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The knowledge and power of God are expanding The vail o'er the earth is beginning to burst. The word "vail" is the (now archaic) spelling of "veil" as found in the original 1830 hymnal. The King James Version of the Bible uses both spellings of the word interchangeably.
Kresnik, golden fire god who became a hero of Slovenia; Ognyena Maria, fire goddess who assists Perun; Peklenc, god of fire who rules the underworld and its wealth and who judges and punishes the wicked through earthquakes; Svarog, the bright god of fire, smithing, and the sun, and is sometimes considered as the creator
An 18th-century depiction of Agni, a descendant deity. The archaic Proto-Indo-European language (ca. 4500–4000 BC) had a two-gender system which originally divided words between animate and inanimate, a system used to distinguish a common term from its deified synonym.
At the opening of the Easter Vigil a fire is lit and blessed. The minister will cuts a cross in the wax with a stylus and trace the symbols on the Paschal candle, saying words similar to: "Christ, yesterday and today, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega. All time belongs to him and all the ages; to him be glory and power through ...
These words came low and mournfully From the pallid lips of the youth who lay On his dying bed at the close of day. He had wasted and pined 'til o'er his brow Death's shades were slowly gathering now He thought of home and loved ones nigh, As the cowboys gathered to see him die. "O bury me not on the lone prairie Where coyotes howl and the wind ...
The word Shinto was created by combining two kanji: "神" shin meaning god (the character can also be read as "kami" in Japanese) and "道" tō meaning Tao ("way" or "path" in a philosophical sense). Thus, Shinto means "the way of the gods."
The origin of the Roman god of fire Vulcan has been traced back to the Cretan god Velchanos by Gérard Capdeville, primarily under the suggestion of the close similarity of their names. [52] Cretan Velchanos is a young god of Mediterranean or Near Eastern origin who has mastership of fire and is the companion of the Great Goddess .
Incarnation – in traditional Christianity is the belief that the second person of the Trinity, also known as God the Son or the Logos (Word), "became flesh" by being conceived in the womb of Mary, also known as the Theotokos (Birth-giver to God) or "Mater Dei" (mother of God). INRI; Intercession of the Spirit