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Inhabitants of the third earth, creatures supposed to have faces like humans but with the mouth of a dog, feet of cows and ears like goats. They never disobey God. [19] (Other) Isma'il, guardian angel of the first heaven, this angel offers advice to the believers on earth and prays for them. [20] (Angel)
Zaarin Tengri is a spirit who gives Khorchi (in the Secret History of the Mongols) a vision of a cow mooing "Heaven and earth have agreed to make Temujin (later Genghis Khan) the lord of the nation". The sky god Tengri is attested from the Xiongnu of the 2nd century BC. The Xiongnu may not have been Mongol, but Tengri is common to several ...
Unity of Heaven and humanity (Chinese: 天人合一; pinyin: Tiān rén héyī) is an ancient Chinese philosophical concept that is found common across many Chinese religions and philosophies. The basic idea is that societal phenomena such as physiology , ethics , and politics of humanity are direct reflections of Tian , "heaven" or "nature."
Rituals were conducted to appease the wind gods, and to pray for successful harvests. Winds could also be harmful, and there are other spirits aside from wind gods that could control winds. [46] The Shang economy depended heavily on agriculture, and the worship of nature powers that directly affected it seemed to be a vital priority. [47]
Tlaloc, god of thunder, rain and the earth. In this layer he pierces the "clouds' bellies" to make them rain. Ehecatl, god of the wind. In this layer he blows the clouds with his breath (breezes) to make them move. The Ehecatotontli, gods of the breezes. Mictlanpachecatl, god of the north wind. Cihuatecayotl, god of the west wind.
According to the "Fire Prayer", it is implied that heaven and earth were once one, but separated later, giving birth to Fire (Od). After the separation of heaven and earth, life on earth came into being; through the rains of the heavens, then from earth sproud various life forms. For that reason, heaven is associated with father and earth with ...
Chinese theology, which comes in different interpretations according to the Chinese classics and Chinese folk religion, and specifically Confucian, Taoist, and other philosophical formulations, [1] is fundamentally monistic, [2] that is to say it sees the world and the gods of its phenomena as an organic whole, or cosmos, which continuously emerges from a simple principle. [3]
The Huainanzi relates Nüwa to the time when Heaven and Earth were in disruption: Going back to more ancient times, the four pillars were broken; the nine provinces were in tatters. Heaven did not completely cover [the earth]; Earth did not hold up all the way around [its circumference]. Fires blazed out of control and could not be extinguished ...