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  • ...believed to be the ancestors, the spirits of nature, or the goddesses and gods themselves.
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  • *Kerenyi, Karl, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'' (London: Thames & Hudson)
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  • ...d from Hebrew 'Chium', an epithet given to several Assyrian and Babylonian gods. Epigraphy does not confirm this etymology. It could also be the demonizati
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  • ...amongst [[Wiccan]]-influenced Neopagans, which unites numerous male nature gods out of such widely-dispersed and historically unconnected [[mythology|mytho ...bulls and goats, sacred stags and ibexes serve as examples. Not all horned gods and their priests were male; [[Astarte]] and [[Isis]] (borrowing an attribu
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  • ...ntually, Daksha held a yagna (a ritualistic sacrifice) and invited all the gods, but not Sati and Shiva. Sati came to the yagna alone, where Daksha publicl
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  • ...rm of enjoyment in a region midway between the earth and the heaven of the gods, or to undergo their measure of punishment in Naraka, the nether world, sit
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  • ...fear of ghosts and other supernatural beings, such as spirits and [[Deity|gods]], has been said by some scholars to be a mechanism of social control. See
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  • ...bstituted for the underworld as a whole. The [[Inferi Dii]] were the Roman gods of the underworld. ...s]]: together they accounted for half of the [[Twelve Olympians|Olympian]] gods.
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  • ...believed to be a leopard god or goddess masquerading as human. When these gods mate with humans, offspring can be produced, and these children sometimes g
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  • ...e same theme -the birth of Erichthonius-, surrounded by the other Olympian gods in a rich and ornate style, was used to decorate a later classical calyx cr
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  • ...is the Homeric hymn to Pan, which describes him as delighting ''all'' the gods, and thus getting his name. The Roman counterpart to Pan is Faunus, (see be *Kerenyi, Karl, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'' (Thames & hudson)
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  • He has also produced the film ''[[Gods and Monsters]]'' which received major critical acclaim. * [http://www.godsandmonsters.net/ ''Gods and Monsters'' official website]
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  • ...0,000 soldiers of the Milky Way, he drank too much during a celebration of gods and attempted to flirt with Cháng'é, the beautiful moon goddess, resultin
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  • ...sion. The texts of Buddhism are full of descriptions of the palaces of the gods, but in Burmese art heaven is imbued with a gentle elegance and affection,
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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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  • ...ecree Saint Birgitta warns against the worship of ''tompta gudhi'', "tomte gods". Folklore added other negative beliefs about the tomte, such as that havin
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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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  • ...ewty's profession; but rather than acting as a messenger and scribe to the gods themselves, Anubis serves the dead as a recorder of their deeds and as a fi However, as lesser of the two gods of the underworld, he gradually became considered the son of Osiris, but Os
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  • ...arently it had been they who had formed the court or escort of the ancient gods when they sat enthroned on the trees. These Wood-Wives were principally fou
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  • ...Western zombies. A Jiang Shi is a main character in the 1991 comedy ''The Gods Must Be Crazy III''.
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  • ..., just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods [[Demeter]], [[Hera]], [[Hades]], [[Hestia]], and [[Poseidon]] by Rhea, he ...d Cronus a force of chaos along with disorder, believing that the Olympian gods had brought an era of peace and order by seizing power from the crude and m
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  • Kirin also makes an appearance as the strongest of the "gods" in Final Fantasy XI.
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  • ...e gods, as a slave feared a cruel and capricious master. "Such fear of the gods (''[[deisidaimonia]]'') was what the Romans meant by 'superstition' (Veyne
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  • Medusa was a Gorgon, one of three sisters and daughters of ancient, pre-titan gods, [[Phorcys]] and [[Ceto]].
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  • ...no circle of worshippers or so limited a circle as to be below the rank of gods, and with malevolent beings of all kinds. Demonology, though often referred Excluded are souls conceived as inhabiting another world. But just as gods are not necessarily spiritual, demons may also be regarded as corporeal; va
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  • ...is a story, found nowhere else in mythology, that at one time the Olympian gods were trying to overthrow Zeus but were stopped when the sea nymph Thetis br
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  • ...d associated with it died as well. For these reasons, dryads and the Greek gods punished any mortals who harmed trees without first propitiating the tree-n
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  • ...including the Álfar (elves), Dvergar (dwarves), Jötnar (giants), and even gods, the Æsir and Vanir. Landvættir (land spirits) are chthonic guardians of
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  • ...deities, who are described as battle-maidens who ride in the ranks of the gods or serve the drinks in Valhalla. ...rentage; they are described as battle-maidens who ride in the ranks of the gods or serve the drinks in Valhalla; they are invariably given unworldly names
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  • ...w converts, early Christian missionaries would often adopt and adapt local gods, sometimes turning them into obscure saints.) ...esearch by the University of Wales into the meaning of the names of Celtic gods and goddesses shows that one Celtic deity, Viridios, has a name meaning "Gr
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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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  • ...include [[Aasterinian]], [[Chronepsis]], and [[Faluzure]]. Other draconic gods may be present in different campaign settings. ...gons and their servitors and uses the standard D&D dragon races and dragon gods. It has detailed rules for creating and playing dragon PCs and NPCs, includ
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  • ...nor took anything away of all that was her portion among the former Titan gods: but she holds, as the division was at the first from the beginning, privil ...with Selene and the moon, extolling her as supreme Goddess, mother of the gods. In this form, as a threefold goddess, Hecate continues to have followers i
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  • * Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods returns to the traditional legend, depicting Hinzelmann as an ambivalent sp
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  • ...rock reliefs at Maltai, however, the creature accompanies three different gods, Assur, Ellil (Enlil) and another god, most likely Nabu.
