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Puertasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous Period.It is known from a single specimen recovered from sedimentary rocks of the Cerro Fortaleza Formation in southwestern Patagonia, Argentina, which probably is Campanian or Maastrichtian in age.
Priapus' role as a patron god for merchant sailors in ancient Greece and Rome is that of a protector and navigational aide. Recent shipwreck evidence contains apotropaic items carried on board by mariners in the forms of a terracotta phallus, wooden Priapus figure, and bronze sheath from a military ram.
Birds are avian dinosaurs, and in phylogenetic taxonomy their over 11,000 extant species are included in the group Dinosauria.. Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles [note 1] of the clade Dinosauria.
Equine god / goddess; A132.5. Bear god / goddess; A132.9. Cattle god / goddess; A161.2. King of the Gods; A177.1. Gods as Dupe or Tricksters; A192. Death or departure of the gods; A193. Gods of Dying-and-rising; A200—A299. Gods of the Upper World A210. Gods of the Sky; A220. Gods of the Sun; A240. Gods of the Moon; A250. Gods of the Stars ...
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.
Purussaurus is an extinct genus of giant caiman that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch, from the Friasian to the Huayquerian in the SALMA classification. It is known from skull material found in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon, Argentina, Colombian Villavieja Formation, Panamanian Culebra Formation, Urumaco and Socorro Formations of northern Venezuela.
The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
Nu ("Watery One") or Nun ("The Inert One") (Ancient Egyptian: nnw Nānaw; Coptic: Ⲛⲟⲩⲛ Noun), in ancient Egyptian religion, is the personification of the primordial watery abyss which existed at the time of creation and from which the creator sun god Ra arose.