Choronzon is deemed to be held in check by the power of the Goddess Babalon, inhabitant of Binah, the third Sephirah of the Tree of Life.

* The Great Mother, epithet of Babalon, a goddess in Aleister Crowley's mystical system of Thelema

* Therion ( Thelema ), a god in Thelema, consort of Babalon

Along with the characters of Belldandy, Urd and Keiichi Morisato, she is regarded as one of the four major characters in Oh My Goddess !.

Graves was disappointed that his work was " loudly ignored " by many Celtic scholars ; however, it was accepted as history by many non-scholarly readers and, according to Ronald Hutton, The White Goddess remains a major source of confusion about the ancient Celts and influences many un-scholarly views of Celtic paganism.

Two major defining characteristics of the Great Goddess are a bird headress and a nose pendant with descending fangs.

Kapila is a major figure in the story associated with the descent of the Ganges ( Goddess Ganga ) river from heaven.

One of the finest ' Navratri ' Indian festival devoted and celebrated for Maa Ambe ( Indian Goddess ) is held at Kora Kendra Ground, Opp Hotel Granville ( Granville Greens Restaurant ) which is the major attraction and well known celebration done in this suburb.

On the cultural front, Jadavpur hosts one of the major Kali Pujas in Kolkata, called Nava-Kali ( nine different forms of Goddess Kali ).

There are two major shrines in the temple ; one is dedicated to Sri Sankaracharya and the other to Goddess Saradamba, the main deity of Sringeri.

The Trinity Knot holds major significance in neopaganism in that it is believed to represent the three stages of the Triple Goddess ( Maiden, Mother, and Crone ).

The Vindhyavasini Devi temple located here is a major draw and is thronged by hundreds of devotees during the Navratris of Chaitra and Ashwin months to invoke the blessings of the Goddess.

Books relating to the contemporary pagan worship of the goddess Sophia include: Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom, by Caitlin Matthews and The Cosmic Shekinah by Sorita d ' Este and David Rankine ( which includes Sophia as one of the major aspects of the goddess of wisdom ).

is a major character in the popular manga Oh My Goddess!

In America also all of our major religious bodies officially sanction a universalistic ethic which is reflective of our common religion.

In the 1920s and 1930s almost every major cosmologist preferred an eternal steady state Universe, and several complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics ; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory.

These events represented a major religious crisis: why had their god allowed this to happen?

This major work was the earliest attempt to systematize the various religious controversies of the time.

The Council of Trent, delayed and interrupted several times because of political or religious disagreements, was a major reform council and the most impressive embodiment of the ideals of the Counter-Reformation.

The major factors shaping a cuisine are climate, which in large measure determines the native raw materials that are available, economic conditions, which affect trade and can affect food distribution, imports and exports, and religious or sumptuary laws, under which certain foods are required or proscribed.

She had a strong religious upbringing and developed a faith that would play a major role in later life.

In the United States, Enlightenment philosophy ( which itself was heavily inspired by deist ideals ) played a major role in creating the principle of religious freedom, expressed in Thomas Jefferson's letters and included in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Although Dominic and the early brethren had instituted female Dominican houses at Prouille and other places by 1227, some of the brethren of the Order had misgivings about the necessity of female religious establishments in an Order whose major purpose was preaching, a duty in which women could not traditionally engage.

The religious and mythical themes in Star Wars were inspired by Lucas ' interest in the writings of mythologist Joseph Campbell, and he would eventually come to identify strongly with the Eastern religious philosophies he studied and incorporated into his films, which were a major inspiration for " the Force.

At this time, many local dukes saw it as a chance to oppose the hegemony of Emperor Charles V. The empire then became fatally divided along religious lines, with the north, the east, and many of the major cities — Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Nuremberg — becoming Protestant while the southern and western regions largely remained Catholic.

Although until the 13th century religious minorities ( Jews and Muslims ) had enjoyed considerable tolerance in Castilla and Aragon – the only Christian kingdoms where Jews were not restricted from any professional occupation – the situation of the Jews collapsed over the 14th century, reaching a climax in 1391 with large scale massacres in every major city except Ávila.

The Mishnah, a major Jewish religious text, was completed in this period.

Writing played a major role in sustaining organized religion by standardizing religious ideas regardless of time or location.

It is a frequent component of major political or religious changes.

