This capacity, personified as a mysterious alter-ego called the Avatar, is dormant in most people, who are known as sleepers, whereas Magi ( and / or their Avatars ) are said to be Awakened.

In order to understand the metaphysics of the Mage setting, it is important to remember that many of the terms used to describe magic and Magi e. g., Avatar, Quintessence, the Umbra, and Paradox, Resonance, as well as the game mechanics a player uses to describe the areas of magic in which his character is proficient — the Spheres, look, mean, and are understood very differently depending on the paradigm of the Mage in question, even though they are often, in the texts of the game, described from particular paradigmatic points-of-view.

Baba later explained that a veil is always placed over the Avatar until the time is right for him to begin his work.

The Avatar, according to Baba, is a special Perfect Master, the first soul to achieve God-realization.

According to Meher Baba the Avatar appears on Earth every 700 – 1400 years and is ' brought down ' into human form by the five Perfect Masters of the time to aid in the process of moving creation in its never-ending journey toward Godhood.

Baba described the Avatar as " a gauge against which man can measure what he is and what he may become.

Most of Meher Baba's followers accept his claim of avatarhood and he is said to be " revered by millions around the world as the Avatar of the age and a God realized being.

* Polyphemus is also the name of the planet which the moon Pandora orbits in James Cameron's Avatar.

Here the term " reincarnation " is not strictly applicable, yet Hindu gods are said to have reincarnated ( see Avatar ): Lord Vishnu is known for his ten incarnations, the Dashavatars.

* In the 2009 film Avatar, the Na ' vi live in Hometree, the spiritual and physical home of the tribe ; over 300 meters tall, Hometree is connected with all the other plant life of Pandora through a neural-like network.

An example is unobtanium ( sic-per traditional element naming not " unobtainium ") in the film Avatar, a mineral valued at " 20 million a kilo ".

* Avatar by ( James Cameron ) In 2154, the RDA Corporation is mining a valuable mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush, Earth-like habitable moon with an atmosphere poisonous to humans in the Alpha Centauri star system.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna, an Avatar of Vishnu declared in verse 21, that lust is one of the gates to Naraka or hell.

In the writings of Derleth and a few other latter-day Cthulhu Mythos authors, the King in Yellow is an Avatar of Hastur, so named because of his appearance as a thin, floating man covered in tattered yellow robes.

The square is the prime location in London for world leading film premières and has seen blockbusters including Harry Potter and James Bond film series, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, and animation films such as Shrek ; and co-hosts the London Film Festival each year.

He is often identified by the number three, and the colours red & black or white & black, and his caminos or paths ( compare: Avatar ) are often represented carrying a cane or shepherd's crook, as well as smoking a pipe.

* Dyaus is the Atma Avatar of Cielo in the PlayStation 2 game Digital Devil Saga, and is capable of flight.

In Hindu ( Vedic ) tradition, Shesha ( in IAST transliteration, Devanagari: श े ष ) or Sheshanaag ( Shesha the Naga ) ( in IAST transliteration, Devanagari: श े षन ा ग ) or Adishesha ( in IAST transliteration, Devanagari: आद ि श े ष ) is the king of all nagas, one of the primal beings of creation, and according to the Bhagavata Purana, an Avatar of the Supreme God known as Narayana.

Within Vaishnavism Hindu traditions Balarama is identified and worshipped as an Avatar of Adishesha, and he is also listed as such in the Bhagavata Purana.

The only temple dedicated to the Kurma Avatar of Vishnu is located in Srikurmam, Andhra Pradesh

* a term used when referring to a user of the popular forum Gaia Online, or spoken in reference to the Avatar character used to represent oneself in the forum.

In James Cameron's 2009 film Avatar, mecha are used as instruments of war called AMPs.

When making sophisticated animated films, such as Avatar, zentai unitards are used to detect an actors movements.

Following a convention established by the PLATO dungeon games Moria, Avatar and Oubliette, it was the first game for home computers to adapt the now-familiar WASD set of keys for moving forward and turning left and right ( the S was not used for movement ; it updated the status display ).

James Cameron's Avatar used this technique to create the Na ' vi that inhabit Pandora.

He used the name because like the Avatar he wanted to bring about great changes, and also in honor of his mentor Kalyana Sundaram Mudaliar, taking the " Kal " from his name and the " Ki " from his own.

