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...members of a family, a community, a nation, a battle, a war or the entire world. People of many cultures and religions believe the dead have an enduring af ...ther [[underworld|under the earth]], or in a far away, unknown or parallel world, often guided there by a [[psychopomp]]. [[Death (personification)|Death]]

...successive Yukams (aeons). In all the yukams Mayon had to incarnate in the world to destroy the evils. The six fragments were then known as: The Ayya Vazhi religion, a sect in Tamil Nadu that is sometimes considered to be part of Hinduism b

...Monster''' (also known as the '''Spaghedeity''') is the deity of a parody religion called '''The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster''' and its system of b The religion was founded in 2005 by Oregon State University physics graduate Bobby Hende

...oes not have enough food, water, shelter, etc., it will come back into the world of the living to feed on the living. They will scare you, and then they wil ...union of the Watchers and mankind. These creatures are said to wander the world in the form of evil spirits—endlessly yearning for food though they have

==Religion/Beliefs== ...r axis into existence in the temples and create a doorway to the spiritual world, and with it power." (Schele and Friedel, 1990: 68)

...ras" the demonic. According to the Bhagavad Gita (16.6), all beings in the world partake either of the divine qualities (daivi sampad) or the demonic qualit ...m ''asura'' corresponds to the Zoroastrian word ''Ahura'', but has in that religion a different meaning. In Zoroastrianism the Ahuras are supreme, while the de

...The Tzitzimimeh were also feared during other ominous periods of the aztec world, such as during the five unlucky days called Nemontemi which marked an unst

*Walter Burkert, 1985. ''Greek Religion'' (Harvard University Press) *Ruck, Carl A.P. and Danny Staples, 1994. ''The World of Classical Myth''. (Carolina Academic Press)

==Common superstitions from around the world== === Superstition and religion ===

...perfectly aware that the fear of ghosts is contrary to science, reason and religion. If I were sentenced to spend a night alone in a graveyard, <...> I should ...ainly in kabuki theatre, the majority are women. Powerless in the physical world, they often suffer at the capricious whims of their male lovers. In death t

...y more of a punisher of crime (dusa) rather than the sole "creator" of the world. ...kay ka'', Fairy Ko created by MZET productions, diwatas live in a mythical world named Enkantasya where Ina Magenta is the Queen of the Diwatas. Ina Magenta

...and their theology resembles that of Gnostics and Albigensian beliefs. The world is believed to have been created by [[Muluk-Taus]] (Tawûsê Melek), the fa ...ere called into existence, God made a covenant with them and entrusted the world to them. Besides Tawûsê Melek, members of the Heptad (the Seven), who wer

...specifically with the Mediterranean; but because the Greeks thought of the world's waters as all one system, which percolated in from the sea in deep cavern ...ole, which proclaimed the universal power of Zeus over the ancient natural world: "the worship of these deities," Burkert confirms, "is limited only by the

...t, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world" (Revelation 12:9). ...Yam and Hadad, he and Thor (son of Odin) slay each other at the end of the world (Ragnarök or Twilight of the Gods).

===Religion and mythology=== ...s the final battle between the gods of Asgard and the many monsters of the world.

The Aztecs assimilated them in their religion, and the two deities were equated and considered twin gods. They were both ...f the duality, and were the creators of all the other gods, as well as the world and man.

==Vedic religion== ...fire, air, rain and trees - most of them assumed a minor role in the later religion. Certain other deities rose into prominence. These higher devas control muc

The book ''The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria'' by Theophilus G. Pinches describes the Rabisu as ...are a fictional house of fallen angles based in White Wolf game studio's ''World of darkness''. The lores of this house are the lores of the beast, the fles

...ye'' (''Bon Dieu'', or ''good god''), the Creator, who is distant from the world and humanity. ...ls. Most similar to the veve are the drawings of zemi or gods of the Taino religion.

