When male deities became associated with the sun in that culture, they began as the offspring of a mother ( except Ra, King of the Gods who gave birth to himself ).

When Tereus learned what she had done, he tried to kill the sisters but all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds: Tereus became a hoopoe ; Philomela became the nightingale whose song is a song of mourning for the loss of innocence ; Procne became the swallow.

Gods of the New Millennium author Alan F. Alford admits he initially became " infatuated " with Sitchin's hypotheses but later became a critic of Sitchin's interpretations of myth.

( Source: Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes ) After conquering China, during the Jin Dynasty, Buddhism became the prevalent religion and Daoism was assimilated as well.

He then became manager of the Hotel Rosenhügel in Davos, Switzerland, during which time he wrote Chariots of the Gods ?, working on the manuscript late at night after the hotel's guests had retired.

This young group formed the First Nine Born of what officially became the 5 % Nation of Gods and Earths on October 10, 1964.

This epic poem details how angelic beings ( probably Kuei Jin ) betrayed their original purpose and became blood-drinking demons ; to balance them out, the Gods brought back to life a man who had been wronged by these asuratziyya more than any other.

Lastly, she became one of the Seven Gods of Fortune when the Sino-Japanese characters used to write her name changed to 弁財天 ( Benzaiten ), emphasizing her role in bestowing monetary fortune.

It became one of the most important sutras in Japan because of its fundamental message, which teaches that the Four Guardian Gods ( Chinese: 四大天王 ; pinyin: sì dà tiān wáng ) protect the ruler who governs his country in the proper manner.

In 2007 – 2008, he worked on the DC miniseries Death of the New Gods and Rann-Thanagar Holy War, as well as a Hawkman tie-in that became the latest of many stories to have altered the character's origins over the previous two decades.

By the late Middle Ages, the reality of a primordial " Demogorgon " was so well fixed in the European imagination that " Demogorgon's son Pan " became a bizarre variant reading for " Hermes ' son Pan " in one manuscript tradition of Boccaccio's Genealogia Deorum gentilium (" Genealogies of the Gods ": 1. 3-4 and 2. 1 ), misreading a line in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The tracks " How the Gods Kill " and " Dirty Black Summer " became popular and remain a permanent fixture in the band's set list.

One documentary commissioned by This Hour, Fox's Vietnam War film Mills of the Gods, became one of the most famous Canadian documentary films ever produced.

Gods and demigods such as Heracles ( better known by his Roman name, Hercules ), Asclepius ( a Greek physician who became a god ) and Isis of Egypt all were thought to have healed the sick and overcome death ( i. e. have raised people from the dead ).

Other notable films included Affliction, Gods and Monsters, Dogma, Saw and the Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9 / 11, which, until the release of The Hunger Games in 2012, became the studio's highest grossing film.

Less powerful entities became daemons ; these are partly tied to the will of the Chaos Gods, but also remain tied to the thoughts of mankind.

In the Dragon Age series, the Archdemons are said to be " Old Gods " who were buried underground by the Maker, where they became corrupted by the Darkspawn.

In 1916, Kellerman became the first major actress to do a nude scene when she appeared fully nude in A Daughter of the Gods.

For several years Dunham's personal assistant and press promoter was Maya Deren, who later also became interested in Vodun and wrote The Divine Horseman: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti ( 1953 ).

In the Roman empire of the 2nd to 4th centuries, taurobolium referred to practices involving the sacrifice of a bull, which after mid-2nd century became connected with the worship of the Great Mother of the Gods ; though not previously limited to her cultus, after 159 CE all private taurobolia inscriptions mention Magna Mater.

After traveling the Digital World on their quest, the Tamers meet ( and fight with ) one of the four Digital Gods, but finally agree to work together in order to destroy the D-Reaper, a computer program initially designed to keep digital life from getting out of control, but it itself became rampant.

Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies ( 1983 ) ( for which he won an Academy Award ), The Natural ( 1984 ), Colors ( 1988 ), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove ( 1989 ), Stalin ( 1992 ), The Man Who Captured Eichmann ( 1996 ), A Family Thing ( 1996 ), The Apostle ( 1997 ) ( which he also wrote and directed ), A Civil Action ( 1998 ), Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), Broken Trail ( 2006 ) and Get Low ( 2010 ).

* The Gods Must Be Crazy II ( 1988 ) ( Actor )

** Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods ( Ace Books, 1988 )

A profile of Edward Fredkin along with a readable explanation of some of his theories can be found in the first part of Three Scientists and Their Gods by Robert Wright ( 1988 ).

* Windmills of the Gods ( 1988 ) ( mini ) TV Series-Beth Ashley

** The Heated Battle of the Gods ( 1988 )

" Wright's first book, Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, was published in 1988 and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

In 1988, she appeared with Robert Wagner in Windmills of the Gods.

The Last Full Measure ( and Gods and Generals ) was written by Jeffrey Shaara after his father, Michael Shaara, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels died in 1988.

* Windmills of the Gods ( 1988 )

Under the Doctor's tutelage, Ace fights the Daleks in 1963 ( Remembrance of the Daleks ) and the Cybermen in 1988 ( Silver Nemesis ), encounters the all-powerful Gods of Ragnarok in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, the sadistic torturer Kandy Man in The Happiness Patrol, and many other dangers.

* The Gods Must Be Crazy II ( 1988 )

The setting was visited again in the 1988 adventure The Throne of Bloodstone and in the 1997 adventure Dead Gods, where the player characters travel through it on the way to the Vault of the Drow ( reversing the route taken in the original adventure ).

* " Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods " ( 1988 )

After being closed for seven months, the Garden of the Gods Club will have its gala summer opening Saturday, June 3.

Gene Marshall, genial manager of the club, has announced that the Garden of the Gods will open to members Thursday, June 1.

For the Greeks, Apollo was all the Gods in one and through the centuries he acquired different functions which could originate from different gods.

The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.

* Wright, F. A., " The Food of the Gods ", The Classical Review 31. 1, ( February 1917: 4 – 6 ).

In Norse religion, Asgard ( Old Norse: Ásgarðr ; meaning " Enclosure of the Æsir ") is one of the Nine Worlds and is the country or capital city of the Norse Gods surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrimthurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari, according to Gylfaginning.

: An amaranth planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed it: " What a lovely flower is the Rose, a favorite alike with Gods and with men.

The line " Time and the Gods are at strife " inspired the title of Lord Dunsany's Time and the Gods.

Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs.

Rasa theory blossoms beginning with the Sanskrit text Nātyashāstra ( nātya meaning " drama " and shāstra meaning " science of "), a work attributed to Bharata Muni where the Gods declare that drama is the ' Fifth Veda ' because it is suitable for the degenerate age as the best form of religious instruction.

Unfortunately, they were blown back to Aeolia, where Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the Gods did not favour them.

Food of the Gods: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution.

* Stafford, Peter G. Heavenly Highs: Ayahuasca, Kava-Kava, Dmt, and Other Plants of the Gods.

At 23, he published his first poem, “ Hymns to the Gods .” Later work was printed in literary journals like Blackwood ’ s Edinburgh Magazine and local newspapers.

According to Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, the Aegis is the breastplate of Zeus, and was " awful to behold.

People avoid killing during some festivals, like Taoist Ghost Festival, Nine Emperor Gods Festival, Vegetarian Festival and many others.

* Walters, Kerry S. Benjamin Franklin and His Gods.

Indian Hindu artisans from the period of the Chola empire in Tamil Nadu, used bronze to create intricate statues via the lost wax casting method with ornate detailing depicting the Gods of Hinduism mostly, but also the lifestyle of the period.

In Civilization V: Gods & Kings, Boudicca is the leader of the Celtic tribe.

Criticism of Christianity continues to date, e. g. Jewish and Muslim theologians criticize the doctrine of the Trinity held by most Christians, stating that this doctrine in effect assumes that there are three Gods, running against the basic tenet of monotheism.