...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]]
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...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
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...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
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...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
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==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)
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...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
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...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
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*Walter Burkert, 1985. ''Greek Religion'' (Harvard University Press)
*Ruck, Carl A.P. and Danny Staples, 1994. ''The World of Classical Myth''. (Carolina Academic Press)
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==Common superstitions from around the world==
=== Superstition and religion ===
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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).
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===Religion and mythology===
...s the final battle between the gods of Asgard and the many monsters of the world.
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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.
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==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
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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
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...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.
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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
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...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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...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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...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==
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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.
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...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
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...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
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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
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...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.)
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...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'']
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==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
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...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.
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