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Following is a list of pantheons of deities in specific spiritual practices: African pantheons; Armenian pantheon; Aztec pantheon; Buddhist pantheon; Berber pantheon; Burmese pantheon; Canaanite pantheon; Celtic pantheon; Chinese pantheon; Egyptian pantheon; Germanic pantheon; Greek pantheon; Guanche pantheon; Hindu pantheon; Incan pantheon ...
The mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an underworld. They are often amongst the most powerful and important entities in a given tradition, reflecting the fact that death, like birth, is central to the human experience. In ...
Names of God, names of deities of monotheistic religions This page was last edited on 14 November 2024, at 17:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
Additional, more numerous sources in which Slavic theonyms are preserved include names, proper names, place names, folk holidays, and language, including sayings. Information about Slavic paganism, including the gods, is scarce because Christian missionaries were not very interested in the spiritual life of the Slavs. [1]
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; A260. Gods of Light; A270. Gods ...
The Minotaur, whose birth name was Asterion, is another fabled creature from Greek mythology. The man-bull hybrid was the product of an affair between Queen Pasiphaë and a bull—hence its weird ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 November 2024. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains ...