Ash was the ancient Egyptian god of oases, as well as the Vineyards of the western Nile Delta and thus was viewed as a benign deity.

In Egyptian mythology, as god of the oases, Ash was associated with Set, who was originally god of the desert, and was seen as protector of the Sahara.

The first known reference to Ash dates to the Protodynastic Period, but by the late 2nd Dynasty, his importance had grown, and he was seen as protector of the royal estates, since the related god Set, in Lower Egypt, was regarded as the patron deity of royalty itself.

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* Ash ( analytical chemistry ), the compounds that remain after a scientific sample is burned ; commonly reported as a percentage on pet food labels

* Ash ( Fraxinus ), genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family

* Prickly Ash ( Zanthoxylum ), genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue family, Rutaceae

* Ash ( band ), a rock band from Northern Ireland

* Ash ( artist ) ( born 1968 ), French graffiti artist

* Ash ( ballet ), by Peter Martins ( 1991 )

* Ash ( comics ), Comic book about a superhero firefighter

* Ash ( novel ), a 2009 LGBTQ young adult novel by Malinda Lo

* Ash ( Alien ), the android antagonist in the film Alien ( 1979 )

* Ash ( near Salway ), Dorset, England

* Ash ( near Stourpaine ), Dorset, England

* Ash ( near Taunton ), Somerset, England

* Ash ( Persian food ), similar to soup but thicker, which is usually served hot

* Ash Mountain ( disambiguation ), several mountains by this name in Canada and the USA

One of the only actors loyal to the project from the beginning was Bruce Campbell ( also a producer of the film and Raimi's childhood filmmaking partner ), who went through torturous circumstances as the character ' Ash.

While in the cabin, Ash plays a tape of an archeology professor ( the cabin's previous inhabitant ), reciting passages from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis ( or " Book of the Dead "), which he has discovered during an archaeological dig.

* Earliest day on which Shrove Monday can fall, while March 8 is the latest ; celebrated on Monday before Ash Wednesday ( Christianity ), and its related observances:

* 1977 – William Ash ( actor ), British actor

To date, a complete map of the area has been made, including not only the Ash Altar and temenos, but also two fountains, including the Hagno fountain mentioned by Pausanias, the hippodrome, the stadium, a building that was probably a bathhouse, the xenon ( hotel ), a stoa, several rows of seats, and a group of statue bases.

* New England ( Wishbone Ash album ), a 1976 album by Wishbone Ash

In Islamic philosophy, skepticism was established by Al-Ghazali ( 1058 – 1111 ), known in the West as " Algazel ", as part of the orthodox Ash ' ari school of Islamic theology, whose method of skepticism shares many similarities with Descartes ' method.

One player of the game, Ash ( played by Polish actress Małgorzata Foremniak ), hears of a secret level hidden within Avalon.

It is held during the week leading up to Ash Wednesday, and typically includes masked balls, fancy dress and grotesque mask competitions, lavish late-night parties, a colourful, ticker-tape parade of allegorical floats presided over by King Carnival ( Maltese: ir-Re tal-Karnival ), marching bands and costumed revellers.

Kültepe ( Turkish: Ash Hill ) is a modern village near the ancient city of Kaneš or Kanesh ( Hittite: Neša, occasionally Anisa ), located in the Kayseri Province in Turkey.

Lagash is an ancient city located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, about east of the modern town of Ash Shatrah.

The principal marshes are those of Chislet, within the ancient estuary of the river ; Wade, west of Birchington ; and Ash Level.

Indeed, depictions of Ash are the earliest known depictions, in ancient Egyptian art, to show a deity as a human with the head of an animal.

Hence the worship of this figure is a syncretism which can be best seen during the week of Ash Wednesday when many clad in Aztec dress dance and perform ancient rituals in front of the parish church below and the sanctuary church on the hill.

The Rite of AshkEnte ( also Ashk ' Ente or Ash ' Kente ) is the ancient magic ritual that summons and binds Death into a circle and prevents him from leaving until invited to do so by the summoning wizard.

New Ash Green is a village near the ancient village of Ash, in the parish of Ash-cum-Ridley, about south of Gravesend in Kent and south-east of London.

Bad-tibira, " Wall of the Copper Worker ( s )", or " Fortress of the Smiths ", identified as modern Tell al-Madineh, between Ash Shatrah and Tell as-Senkereh ( ancient Larsa ) in southern Iraq, was an ancient Sumerian city, which appears among antediluvian cities in the Sumerian King List.

The village is of ancient establishment, possibly with Roman origins and was part of the wapentake of Barkston Ash in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Certainly we cannot now say, on the testimony of the Jamharat Ash ' ar al-Arab, that two of the most competent ancient authorities on Arabic poetry, al-Mufaddal ( d. c. 790 ) and Abu ' Ubaida ( d. 824 CE, at a great age ), had already assigned to the " Seven " ( i. e. " the seven Mu ' allaqat ") a poem each of al-Nabigha and al-A ' sha in place of those of ' Antara and Harith.

Some depictions of Ash show him as having multiple heads, unlike other Egyptian deities, although some compound depictions were occasionally shown connecting gods to Min.

Altruism is a motivation to provide something of value to a party who must be anyone but oneself, while duty focuses on a moral obligation towards a specific individual ( e. g., a god, a king ), or collective ( e. g., a government ).

The ideal of the kouros ( a beardless, athletic youth ), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more.

As the patron of Delphi ( Pythian Apollo ), Apollo was an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

As a god of archery, Apollo was known as Aphetor ( ; Ἀφήτωρ, Aphētōr, from ὰφίημι, " to let loose ") or Aphetorus ( ; Ἀφητόρος, Aphētoros, of the same origin ), Argyrotoxus ( ; Ἀργυρότοξος, Argurotoxos, literally " with silver bow "), Hecaërgus ( ; Ἑκάεργος, Hekaergos, literally " far-shooting "), and Hecebolus ( ; Ἑκηβόλος, Hekēbolos, literally " far-shooting ").

The magicians were also called " seer-doctors " ( ιατρομάντεις ), and they used an ecstatic prophetic art which was used exactly by the god Apollo at the oracles.

Animals sacred to Apollo included wolves, dolphins, roe deer, swans, cicadas ( symbolizing music and song ), hawks, ravens, crows, snakes ( referencing Apollo's function as the god of prophecy ), mice and griffins, mythical eagle – lion hybrids of Eastern origin.

The Greek name for amber was ( elektron ), " formed by the sun ", and it was connected to the sun god ( Helios ), one of whose titles was Elector or the Awakener.

A runic inscription on a fibula found at Bad Ems reflects Christian pious sentiment ( and is also explicitly marked with a Christian cross ), reading god fura dih deofile ᛭ (" God for / before you, Theophilus!

Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian

( Hume 1974: 355-356 ) He also argues in brief against the idea that causes are mere occasions of the will of some god ( s ), a view associated with the philosopher Nicolas Malebranche.

There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).

In his dialogues ( e. g. Republic 399e, 592a ), Plato has Socrates utter, " by the dog " ( kai me ton kuna ), " by the dog of Egypt ", " by the dog, the god of the Egyptians " ( Gorgias, 482b ), for emphasis.

), which shows association with " day ", possibly with Day personified as a deity which, Grimm points out, would agree with the meaning " shining one, white one, a god " derived from the meaning of Baltic baltas, further adducing Slavic Belobog and German Berhta.

He alienated the powerful priests of Marduk, the official god of Babylon, by taking up the worship of Sin, the god of Harran ( a city in northern Mesopotamia ), absenting himself for long periods from the city and neglecting crucial ceremonies.