28 CE ) was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels and the Qur ' an.

In addition to the two major conflicting views, prominent Lebanese politicians of the myriad religious denominations in Lebanon have also tended to be feudal warlords commanding their own private militias and feared that a strong army would endanger their personal power.

In the analysis of his findings, Weber maintained that Calvinist ( and more widely, Protestant ) religious ideas had had a major impact on the social innovation and development of the economic system of the West, but noted that they were not the only factors in this development.

With the notable exception of Dunfermline Abbey he is not definitely associated with major religious establishments or ecclesiastical reforms.

Many persons and beings have falsely pretended to be gods or demons during history ; in particular, none of the ones claiming to be major figures from Judeo-Christian beliefs has turned out to be the real article, although a number of angels have appeared in recent years, as well as an apparent true rebellion and expulsion of angels from a higher realm known as Paradise, proving that some form of Heaven and Hell do exist in this Universe, seemingly like those in keeping with common real world religious belief.

The Old Testament is a Christian term for a collection of religious writings of ancient Israel that form the major and first section of Christian Bibles, in contrast to the Christian New Testament which deals explicitly with the 1st century Christianity.

Ghazals have a classical affinity with Sufism, and a number of major Sufi religious works are written in ghazal form.

) A Catholic priest must be incardinated by his bishop or his major religious superior in order to engage in public ministry.

Among the major religious sites of eastern Pictland were Portmahomack, Cennrígmonaid ( later St Andrews ), Dunkeld, Abernethy and Rosemarkie.

a review of the philosophy of Communist leaders by Ted Slack, another real estate agent who became interested as a philosophy major at the University of Miami ; ;

( Ibn Sina's major work on philosophy.

He made major contributions to logic, but logic for him encompassed much of that which is now called epistemology and philosophy of science.

As his three major works demonstrate, Clement was influenced by Hellenistic philosophy to a greater extent than any other Christian thinker of his time, and in particular by Plato and the Stoics.

Dialectical materialism originates from two major aspects of Marx's philosophy.

Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.

Darré was a firm believer in the superiority of the Nordic race, and his philosophy was a major influence on Himmler.

Hume became a major figure in the skeptical philosophical and empiricist traditions of philosophy.

As a mathematician, Galileo's role in the university culture of his era was subordinated to the three major topics of study: law, medicine, and theology ( which was closely allied to philosophy ).

It began among the Greeks and became the major philosophy of the Roman Empire before declining with the rise of Christianity in the 3rd century.

Throughout their long tenure the Stoics believed that the major tenets of their philosophy derived from the thought of Heraclitus.

A major schism occurred later in the 19th century when Tucker and some others abandoned their traditional support of natural rights-as espoused by Lysander Spooner-and converted to an " egoism " modeled upon Stirner's philosophy.

A major concern of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit ( 1807 ) and of the philosophy of Spirit that he lays out in his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences ( 1817 – 1830 ) is the interrelation between individual humans, which he conceives in terms of " mutual recognition.

More recently, Martin Heidegger used " lēthē " to symbolize the " concealment of Being " or " forgetting of Being " that he saw as a major problem of modern philosophy.

Mohandas Karamchand GandhiGandhism is the collection of inspirations, principles, beliefs and philosophy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( known as Mahatma Gandhi ), who was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian Independence Movement.

In contemporary analytic philosophy, the issue of subject — and more specifically the " point of view " of the subject, or " subjectivity " -- has received attention as one of the major intractable problems in philosophy of mind ( a related issue being the mind-body problem ).

Friedrich Nietzsche was another major precursor of modernism with a philosophy in which psychological drives, specifically the ' Will to power ', were more important than facts, or things.

The Socratic school of classical political philosophy, especially Aristotle, had become a major influence upon European political thinking in the late Middle Ages.

The major difference between Machiavelli and the Socratics, according to Strauss, is Machiavelli's materialism and therefore his rejection of both a teleological view of nature, and of the view that philosophy is higher than politics.

Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.

In addition to its oracular power, the I Ching has had a major influence on the philosophy, literature and statecraft of China from the time of the Zhou Dynasty ( 1122 BC – AD 256 ).

In 1785, a major controversy about Spinoza's philosophy known in German as the Pantheismus-Streit ( Pantheism controversy ) between critic Friedrich Jacobi and defender Moses Mendelssohn helped to spread pantheism to many German thinkers in the late 18th and in the 19th century.