However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

The epithet " Smintheus " has historically been confused with σμίνθος, " mouse ", in association with Apollo's role as a god of disease.

The epithet Iatromantis ( ; Ἰατρομάντις, Iātromantis, from ὶατρός, " physician ", and μάντις, " prophet ") refers to both his role as a god of healing and of prophecy.

This process was a recognition of the presence of one god " in " another when the second god took on a role belonging to the first.

The Prose Edda details that Hel rules over vast mansions, her servants in her underworld realm, and as playing a key role in the attempted resurrection of the god Baldr.

And according to the Jainism perspective, neither a god nor a guru have any role in a person's karma — the individual is considered to be the sole doer and enjoyer of his karmas and their ' fruits '.

Loki's positive relations with the gods end with his role in engineering the death of the god Baldr.

Loki's origins and role in Norse mythology, which some scholars have described as that of a trickster god, have been much debated by scholars.

These masculist circles worship both the god and the goddess, but tend to emphasise the role of the god in their lives.

Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.

Týr in origin was a generic noun meaning " god ", e. g. Hangatyr, literally, the " god of the hanged ", as one of Odin's names, which was probably inherited from Tyr in his role as god of justice.

This association with the pharaoh's wife is consistent with the role of Isis as the spouse of Horus, the god associated with the pharaoh as his protector, and then later as the deification of the pharaoh himself.

Wissowa considered Jupiter also a god of war and agriculture, in addition to his political role as guarantor of good faith ( public and private ) as Iuppiter Lapis and Dius Fidius, respectively.

In Vedic religion, Dyaus Pitar remained confined to his distant, removed, passive role and the place of sovereign god was occupied by Varuna and Mitra.

The leader may be idealized into a kind of god who can take care of his or her children, and some especially ambitious leaders may be susceptible to this role.

These rituals, it was believed, sustained the god and allowed it to continue to play its proper role in nature.

In the second stage El was absorbed into the god Yahweh, the national god of the kingdom of Judah, who took over El's role as creator-god ; in the third stage the theme of creation by battle was replaced with creation by divine command ( paralleling an earlier development in Egyptian theology some 300 years previously ) and the process of creation itself was " de-mythologised ".

The film highlights Lear's role as king by including his people throughout the film on a scale no stage production could emulate, charting the central character's decline from their god to their helpless equal ; his final descent into madness marked by his realisation that he has negelected the ' poor naked wretches '.

Isaiah 52: 13 – 53: 12, the fourth of the " Suffering Servant " songs, was interpreted by the earliest Christians as a prophecy of the death and exaltation of Jesus, a role which Jesus himself seems to have accepted ( Luke 4: 17 – 21 ).

11: 2-16, 14: 34-35 ), and the role of prophecy and speaking tongues in churches.

Scholar Brooke Westcott notes that this reference to the author of the single prophetic book of the New Testament illustrates the distinction Justin made between the role of prophecy and fulfillment quotations from the gospels, as Justin does not mention any of the individual canonical gospels by name.

Many Christians with Pentecostal or charismatic beliefs believe in the continuation of the gift of prophecy and the continuation of the role of prophet as taught in Ephesians 4.

Ellen White came to occupy a particularly central role ; her many visions and spiritual leadership convinced her fellow Adventists that she possessed the gift of prophecy.

With Kyle Rayner having rebelled against the Guardians to join the ' New Guardians ' a makeshift team consisting of representatives from all seven Corps, Hal Jordan's recent expulsion, and based on the ' recommendations ' of the now-emotionless Ganthet, the Guardians are preparing to create the ' Third Army ' to replace the Green Lantern Corps, which involves them recovering the mysterious ' First Lantern ' for an undefined role, prompting Sinestro, who learned about this prophecy after touching the Book of the Black, to enlist Hal's aid in stopping this scheme.

Merton developed notable concepts such as " unintended consequences ", the " reference group ", and " role strain " but is perhaps best known for having created the terms " role model " and " self-fulfilling prophecy ".

Lucreto is given several titles based on his role in the prophecy, these include ; The Father, the Pretender, the Master, and the Evil One.

In a self-fulfilling prophecy, the person is fulfilling their role in an event that has yet to occur, and it is usually information that travels in time ( for example, in the form of a prophecy ) rather than a person.

The role of certain Christians in supporting the establishment of Israel following World War II is well known ; and it is regarded by some critics as, in part, a kind of self-willed fulfillment of prophecy.

All ministers had to be called by the word of prophecy to their place ; this was still elective, in that frequent opportunity was given to present oneself as willing to take on a role in the ministry, and also that any direct call could be refused, though in practice this was extremely rare.

* Delenn fulfills part of Minbari prophecy when she breaks the apathetic Grey Council, and the Minbari take a more active role in fighting the Shadows.

* Theodore — at the beginning of the novel, Theodore appears to be a mere minor character, whose role is purely to point out the significance of the helmet as a link to the fulfillment of the prophecy.