According to local legend this used to be the ashram of Jamadagni, the father of Parashurama ( an Avatar or reincarnation of Vishnu, the Hindu God of sustenance ).

Americans have used this on several American anime TV shows like 2005's most popular TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender ( Super Deformed shorts only ).

Gumps are also used for books, scrolls, the spellbook, the status display, maps, and character equipment management ; double-clicking on the Avatar opens his or her inventory, after which the inventories of other party characters can be opened by double-clicking them in turn.

* Kya, mother of Katara and Sokka, in the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender It was also the name originally used for Katara in an unaired pilot episode before being changed to Katara.

Some examples of shows that have used clip shows in this sense are: Animaniacs, Frasier, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Friends, Thunderbirds, Everybody Loves Raymond, Stargate SG-1 / Atlantis, Cheers and Avatar: The Last Airbender ( though this recap episode had no actual clips ).

It also was used as a design base for the six-legged sky bison Appa on Avatar the Last Airbender.

Techniques based on Debevec's work have been used in several major motion pictures, including The Matrix ( 1999 ), Spider-Man 2 ( 2004 ), King Kong ( 2005 ), Superman Returns ( 2006 ), Spider-Man 3 ( 2007 ), and Avatar ( 2009 ).

This image is a screen capture from the episode " Silicon Avatar " and is being used for illustrative purposes only and for visual identification of the episode it is linked to thus fair use is believed to be justified.

Some reviewers have commented that the 2009 film Avatar used thematic and plot elements from FernGully: The Last Rainforest.

TV Globinho is a Rede Globo program that used to air on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 6: 00 AM, featuring cartoons, such as Dragon Ball Z and GT, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Digimon, Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh !, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, The Penguins of Madagascar, The Simpsons, Totally Spies, Dungeons and Dragons ( TV series ), and live action shows, such as Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, Wizards of Waverly Place, Power Rangers ( now on Band ), Kenan & Kel, Drake & Josh, iCarly and others.

" Some of Byrnes's music compositions were used in " Archangel " and " Avatar ".

The bas-relief of the Samudra manthan | Churning of the Sea of Milk shows Vishnu in the centre, his turtle Avatar Kurma below, asura s and deva ( Hinduism ) | deva s to left and right, and apsaras and Indra above.

In Hinduism, incarnation generally refers to an Avatar of Vishnu, the preserver in the Trimurti.

The bas-relief of Samudra manthan from Angkor Wat, Cambodia, shows Vishnu in the center, in his Kurma Avatar, with the Asuras and the Deva ( Hinduism ) | Devas on either side.

Matsya () ( Fish in Sanskrit ) was the first Avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism.

The great flood finds mention in Hinduism texts like the Satapatha Brahmana, where in the Matsya Avatar takes place to save the pious and the first man, Manu, and advises him to build a giant boat.

In Hinduism, Kurma () was the second Avatar of Vishnu.

Vamana ( Devanagari: व ा मन, IAST: Vāmana ) is described in the Puranic texts of Hinduism as the Fifth Avatar of Vishnu, and the first incarnation of the Second Age, or the Treta yuga.

In Hinduism, Kalki ( Devanagari: कल ् क ि) is the tenth and final Maha Avatar ( great incarnation ) of Vishnu who will bring to an end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga.

The phenomenon of Avatar ( descent of God in human and other forms ) is observed in Hinduism and Sikhism only.

Bas-relief from Angkor Wat, Cambodia, shows Samudra manthan-Vishnu in the centre, his turtle Avatar Kurma below, asura s and deva ( Hinduism ) | devas to left and right

In Hinduism, Kurma () was the second Avatar of Vishnu.

Gautama Buddha is mentioned as an Avatar of Vishnu in the Puranic texts of Hinduism.

" Watching a television show on Hinduism, and the 16 virtues necessary to lead one to the state of Avatar-hood, he decided to use adopt these elements into the game, creating the eight virtue system and borrowing the title for the protagonist, the Avatar.

* Krishna, incarnation or Avatar of Vishnu, the supreme God in Hinduism, said in the Gita: In whatever way men identify with Me, in the same way do I carry out their desires ; men pursue My path, O Arjuna, in all ways.

In Hinduism, Hayagrīva is also considered an Avatar of Vishnu.

* Avatar, manifestation of God in Hinduism