Still, to quote the same reference: " Vorbis, on the other hand is named after the Terry Pratchett character from the book Small Gods.

* Men Like Gods ( 1923 ) by H. G. Wells, men and women in an alternative universe live without world government in a perfected state of anarchy ; " Our education is our government ," a Utopian named Lion says ; sectarian religion, like politics, has died away, and advanced scientific research flourishes ; life is governed by " the Five Principles of Liberty ," which are privacy, free movement, unlimited knowledge, truthfulness, and free discussion and criticism.

" Vorbis " is named after a Discworld character, Exquisitor Vorbis in Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.

* The American technical death metal band Nile have an 11: 43-minute long song named " Unas, Slayer of the Gods " based on a myth about how Unas killed and ate the gods in order to achieve immortality.

:" And even this conquest Buddhism has been won by the Beloved of the Gods here and in all the borderlands, as far as six hundred yojanas ( 5, 400-9, 600 km ) away, where Antiochos, king of the Yavanas rules, and beyond this Antiochus four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule ,".

Ashwini Gods — they blessed Madri ( Pandu's second wife ) with twins named Nakula and Sahadeva.

Dio was named " Best Metal Singer " at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards in April 2010 for his work on The Devil You Know, making him the oldest recipient of this award at age 67.

The audio codec Ogg Vorbis is named after the character Exquisitor Vorbis in Small Gods.

This alleged discovery is described at length in his book Gogmagog: The Buried Gods, in which Lethbridge uses his discoveries to extrapolate a primal deity named ' Gog ' and his consort, ' Ma-Gog ', which he believed represented the Sun and Moon.

This creature, named Zapathasura, was charged by the Gods to exterminate the asuratziyya and restore balance to the world.

* Sonnets XXI and XXII, respectively, are named for and concern the Outer Gods Nyarlathotep and Azathoth.

Mīmāṃsā argues that the Gods named in the Vedas have no existence apart from the mantras that speak their names.

In the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman an Ifrit poses as a New York taxi driver in modern day New York, and has a homosexual encounter with a character named Salim.

Ng Tung is in charge of wealth, time, good fortune, and has a festival named after him called " The Gods of Five Lucks Festival ", on the fifth of the first month.

Although the alien race in the film was never named, the pilot episode " Children of the Gods " ( 1997 ) established that the alien race seen in the movie are the Goa ' uld.

Adapted from the Hindu goddess Lakshmi she is sometimes named as one of the Seven Gods of Fortune, replacing Jurōjin.

The goal of the Hoshin Project, as explained by Genshitenson, is to trap Dakki and her minions in a ' middle ' world between the Sennin World and the Human world, renamed ( Deity or Gods ) World, named ' Shinkai ', Realm of the Gods.

John Carter himself is white-skinned, so that Barsoomians sometimes identify him with their own surviving White race, known as the Holy Therns ; for example, Carter successfully impersonates a Thern named Sator Throg in The Gods of Mars.

When Dalhaine first brought the Younger Gods back as the Dreamers, he turned to a mother bear named Mama Broken-Tooth to feed him.

Yebisu Beer, named for Ebisu, one of the Japanese Seven Gods of Fortune, was introduced in 1890 by Japan Beer and has long been a local favorite.

In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, a boy named Agasu is enslaved in Africa and brought to Haiti, where he eventually loses his arm and leads a rebellion against the European establishment.

In the story explored in Konquest mode, a young man named Shujinko is deceived into spending his life collecting the Kamidogu for Onaga, who uses the guise of an emissary of the Elder Gods, the beings who created the realms, named Damashi.

The series name, The Paper Gods, is a play on the word kami, which also means paper in Japanese.

The particular Gods worshipped are a matter of individual preference, although regional and family traditions can play a large part in influencing this choice.

He played Governor Donald Cory in a 1969 episode of Star Trek entitled " Whom Gods Destroy ", and was going to play Doctor Noonien Soong in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Brothers " but illness prevented him from doing so ; Brent Spiner ultimately took over the role.

A one-act play entitled " Cry for the Gods " was written by Judge Paul Handy which presents a dramatized, fictional meeting between Stevens and the Queen on the night of January 16, 1893.

Events proceeded to play out basically as described above, though the role of the Light and Dark Gods would diminish with each subsequent retelling of the story, until the current version, in which Primus and Unicron are alone and have a unique origin.

Some islands are small enough to only allow two different Gods to play against each other, while others are strategically designed for various gameplay scenarios, such as islands that are not connected, requiring flight in the form of jetplanes or biplanes for armies to attack each other.

