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A basic classification of the types of gods as based on the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, by Stith Thompson: [1] A0 Creator; A100—A199. The gods in general A101. Supreme God; A104. The Making of the Gods; A107. Gods of Darkness and Light (darkness thought of as evil and light as good). A109.1. Triple deity; A116. Triplet gods; A111.1 ...
God is the creator of all things. Many religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam believe he created the entire universe and everything in it. He has spiritual attributes found in angels and humans. God has unique attributes of omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. He is the model of perfection in all of creation. [3]
A diagram of the names of God in Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652–1654). The style and form are typical of the mystical tradition, as early theologians began to fuse emerging pre-Enlightenment concepts of classification and organization with religion and alchemy, to shape an artful and perhaps more conceptual view of God.
Orthodox icon of nine orders of angels The ceiling mosaic of the Baptistery in Florence depicts (in the inmost octagon of images) seven of the orders of angelic beings (all but the Seraphim and Cherubim), under which are their Latin designations. In the angelology of different religions, a hierarchy of angels is a ranking system of angels. The ...
A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. [1] The person is also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of their personal opinions as though they were unquestionably correct. [ 2 ]
Reš temple complex in Uruk [279] Antu is a goddess who was invented during the Akkadian Period (c. 2334 BC – 2154 BC) as a consort for Anu, [52] [59] and appears in such a role in the god list An = Anum. [280] Her name is a female version of Anu's own.
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.
The tree of life image that appeared in Darwin's On the Origin of Species, 1859; Early classification chart are often visualized in a tree structure. Modern charts can also be presented in table or as an infographic. The term "classification chart" came into use in the 20th century. In his 1939 Graphic presentation.