Originally shamanistic practices that have over time may once have been monotheistic later once since deification of an Earth Mother to the Sky father as a Duality, also including ancestor worship and an addition for a " sun deity ", polytheizing the religion and more deities were incorporated after-wards.

Originally based on the Indian Rhinoceros ( one of the meanings of the word ) and first described in the 10th / 11th century, it evolved in the works of later writers to a mythical animal " with a shadowy rhinocerine ancestor " endowed with strange qualities, such as a horn endowed with medicinal qualities.

Originally, natural grass was to be installed in the new NFL stadium, but the Seahawks ' management and players were so impressed by the performance of FieldTurf that it became the original playing surface at CenturyLink Field in 2002.

Originally taken by the San Francisco 49ers in the fifth round ( 160th overall ) of the 1996 NFL Draft, he finished his NFL career as the Carolina Panthers'all-time leading punt returner for a career ( 11. 2 yards per return ).

Originally launched on 5 December 2002 as NASN ( the North American Sports Network ), ESPN America broadcasts a selection of top North American professional and collegiate sports leagues including Major League Baseball ( MLB ), National Football League ( NFL ), National Hockey League ( NHL ), National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) and Canadian Football League ( CFL ), 24 hours a day on digital cable and digital satellite television.

Originally called the South Dade Expressway, the Don Shula Expressway received its current name in 1983 to honor the Hall Of Fame head coach of the Miami Dolphins NFL team ( 1970 – 1995 ).

Originally invented in the 1980s in the Eastern Asia region, bubble tea has since become popular in Australia, USA and Europe.

Originally established in 1983, it has since become an international enterprise with branches and subsidiaries in North America, Europe, and East Asia.

Originally lit by open fires and later candles, the Argand hollow wick lamp and parabolic reflector were developed around 1781 in Europe.

Originally a Viking weapon, it was adopted by the Anglo-Saxons and Normans in the 11th century, spreading through Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe.

Originally based largely in North America and Europe, its membership is now heavily weighted toward groups in the developing world.

Originally Pagan, Ostara became Easter after the Christianization of Europe.

Originally, cantaloupe referred only to the non-netted, orange-fleshed melons of Europe.

Originally, the reindeer was found in Scandinavia, eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, and northern China north of the 50th latitude.

Originally Loranthaceae contained all mistletoe species, but the typical Christmas mistletoes of Europe and North America ( the genera Viscum and Phoradendron ) belong to the family Santalaceae ; previously these two genera and their closest relatives were in a separate family, Viscaceae, which has been merged into Santalaceae.

Originally, the Football League again denied entry to the European Cup, but Busby and his chairman, Harold Hardman, with the help of the Football Association's chairman Stanley Rous, defied the league and United became the first English team to venture into Europe.

Originally split on whether Finland should join the European Union, the Green League is now pro-European and was the first Finnish party to support a federal Europe.

Originally a quintet, the group originated in 2000 on the international television talent show Popstars and was one of the first television-casted acts to enjoy attention throughout Central Europe in the early 2000s ( decade ).

Originally made by Singer in the US and Europe for supplying the demand of heavy duty clothing for the troops, for many years after the war this class was not available as new because the market was filled.

Originally found wild in Europe, North Africa, and western Asia, feral Pigeon have become established in cities around the world.

Originally, Catai was the name applied by Central and Western Asians and Europeans to northern China ; it obtained wide currency in Europe after the publication of Marco Polo's book ( he referred to southern China as Manji ).

Originally developed under the title Gemma Knights, the game was renamed Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden ( published in North America as Final Fantasy Adventure and in Europe as Mystic Quest ).

Originally published in Venice, in 1539, it was reprinted throughout Europe for many years after, becoming the most often reprinted madrigal book of the entire era.

Originally native to subtropical and temperate South America, it has since been introduced to North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, primarily by fur ranchers.

Originally native to southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, it is now widely dispersed throughout Europe and parts of Asia, such as the lower Himalayas and other temperate parts of the Indian Subcontinent.

Originally the series took place in international settings, such as race tracks in Australia, Europe, and Africa among other settings.

Originally established in the United States, Europe, Soviet Union, and Japan, the WDC system expanded to other countries and to new scientific disciplines.

Originally native to Asia ( probably northern India ), they spread to the Mediterranean Basin about 8000 BC, only spreading into the rest of Europe around 1000 BC.

Originally, the Society had disallowed female members.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

Originally the word " broadband " had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology.

Originally, the Spanish had ordered regulations on trade with Cuba, which kept the island from becoming a dominant sugar producer.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

Originally, Rogers ' mask was a separate piece of material, but an early engagement had it dislodged, thus almost exposing his identity.

Originally, the procedure was used in clinical trials only on dachshunds that had suffered previous back incidents.

Originally an earthly king ruling by divine appointment (" the anointed one ", as the title Messiah had it ), the " son of David " became in the last two pre-Christian centuries the apocalyptic and heavenly one who would deliver Israel and usher in a new kingdom.

Originally, however, the Egyptians believed that only the pharaoh had a ba, and only he could become one with the gods ; dead commoners passed into a dark, bleak realm that represented the opposite of life.

Originally from Massachusetts, William Wright had been a Baptist minister, but he later joined his wife's family in the Unitarian faith.

Originally they had no wings, but late in the artistic representations, they are depicted.

Originally, the association had not set out to create its own language.

Originally, the court had the power to mete out sentences, with excommunication as its most severe penalty.

Originally his work focused on technique-some argue that it had that focus at the cost of relevance, especially in Rain ( Regen, 1929 ), a 10-minute short filmed over 2 years which features impressive cinematography and a number of ' characters ' but no information about them aside from what was visible, and in The Bridge ( De Brug, 1928 ), which showed a frank admiration of engineering and also featured a number of " characters " but again did not give any information about them.

Originally conceived in 1982, this Japanese-American co-production had a long and tumultuous history which included a 1984 pilot by Ghibli director Yoshifumi Kondō.

Originally the Arms Park had a cricket ground to the north and a rugby union stadium to the south.

Originally, it had blocks of sponsored airtime that played music from a live orchestra.

Originally, the government, advised by prominent historians, had wanted to disestablish Opolskie and partition its territory between the more historically ‘ Polish ’ regions of Lower Silesia and Silesia.

Originally, Sanskrit had no punctuation.

Originally, the deck had to be composed by combining two poker, piquet or euchre decks and removing unneeded cards ( a piquet deck does not have the 2-6, making it easier to modify, and a euchre deck is exactly half a pinochle deck ), but with the game's popularity in the United States in the early 1900s, a single boxed deck with the necessary cards was marketed, and these specialized pinochle decks are now widely available in similar styles to common 52-card counterparts.

" ( Originally, only three quarks had been discovered.

Originally scientists believed that the elongation of the giraffe's neck had been a result of foraging selection.

Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia.

Originally, Columbia had 32, 000 tiles — the upgrade reduced this to 24, 300.

Originally intended to be an outer-space variation on Lord of the Flies, the project at first was titled " Asteroid Ship Icarus " and had a multinational teenage crew journeying through space in a hollowed-out asteroid in search of the planet Iscandar.