His power was so great that he even promoted and demoted gods according to whether they had given ear or been deaf to petitions.

In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.

" Homer speaks of ambrosial raiment, ambrosial locks of hair, even the gods ' ambrosial sandals.

He boasted that even the gods could not kill him and Poseidon, upon hearing this, split the rock with his trident, causing Ajax to eventually drown.

The adjectival epithet Areios was frequently appended to the names of other gods when they take on a warrior aspect or become involved in warfare: Zeus Areios, Athena Areia, even Aphrodite Areia.

Aeacus while he reigned in Aegina was renowned in all Greece for his justice and piety, and was frequently called upon to settle disputes not only among men, but even among the gods themselves.

The censors had also to superintend the expenses connected with the worship of the gods, even for instance the feeding of the sacred geese in the Capitol ; these various tasks were also let out on contract.

Cerberus was the offspring of Echidna, a hybrid half-woman and half-serpent, and Typhon, a fire-breathing giant whom even the Greek gods feared.

Pantheistic and polytheistic faiths make no such distinction ; gods and other beings of transcendent power often have complex, ignoble, or even irrational motivations for their acts.

He regularly admitted women and slaves into his school and was one of the first Greeks to break from the god-fearing and god-worshipping tradition common at the time, even while affirming that religious activities are useful as a way to contemplate the gods and to use them as an example of the pleasant life.

It could include gods adopted from foreign cultures, and sometimes even humans: deceased pharaohs were believed to be divine, and occasionally, distinguished commoners such as Imhotep also became deified.

However, in 1971 Erik Hornung pointed out that the traits of an apparently supreme being could be attributed to many different gods, even in periods when other gods were preeminent, and further argued that references to an unspecified " god " are meant to refer flexibly to any deity.

The gods too gave us the soul and reason, which is not measured by breadth or depth, but by knowledge and sentiments, and by which we attain to greatness, and may equal even with the gods.

In another even older tradition, Nammu, the goddess of the primeval creative matter and the mother-goddess portrayed as having " given birth to the great gods ," was the mother of Enki, and as the watery creative force, was said to preexist Ea-Enki.

After, the gods took a great rock called Thviti ( Old Norse " hitter, batterer "), and thrust it even further into the ground as an anchoring peg.

High replies that " so greatly did the gods respect their holy places and places of sanctuary that they did not want to defile them with the wolf's blood even though the prophecies say that he will be the death of Odin.

Some monarchs even claimed divine ancestry, such as Egyptian pharaohs and Sapa Incas, who claimed descent from their respective sun gods and often maintained this bloodline by practicing incestuous marriage.

To ward off these spirits, the Gaels built huge, symbolically regenerative bonfires and invoked the help of the gods through animal and perhaps even human sacrifice.

Likewise, even though the people of Israel worshipped other gods, God continued to love them and did not abandon his covenant with them.

The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus taught that above the gods of traditional belief was " The One " and polytheist grammarian Maximus of Madauros even stated that only a mad person would deny the existence of the supreme God.

The multitude of deities, or Devas, of the historical Vedic religion have a subordinate and secondary status vis-a-vis the One Supreme God, a status that some authors have even tried to express by comparing it to that of Western demigods or angels ; Prakashanand Saraswati, in " The true history and the religion of India ", prefers the term " celestial gods ".

Christian churches maintain such beings are distinct from " gods ", even though some churches authorize supplication, prayer and veneration of heavenly beings, angels, and saints, Christians who died in a state of grace and are believed to be in Heaven.

So " Elohim " could refer to any number of " rulers ", such as angels, false gods ( as defined by Torah ), or even human holders of power including rulers or judges within Israel, as described in, without violating the parameters of monotheism.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

And any sequence can not only change its positions in the work but can even be eliminated from it altogether.

Nothing can show more than this the immensity of the danger to democratic peoples that lies in even relatively slight deviation from their true concept of sovereignty.

There are certainly large areas of understanding in the human sciences which in themselves and even without political invention can help to dispel our present fears.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

But even if we cannot see the repulsive characteristics in this new image of America, foreigners can ; ;

After all, Shelley is no `` orthodox '' or Hellenic Platonist, and even his `` romantic '' Platonism can be distinguished from that of his contemporaries.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.

`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??

Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Why should Congress even consider allowing such a sum for that which can give no protection??

There is even some question whether the U.S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left.

We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

Moreover, on complex projects, design work must be completed and orders for machinery and equipment placed months or even years before construction can commence.

What Sam Rayburn's life proves to us all is the magnificent lesson in political science that one can devotedly and with absolute dedication represent the seemingly provincial interests of one's own community, one's own district, one's own State, and by that help himself represent even better the sweep and scope of the problems of this the greatest nation of all time.

To cite only a few examples: The wrong man in the wrong position, perhaps even in a junior position abroad, can be a source of great harm to our policy ; ;

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.

A guy can be an active and successful hot rodder for years without becoming even remotely involved with mathematical problems ; ;

Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.

Nor can anyone be certain that Prokofieff would have done better, or even as well, under different circumstances.

And dancing school, so helpful in artistic and psychological development, also contributes to this essential early training -- and can contribute even more.

This difficulty arises even though we can give examples of men who have actually followed this course.