The group will play songs from their first two albums (" The Young Gods " and " L ' eau rouge ").

He was keen to participate in a new role for the 2007 fan production Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, saying, " it ’ s always more challenging for an actor to play a bad guy.

Lord Chaos and Master Order were then seen observing King of the Norse Gods Odin and master villain Dormammu play a cosmic game of chess.

Master Order and Lord Chaos were then seen observing King of the Norse Gods Odin and master villain Dormammu play a cosmic game of chess.

* The Young Gods play " Woodstock "

Historically, children across Israel used to go out and play with bows and arrows, reflecting the Midrashic statement that the rainbow ( the sign of Gods promise to never again destroy the earth with a flood Gen9: 11-13 ) was not seen during Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's lifetime, as his merit protected the world.

" On the adult level ," says The Canadian Encyclopedia, " roots and play ( including lovemaking ) are further explored in Part I of The Gods ( 1979 ).

In between Yankovic projects, Schwartz continues to play with other L. A .- area artists and bands and has worked with Rip Masters, Jim Silvers, Karling Abbeygate, the Black Plate Kings, Ray Campi, Raymond And Scum, ApologetiX ( specifically the album Biblical Graffiti, where he played drums on seven of the tracks ), Lousy Little Gods, and Idle Hands.

Yellen's first play was New Gods For Lovers, which was produced at the HB Playhouse in New York.

Gods remain in play until destroyed, or until replaced with another god.

The title of the book seems to play off of Erich von Däniken's earlier book, Chariots of the Gods ?, which examines much of the same archaeological, geological and historical evidence as Hancock whilst reaching a far different conclusion as to the origin and significance of such evidence.

He was the most prominent of the Gigantes who led a major rebellion against the Olympian Gods and was born to defeat Hades, and was said to be immortal in his homeland, Pallene.

* In Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves, Selene Lindstrom, is a major character of the third part, which occurs on the Moon.

* October 17-release of A Daughter of the Gods, the first US production with a million dollar budget, with the first nude scene by a major star.

Annibale meanwhile developed hundreds of preparatory sketches for the major work, wherein he led a team painting frescoes on the ceiling of the grand salon with the secular quadri riportati of The Loves of the Gods, or as the biographer Giovanni Bellori described it, Human Love governed by Celestial Love.

A prolific author, his major works include Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, The Archaeology of Palestine: From the Stone Age to Christianity, and The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra.

His major contribution to the ascendancy of the Gods was his use of what he termed electrodirection, or mental control of electromagnetics, to control and destroy or bind the natives of the planet, who were beings of pure energy known to men as demons.

In 2003, Warner Brothers made the major motion picture Gods and Generals, which was based upon his book of the same title.

Most recently she appeared on the television series Spartacus: Vengeance, Spartacus: Blood and Sand and its prequel Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, playing the major character Lucretia.

Traditional colours include indigo, dark brown, and white, which represent the three major Hindu Gods ( Brahmā, Vishnu, and Śiva ).

There are several major shrines in Hong Kong, and many smaller shrines to the local Gods and Goddesses of the earth line the streets.

As the name suggests, it is a transit point for the Sanyasis ( the Hindu monks ). it has the idols of all the major Gods and Goddesses.

The Bridge of the Gods was a natural dam created by the Bonneville Slide, a major landslide that dammed the Columbia River near present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

In her major work, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: 6500 – 3500 B. C.

Each of the Chaos Space Marine Legions fights using a different style of warfare ; also, four of the nine are dedicated to one of the four major Chaos Gods.

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

Apart from the replicas of all the twelve Jyotirlingas, there are also idols of all major Hindu Gods and Goddesses.

The Hayes River continues northeast and takes in the major right tributary Gods River at an elevation of, and finally reaches its mouth at Hudson Bay, immediately to the south of the mouth of the larger Nelson River and to the north of the mouth of the smaller Machichi River.

Fengshen Bang, also known as Fengshen Yanyi, and translated as The Investiture of the Gods or The Creation of the Gods, is a 16th century Chinese classical novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese epic novels written during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ).

The five symbols of the major Gods are placed on a round open metal dish called Panchayatana, the symbol of the deity preferred by the worshiper being in the center.

Oghma appears as one of the major deities ( or " Greater Gods ") of the Forgotten Realms setting again, in Forgotten Realms Player's Guide ( 2008 ), and is further detailed in Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting ( 2008 ).