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  • ...he people that there were: What say ye: will ye have these devlls for your gods and worship them or have ye liefer that I hunt them out of this world in th
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  • Often Zeus would send the Centaurs to punish gods and humans who had offended him. The hostility between man and Centaurs is ...s a close representation of a saint. He was a father figure to many of the gods' children. They were given to him so he could teach them great knowledge of
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  • ...ain character. It is said that Longinus is meant to be in the hands of the gods, and not to be wielded by mere angels, referring to the fact that Ein is an
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  • ...'s house privately, and there kill himself upon the altar of his household gods, to bring divine vengeance upon him; but the fear of torture put him off th
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  • ...with his thunderbolt but Garuda proved a superior warrior and defeated the gods and continued unscathed on his journey to Patala. ...were about to consume the amrita Garuda had just brought them, the chasing gods entered Patala and Indra seized and took away the cup of amrita. Anyway, th
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  • ...story. Here the god is called Cenncroithi, interpreted as "the head of all gods", and when his image falls the silver and gold covering it crumble to dust,
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  • The obyriths are so ancient that they predate mortal life, and even the gods. They rarely have a humanoid shape, and some say that just looking at an o
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  • ...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 ...the founders of the modern study of Greek mythology, wrote about Orion in Gods of the Greeks (1951). Kerényi portrays Orion as a giant of Titanic vigor a
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  • .... This idea can also been associated with the depiction of certain ancient gods like [[Baal]], [[Moloch]], the [[shedu]], etc, which were portrayed as bull
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  • ...est was settled by pagan Anglo-Saxons who worshipped their own pantheon of gods, including [[Woden]] who rode across the night's sky with his own [[Wild Hu
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  • ...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 ...rked similarities. This becomes a parallel evolution of spells to foreign Gods or demons that were once acceptable, and framing them into a new Christian
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  • ...beings like the [[Yakshas]], another as a sort of Titans or enemies of the gods, and lastly, as blood-drinking [[ghouls]] which has become the most common
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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.
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  • ...son of an idol maker in the Chaldean city of Ur, would have known of these gods. (Midrash [http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_abraham ...nslations of Sumerian cuneiform tablets to equate the ancient mesopotamian gods with the fallen angels (the "sons of Elohim" in Genesis). Seeing that all
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  • ...atiable anger against the chains of the [[Elder God (Cthulhu Mythos)|Elder Gods]] which had bound it there for an eternity.... Unable to resist, utterly po ...t to be no mere [[Cloacina]], but the mortician of all creatures, even the gods themselves. The extent of its power is unknown, though it could be like tha
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  • ...have fire coming out of their hands and the skill to steal power from the gods. ...nster, produced by Goddess [[Gaia]] to aid her sons the giants against the gods and slain by [[Athena]]. Of the three Gorgons, only Medusa is mortal.
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  • ..., daughter of Cadmus, a mortal woman, and his father Zeus, the king of the gods. ...iants, he descended into [[Hades]] to restore her, with his mother, to the gods on Olympus; in others, he had her crown put into the heavens as the constel
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  • ...at the lives had been sucked from the murder victims by the ghosts of dead gods. Nothing is said to the police, however, as the only known person to work s
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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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  • ...rkert among others suggests that the archaic groups or societies of lesser gods mirror real cult associations: "it may be surmised that smith guilds lie be
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  • ...generally conservative by nature, being very devoted to their pantheon of gods, and are distrustful of "outlanders". Dunmer culture is split between the s ...eator Innoruuk, or the god Solusek Ro. They may also swear fealty to other gods like Bristlebane or Rallos Zek.
