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Damsons are small, ovoid, plum-like fruit with a distinctive, somewhat astringent taste, and are widely used for culinary purposes, particularly in fruit preserves and jams. In South and Southeast Asia, the term damson plum sometimes refers to jamblang, the fruit from a tree in the family Myrtaceae. [4]
Fufluns, god of plant life, happiness and health and growth in all things; Liber, cognate for Bacchus/Dionysus; Nemestrinus, god of the forests and woods; Ops, goddess of fertility and the earth; Pilumnus, nature god who ensured children grew properly and stayed healthy; Pomona, goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards
In a Madagascar myth, two gods create human beings: the earth god forms them from wood and clay, the god of heaven gives them life. Human beings die so that they may return to the origins of their being. [36] Woyengi, in Ijaw tradition, created humans from earth that fell from the sky before granting them identities.
Mythological stories about a deity told of their deeds (which may have related to their functions) and linked them, through genealogical connections, to other gods with similar functions. [17] The most important surviving accounts of Greek mythology can be found in Homeric epic , which tells of encounters between gods and mortals, and Hesiod 's ...
All nature is conscious; All living creatures have souls; There is in the heaven world a Master of life and soul; The spirits of departed men and animals wander over their familiar haunts; Dreams are experiences of the soul as it leaves the body; There are monsters that men seldom see; There are such beings as wizards, witches and sorcerers
The allegorical image represents three elderly men tasting vinegar. The identity of the three men varies. Chinese versions often interpret the three men to be Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, and a monk named Foyin. Other variations depict the three men to the founders of China's major religious and philosophical traditions: Confucianism, Buddhism, and ...
Huitzilopochtli, "hummingbird's south" or "hummingbird's left"; Aztec god of the sun and war who was often depicted as either a hummingbird or an eagle. Iris (mythology) was said to have golden wings, [ 16 ] [ 17 ] with "golden-winged" being one of her epithets, and was often depicted in art as having wings.
Wild animals, birds and fish are God's gift to all men. Plants were created by God for the sake of animals and animals for the sake of men and thus humans may lawfully kill animals. Cattle and sheep had only been given life in the first place to keep their meat fresh "till we shall have need to eat them" [citation needed]. Furthermore, they ...