..., 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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