This was not an evil figure, Levi contended, but a god of the old world, driven underground and condemned as a figure of witchcraft by hostile Chri ...signalled the numinous presence of a deity were ubiquitous in the ancient world, and certain scholars have criticised worshippers who blur "the very import

...stence, typically [[spirituality|spiritual]] and experiential, beyond this world, or after death. This article is about current generic and widely held or r ...as it pertains to phenomena beyond the ordinary experience of the natural world. Various evidences have been advanced throughout the ages for the existence

...om Assyrian Apsu or Sumerian Abzu, the undifferentiated sea from which the world was created in the Sumerian belief system. The word also appears in the Chr ...when a woman is about to give birth, “I shall flee from them to the other world.”

.... Concepts in the supernatural domain are closely related to concepts in [[religion|religious]] [[spirituality]], [[metaphysics]] and [[Schizotypy]]. ...uch debate as to whether a supernatural is necessary for religion, or that religion is necessary for holding a concept of the supernatural.

.... The Apis was the approximate though not the exact equivalent in Egyptian religion to the Lamb in Christianity, a god to be venerated for his excellent kindne Under Ptolemy Soter, efforts were made to integrate Egyptian religion with that of their Hellenic rulers. Ptolemy's policy was to find a deity th

...romasdes). Because Zoroastrians believed in a completely dualistic form of religion, Ahriman is thought to be the first personification of the Devil. ...void and envied and lusted for it. He then created the evil things of this world (such as the daevas) to fight against the good things Ahura Mazda created.

...e of the carvings back with him to use as a model for carving in the human world (Tregear 1891:350) *E. Best, ''Maori Religion and Mythology, Part 2'' (Dominion Museum Bulletin No.11. Museum of New Zea

*Dryads are featured in the [[World of Warcraft]] game, seen mostly on the continent of Kalimdor as allies of t *[[wikipedia:Walter Burkert|Burkert, Walter]], 1985. ''Greek Religion'' (Cambridge:Harvard University Press)

...[[Malak Ta’us]] the peacock angel, the more benevolent angel of the Yazidi religion of the Kurds, who often claim that the term Satan was created by Muslims p ...t Wamphyri ([[Vampire]]) seeded by a spore from swamps on the Vampire home world. In these novels Wamphyri are created via a symbiotic relationship between

In Gallo-Roman religion, his name is known from the "Pillar of the Boatmen" (''Pilier des nautes'') The depictions of Cernunnos are strikingly consistent throughout the Celtic world. His most distinctive attribute are his stag's horns, and he is usually por

...ne dog who lived on Mt. Kunlun, the mythical mountain at the center of the world. Norman J. Girardot, professor of Chinese religion at Lehigh University, has written articles and a definitive book on hundun.

The ascription of malevolence to the world of spirits is by no means universal. In West Africa the Mpongwe believe in Excluded are souls conceived as inhabiting another world. But just as gods are not necessarily spiritual, demons may also be regarde

...lder gods leave their mark on the world: Oceanus continues to encircle the world, and the name of "bright shining" Phoebe was attached as an epithet to eff *Harrison, Jane Ellen ''Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion'', 1912. [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/eos/eos_title.pl?callnum=BL78

...threw the wicked serpentine Titan [[Ophion]]. In doing so, he released the world from bondage and for a time ruled it justly. ...the dragon [[Campe]] to guard them. He and [[Rhea]] took the throne of the world as King and Queen. This period of Cronus' rule was called the Golden Age, a

...Cruz, California, Mullin had a relatively normal childhood. His father, a World War II veteran, was stern but not abusive. He frequently discussed his hero ...s sister to have sex with him. He claimed a desire to go to India to study religion, although he never did so.

...nction and no longer reside in their home, the Hydra Marshes. In the other world, a single Hydra remains. The reason for the Hydra's extinction is that thei ...evil. When Skullmaster turns the good side dark, it starts the end of the world.

