In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Rudras are associated with the ten vital energies ( rudra-prana ) in the body and the eleventh being the Ātman ( the soul ).

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad explicitly states the fact that since the Rudras leaving the body – causing death – makes people cry, they are Rudras.

The following are names and meanings according to the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and according to the Mahabharata as normally equated:

The Madhyandina version has 9 sections, of which the last 6 are the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

Rituals associated with each of the priests are detailed in dialogue between Aśvala and Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says there are 33 devas in the celestial world, in terms of performance of yagnas.

In Chapter 1 of 10th book of the Bhagavata Purana, Vasudeva, the father of Krishna, exhorts Kamsa to refrain from killing his wife, Devaki, the mother of Krishna, by stating that death is certain for those who are born and when the body returns to the five elements, the soul leaves the body and helplessly obtains another form in accordance with the laws of karma, citing passages from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV: 4: 3.

The concept of ahamkara in Samkhya can be traced back to the notion of ahamkara in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and Chhandogya Upanishad.

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad states, “ According as a man acts and according as he believes so will he be ; a man of meritorious acts will be meritorious, a man of evil deeds sinful.

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad looks at reality as being indescribable and its nature to be infinite and consciousness-bliss.

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad sweeps away all images born of mind.

He was the beloved pupil of Yaajnavalkya, whose exposition of Brahman to the king forms one chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

The transition of the rta to the modern idea of dharma occurs in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

a Sanskrit invocation from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishads 1. 3. 28 ).

To support the proposition of non-existence of any soul or consciousness in the afterlife Carvakas often quoted from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

Earliest reference to Solipsism in Hindu philosophy is found in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, dated to early 1st millennium BCE.

Yajnavalkya ( c. 9th cenutry BCE ), in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, uses the word to indicate that in which everything exists, which is of the highest value, which permeates everything, which is the essence of all, bliss and beyond description.

While, older Upanishads such as the Brihadaranyaka, mention several times that the Self is described as Neti neti or not this-not this, Upanishads post Buddhism, like the Maitri Upanishad, define Ātman as only the defiled individual self, rather than the universal self.

Now that Vedanta is recognised as the summit of spirituality, one should learn what the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad discusses on the essence of Vedanta.

From the Aryo-Hindu tradition, he sees the human type of the Rajarshi as an embodiment of the Golden Age ideal and quotes the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ( 1. 4. 11 ): " This is why nothing is greater than the warrior nobility ; the priests themselves venerate the warrior when the consecration of the king occurs.

This is the case, for instance, of King Jaivala, whose knowledge was not imparted by any priest, but rather reserved to the warrior caste ; also, in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ( 4. 3. 1 ) King Janaka teaches the brahmana Yajnavalkya the doctrine of the transcendent Self.

Yājñavalkya ( Devanagari: य ा ज ् ञवल ् क ् य ) of Mithila was a legendary sage of Vedic India, credited with the authorship of the Shatapatha Brahmana ( including the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ), besides the Yoga Yajnavalkya and the Yājñavalkya Smṛti.

This immortal conversation between Yājñavalkya and Maitreyi is recorded in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

The enumeration of tattvas in Samkhya is also found in Taittiriya Upanishad, Aitareya Upanishad and Yajnavalkya – Maitri dialogue in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

They used quotes from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad to support this claim.

This syllable Om is a central element of Hinduism, appearing in all the Upanishads, including the earliest Chandogya and Brihadaranyaka Upanishads, and expounded upon in the Mandukya Upanishad.

* The brahman is the superintendent of the entire performance, and is responsible for correcting mistakes by means of supplementary verses invoking the visvedevas ( pantheon of celestials or devas ).

In general, mortals with divine qualities are carefully distinguished from the deity or deities in their religion's main pantheon.

This took on a dark tone with the creation of what is today often called the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of alien extra-dimensional deities and horrors which predate humanity, and which are hinted at in aeon-old myths and legends.