Discovering he is connected to the Tindaya Code, realising his own magical powers of a healer, and speculating whether he is the Guardian or the Mentor ( the role of the one, or many, who will guide or help the Guardian fulfill his world-saving prophecy ) along the way, Terrel is visited by Alyssa in the form of animals that speak to him in his mind.

Turkic khans, including the Kimak Khan, had a special role as High Priest and bearer of prophecy.

He discovers that the Martian religion is more complicated than he had originally realized, as is his role in fulfilling prophecy.

Whatever the truth of the matter, Jaques certainly played an important role in popularising the game, producing editions of the rules in 1857, 1860, and 1864.

Faith in Buddhism centers on the understanding that the Buddha is an Awakened being, on his superior role as teacher, in the truth of his Dharma ( spiritual teachings ), and in his Sangha ( community of spiritually developed followers ).

This early interest in Heidegger followed Marcuse's demand for “ concrete philosophy ,” which, he declared in 1928, “ concerns itself with the truth of contemporaneous human existence .” These words were directed against the neo-Kantianism of the mainstream, and against both the revisionist and orthodox Marxist alternatives, in which the subjectivity of the individual played little role.

Korsch rejected the eternal and static, and he was obsessed by the essential role of practice in a theory ’ s truth.

Among medieval literary texts, Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde plays a special role because Chaucer's usage seems to challenge the truth value of proverbs by exposing their epistemological unreliability.

It claims that there is no absolute truth and that the way people perceive the world is subjective and emphasises the role of language, power relations, and motivations in the formation of ideas and beliefs.

In some discourses, Wright argued, the role of the truth predicate might be played by the notion of superassertibility.

The spiritual role of Judaism is to reach the level of perceiving the truth of the paradox, that all is One, spiritual and physical Creation being nullified into absolute Divine Monotheism.

Outside of the philosophical and discursive studies, the everyday phrase bullshit conveys a measure of dissatisfaction with something or someone, but does not generally describe any role of truth in the matter.

Since classical times a question has remained constant in philosophical debate ( which is sometimes seen as a conflict between movements called Platonism and Aristotelianism ) concerning the role of reason in confirming truth.

** On the other hand, in the Crusade episode Visitors From Down the Street, Captain Matthew Gideon would launch a full spread of modified probes ( uploaded with considerable information about Earth and other Interstellar Alliance worlds, and about certain recent events which had transpired aboard the EAS Excalibur ) at a pre-hyperspace planet where Humans had been cast ( by the local government ) in a role reminiscent of the Grey Aliens in our culture, in order to expose the locals to the truth.

Although Mao Zedong Thought nominally remains the state ideology, Deng's admonition to seek truth from facts means that state policies are judged on their practical consequences ; the role of ideology in determining policy, in many areas, has thus been considerably reduced.

" Xinhua also asserted that " the so-called ' truth, kindness and forbearance ' principle preached by Li has nothing in common with the socialist ethical and cultural progress we are striving to achieve ", and argued that it was necessary to crush Falun Gong in order to preserve the " vanguard role and purity " of the Communist Party.

Over the course of the play, as Oedipus comes closer to discovering the truth about Jocasta, Creon plays a constant role close to him.

Empirical evidence suggests that Falwell ’ s claim about the role of Christian Right organizations in Reagan ’ s victory has some truth, though difficult to determine definitively.

In analyzing the similarities between the " mythologists " Eliade, Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung, Robert Ellwood concluded that the three modern mythologists, all of whom believed that myths reveal " timeless truth ", fulfilled the role " gnostics " had in antiquity.

In that movie he takes on Silverstone's role for real and is able to muddle through while Silverstone does the same thing in Jett's world until Miz Coreta finds out the truth and he returns home and sends Jett back as well.

Mathematics always played a special role in scientific thought, serving since ancient times as a model of truth and rigor for rational inquiry, and giving tools or even a foundation for other sciences ( especially physics ).

In his early work, McDowell was very much involved both with the development of the Davidsonian semantic programme and with the internecine dispute between those who take the core of a theory that can play the role of a theory of meaning to involve the grasp of truth conditions, and those, such as Michael Dummett, who argued that linguistic understanding must, at its core, involve the grasp of assertion conditions.

Later, Serling tearfully tells the Boylars the truth about the manner of their son's death and they forgive him for his role in it.

Tutu said that they were unable to investigate the truth of the letters or the allegations that South Africa or Western intelligence agencies played a role in the crash.

In the final chapter of Sheppard's narrative ( a sort of epilogue ), Sheppard admits his guilt, noting certain literary techniques he used to write the narrative truthfully without revealing his role in the crime or doing anything to suggest that he knew the truth, and reveals that he had hoped to be the one to write the account of Poirot's great failure: not solving the murder of Roger Ackroyd.

New York University Professor Jay Rosen severely criticized Woodward for allegedly being co-opted by the Bush White House and also for not telling the truth about his role in the Plame affair, writing: " Not only is Woodward not in the hunt, but he is slowly turning into the hunted.

A major role in Bolzano ’ s logical theory is played by the notion of variations: various logical relations are defined in terms of the changes in truth value that propositions incur when their non-logical parts are replaced by others.