However, when Christianity came to dominate Finnish religious life in the Middle Ages and the old gods were ousted or consolidated away from the pantheon, Jumala became the Finnish name for the Christian God and the Finnish word for " god ".

Pre-Christian Estonian deities included a sky-god known as Jumal or Taevataat (" Old man of the sky ") in Estonian, corresponding to Jumala in Finnish, and Jumo in Mari.

* Another deity that appeared very significant to the Finnish pagans, but about whom modern scholars know very little, was Jumi, whose name is related to " Jumala ", the modern Finnish language word for a monotheist God.

According to the mid-18th century Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, " Thiermes or Thoron " is the first in a trinity, of whom the other members are Storjunkare and Baivre or Jumala.

The declaration ceremony begins with the hymn Jumala ompi linnamme ( Martin Luther's Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ) and continues with the Declaration of Christmas Peace read from a parchment roll in Finnish and Swedish.

Proto Estonian pre-Christian deities may also have included a sky-god by name Jumal, known also by other Finnic peoples as Jumala in Finnish and Jumo in Mari.

:*" Jumala "-a short and haunting Finnish folk song in E phrygian.

: Pyhä Jumala, Pyhä Väkevä, Pyhä Kuolematon, armahda meitä.

Some scholars have hypothesized an original Proto-Indo-European pantheon, with the chief male god ( Di -) represented by the sky and thunder, and the chief female god ( feminine form of Di -) represented as the earth or fertile soil.

Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.

Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

In this period, the Chinese worshipped many different gods — weather gods and sky gods — and also a supreme god, named Shangdi, who ruled over the other gods.

It is rooted in Indoeuropean * d ( e ) y ( e ) w, meaning bright sky or daylight, from which also derived the name of Vedic god Dyaus and the Latin deus, ( god ) and dies ( day, daylight ).

According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Phoenician god Baal ; he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up in a whirlwind ( either accompanied by a chariot and horses of flame or riding in it ).

The air god Shu, assisted by other gods, holds up Nut, the sky, as Geb, the earth, lies beneath.

When envisioning the shape of the cosmos, the Egyptians saw the earth as a flat expanse of land, personified by the god Geb, over which arched the sky goddess Nut.

The early inscriptions of Urukagina in fact go so far as to suggest that the divine pair, Enki and Ninki, were the progenators of seven pairs of gods, including Enki as god of Eridu, Enlil of Nippur, and Su ' en ( or Sin ) of Ur, and were themselves the children of An ( sky, heaven ) and Ki ( earth ).

* Hebat: Mother goddess of Hittite pantheon and wife of leader sky god, Teshub.

For example, the Akkadian sign AN () could be an ideograph for " deity ", an ideogram for the god Anum in particular, a logograph for the Akkadian stem il-" deity ", a logograph for the Akkadian word šamu " sky ", or a syllabogram for either the syllable an or il.

It is relatively unsure what sect of Tengriism was practiced by the Nomadic Empires as some would worship a single sky god while others would worship partners with the god such as the additional deities.

In ancient India, the oracle was known as Akashwani or Asariri ( Tamil ), literally meaning " voice from the sky " and was related to the message of god.

Osiris was at times considered the oldest son of the Earth god Geb, and the sky goddess Nut, as well as being brother and husband of Isis, with Horus being considered his posthumously begotten son.

* worship of a sky god, * dyeus ph < sub > 2 </ sub > tēr ( lit.

A solar deity ( also sun god / dess ) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength.

The Barotse tribe believes that the Sun is inhabited by the sky god Nyambi and the Moon is his wife.

According to the Aztec creation myth, the god demanded human sacrifice as tribute and without it would refuse to move through the sky.

He named the newly discovered element after the planet Uranus, ( named after the primordial Greek god of the sky ), which had been discovered eight years earlier by William Herschel.

Davidson adds, on the other hand, that it is attested that the Germanic peoples worshiped their deities in open forest clearings and that a sky god was particularly connected with the oak tree, and therefore " a central tree was a natural symbol for them also ".

Scholars have connected the month event and Yule time period to the Wild Hunt ( a ghostly procession in the winter sky ), the god Odin ( who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and, as mentioned above, bears the name Jólnir ), and increased supernatural activity, such as the aforementioned Wild Hunt and the increased activities of draugar — undead beings who walk the earth.

He is the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology.

Old Order, acted and atonally sung by Grunnfeu Arapacis, the lovely Serbantian import, then entered and delivered the well-known invocation to the god Phineoppus, whereupon the stage is quite unexpectedly visited by a company of wandering Gorshek priests, symbolizing Love, Lust, Prudence and General Motors, respectively.

I think you made a dam good chouise to turn off as nise a feler as Alf Dyer and let that orney thefin, drunkard, damed card playing sun of a bich com to sea you, the god damed theaf and lop yeard pigen tode helion, he is too orney for hel.

The new birth is necessary because god is holy.

In their case, the god of this world ( Satan ) has blinded their unbelieving minds, that they should not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

the new birth is a work of god.

At dinner one night, when he was fourteen, Richard announced, `` There is only one god ''.

`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.

Altruism is a motivation to provide something of value to a party who must be anyone but oneself, while duty focuses on a moral obligation towards a specific individual ( e. g., a god, a king ), or collective ( e. g., a government ).

Advaita Vedanta differs from the view that karma is a law of cause and effect but instead additionally hold that karma is mediated by the will of a personal supreme god.

Since apurva is non-sentient, it cannot act unless moved by an intelligent being such as a god.

A number of non-Greek etymologies have been suggested for the name, The form Apaliunas (< sup > d </ sup >) is attested as a god of Wilusa in a treaty between Alaksandu of Wilusa and the Hittite great king Muwatalli II ca 1280 BCE.

Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.

In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

The terrible god is called " The Archer ", and the bow is also an attribute of Shiva.

Rudra could bring diseases with his arrows, but he was able to free people of them, and his alternative Shiba, is a healer physician god.

In her earliest depictions she is accompanied by the " Mister of the animals ", a male god of hunting who had the bow as his attribute.

He is pictured as a terrible god, less trusted by the Greeks than other gods.

The god seems to be related to Appaliunas, a tutelary god of Wilusa ( Troy ) in Asia Minor, but the word is not complete.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.