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  • ...-central Greece north of the Gulf of Patras, held annual sacrifices to the gods. One year the king forgot to include the Great Artemis in his offerings (''
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  • ...hough in newer works it is stated that the Mi-go are at war with the Elder Gods. Their moral system is completely alien, making them seem highly malicious
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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
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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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  • ...Persona spinoffs, a shinigami class of demons includes many death-related gods borrowed from mythology, such as Chernobog, Persephone, Ankou, Hades, Mot,
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  • ...tween the legends of heroes and mythology proper, between the myths of the gods and those of the heroes, which are often entwined with them or at least bor
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  • ...maller construction was used by Siberian pagans to hold figurines of their gods. Recalling the late matriarchy among Siberian peoples, a common picture of
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  • ...he supernatural and an afterlife. (See Einstein's forword to ''Man and his Gods'' by Homer W. Smith, Grosset & Dunlap, N.Y., 1957). However, believers also ...of gods and people sacrificed animals or even other people to please their gods. If our current understanding is the gauge of supernaturality, its realm is
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  • ...隠) meaning to hide or conceal, as oni were originally invisible spirits or gods which caused disasters, disease, and other unpleasant things. These nebulou
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  • *Reginheim. 2002. ''Forgotten Gods.'' ([http://www.geocities.com/reginheim/forgottengods.html Online]). File r
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  • ...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
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  • ...ure is really a leopard god or goddess masquerading as a human. When these gods mate with humans, offspring can be produced, and these children sometimes g
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  • *In the webcomic Gods of Arr-Kelaan, as a character.
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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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  • ...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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  • ...of this tale explains the reason he told her to shut her eyes was because gods revert to their true forms whenever they do the basest of things, such as e ...Yuga of the next Kalpa. The author comments, "Unlike most battles between gods and demons, however, this apparent victory is immediately undercut, for Kal
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  • ...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 ...elves, and they were probably elves, since they were not counted among the gods. Two other mentioned servants were [[Fimafeng]] (who was murdered by [[Loki
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  • ...ruler of the layer now dominated by Yeenoghu. Slain by the "Killer of the Gods" Ma Yuan. |''Eldritch Wizardry''; ''Monster Manual'' (1977), page 17; Dead Gods; ''Dungeon'' #89; ''Book of Vile Darkness'', page 136; ''Fiendish Codex I:
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  • ...f the Mountain) of the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur, became king of the Gods by slaying Tiamat by shooting the arrows of his winds down her throat, cutt
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  • ...], whereas Francis Barrett asserted that Beelzebub was the prince of false gods.
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  • * Karl Kerényi, 1951. The Gods of the Greeks pp 38–40. Edition currently in print is Thames & Hudson rei
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  • And Álfheim the gods to Frey once gave<br/>
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  • But the gods were not unkind and it so happened that one of them felt motivated to check
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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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  • ...d to rejoin the world of men. Unfortunatly he cannot reach the home of the gods. Simurgh sees him and pities him. She takes Zal to his father and gives him
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  • ...t in the Gathas: In Zoroaster's view the daevas are "wrong gods" or "false gods" that are to be rejected, but they are not yet demons.[2]
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  • *"Ifrit" is used in [[wikipedia:Neil Gaiman]]'s novel, ''[[wikipedia:American Gods]]''. The ifrit drives a New York taxi cab, and gives a ride to a man named
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  • ...ppa are also said to favor) into the local river in order to appease water gods and hungry ghosts.
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  • ...r of the giants ([[Formorian]]s) who had monstrous forms, and against whom gods and mortals waged war. ...reland she appears to have been the earlier Danu, the mother of the Danann gods and people, and Anu, the mountain-hag associated with "the Paps of Anu". Sh
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  • ...t rank to come into his presence, so I have no resource but to pray to the gods of the country and to Buddha that my lord may regain his health."
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  • ...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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  • ...apanese mythology, sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami (revered spirits or gods). Tengu are worshipped as beneficial kami (gods or revered spirits) in various Japanese religious cults. For example, the t
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  • ...nt demigods 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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  • ...ever, as a caveat, Jefferson said that they could not set themselves up as gods, or they would risk being evicted from American soil.
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  • ...oned in various ways," explains de Visser (1913:135), "but mostly as water-gods, serpent- or dragon-shaped."
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  • ...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
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  • ...llonios Rhodios's ''Argonautika''. It is also said that Hera, queen of the gods, persuaded the Sirens to enter a singing contest with the [[Muse]]s. The Mu
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  • ...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). ...wn perspective. The orcs are presented as being the creations of a race of gods, called the Sheul. While similar to the Middle-earth legendarium, the orcs
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  • *The Hydra was used in the DC Comics storyline ''Challenge of the Gods'' for the character Wonder Woman to battle.