...ally abandoned. The worship of the heavenly bodies is not the beginning of religion. Moreover, there was not, as this theory assumes, one god Baal, worshipped ...n in Christianity. This is a potential source of confusion. In the ancient world of the Persian Empire, people worshipped inanimate idols of wood and metal

...ca, from western Nigeria to eastern Ghana. In Benin, Vodun is the national religion, and followed by around 60% of the population, or some 4½ million people. ...that the admixture of such traditions with Catholicism occurred in the New World. There is significant evidence that the model for such syncretis] can be fo

'''Eurynome''' is a lunar Goddess of ancient Greek religion and a demon in modern demonology. ...to swagger and boast that he alone was responsible for the creation of the world, Eurynome kicked all his teeth out as she threw his butt out of heaven.

The Feathered Serpent deity was important in art and religion in most of Mesoamerica for close to 2,000 years, from the Pre-Classic era u ...ca, to contrast him to the black Tezcatlipoca. Together, they created the world; Tezcatlipoca lost his foot in that process. Because white was the color sy

...as the source of the writings of Judaism (in this context identified as a religion opposed to Zoroastrianism), and possessed of all possible sins and evil cou ...n to doubt. Aži Dahaka asked these two yazatas for power to depopulate the world. Being representatives of the Good, they of course refused.

...as the source of the writings of Judaism (in this context identified as a religion opposed to Zoroastrianism), and possessed of all possible sins and evil cou ...n to doubt. Aži Dahaka asked these two yazatas for power to depopulate the world. Being representatives of the Good, they of course refused.

...ge, ''mythology'' is either the body of myths from a particular culture or religion (as in ''Greek mythology'', ''Egyptian mythology'' or ''Norse mythology'') ==Religion and mythology==

In the study of [[mythology]] and religion, the '''underworld''' is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay *The setting for the ''Heroes in Hell'' shared world series of Bangsian Fantasy works by Janet Morris, C. J. Cherryh and others.

...es are by no means limited to Egypt alone. They can be found all over the world (although one may be hard-pressed to find a living Mummy in any place other When the Egyptian religion was first being developed, the people realized that they needed a way to pr

...is not of the same status as those dominant beliefs. Thus, [[Rome|Roman]] religion is called "myth" by [[Christianity|Christians]]. In that way, both myth and Contemporary folklore common in the Western world includes the [[urban legend]] and the [[conspiracy theory]]. There are many

In the early Vedic religion, '''Vritra'''(Sanskrit: वृत्र (Devanāgarī) or Vṛtra (IAST)) w According to the Rig Veda, Vritra kept the waters of the world captive until he was killed by Indra, who destroyed all the ninety-nine for

...has many different faces and variations. Found in many cultures around the world, the Green Man is often related to natural vegetative deities springing up ...re modern embodiment might be found in Peter Pan, who enters the civilized world from a nether land, not only clothed in green but wearing leaves as well.)

...statue of Lamashtu, in hopes the boat would carry the demoness back to her world. .../ref=sr_1_1/104-8059691-6811967?ie=UTF8&s=books Smith W. ''Lectures on the Religion of Semites'']

==Magic and religion== ...term "magic" became a negative term, and among the followers of the Judaic religion was recorded into Western history with its denigrating meaning. In times of

...God. Hence it is that they are said to be animated by a violent hatred of religion and the clergy. The sight of a soutane, or the sound of a bell, puts them t *Keightley, Thomas (reprint edition 2000) ''The World of Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People'', pp 420–422.

...itionary Force, eventually rising to the rank of Captain and served during World War I. Spencer was a charismatic and eloquent man, who could feel great emp ...y, music, art and poetry, the disillusioned and jaded Spencer wandered the world and became something of a hedonist, turning to the baser methods of gratifi

...tian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the '''Old Religion'''. The veracity of Gardner's claims cannot be independently proven, and it ===Wicca as a magical religion===

...ell as wife and sister of [[Zeus]]. Many of the older temples in the Greek world belonged to her. *Burkert Walter, ''Greek Religion'' 1985.

...ore the Second Coming was apparently popular enough in the early Christian world to be denounced in the Gospel of John: ...the same story, which was regarded there as a great proof of the Christian religion (Matthew Paris, "Chron. Majora", ed. Luard, London, 1880, v. 340-341). The

Scholars of religion hold that people in the time of the [[Hebrew Bible]] had beliefs and supers ...arly [[Israelite]] views about the [[creation (theology)|creation]] of the world and of humanity are derived from the mythology and folklore of the surround

...es of the year when the spiritual world may make contact with the physical world and when magic level is at its peak. It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most common in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Republic of Irel

Each culture has its own particular body of concepts dealing with [[magic]], religion, benevolent and harmful [[spirit]]s, and ritual; and these ideas do not fin ...own doctrines, though this has become less common, at least in the Western world. According to some religious doctrines, all forms of magic are labeled witc

...empirical perception, or a belief that a ''true'' human perception of the world trancends logical reasoning or intellectual comprehension. ...nerally to various mystical sects within [[Christianity]]. While [[Eastern religion]]s tend to find the concept of mysticism redundant, non-traditional knowled

...dic religion|Vedic]] traditions and also other branches of [[Indo-European religion|Indo-European mythologies]] show, the notion of demon has existed for many

*Burkert, Walter, 1985. ''Greek Religion'' (Harvard University Press) *Ruck, Carl A.P. and Danny Staples, 1994. ''The World of Classical Myth''. (Carolina Academic Press)

...wing their powers from demonic sources in exchange for their souls. In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', a warlock is a cloth-wearing spellcasting character class. ...', the warlock represents the "flower" of the Lotus Clan. The Lotus Clan's religion centers on three brothers that tend the Yin side of the Tree of Life, the T

...d salted it for the righteous, for if the Leviathans were to procreate the world could not stand before them." ...s he sits and judges the world. The third three hours God feeds the entire world... the fourth three hour period God plays with the Leviathan as it is writt

A symbol is usually recognized only within some specific culture, religion, or discipline, but a few hundred symbols are now recognized internationall ...some in the people, some in the king, some in the audience. Man lives in a world of diffuse powers and possibilites and therefore creates symbolates to desc

...geddon]], God's final defeat of Satan, and the restoration of peace to the world. ...magery and metaphor, which detail the chronology of God's judgement on the world.

...e supreme governess of the borders between the normal world and the spirit world. ...fe, [[Hades]] honored Hecate by making her a permanent guest in the spirit world, allowing her to come and go as she wished.

...rview with the Vampire, when Louis, the main character, returns to the New World, he witnesses sunrises by way of film. Two films he sees are both directed ...l stamina, a preference to only go out at night, an aversion to discussing religion and far greater strength than her body suggests.

...ce in that philosophy's questions cannot be answered empirically, and from religion in that philosophy allows no place for faith or revelation. However, these Informally, a "philosophy" may refer to a general [[world view]] or to a specific [[ethic]] or [[belief]].

...ed evil family, perpetually operates as a cause of the destruction of this world.[1] In the Kalki Purana, he is portrayed as a demon and the source of all e ...of Kali, who promotes all kinds of irreligious activities, came into this world.”[18] Thus, Kali simply came into being because the prosperity brought by

Hell appears in several [[mythology|mythologies]] and [[religion]]s in different guises, and is commonly inhabited by [[demon]]s and the [[s ...am haba (the world to come)|Olam Habah]] (''heb.'' עולם הבא; ''lit.'' "The world to come", often viewed as analogous to [[Heaven]]). This is also mentioned

*[[Béla Kiss]] - escaped justice in the confusion of World War I *[["Wild Bill" Hickman]] - killed in the name of religion (many of his alleged exploits are disputed)

...who had acted under the influence of the sadistic Brady. She had turned to religion and had taken a humanities degree with the Open University. A small group o * The World's Most Infamous Murders. ISBN 0-425-10887-2.

...tter around them like bats. Only libations of blood offered to them in the world of the living can reawaken in them for a time the sensations of humanity (c ...ved the underworld, the unseen realm to which the dead go upon leaving the world as well as any and all things beneath the earth.

==Death (angels) in religion== .... xi.). When the soul forsakes the body its voice goes from one end of the world to the other, but is not heard (Gen. R. vi. 7; Ex. R. v. 9.

