* Ahlamah ( in the masoretic text ) / Amethystos ( in the Septuagint )-Amethystos refers to Amethyst, a purple mineral which was believed to protect against getting drunk from alcohol ( Amethyst's name refers to this belief, and literally translates as not intoxicating ), and was commonly used in Egypt.

The mortal turned out to be a beautiful young woman, Amethystos, who was on her way to pay tribute to Artemis.

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

He was such a favourite with the latter, that, when Greece was visited by a drought in consequence of a murder which had been committed, the oracle of Delphi declared that the calamity would not cease unless Aeacus prayed to the gods that it might.

Grasping the bloody dagger, he swore by Mars and all the other gods that he would do everything in his power to overthrow the dominion of the Tarquinii and that he would neither be reconciled to the tyrants himself nor tolerate any who should be reconciled to them, but would look upon every man who thought otherwise as an enemy and till his death would pursue with unrelenting hatred both the tyranny and its abettors ; and if he should violate his oath, he prayed that he and his children might meet with the same end as Lucretia.

His father prayed for him to be restored, but the gods instead changed him into a flower.

***" Althea prayed instantly to the gods, being grieved for her brother's slaying ; and furthermore instantly beat with her hands upon the all-nurturing earth, calling upon Hades and dread Persephone " ( 9, 569 )

Yet I liked not to pray to a jealous God there where the frail affectionate gods whom the heathen love were being humbly invoked ; so I bethought me, instead, of Sheol Nugganoth, whom the men of the jungle have long since deserted, who is now unworshipped and alone ; and to him I prayed.

In this telling, when Althaemenes realized what had happened he prayed to the gods and fell into a chasm.

Smyrna then prayed that the gods would make her invisible, prompting them to turn her into a tree, which was named the Smyrna.

Brahma prayed to lord Shiva to pardon Daksha and to mend the broken limbs of gods and rishis.

Marcellus concluded that this was the nicest armor, which he had previously prayed would be given by him to the gods.

In order to avoid continuous warfare with the Armenians, Semiramis, reputed to be a sorceress, took his body and prayed to the gods to raise Ara from the dead.

All families decorate their homes with rangolis or flower designs. They hold a special pooja in which newly painted idols of gods are prayed to.

An oral legend records the goddess Prachanda-Chandika appeared to aid the gods in the god-demon war, when the gods prayed to the Great Goddess Mahashakti.

It is also said that she prayed to gods to let her be the goddess of marital affairs.

He then prayed to the gods Jupiter, Mars, and Vesta asking for protection of this area.

Iphis was a woman raised as a man ; she also fell in love with Ianthe and prayed to the gods to allow the two women to marry.

Struck by the sight of all these volumes of literature, Hakuin prayed to the gods of the Dharma to help him choose a path.

Dmytro Dontsov claimed that the 20th century would witness the " twilight of the gods to whom the nineteenth century prayed " and that a new man must be created, with the " fire of fanatical commitment " and the " iron force of enthusiasm ", and that the only way forward was through " the organization of a new violence.

After some extremely tough times, Valdemar ( now the elected king of the country ) prayed to the gods for assistance.

He and his brothers disputed who should rule, and he prayed to Poseidon to send a sign from the sea that he was the chosen of the gods, which he promised to immediately sacrifice to the god.

When his children became seriously ill, he prayed to his household gods for their cure, offering to give up his own life in exchange.

Virgil uses the plural form of numen in the Aeneid: magna numina precari, translated as " prayed to the great gods ".

She also often prayed to the gods.

He reported that Jews, including Montefiore, were obliged to remain outside the tomb, and prayed at a hole in the wall, so that their voices enter into the tomb.

Thinking he would die, Ecgberht wept in repentance as he recalled his past sins, and he prayed that God spare him long enough to allow him to atone for the ill deeds of his youth, and he also vowed to remain on perpetual pilgrimage from his homeland of Britain, reciting the Psalter daily and fasting frequently.

People have prayed here for centuries and three sarsen stones remain, as possible evidence there was pagan worship there before Christian times.

