List of deities - List of deities This List of deities aims at giving information about ancient and actual deities in the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. It is sorted alphabetically. See also: deva (=demigod), God, Goddess, mythology, religion, scripture. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Abenaki 2 Deities in the Abrahamic religions 2.1 Judaism 2.2 Christianity 2.3 Islam 2.4 Other 3 Akamba mythology 4 Akan mythology 5 Ashanti mythology 6 Australian Aboriginal mythology 7 Aztec mythology 8 Bushongo mythology 9 Celtic mythology 10 Chinese mythology 11 Chippewa mythology 12 Creek mythology 13 Dacian mythology 14 Dahomey mythology 15 Dinka mythology 16 Efik mythology 17 Egyptian mythology 18 Etruscan mythology 19 Old Finnish deities 20 Ancient Greek mythology 21 Guarani mythology 22 Haida mythology 23 Hinduism 24 Hopi.
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List of Greek mythological characters - List of Greek mythological characters Greek mythological Characters (Most of the gods and goddesses had Roman equivalents.) See also: Family Tree of the Greek Gods Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Twelve Gods of Olympus 2 Other important deities in the pantheon 3 Some primeval gods 4 Some important Titans 5 Some important mortals 6 Some important mythical creatures The Twelve Gods of Olympus Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Demeter Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia (Hestia eventually relinquished her spot to Dionysus). Poseidon Zeus Other important deities in the pantheon Achelois Aeolus Aether Alectrona Antheia Boreas Brizo Caerus Circe Dionysus Efreisone Elpis Enyalius The Erinyes, or "Furies" Eris Eros Eos Eurus Glaucus Hades Hebe Hecate Helios Hespera Hybris Hygeia Hypnos Iris Moira The three Moirae, or "Fates":.
List of Hinduism-related articles - List of Hinduism-related articles The following is a list of Hindu deities and other articles on Hindu subjects. Note: Many of the topics here are of Vedic origin. Hinduism in practice is a subset of the vast knowledge of the Vedas A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Adimurti Agni Alakapuri Ambika Anantesa Apam Napat Aranyani Ardra Arundhati Astamatara Astomi Asvins Asvayujau Ayyappan B Badi Mata Bagala Bagalamukhi Banka-Mundi Bhadra Bhaga Bharati Bharat Mata Bhavani Bombay Kamayan Brahma Bhrigus Bhuvanesvari Brihaspati Buddhi Budhi Pallien C Chandanayika Chitragupta D Daksha Devi Durga E F G Ganesha Ganga H Hanuman Harihara I Indra J K Kali Karttikeya Krishna.
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List of fictional species - List of fictional species Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Alien Species (science fiction) 2 Fantasy Species (fantasy fiction) 3 Legendary / Mythological Species 3.1 Individual Creatures 4 National Fictional Species (folktales, talltales) 5 Related Topics Alien Species (science fiction) List of aliens in fiction Fantasy Species (fantasy fiction) Fantasy bestiary Dragons Legendary / Mythological Species These are legendary creatures that historically humans have thought were real. Abatwa Ajatar Aziza Banshee Basilisk Beast of Bodmin Behemoth Bigfoot Boggart Brownie (elf) Centaur Cerberus Chimaera Chupacabra Cyclopes Demon Dragon (also, "Wyrm"): European dragon, Chinese dragon Individual Dragons Dryad Duergar Dwarf Elf Fairy Feeorin Gargoyle Ghoul Giant Giant animals Giant squid (Kraken) Gnome Goblin Golem Gorgon Griffin Hag Harpy Hippocampus Hippogriff Hobgoblin Huldrefolk Huracan Hydra Kappa Kitsune and Tanuki Knockers.
List of articles about Mormonism - List of articles about Mormonism In an effort to bring together pages on various religions, below is a list of Wikipedia articles that are about or reference Mormonism topics. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Mormonism in General 1.1 The Meaning of Mormonism 1.2 Latter Day Saint Denominations 1.3 Comparison to Other Churches and Philosophies 1.4 Related Religions and Philosophies 2 Mormon Doctrines, Beliefs, and Practices 2.5 Doctrines Regarding Diety 2.6 Ordinances and Rituals 2.7 Church Organization 2.8 Scriptures and Significant Documents 2.8.1 The Book of Mormon 2.8.2 The Bible 2.9 Miscellaneous Doctrines 2.10 Mormon Controversies 3 Mormon History 3.11 General History 3.12 Biographies 3.13 Significant Dates 3.14 Significant Places in Mormonism 4 Mormon Art and Culture 4.15 Mormon Music 4.16 Mormon Culture 4.17 Pop Culture 4.18.
