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It is translated as "horizon" or "the place in the sky where the sun rises". [1] Benben: The mound that arose from the primordial waters Nu upon which the creator deity Atum settled in the creation myth of the Heliopolitan form of ancient Egyptian religion. Duat: The Underworld and abode of the dead in Ancient Egyptian religion. The Indestructibles
Ara the Handsome, a dying-and-rising agricultural deity; Aralez, winged dog-like creatures with the ability to resurrect the dead by licking wounds; Areg (Arev) or Ar, god of the Sun; Astłik, deity of fertility and love; Tsovinar, also known as "Nar of the Sea", goddess of waters and the ocean; Mihr, cognate with the Mithra and god of the sun ...
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur [b] (Ancient Greek: Μινώταυρος, Mīnṓtauros), also known as Asterion, is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man [4] (p 34) or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull".
A marble statue of Niobe is a female lead character in a long-running 1892 farce Niobe (play) by Harry Paulton. In the play she is bought to life by a quaint electrical storm and brings the Edwardian values and relationships in the household to disarray. The season at the London Royal Strand Theatre enjoyed more than five hundred performances.
Kabigat (Bontok mythology): the goddess of the moon who cut off the head of Chal-chal's son; her action is the origin of headhunting [6] Bulan (Ifugao mythology): the moon deity of the night in charge of nighttime [7] Moon Deity (Ibaloi mythology): the deity who teased Kabunian for not yet having a spouse [8]
According to him, next to Radagast and Prone, she is the most important deity of the Slavs. Probably identical with the Polish deity Żywie mentioned by Jan Długosz. [34] A theonym related to the word živeti "to live". Prone or Prove: Polabians: Proue is a distorted name of a god mentioned by Helmold.
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.
The paucity of evidence on Melqart has led to debate as to the nature of his cult and his place in the Phoenician pantheon. William F. Albright suggested he was a god of the underworld partly because the god Milku , who may be Melqart, is sometimes equated with the Mesopotamian god Nergal , a god of the underworld, whose name also means 'King ...