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  2. Chaos gods - Wikipedia

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    A chaos deity is a deity or more often a figure or spirit in mythology associated with or being a personification of primordial chaos. The following is a list of chaos deities in various mythologies. The following is a list of chaos deities in various mythologies.

  3. Apep - Wikipedia

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    Because Ra was the solar deity, bringer of light, and thus the upholder of Maat, Apep was viewed as the greatest enemy of Ra, and thus was given the title Enemy of Ra, and also "the Lord of Chaos". "The Lord of Chaos" was seen as a giant snake or serpent leading to such titles as Serpent from the Nile and Evil Dragon.

  4. Janus - Wikipedia

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    However no Latin source cites relationships of any kind between Consus and Janus Consivius. Moreover, both the passages that this etymology requires present difficulties, particularly as it seems Consus cannot be etymologically related to adjective consivius or conseuius , found in Ops Consivia and thence the implied notion of sowing.

  5. Veles (god) - Wikipedia

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    Although in this particular myth he plays a negative role as bringer of chaos, Veles was not seen as an evil god by ancient Slavs. In fact, in many of the Russian folk tales, Veles, appearing under the Christian guise of Saint Nicholas , saves the poor farmer and his cattle from the furious and destructive Elias the Thunderer, who represents Perun.

  6. Luciferianism - Wikipedia

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    The Sigil of Lucifer, a symbol of Lucifer, used by modern Luciferians William Blake's illustration of Lucifer as presented in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to Lucifer, the name of various mythological and religious figures associated with the planet Venus.

  7. List of death deities - Wikipedia

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    Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death.Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa, one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead

  8. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Wikipedia

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    This interpretation also borrows from Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which claims the Roman Empire suffered as a result of excessive taxation of its citizens, particularly during the reign of Emperor Caracalla, whom history has primarily remembered as a cruel tyrant and among the worst of the Roman ...

  9. Epiales - Wikipedia

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    Epiales was also known as Melas Oneiros (Black Dream). [1]"The words epialos, epiales and epioles denote (1) the feverish chill (2) the daimon who assaults sleepers. Homer and most writers have epioles with the e; the form in -os means something different, namely the feverish chill . . .