...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
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...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.”
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.... 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.
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.... 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
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...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.
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...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
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*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)
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...[[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
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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
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...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.
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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
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...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
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...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
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...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.
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...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.
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...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
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...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
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'''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.
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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
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...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.
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