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A Greek dryad depicted in a painting. In religion, a nature deity is a deity in charge of forces of nature, such as water, biological processes, or weather.These deities can also govern natural features such as mountains, trees, or volcanoes.
Set (/ s ɛ t /; Egyptological: Sutekh - swtẖ ~ stẖ [a] or: Seth / s ɛ θ /) is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. [7]: 269 In Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as Sēth (Σήθ). Set had a positive role where he accompanies Ra on his barque to repel Apep (Apophis), the serpent ...
The Nazca lines (/ ˈ n ɑː z k ə /, /-k ɑː / [1]) are a group of over 700 geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. [2] [3] They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving different-colored dirt exposed. [4]
Located 50 kilometers (31 miles) inland from Peru’s south coast, the huge symbols were found in the desert beginning in the early 20th century. Some 500 meters (1,640 feet) above sea level, the ...
Igai – God of oases and Egypt's Western Desert [103] Ihy – A child deity born to Horus and Hathor , representing the music and joy produced by the sistrum [ 19 ] [ 104 ] Imhotep – Architect and Vizier to Djoser , eventually deified as a healer god [ 105 ]
In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard. It describes 763 signs in 26 categories (A–Z, roughly). Georg Möller compiled more extensive lists, organized by historical epoch (published posthumously in 1927 and 1936).
The following is a list of solar ... goddess of war and of the Sun, sometimes also plagues and creator of the desert; ... and Fire symbols in Albanian ...
Ha (Ancient Egyptian: ḥꜣ), in ancient Egyptian religion, was a god of the Western Desert & the fertile oasis of Western Desert of Egypt. He was associated with the Duat (the underworld) and pictured as a man wearing the hieroglyph symbol for desert hills on his head. Ha was said to protect Egypt from enemies such as invading ancient Libyans ...