[[Category:Roman gods]]
[[Category:Underworld gods]]
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Stheno's head was displayed when she died for all the gods to mock.
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...ped by Arameans was also called "The Lord" (Ba`al) and ruled over the high gods assembled on the holy mount of Heaven. Other spellings: Bael, Baël (French
...as one specific demon was created when Christianity regarded ancient pagan gods as demons and demonology divided the demonic population of Hell in several
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...earful and would attack human beings, however most would not be enemies to gods or humans, instead living calmly in their domains.
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...e of the native Chamorros, went also the practice of the worship of native gods and ancestor cults. Scholars believe that the concept of the tricky Taotao
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...u, the Sun.[1] Humbaba was also the guardian of the Cedar Forest where the gods lived.
...s death approaches, and Gilgamesh is oppressed with his own mortality, the gods remind him of his great feats: "...having fetched cedar, the unique tree, f
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...n literally means "heaven; the heavens; sky" or figuratively "Heaven; God; gods", tianlong can denote "heavenly dragon; celestial dragon" or "holy dragon;
...uddhist terminology, ''tianlong'' means either "heavenly [[Naga]]s (dragon gods)" or "Devas and Nāgas".
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'''Mo-o''' are a type of dragons that were worshipped as ghost-gods by the ancient Hawaiians.
The New Zealanders used the same names for some of their large reptile gods. They, however, spelled the word with a "k," calling it mo-ko, and it was a
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...ory is that in the region of Naucratis in Egypt there dwelt one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own nam
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...heir children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." - 2 Kings 17:31. This often leads to the concept that child
Like other pagan gods, Adramelech is considered a demon in Judeo-Christian tradition. Adramelech
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...im ('lhm) was found to be a word denoting the entire Canaanite [[Pantheon (gods)|pantheon]] (the family of El '''אל''', the [[patriarchy|patriarchal]] cr
...ctionis]] ''heh'' inserted to distinguish the [[Israelite]] God from other gods. He argues that ''elohim'' thus patterns with Abram/[[Abraham]] and Sarai/
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...that continuously strive to undermine the divine order established by the gods as related by numerous accounts from Hindu mythology. Hence, his name refle
...ower of this asura, the devas sought the aid of the trinity of the supreme gods, namely Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.
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...ho then set upon his father, castrated him, and set himself as king of the gods, with Rhea as his wife and queen.
Rhea gave birth to a new generation of gods to Cronos, but, in fear that they too would eventually overthrow him, he sw
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Mayura is associated with a number of gods and deities of the Hindus including the following:
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...word for Way or Path, and LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical
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..., thunder, heavenly fire or lightning and celestial elements in a triad of gods. He was also considered as the right hand and executor of Dievas‘s will.
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...of Naiad. They lived in freshwater lakes. Their parents were river or lake gods.
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...erred to as devas or demi-gods. Some Asuras were corrupted while some were gods in heaven. Both are children of Kashyapa. Asuras should not be confused wit
...sub-tribes would compete in making the most perfect ritual offering to the gods, seeking to outdo their peers in beauty of hymns sung, richness of offering
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...tutor. This puts him in a company of phallic or half-animal tutors of the gods, a group that includes Priapus, Cedalion and Chiron, but also includes Pall
*Karl Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks''.
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From Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men:
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