...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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