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Deities represented the forces of nature, love, death, and so on, and were interacted with by a variety of rituals. Formal pantheons are more noticeable at the level of kingdoms, of variable sizes, ranging from simple city-states to collections of tribes. [2] The Kaaba alone was said to have contained up to 100 images of many gods and goddesses ...
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.
Hymen, god of marriage, weddings, and the bridal hymn. Pothos, god of sexual longing, yearning, and desire. Hedone, goddess of pleasure. Helios, the sun, who played a role in love-magic; according to Pindar, lovesick men would pray to him. Pan, god of the wild, shepherds, flocks, rustic music, and fertility of the wild/flocks. Is portrayed as ...
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere
Min – A god of virility, as well as the cities of Akhmim and Qift and the Eastern Desert beyond them [24] Nefertem – A god of the lotus blossom from which the sun god rose at the beginning of time Son of Ptah and Sekhmet [25] Osiris – A god of death and resurrection who rules Duat and enlivens vegetation, the sun god, and deceased souls [26]
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Some notable river gods include: Achelous, the god of the Achelous River, the largest river in Greece, who gave his daughter in marriage to Alcmaeon; Alpheus, who fell in love with the nymph Arethusa; and Inachus, the first king of Argos and progenitor of Argive line through his son grandson Argus.
According to Hesiod's Theogony (c. 700 BC), one of the most ancient of Greek sources, Eros (Love) was the fourth god to come into existence, coming after Chaos, Gaia (Earth), and Tartarus. [18] Homer does not mention Eros. However, Parmenides (c. 400 BC), one of the pre-Socratic philosophers, makes Eros the first of all the gods to come into ...