Another American writer in a similar vein was Thorne Smith, whose works ( such as Topper and The Night Life of the Gods ) were popular and influential, and often adapted for film and television.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).

The meaning of life is deeply entrenched in the philosophical and religious conceptions of existence, social ties, consciousness, and happiness, and borders on many other issues, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, the existence of a or multiple Gods, conceptions of God, the soul, and the afterlife.

Besides mythological gods, many deities made up by Marvel writers exist as well, such as the Dark Gods, enemies of the Asgardians.

The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes ( 1855 ).

Since venomous animals such as scorpions and snakes are killed by felines, Mafdet was seen as a feline goddess, although it is uncertain whether alternately, she also was meant to be a cat, civet, or a mongoose .< ref > Wilkinson, Richard H. < cite > The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt </ cite >.

Gods who ride such animals, notably Shiva and Dionysos, or who have canine servants, notably Orion and Osiris ( with Anubis his gatekeeper and embalmer ), were also regarded by Kerenyi as partly derived from Iachen, the sublimator, or an even older myth.

In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, soma is referred to be " concentrated prayer ", a drink enjoyed by the gods ( who feed on people's worship ), such as Odin.

The new state religion was to be founded on a hierarchical pantheon of Pagan Gods, based largely upon the ideas of Humanism prevalent at the time, incorporating themes such as rationalism and logic.

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 ).

Erich Anton Paul von Däniken (, ; born 14 April 1935 in Zofingen, Aargau ) is a Swiss author best known for his controversial claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, in books such as Chariots of the Gods ?, published in 1968.

: And at length they pronounc'd that the Gods had order'd such things.

However, Harvest Heritage also reissued music from late 1960s EMI bands that had never recorded for Harvest, such as The Gods, Love Sculpture and Tomorrow.

From the late 1980s, at the height of the Afrocentric movement in hip hop ( when artists such as KRS-One, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, the Native Tongues, and Rakim hit success ), the movement seemed to be incorporating many doctrines from the Nation of Islam, the Nation of Gods and Earths, and the Nuwaubians.

She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as Shine ( 1996 ) and Gods and Monsters ( 1998 ), for which she received another Academy Award nomination.

The Finnish expression for this " sacred vines " would be Viisauden Vesi — the water of wisdom, which in other traditions are known under cryptic terms such as " The Water of Life ", " The Seeds of Life ", " The Nectar of The Gods " or " The Elixir of the Blessed ".

Howell returned to the theater in the 2000s in movies such as Asylum Days, the Gods and Generals prequel to Gettysburg, and The Hillside Strangler, in which he played serial killer Kenneth Bianchi.

Joining the TSR team, Cook designed Dungeons & Dragons modules such as Labyrinth of Madness ( 1995 ) and A Paladin in Hell ( 1998 ), and dozens of supplements to the Planescape line including The Planewalker's Handbook ( 1996 ) and Dead Gods ( 1998 ).

Housman also wrote children's fairy tales such as A Farm in Fairyland ( 1894 ) and fantasy stories with Christian undertones for adults, such as All-Fellows ( 1896 ), The Cloak of Friendship ( 1905 ), and Gods and Their Makers ( 1897 ).

Some of these revolve around the idea that prehistoric and ancient human societies were aided in their development by intelligent extraterrestrial life, an idea propagated by authors such as Swiss author Erich von Däniken in books such as Chariots of the Gods?

Others instead hold that there were human societies in the ancient period that were significantly technologically advanced, such as Atlantis, and this idea has been propagated by figures like Graham Hancock in his Fingerprints of the Gods ( 1995 ).

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.

As Lovecraft conceived the deities or forces of his mythos, there were, initially, the Elder Gods ... hese Elder Gods were benign deities, representing the forces of good, and existed peacefully ... very rarely stirring forth to intervene in the unceasing struggle between the powers of evil and the races of Earth.

There were also cases of power-hungry Asuras challenging various aspects of the Gods, but only to be defeated eventually and seek forgiveness — see Surapadman and Narakasura.

Three Munch works were stolen from the Hotel Refsnes Gods in 2005 ; they were shortly recovered, although one of the works was damaged during the robbery.

The chief surviving sources are his works To King Helios and To the Mother of the Gods, which were written as panegyrics, not theological treatises.

Although these kami can be considered deities, they are not necessarily considered omnipotent or omniscient, and like the Greek Gods, they had flawed personalities and were quite capable of ignoble acts.

* Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus (" Lover of Glory ", 1424 ), De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (" On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literary Studies ", 1429 ), Intercoenales (" Table Talk ", c. 1429 ), Della famiglia (" On the Family ", begun 1432 ) Vita S. Potiti (" Life of St. Potitus ", 1433 ), De iure ( On Law, 1437 ), Theogenius (" The Origin of the Gods ", c. 1440 ), Profugorium ab aerumna (" Refuge from Mental Anguish ",), Momus ( 1450 ) and De Iciarchia (" On the Prince ", 1468 ). These and other works were translated and printed in Venice by the humanist Cosimo Bartoli in 1586.

The Mesopotamians believed their kings and queens were descended from the City of Gods, but, unlike the ancient Egyptians, they never believed their kings were real gods.

Historians and archeologists dismiss this modern theory as Gods and goddesses with mythical allegories were usually portrayed, but could this remarkable vase have broken convention, and shown realism in portraiture, known solely on coins of the period, before it, in turn, was broken?

The Decree of Diopithes made the introduction of and belief in foreign Gods a criminal offence and only Greeks were allowed to worship in Athenian temples and festivals as foreigners were considered impure.

Several other significant changes took place due to the crisis: mankind discovered it could now tap into ultraplanar energies that were seen as magical forces, the stars were gone from the sky, dimensional nexi were uncovered and pacts with " demons " ( inhabitants of dimensions near in n-dimensional space to Tékumel's pocket dimension ) were made and a complex pantheon of " Gods " ( powerful extra-dimensional or multi-dimensional alien beings ) discovered.

The Greek Gods might be an example of dead symbols that were once living for the ancient Greeks but whose meaning and power is now gone.

Even the Gods and heroes were primarily depicted barefoot, and the hoplite warriors fought battles in bare feet and Alexander the Great conquered half of the ancient world with barefoot armies.

During the 1960s, Malraux published the first volume of a trilogy on art entitled The Metamorphosis of the Gods ; the second two volumes ( not yet translated into English ) were published shortly before he died.

By the end of the year, " Babylon Deluxe " had spawned further favorites in " X-Rated ", " Gods and Monsters ", " Edge of 17 " and " Final Destination " which all were performed to the delight of the audience at Top Act in Zapfendorf on New Year's Eve.

He is portrayed in the 1993 film Gettysburg ( based on the The Killer Angels ) by Tom Berenger, and in the prequel, Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), by Bruce Boxleitner.

In the 2003 prequel Gods and Generals, Billy Campbell portrayed Pickett.

He portrayed General Robert E. Lee in Gods and Generals in 2003 ; he is a relative of the Confederate general.

Burnside was portrayed by Alex Hyde-White in Ronald F. Maxwell's 2003 film Gods and Generals, which includes the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Ames was portrayed by Matt Letscher in the movie adaptation of Jeffrey Shaara's Gods and Generals.

( Nirriti is portrayed as a solo megalomaniac, opposed to the pantheon of the Gods.

In the 1993 film adaptation of the novel, Gettysburg, he is portrayed by actor James Patrick Stuart, who reprised the role in the prequel Gods and Generals.

In, Asgard is portrayed as the protected home of many Norse Gods and immortal beings.

Campbell portrayed General George Pickett in the 2003 film Gods and Generals, a part previously played by Lang in the 1993 film Gettysburg in which Campbell also co-starred.

In the poem " Gods Change, Prayers Stay the Same " ( Elim Mithalfim, ha-Tfillot Nisharot la-Ad ), God is a portrayed as a tour guide or magician.

Some of the Queens of Egypt rose to a status of equal to the God-Kings, becoming co-rulers and / or at least as important in religious affairs, and were even portrayed with the same size as their male consort and even with the same size as the other Gods of Egypt.

Taylor is portrayed by Bo Brinkman in the films Gods and Generals and Gettysburg.

This version of Ice is portrayed as being ditzy, with a strange mistrust for Greeks, whom she mistakes the New Gods of Apokolips for.

Actor Royce D. Applegate portrayed Kemper in two films, Gettysburg ( 1993 ) and Gods and Generals ( 2003 ).

Barksdale is portrayed in the film Gettysburg and in the prequel, Gods and Generals, by Lester Kinsolving, who is a descendant of Barksdale.

* In the fictionalised James Whale biopic Gods and Monsters ( 1998 ), Thesiger was portrayed by Arthur Dignam.

Gods and goddesses using conch shells are portrayed by the French horn.

Pendleton was portrayed in the 2003 Civil War film Gods and Generals by John Castle.