By the later 19th century, history painting was often explicitly rejected by avant-garde movements such as the Impressionists ( except for Édouard Manet ) and the Symbolists, and according to one recent writer " Modernism was to a considerable extent built upon the rejection of History Painting ... All other genres are deemed capable of entering, in one form or another, the ' pantheon ' of modernity considered, but History Painting is excluded ".

Henotheism is similar but less exclusive than monolatry because a monolator worships only one god ( denying that other gods are worthy of worship ), while the henotheist may worship any within the pantheon, depending on circumstances, although they usually will worship only one throughout their life ( barring some sort of conversion ).

* 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.

The Thelemic pantheon includes a number of deities, focusing primarily on a trinity of deities adapted from ancient Egyptian religion, who are the three speakers of The Book of the Law: Nuit, Hadit and Ra-Hoor-Khuit.

Strangers are allowed to worship only the spirits of the standard pantheon

A horse or bull figure on the same stand, topped by a solar disk, may represent either Yahweh or Baal, and a stylised tree and female figures are testimony to the presence of goddesses ( possibly Asherah ) in the pantheon.

Her male counterparts in the Roman pantheon, Vulcan and Mars, are active and fiery.

In the Homeric epics, the Greeks of prehistory are viewed as the ancestors of the early classical civilization of Homer's own time, while the Mycenaean pantheon included many of the divinities ( e. g. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades ) attested in later Greek religion.

Among the cultural traits that the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan shared with many other cultures of central Mexico are the agricultural basis of maize cultivation, the basic social organization dividing society into classes of noble pipiltin and macehualli commoners, the complex religious beliefs and practices including most of the pantheon ( e. g. gods such as Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl ), the calendric system of a xiuhpohualli of 365 days intercalated with a tonalpohualli of 260 days.

According to this theory, fairies are personified aspects of nature and deified abstract concepts such as ‘ love ’ and ‘ victory ’ in the pantheon of the particular form of animistic nature worship reconstructed as the religion of Ancient Western Europe .< ref >

Sometimes the rebels lose, and are either cast out of power entirely or incorporated into the pantheon.

But the two islands are close to each other, at the northern end of the Aegean, and the cults are at least similar, and neither fits easily into the Olympic pantheon: the Cabeiri were given a mythic genealogy as sons of Hephaestus.

Indeed, the other Roman gods are repeatedly perplexed, humiliated, and made ridiculous by Amor, an otherwise relatively minor god of the pantheon, who is the closest thing this putative mock-epic has to a hero.

Adad in Akkadian and Ishkur in Sumerian and Hadad in Aramaic are the names of the storm-god in the Babylonian-Assyrian pantheon.

Viracocha was one of the most important deities in the Inca pantheon and seen as the creator of all things, or the substance from which all things are created, and intimately associated with the sea.

They are considered to be the oldest of all the gods of the Maya pantheon, and are identified by a number of names throughout the Maya sacred text, reflecting their multiple roles throughout the Mayan creation myth.

Later, as a goddess in other traditions of the Egyptian pantheon, where most goddesses were paired with a male aspect, her masculine counterpart was Thoth and their attributes are the same.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, the fields of Aaru (; Egyptian: < hiero > M17-G1-D21-G43-M2-M2-M2 </ hiero > iArw meaning " reeds ") ( alternatives: Yaaru, Iaru, Aalu ) or the Egyptian reed fields, are the heavenly paradise, where Osiris ruled after he became part of the Egyptian pantheon and displaced Anubis in the Ogdoad tradition.

The top four Alusi of the Igbo pantheon are Ala, Igwe, Anyanwu, and Amadioha ( or Kamalu ); other less important Alusi exist after these, some depending on the community.

Rudras are forms and followers of the god Rudra-Shiva and make eleven of the Thirty-three gods in the Hindu pantheon.

There are differences between the Ugaritic pantheon and that of Phoenicia centuries later: according to the third-hand Greek and Christian reports of Sanchuniathon, the Phoenician mythographer would have Dagon the brother of Ēl / Cronus and like him son of Sky / Uranus and Earth, but not truly Hadad's father.