Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A god-isle is the immense petrified remains of a dead god that float on the Astral Plane, where githyanki and others often mine them for minerals and build communities on their stony surfaces. Tu'narath, the capital city of the githyanki, is built on the petrified corpse of a dead god known only as "The One in the Void".
In Kabbalistic interpretation, the Sulam-ladder's four main divisions are the Four Worlds and the angelic hierarchy embody external dimensions of the lights-vessels, while souls embody inner dimensions. The Four Worlds are spiritual, heavenly realms in a descending chain, although the lowest world of Assiah has both a spiritual and a physical ...
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. The New International Version translates the passage as: The centurion replied, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
The highest and outermost dome of the heavens was made of luludānītu stone and was personified as An, the god of the sky. [8] [7] The celestial bodies were equated with specific deities. [6]: 203 The planet Venus was believed to be Inanna, the goddess of love, sex, and war.
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown.
The universe of the ancient Israelites was made up of a flat disc-shaped Earth floating on water, heaven above, underworld below. [3] Humans inhabited Earth during life and the underworld after death, and the underworld was morally neutral; [4] only in Hellenistic times (after c.330 BC) did Jews begin to adopt the Greek idea that it would be a place of punishment for misdeeds, and that the ...
But I've reserved Bestie number 10 for what was my favorite podcast of the year, actually, two, because it spawned a Companion Weekend Extra, and that was February 28, when we recorded our special ...
Inscription: "To the god Ningiszida, his god, Gudea, Ensi (governor) of Lagash, for the prolongation of his life, has dedicated this" The name Ningishzida inscribed on a statue of Ur-Ningirsu . Seal of Gudea depicting him being led by Ningishzida (figure with snakes emerging from his shoulders)