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  • ...ed to Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of approval by the gods for his reign. He promised to sacrifice the bull as an offering, and as a s
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  • In Derleth's "The Return of Hastur", first published in March 1939, the two gods even meet face-to-face, albeit briefly. Many mythos authors, however, rarel
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  • *''The Monarch of the Glen, An American Gods Novella'', by Neil Gaiman 2004
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  • ...iamat]] and other similar monsters who represented the sea as a foe to the gods in [[mythology|myth]]s of nearby cultures.
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  • ...is speaking of the fall of Babylon and along with it the fall of her false gods Helel and Shahar. In Judaism there is no concept of a devil or a fallen go ...the Resurrection'' (1980), Lucifer is identified as the King of the White gods.
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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 *There are also death gods called [[Shinigami]], which are closer to the Western tradition of the Grim
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  • The exact names of the Gods of traditional Wicca remain an initiatory secret according to current Gardn ...ccans, particularly those following a solitary path, simply refer to their Gods as "The God and The Goddess". There are also Wiccan groups that acknowledge
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  • ...erse (fiction)|parallel universe]], as in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s novel ''[[The Gods Themselves]]''. * The evolution of the human race (''[[Men Like Gods]]''), 1923
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  • ...all his political opponents assassinated, priests killed and all images of gods destroyed. To put fear into his enemies, he ate the hearts of those he murd
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  • ...ng series "Blood Sword", the player will face three simulacrums of ancient gods. Azidahaka was described as a serpentine creature with three human heads.
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  • ...ng series "Blood Sword", the player will face three simulacrums of ancient gods. Azidahaka was described as a serpentine creature with three human heads.
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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
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  • * ''American Gods'' by Neil Gaiman
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  • ...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 *[http://www.gods-heros-myth.com/godpages/cerberus.html World Mythology]
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  • 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
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  • ...s of the ancient Native Americans, a magical animal that was sent by their gods to protect them from the powers of evil.
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  • ...c" and "wizardry" connote practices involving collusion with devils, demon-gods, or Satan himself. In this sense, the term 'magic' is typically outdated, a ...ieve in a god, and such a god will appear before your very eyes (''[[Small Gods]]'')
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  • ...of which are extinct. The Mistress Race are the direct descendants of the gods and spirits, they were once the predominant race, however when Burning Deat ...in great detail by Greg Stafford featuring in the products Trollpak, Troll Gods, Uz the Trolls of Glorantha, The Haunted Ruins and many more. They are one
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  • ...se among human beings again with the result that we shall be worshipped as gods because men do not know the names of the angels who rule over us.''"
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  • ...= Lady, Lil = Wind) the wife to Enlil (En = Lord, Lil = Wind), King of the Gods. A separate fragmentary myth describes how Enlil raped Ninlil, and as puni
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  • *Yato-no-kami - deadly snake-gods which infested a field
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  • ...m itself by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods.
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  • ...is created by a curse that may have derived from the Arctic Gods or "Elder Gods". Anyone who eats human flesh while in the Canadian woods becomes a Wendigo
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  • ...t a dogmatic position would arise. While he declared a "new Equinox of the Gods" in early 1904, supposedly passing on the revelation of March 20th to the o *III:2, ''The Equinox of the Gods'' (covering the events leading up to the writing of Liber Legis) [http://ww
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  • ...in their architecture. In Elam legends, a Griffin was presented to Elamite Gods. In Persian mythology, in particular during the Achaemenid dynasty, griffin
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  • ...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
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  • ...more difficult for others) by fooling humans, other animals, and even the gods themselves, often using his cleverness and knowledge of his victims' ways o ...nd waited for Akwasi and his wife Aso to sleep and then sang a song to the gods while he played his sepirewa, certain the plan he'd concocted would be succ
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  • ...dumarche.com/Vodou_Info/History/history.html Vodou: Haiti, History and the Gods] By Mambo Vye Zo Komande La Menfo - Sosyete du Marche
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...Biblical materials. Rather, this image is apparently based on pagan horned gods, such as [[Pan]] and [[Dionysus]], common to many mythologies]]. Some image
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  • ...of 'Hell' is the Greek and Roman [[Tartarus]], a place in which conquered gods, men and other spirits were punished. Tartarus formed part of [[Hades]] in
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  • - Worship evil gods, devils, demons and even powerful dragons, sphinx, giants and sorcerers.
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  • ...are also tales of [[kamaitachi]], a phenomenon where it was said that evil gods would thirst for human blood.
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  • ...End Crowns the Work"). It features a young poet sacrificing women to pagan gods, seeking [[hell]]'s inspiration for his poetry in order to gain the fame he
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  • ...o-Conception#The Rosicrucian conception of God and the scheme of evolution|gods]].'' This "College of Invisibles" is regarded as the source permanently be
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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