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Nehebkau, the primordial snake and funerary god associated with the afterlife, and one of the forty-two assessors of Maat; Osiris, lord of the Underworld [2] Qebehsenuef, one of the four sons of Horus; Seker, a falcon god of the Memphite necropolis who was known as a patron of the living, as well as a god of the dead. He is known to be closely ...
Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete: 1960 Italian film starring Bob Mathias, loosely based on the mythological story Labyrinth: 1971 Russian: Лабиринт Soviet animated film by Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya: Minotaur: 2006 Immortals: 2011 Loosely based on the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and the Titanomachy.
Portunus, god of keys, doors, and livestock, he was assigned a flamen minor. Postverta or Prorsa Postverta, goddess of childbirth and the past, one of the two Carmentes (other being Porrima). Priapus, phallic guardian of gardens, originally Greek. Proserpina, Queen of the Dead and a grain-goddess, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Persephone.
The Greek god Zeus and the Roman god Jupiter both appear as the head gods of their respective pantheons. [121] [113] *Dyḗws Ph₂tḗr is also attested in the Rigveda as Dyáus Pitā, a minor ancestor figure mentioned in only a few hymns, and in the Illyrian god Dei-Pátrous, attested once by Hesychius of Alexandria. [122]
The term "dying god" is associated with the works of James Frazer, [4] Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists. [16] At the end of the 19th century, in their The Golden Bough [4] and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural ...
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Religious sites and rituals for the di inferi were properly outside the pomerium, Rome's sacred boundary, as were tombs. [11] Horse racing along with the propitiation of underworld gods was characteristic of "old and obscure" Roman festivals such as the Consualia, the October Horse, the Taurian Games, and sites in the Campus Martius such as the Tarentum and the Trigarium.
Emperor Julian's "Hymn to the Mother of Gods" [13] contains a detailed Neoplatonic analysis of Attis. In that work Julian says: "Of him [Attis] the myth relates that, after being exposed at birth near the eddying stream of the river Gallus, he grew up like a flower, and when he had grown to be fair and tall, he was beloved by the Mother of the ...