Some groups of deities were of indeterminate size, and were linked by their similar functions.

Some work with the deities, other heroes and heroines fight against them.

Some see mind as a property exclusive to humans whereas others ascribe properties of mind to non-living entities ( e. g. panpsychism and animism ), to animals and to deities.

Some writers such as Karen Armstrong believe that the concept of monotheism sees a gradual development out of notions of henotheism ( worshiping a single god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities ) and monolatrism ( the recognition of the existence of many gods, but with the consistent worship of only one deity ).

Some time in the 5th century CE, the Kaaba was a place of worship for the deities of Arabia's pagan tribes.

Some Neopagans have elaborate rituals to honor the dead, and the deities who are associated with the dead in their particular culture or tradition.

Some would carry that interpretation to the spear that frequently is associated with Athena, interpreting her spear as a symbolic connection to some of Zeus ' power beyond the Aegis once he rose to replacing other deities in the pantheon.

Some of these practices may relate to ancient indigenous beliefs and traditions on spirits, worship of deities and godlings and some figures appear to demons.

Some religions have one supreme deity, others have multiple deities of various ranks.

Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of everything ( the Earth or Universe and all contents ).

Some scholars have theorised that at this point the inhabitants focused their worship on household deities and ancestor spirits, largely abandoning the worship of the water deities.

Some religions posit immanent deities, however, and do not have a tradition analogous to the supernatural ; some believe that everything anyone experiences occurs by the will ( occasionalism ), in the mind ( neoplatonism ), or as a part ( nondualism ) of a more fundamental divine reality ( platonism ).

Some of the most significant of these deities were Anu, Ea, Enlil, Ishtar ( Astarte ), Ashur, Shamash, Tammuz, Adad / Hadad, Sin ( Nanna ), Dagan, Ninurta, Nisroch, Nergal, Tiamat, Bel and Marduk.

Some ancient sources say the novensiles are nine in number, leading to both ancient and modern identifications with other divine collectives numbering nine, such as the nine Etruscan deities empowered to wield thunder or with the Muses.

Some attempted to reconstruct pantheons to be as impressive as in Greek mythology, which led to some deities being simply invented.

Some specifically Sabine deities and cults were known at Rome: Semo Sancus and Quirinus, and at least one area of the town, the Quirinale, where the temples to those latter deities were located, had once been a Sabine centre.

Some pharaohs established pesedjets that incorporated themselves among the deities.

Some popular Hindu deities and avatars include Krishna, Vishnu, Shiva, Durga, Ganesha, Hanuman, Kali, Murugan, Venkateshwara, Nataraja, Rama, Saraswati, and Lakshmi.

Some modern Hindu spiritual thinkers like Shri Aurobindo assign symbolism to the Vedic deities like Savitr.

Some have worshipped the Taoist deities religiously without bothering to delve into the theologial underpinnings, while others embrace the Taoist religion while ignoring the mythological aspects.

Some local deities began to be called by the name Zeus, from the chief Greek god.

Some depictions of Ash show him as having multiple heads, unlike other Egyptian deities, although some compound depictions were occasionally shown connecting gods to Min.

# Some critics of Mormonism claim Mormonism is tritheistic or polytheistic, by the standard of the trinitarianism of the ecumenical and catholic tradition, because it teaches that the " Godhead " is a council of three distinct deities perfectly one in purpose, unity and mission, but nevertheless separate and distinct individuals.

Some lines of the Roman poet Claudian inform us that he heard a voice proceeding from a sacred grove, " Break off all delays, Alaric.

Some of the goals of feminist theology include increasing the role of women among the clergy and religious authorities, reinterpreting male-dominated imagery and language about God, determining women's place in relation to career and motherhood, and studying images of women in the religion's sacred texts and matriarchal religion.

Some critical scholars oppose the view that the sacred texts, including the Hebrew Bible, were divinely inspired.

Some 18 chapters of Vyasa's Jaya constitutes the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred text of the Hindus.

Some cultures regarded the mediator as a sacred figure, worthy of particular respect ; and the role partly overlapped with that of traditional wise men or tribal chief.

Some religious organizations and practitioners believe that some or all of their traditional stories are not only sacred and " true ", but also historically accurate and divinely revealed, and that calling such stories " myths " disrespects their special status.

Some traditional Catholics have used the term following Vatican II, particularly in defence of the Latin mass and sacred tradition.

Some pilgrims bathe at sacred shrines, others go on Hajj to Mecca.

Some The doctrinal problem of sangha-as-gem-to-be-revered they solve in two ways: firstly by stressing that the arya sangha is a much greater refuge than the lower levels of sangha, and secondly by stressing that sangha denotes the sacred dimensions of gathering as a community of Buddhists, in contrast with its more mundane dimensions.

Some composers wrote sacred cantatas to be performed in the church services of these days.

Some hold that the priests were the ones to reveal the visions of the holy night, consisting of a fire that represented the possibility of life after death, and various sacred objects.

Some proponents of this theory argue, only on cultural grounds, that both etymologies may well be correct, and that there may have been a conscious poetic exploitation of the phonological coincidence between trobar and the triliteral Arabic root TRB when sacred Sufi Islamic musical forms with a love theme first spread from Al-Andalus to southern France.

Some healing temples also used sacred dogs to lick the wounds of sick petitioners.

Some Native American peoples revere eagles as sacred and the feathers and other parts of Bald and Golden Eagles.

Some scholars maintain that this name was actually that of the western district of the city that lay between the great Temple of Ptah and the necropolis at Saqqara, an area that contained a sacred tree.

Some temples of Sobek kept pools where sacred crocodiles were kept: these crocodiles were fed the best cuts of meat and became quite tame.

" Some scholars contended the Miami called themselves the Twightwee ( also spelled Twatwa ), supposedly an onomatopoeic reference to their sacred bird, the sandhill crane.

Some historians have discerned elements of Pagan fertility rituals in the Godiva story whereby a young " May Queen " was led to the sacred Cofa's tree perhaps to celebrate the renewal of spring The oldest form of the legend has Godiva passing through Coventry market from one end to the other while the people were assembled, attended only by two knights.

Some particularly dislike the Calvinist response because it leaves the matter of God's motives and means largely unresolved, but the Calvinist sees it merely as following Calvin's famous dictum that " whenever the Lord shuts his sacred mouth, student of the Bible also desists from inquiry.

Some of the earlier works from before the Akkadian conquest are also extremely interesting, in particular Eannatum's Stele of the Vultures and Entemena's great silver vase ornamented with Ningirsu's sacred animal Anzu: a lion-headed eagle with wings outspread, grasping a lion in each talon.

Some of Ferdinand's own compositions survive in manuscripts: masses, motets, hymns and other sacred music, as well as a few secular pieces.

Some alleged similarities between Dönme and unorthodox Sufi practice seem to exist, including the violation of kashrut / halal, sexual license, ecstatic singing, mystical interpretations of sacred scripture, and the practice of ritual meals.

Some reiki translation equivalents from Japanese-English dictionaries are: " feeling of mystery ", " an atmosphere ( feeling ) of mystery ", and " an ethereal atmosphere ( that prevails in the sacred precincts of a shrine ); ( feel, sense ) a spiritual ( divine ) presence.

Some healing temples also used sacred dogs to lick the wounds of sick petitioners.

Some commentators have linked the symbol to the Nehushtan, a sacred object consisting of a serpent wrapped around a pole mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Numbers ( Numbers 21: 6-9 ).