Inuit mythology - as whales and walruses, both staples of the Inuit culture). Sedna ensures that the Inuit follow taboos regarding her domain; if the taboos are not followed, she will withdraw her animals. The Angakut is the shaman of his tribe. He remembers the taboos and guides his people in the following of them. He interpets omens, causes of illness or lack of success in hunting or other ventures. Interpreting these signs indicates which taboo an individual, family or entire tribe has violated. Often, the shaman will enter a trance state using drum beating, chanting or other methods and thereby astrally travel to alternate realms of awareness to determine the causes of the negative event or circumstance. Masters Sedna Sea Mammals Nanook Bears Nerrivik All aquatic animals Tekkeitsertok Deer List of Deities and.
Islamism - the most prominent of several competing trends in modern Islamic philosophy. Some militant Islamist forces have been implicated in terrorism and have become targets in the War on Terrorism. It also sometimes called Islamofascism, see List of pejorative political slogans) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History of Islamism 1.1 The Deobandi Movement 1.2 Sayed Abul ala Mawdudi 1.3 The Muslim Brotherhood 1.4 Islamic Jihad movements 1.5 Wahhabism 2 Modern Islamism 3 Islamist movements 4 External Links 5 Further reading History of Islamism Islamist movements developed during the twentieth century in reaction to several forces. Following World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, and the subsequent dissolution of the Caliphate by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (founder of Turkey), some Muslims perceived their religion as in retreat, and felt that Western.
Garlic - is still grown in Egypt, where, however, the Syriafl is the kind most esteemed (see Rawlinson's Herodotus, ~i. 125). It was largely consumed by the ancient Greek and Roman soldiers, sailors and rural classes (cf. Virg. Ed. ii. II), and, as Pliny tells us (N.H. xix. 32), by the African peasantry. Galen eulogizes it as the "rustic's theriac" (cure-all) (see F Adams's Paulus Aegineta, p. 99), and Alexander Neckam, a writer of the 12th century (see Wright's edition of his works, p. 473, 1863), recommends it as a palliative of the heat of the sun in field labor. "The people in places where the simoon is frequent," says Mountstuart Elphinstone (An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, p. 140, 1815), "eat garlic, and rub their lips and noses with it, when.
God - its own contemplation, and everything that fits the second meaning of "being" by having its source of motion in itself, moves because the knowledge of its Mover causes it to emulate this Mover (or should). Many medieval philosophers made use of the idea of approaching a knowledge of God through negative attributes. For example, we should not say that God exists in the usual sense of the term; all we can safely say is that God is not nonexistent. We should not say that God is wise, but we can say that God is not ignorant, i.e. in some way God has some properties of knowledge. We should not say that God is One, but we can state that there is no multiplicity in God's being. See apophatic theology. This article.
Goddess - A goddess is a female deity. Compare to male deities, known as "gods". A great many cultures have their own goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and sometimes hermaphroditic deities. The Goddess provides a female version of or analogue to God; although followers of the Goddess do not necessarily espouse monotheism. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Terms 1.1 goddess 1.2 The Goddess, the Great Goddess, or Goddess 1.3 God/dess, God/ess, Godde 1.4 Goddessing 1.5 Thealogy 2 Polytheism and monotheism 2.6 Background 2.7 One or Many? 2.8 Ethics 2.9 Earth Goddess 2.10 Men of the Goddess 3 Non-religious Goddessing 4 Paganism 4.11 Background 4.12 Terminology 4.13 Mother Earth 4.14 Prehistoric Matriarchy 4.15 10,000 Names & Symbols 4.16 Triple Goddess.
Early Swedish Kingdoms - Rise as a Great Power The Swedish Empire The Great War Absolute Monarchy The Union with Norway Modernization Industrialization Realm of Sweden List of Swedish monarchs List of Swedish wars Even though, official Swedish history begins as late as possible we can note that Tacitus (about 90 AD) described a nation called "Suiones" living on an island in Sea. These Suiones had ships that were peculiar because they had a prow in both ends (the shape we recognise as Viking ships). This word "Suiones" is linguistically the same word as "Svear" (Swedes). "Sweon" appears also in Anglo-Saxon as a word referring to Swedes. In Beowulf Sweden has the name "Sweoriki" which is an early form for the present Swedish name for Sweden (Sverige <- Svearike). We can also note that Rome.
Egyptian mythology - whole book, cannot do more than outline the many entities and subjects in this complex system of beliefs. Egyptian Mythology is different from Greek or Roman Mythology, in that in Egyptian Mythology most deities are of human body and animal head or vice versa. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Articles 2 Worship 2.1 Temples 3 The World 3.2 Creation 3.3 Heaven and earth 3.4 The Nile 4 The Afterlife 4.5 Egyptian embalming 4.6 Burial 4.7 The book of the dead 4.8 The weighing of the heart 5 External influences 5.9 Libyan period 5.10 Ptolemaic period 5.11 Roman period 6 The coming of monotheism The Articles Adim Aker Akh Amathaunta Ament Ammut Andjety Anget Ankt Anti Anubis Ap-uat Aten As Ba Ba-Pef Babi Bast Bes Buto Chem Chensit Chenti-cheti Chnum Dedun.
