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.

In his edicts, he is referred to as ( Pali or " The Beloved Of The Gods "), and ( Pali or " He who regards everyone with affection ").

Corum discovers one of the " Lost Gods ", the being Kwll, who is imprisoned and cannot be freed until whole.

The Gods gather again in terror and turn to Enki for help, but Enki who harnessed Abzu, Tiamat's consort, for irrigation refuses to get involved.

The Qur ' anic term for their religious doctrine is shirk ( i. e., " sharing "); it describes them as mushrikin ( i. e., those who believe in God, but " share " other Gods in divinity ).

* In Amanda Sun's Paper Gods series ( beginning with INK, publishing from Harlequin TEEN in February 2013 ), the kami are paranormal creatures descended from Amaterasu and the other kami in the Shinto pantheon, who have the power to control ink and bring drawings to life.

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 ).

Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.

* Ajax the Lesser, who had endured more than the others the wrath of the Gods, never returned.

In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus ( Ancient Greek:, Zeús ; Modern Greek: Δίας, Días ) is the " Father of Gods and men " (, patḕr andrōn te theōn te ) who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family.

" For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods, who oversaw the universe.

: Then look at those who rival the Gods, and hear what Claudius

The Kuretes were the nine dancers who venerate Rhea, the Cretan counterpart of Cybele, Mother of the Gods.

Among these were " Scribe of Ma ' at in the Company of the Gods ," " Lord of Ma ' at ," " Lord of Divine Words ," " Judge of the Two Combatant Gods ," " Judge of the Rekhekhui, the pacifier of the Gods, who Dwelleth in Unnu, the Great God in the Temple of Abtiti ," " Twice Great ," " Thrice Great ," ", " Three Times Great ," and also " The Timeless.

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.

A lost Titanomachy that dealt with the struggle that Zeus and his siblings, the Olympian Gods, had in overthrowing their father Cronos and his divine generation, the Titans, was traditionally ascribed to Eumelus of Corinth, a semi-legendary bard of the Bacchiad ruling family in archaic Corinth, who was treasured as the traditional composer of the Prosodion, the processional anthem of Messenian independence that was performed on Delos.

He is likewise affirmed to have been the first who set up altars and statues of the Gods, offered sacrifices, and instituted marriage among the Athenians, who, before his time, it seems, lived promiscuously.

In Greek mythology, Liriope or Leiriope is a Boeotian naiad, who was probably the daughter of one of the Boeotian or Phocian river Gods.

" And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios ( Sun ) and clear Selene ( Moon ) and Eos ( Dawn ) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven.

In Lucian's satiric dialogue Assembly of the Gods ( ca 165 CE ) it is Momus who is the secretary when the gods stage a city meeting as if at Athens, to decide what to do about newly-arrived outsiders and metics, the target of the satire being the recent development of complete enfranchisement of unworthy outsiders ( Lucian himself being of Syrian origin ).

The Etruscans believed in Nine Great Gods, who had the power of hurling thunderbolts ; they were called Novensiles by the Romans.

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 >.

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 ).