...n 2006. Mummies of humans and other animals have been found throughout the world, both as a result of natural preservation through unusual conditions, and a ...ime, the beliefs of those who buried Ginger could have resembled the later religion to some extent.

It is also possible these similarities between Christianity and Dionysiac religion are all only representations of the same common religious. ...s]] was the first saviour, and all soteriology in the region borrowed this religion, directly and indirectly, including Mithraism and Christianity, from an Osi

Sightings of shadow people have been reported all over the world. They are a recurring topic of the late-night talk radio show Coast-to-Coas ...ons make no scientific pretense whatever, and lie more within the realm of religion and the [[occult]].

...At the beginning of 2001, Allahabad was the focus for this largest of the world's gatherings. It is one of four spots where Garuda is believed to have res

==Angels in Zoroastrian Religion== ...f supernatural beings in the [[Babylonian and Assyrian religion|Babylonian religion]], and perhaps even by the [[angelology]] of [[Zoroastrianism]] (it is not,

...presence of this enigmatic god, who silently will lead them away from this world and to the gates of the next. ...ressing the relation it has to be superior, as the latter, to the inferior world.

...d by members of a Hebrew pantheon and are a brief glimpse of early Hebrew religion, most of the details of which was later edited out from the Torah, and that ...and demand allegiance), and that this bloodline has been in control of the world from the days of Sumer to today.

...to demons), was a mighty prince of angels in heaven. Samael came into the world with woman, that is, with Eve, so that he was created and is not eternal. L ...reference to Gen. 3, as the father of all lies, who brought death into the world; he is apparently mentioned also in Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 21:27, and the

...heaven, along with a third of the heavenly host, and came to reside on the world. ...ds, rosy Lucifer turns his late fires, and with slow steed leaves an alien world, until the fiery father's orb be full replenished and he forbid his sister

*Jane Ellen Harrison, ''Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion'' 1903. Chapter VI, "The Maiden-Trinities" * Carl Ruck and Danny Staples, ''The World of Classical Myth'', 1994.

...everal of the apocalyptic works seem to show that the ideas of the Persian religion have had a bearing upon Jewish theological modes of thought, so do the conc *''Terranigma'' as Asmodeus, the disease that ravaged the surface world.

...near early Christian graves as a representation of the divine Light of the World. ...eir Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the four kings of the created world - the lion (king of the jungle), the eagle (king of the air), the bull (kin

...chose evil will be purified and all will be reunited in the new perfected world. Accordingly, humans are urged to align themselves with Ormazd and his [[Ya ==Concept of the devil in world religions==

...ones" were actually dinosaur fossils, which are common in this part of the world. ...ges of two griffins drinking from a flaming cup were common in the Persian religion, Zorastrianism.

...shiyuki, and Tanaka, Yuki (1996). ''Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II.'' ISBN 0813327172.</ref> A more recent example is of leaked stories ...wai tribe of southeastern Papua is one of the last surviving tribes in the world said to engage in cannibalism. In many wars in Africa, cannibalism is said

...ls). If they exist, these may well have the ability to affect the physical world. 5. Fairley, John; Welfare, Simon (1984). Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 0002166798. Pages 28-31

...his lifetime, and was famously, although dubbed "The Wickedest Man In the World." ...ded into homosexual activities in which he played a passive role (“Magical World of AC”, King, Francis, page 5).

...yclopedia'' (1908) enjoined: "Superstition ought not to be confounded with religion, however much their history may be interwoven, nor magic, however white it ...raged them to "carry on their important work." [http://washingtontimes.com/world/20051015-112314-1869r.htm] [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch

...the first great work of the Renaissance, and one of the greatest works of world literature. ...out of the undergloom, to the Mountain of Purgatory on the far side of the world (in Dante's time, it was believed that Hell existed underneath Jerusalem).

...' relates that the Van Frey was the lord of ''[[Álfheim]]r'' (meaning "elf-world"), the home of the light-elves. ''[[Lokasenna]]'' relates that a large grou Some speculate that Vanir and elves belong to an earlier Nordic Bronze Age religion of Scandinavia, and were later replaced by the Æsir as main gods. Others (