Eight Immortals - xian1; in Wade-Giles: pa hsien) are Chinese deities who are represented as a group and rarely individually. Each Immortal's power can be transferred to a tool of power (法器) that can give life or destroy evil. Together, these eight tools are called "Covert Eight Immortals" (暗八仙 an4 ~). Most of them are said have born in Tang Dynasty or Song Dynasty. Not only are they worshipped by the Daoists, but they are a popular element in the secular Chinese culture. They live on Penglai Mountain-Island. The Immortals are: Immortal Woman He (He Xiangu), Royal Uncle Cao (Cao Guojiu), Iron-crutch Li (Li Tieguai), Lan Caihe, Lü Dongbin, Philosopher Han Xiang (Han Xiang Zi), Elder Zhang Guo (Zhang Guo Lao), and Zhongli Quan. For their names in Chinese characters and Wade-Giles, see the.
Eight Immortals of Communist China - Immortals. For the most popular set of "Eight Immortals", see Eight Immortals, which also contains a list of other sets of Eight Immortals. Eight Immortals is a group of elderly members of the Communist Party of China who held substantial de facto power at the time. In Chinese, however, they are called instead the Eight Great Eminent Officials (八大元老 in pinyin: ba1 lao2), abbreviated as the Eight Elders (八老 ba1 lao2). The majority of the Immortals have died. The name originated in the 1990s and is an allusion to the Taoist deities by the same name. Seven of them are set: Deng Xiaoping, "Paramount Leader", Central Military Commission Chairman 1980-1989 Chen Yun (陳雲), Central Advisory Committee Chairman 1982-1992 Peng Zhen (彭真), National People's Congress Chairman 1983-1988 Yang Shangkun (楊尚昆), President of.
Etruscan mythology - of northern Italians eventually integrated into Rome. Many of the deities listed below were eventually part of the Roman pantheon. Caveat: Since no written Etruscan literary texts have survived, two short incomplete texts, and only a modest number of inscriptions, the Etruscan language itself it not yet very well understood. The works of earlier Latin writers on Etruscan religious survivals would have filled the gap, if any of them had survived. Undaunted, modern Europeans looking for alternative cultural roots, embrace the dimly-perceived Etruscans, as everything that the Romans were not: not warlike, not patriarchal, not authoritarian. Consequently any list of Etruscan deities, with pronouncements concerning their character, must be taken in a spirit of caution Any modern discussion of Etruscan mythology will have to be based on the publication of the.
Demon - nature. The wilderness as the home of demons was regarded as the place whence such diseases as leprosy issued, and in cases of leprosy one of the birds set apart to be offered as an expiatory sacrifice was released that it might carry the disease back to the desert (Lev. xiv. 7, 52) Possibly the evil spirit that troubled Saul (I Sam. xvi. 14 et seq.) was originally a demon, turned into an evil spirit coming from God in the amended Masoretic text. None of these demons, however, has actually a place in the system of Biblical theology; it is God alone who sends pestilence and death. The shedim are "not gods" (Deut. xxxii. 17); there is no supernatural power beyond God (Deut. iv. 35.) It is possible, however, that, as.
Dacia - showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Culture 1.1 Religion 1.2 Society 1.3 Occupations 1.4 Language 2 History 2.5 Political entities 2.6 Roman Conquest 2.7 Roman rule 2.8 Roman withdrawal 3 External Links Culture Dacian Kingdom, during the rule of Burebista, 82 BC The Dacians had attained a considerable degree of civilization when they first became known to the Romans. Religion They believed in the immortality of the soul, and regarded death as merely a change of country. Their chief priest held a prominent position as the representative of the supreme deity, Zamolxis, upon earth; he was the king's chief adviser. Besides Zamolxis the Dacians believed in other deities, as Gebeleizis and Bendis. Society They were divided into two classes - an aristocracy (tarabostes) and a proletariat (comati). The first alone had the right to cover.
Taoism - part of the philosophy. Some of the common pairs are male and female, light and dark, strong and weak, action and inaction. Taoists believe that neither side is more important than the other; indeed, neither can exist without the other, as they are ultimately aspects of the same whole. They flow into each other. They complete each other. It is a balance. Wu Wei Much of the essence of Tao is in the art of 'wu wei' (action through inaction). This does not mean, "sit doing nothing and wait for everything to fall into your lap." It describes a practice of accomplishing things through minimal action -- by studying the nature of life, you can affect it in the easiest and least disruptive way. It is the practice of working with.
