This new cosmic motion, he suggests, was seen by the founders of Mithraism as indicating the existence of a powerful new god capable of shifting the cosmic spheres and thereby controlling the universe.

Plato in his dialogue The Statesman tells a " famous tale " that " the sun and the stars once rose in the west, and set in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus.

In Irish mythology, Manaunaun was the god of motion and of the waves of the sea.

Renard thinks that while Janus is the god of motion and transitions he is not concerned directly with purification, while the arch is more associated with Juno.

Thence the analogy with the rite of the Tigillum Sororium would be apparent: both in the myth and in the rite Janus, the god of motion, goes through a low passage to attain Carna as Horatius passes under the tigillum to obtain his purification and the restitution to the condition of citizen eligible for civil activities, including family life.

Thus there is a reciprocal link between the god of beginnings and unending motion, who bestows life to the beings of this world ( Cerus Manus ) as well as presiding over its end, and the goddess of the hearth of man, which symbolises through fire the presence of life.

Unlike the pre-Crisis version, whose abilities were acquired supernaturally through the god Mars, the two post-Crisis Silver Swans need their artificial wings to control their flight motion.

But as the first ( absolute ) god existing in itself and being undisturbed in its motion, could not be creative ( demiurgikos-δημιουργικός ), he thought that we must assume a second god, who keeps matter together, directs its energy to it and to intelligible essences, and imparts its spirit to all creatures ; its mind is directed to the first god, in whom it beholds the ideas according to which it arranges the world harmoniously, being seized with a desire to create the world.

This looks odd as Dumézil's definition of the concept of frame god would fit well the figure of Janus.

The uplifted right arm is missing, but the possibility that the god holds out to the child a bunch of grapes to excite his desire would reduce the subject to a genre figure, C. Waldstein noted in 1882, remarking that Hermes looks past the child, " the clearest and most manifest outward sign of inward dreaming ".

He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past.

The idea of an association of the god to the Greek concept of Chaos though looks contrived, as the initial function of Janus suffices to explain his place at the origin of time.

Her nature looks to be also associated with vegetation and nurture: G. Dumezil has proved that Helernus was a god of vegetation, vegetative lushiousness and orchards, particularly associated with vetch.

He looks like a god.

Contrastingly, the god that Jesus professed is an altogether different being, a universal god of compassion and love who looks upon humanity with benevolence and mercy.

For instance, diachronic linguists will say that the god Odin was called Wōdanaz 2, 000 years ago, which no longer looks so similar to Udi.

The novel design featured a front-opening door for access to the front seat, as well as a rear-opening door for access to the rear-facing rear seat ; this " coming or going " design was given the name of the Roman god, Janus, usually pictured having two faces: one looks forward while the other one looks back.

There is a god here who looks like a yellow sack.

Every holon is like a two-faced Janus, the Roman god: one side ( the whole ) looks down ( or inward ); the other side ( the part ) looks up ( or outward ).

In a poll conducted by IGN, it was voted as the 32nd best Pokémon, where the staff commented " Lucario is really, really cool, and a complete badass ", further stating that " It also doesn ’ t hurt that he looks like some sort of awesome Egyptian god ".

As the baby tries desperately to escape Hat, Tweek looks at the now offscreen Hat and shouts " oh, god!

Rama and Sita worship god Shiva at Rameshwaram as Vibhishana ( right ) looks on with Lakshamana, Tumburu and Narada

While being dragged through Arkham Asylum, he looks at the prisoners watching him and believes that he sees a Greek deity in their place: the Joker is Hermes the trickster god, Two-Face is the " double-faced " Janus ( actually a Roman god ), and Poison Ivy is the goddess Demeter.

The Turkish word Mart is given after the name of Mars the god.

Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific plane of existence after death, as determined by a god, gods, or other divine judgment, based on their actions or beliefs during life.

The Greek god Hades is known in Greek mythology as the king of the underworld, a place where souls live after death.

The contest ends when Elijah's God consumes the offering which the Baal worshipers could not induce their god to touch, after which Elijah slaughters the Baal prophets ( 1 Kings 18: 17 – 40 ).

The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that " I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby.

Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

The story can be compared to that of a 13th century Hittite king who was forced to take the throne after a lifetime of loyalty when his life was in danger: like David, he was assisted by his god, whose divine will decided the course of events.

The Sumerian text is known as " A man and his god ", after the incipit lu < sub > 2 </ sub >- ulu < sub > 3 </ sub > nam-mah dingir-ra-na.

The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix ( which may mean " King of the Boii " or, more literally, " King of Strikers "), Gaesorix ( which means " Spear King "), and Lugius ( which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus ), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic ( compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix ).

In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python, a dragon who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth.

One story names his origins as the exhausted breath of An ( god of the heavens ) and Ki ( goddess of the Earth ) after sexual union.

A mortal known as Utnapishtim survived the flood through the help of another god, Ea, and he was made immortal by Enlil after Enlil's initial fury.

In The Frogs, composed after Euripides and Aeschylus were both dead, Aristophanes imagines the god Dionysus venturing down to Hades in search of a good poet to bring back to Athens.

According to one famous episode, shortly after the Soga's began worshipping the new Buddha statue, a plague broke out, which the Mononobe's promptly attributed to a curse by Japan's traditional deities as punishment for worshipping the foreign god.

According to Alcuin's Life of St. Willebrord, the saint visited an island between Frisia and Denmark that was sacred to Fosite and was called Fositesland after the god worshipped there.

The names that eventually prevailed were chosen by Simon Marius, who discovered the moons independently at the same time as Galileo: he named them at the suggestion of Johannes Kepler after lovers of the god Zeus ( the Greek equivalent of Jupiter ): Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, in his Mundus Jovialis, published in 1614.

January ( in Latin, Ianuarius ) is named after Janus, the god of the doorway ; the name has its beginnings in Roman mythology, coming from the Latin word for door ( ianua ) since January is the door to the year.

The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and named Martius after Mars or Ares, the Greek god of war.

The Turkish word Mart is given after the name of Mars the god.

Similarly, the Manichaean primal figure " The Original Man " was rendered " Ohrmazd Bay ", after the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda.

Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes, and it is therefore not named after the genus Proteus.

" In Baldrs draumar, after the Æsir convene about the god Baldr's bad dreams, Odin places a saddle on Sleipnir and the two ride to the location of Hel.

It is named after the Shinto god Inari, who is believed to have a fondness for fried tofu.

Soon after the war, the Emperor issued a statement renouncing his claims to the status of " living god " ( arahitogami ).