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  2. Siming (deity) - Wikipedia

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    As a deity Siming takes his, her, or their place in a complex cosmological system of Chinese religion and mythology. Over time, this system became a visualization of a complex cosmology including the elaboration of a heavenly bureaucracy, somewhat parallel to the earthly bureaucracy of the Chinese state, and invoking the same sort of explicit hierarchy.

  3. Four Symbols - Wikipedia

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    The Four Symbols are mythological creatures appearing among the Chinese constellations along the ecliptic, and viewed as the guardians of the four cardinal directions. These four creatures are also referred to by a variety of other names, including " Four Guardians ", " Four Gods ", and " Four Auspicious Beasts ".

  4. Owl of Athena - Wikipedia

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    The association between the owl and the goddess continued through Minerva in Roman mythology, although the latter sometimes simply adopts it as a sacred or favorite bird.. For example, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Corone the crow complains that her spot as the goddess' sacred bird is occupied by the owl, which in that particular story turns out to be Nyctimene, a cursed daughter of Epopeus, king ...

  5. Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    Chinese mythology (traditional Chinese: 中國神話; simplified Chinese: 中国神话; pinyin: Zhōngguó shénhuà) is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology encompasses a diverse array of myths derived from regional and cultural traditions.

  6. Sisyphus - Wikipedia

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    The Myth of Sisyphus, a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus which uses Sisyphus's punishment as a symbol for the absurd. Sisyphus: The Myth, a 2021 South Korean TV series, which uses the myth as a symbol for its theme. Sisyphus cooling, a cooling technique named after the Sisyphus myth; Syzyfowe prace, a novel by Stefan Żeromski

  7. Category:Shapeshifters in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Characters who can change their shape at will in Greek mythology. Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. A. Apollo (6 C, 42 P)

  8. Kitchen God - Wikipedia

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    The kitchen deity – also known as the Stove God, [1] named Zao Jun, Zao Shen, Zao kimjah, Cokimjah or Zhang Lang – is the most important of a plethora of Chinese domestic gods that protect the hearth and family.

  9. Iaso - Wikipedia

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    Iaso (/ aɪ ˈ eɪ s oʊ /; Greek: Ἰασώ, Iāsō) or Ieso (/ aɪ ˈ iː s oʊ /; Greek: Ἰησώ, Iēsō) was the Greek goddess of recuperation from illness. The daughter of Asclepius, she had four sisters: Aceso, Aegle, Hygieia, and Panacea. All five were associated with some aspect of health or healing.