She prayed for her child to remain protected from Satan and Muslim tradition records a hadith, which states that the only children born without the " touch of Satan ," were Mary and Jesus.

Bede mentions the story that Oswald " ended his life in prayer ": he prayed for the souls of his soldiers when he saw that he was about to die.

The prayer rope is part of the habit of Eastern Orthodox monks and nuns and is employed by monastics ( and sometimes by others ) to count the number of times one has prayed the Jesus Prayer or, occasionally, other prayers.

He also conducted research on the power of prayer, concluding it had none by its null effects on the longevity of those prayed for.

After the Kristallnacht pogroms that took place over the night of 9 – 10 November 1938, Bernhard Lichtenberg, a canon of the cathedral chapter of St Hedwig since 1931, prayed publicly for Jews in the evening prayer following.

In addition to the prescribed liturgical service, the Stations of the Cross are often prayed either in the church or outside, and a prayer service may be held from midday to 3. 00 p. m., known as the Three Hours ' Agony.

For example, on the ship to Gabon, forbidden from praying, Bamba is said to have broken his leg-irons, lept overboard into the ocean, and prayed on a prayer rug that miraculously appeared on the surface of the water.

Among the prayers the priest says is Psalm 141: 2-4: " Let my prayer, O Lord, be directed as incense in Thy sight ;...", which is prayed as he incenses the altar.

Abraham himself spoke extremely highly of prayer and titled God as the " Hearer of Prayer " and repeatedly prayed to God for wisdom and guidance.

Mohammed admired them as monotheists and saw them as natural adherents to the new faith and Jewish practices helped model early Islamic behavior, such as midday prayer, prayers on Friday, Ramadan fasting ( modelled after the Jewish Yom Kippur fast on the tenth of the month of Tishrei ), and most famously the fact that until 623 Muslims prayed toward Jerusalem, not Mecca.

Aegypius prayed for revenge and Zeus on hearing the prayer changed Aegypius and Neophron into vultures.

** At San Anton, every night about seven, everyone would be summoned for prayer ... Dobbie would stand ... and ... pray ... and .... ask the Almighty to bless the convoy ... but he never prayed to stop the bombing ... that was God's will ... God helps those that help themselves ...

In Orthodox public worship, the Shemoneh Esrei is usually first prayed silently by the congregation and is then repeated aloud by the chazzan ( reader ); the repetition's original purpose was to give illiterate members of the congregation a chance to participate in the collective prayer by answering " Amen.

The guideline of silent prayer comes from Hannah's behavior during prayer, when she prayed in the Temple to bear a child.

In Islamic belief, Abraham had prayed to God for a son and God heard his prayer.

In the United States, California Baptist pastor Wiley Drake achieved notoriety for boasting that he had prayed for the death of current president Barack Obama ; he had previously used such prayers against employees of the Internal Revenue Service, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and George Tiller ; while serving as a party for the plaintiff in a 2009 case regarding Obama's citizenship, he later retracted his prayer, and called for other Christians to abstain from similar action " until Obama can be tried for treason ".

Lozzi stated, " During these prayer sessions she prayed loudly and trance-like to Reeves and God, and without confessing yet, asked them for forgiveness.

In 2006, according to the Asia Times, " Lee also sent a video prayer message to a Christian rally held in the southern city of Busan in which the worship leader prayed feverishly: ' Lord, let the Buddhist temples in this country crumble down!

When the time for prayer arrived, however, he left the church and prayed outside the compound, in order to avoid having future generations of Muslims use his prayer there as a pretext for converting the church into a mosque.

God watches over people and makes decisions directly with their prayers and it is in this context that the guardian angels are sent back and forth as emissaries to aid in this task, thus, they are not prayed to directly but are part of the workings of how the prayer and response comes about.

The Maghrib prayer (, " evening prayer "), prayed just after sunset, is the fourth of five formal daily prayers ( salat ) performed by practicing Muslims.

Shia doctrine permits the midday & afternoon and evening & night prayers to be prayed in succession, i. e. Dhuhr can be followed by Asr once the midday prayer has been recited and sufficient time has passed, and Maghrib can be followed by Isha ' a once the evening prayer has been recited and sufficient time has passed.