According to Dumezil the forerunner of all frame gods is an Indian epic hero who was the image ( avatar ) of the Vedic god Dyaus.

Luthor's daughter Lena was the avatar of The Tech, the remnant cyberware of Metropolis after Brainiac 13's advancing the city to a futuristic state was undone.

In a 2006 experiment, a computerized avatar was used in place of the learner receiving electrical shocks.

When young Narendra Nath doubted Ramakrishna's claim of avatar, Ramakrishna said, " He who was Rama, He who was Krishna, He himself is now Ramakrishna in this body.

For Jules Janin and Théophile Gautier, Pierrot was not a fool but an avatar of the post-Revolutionary People, struggling, sometimes tragically, to secure a place in the bourgeois world.

I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with " Beat "... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific ... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the " avatar " of all this.

Hawkmoon was an avatar, like Elric, of the Eternal Champion.

It is further speculated that he was an avatar of the version of Ba ' al, worshipped in Ugarit.

Treguard was now relegated to an avatar head who would occasionally appear to give the dungeoneer advice.

But other legend states that Balarama was an incarnation of Shesh Naag and hence Buddha is the ninth avatar of Vishnu and Kalki the tenth one who is yet to come at the end of Kaliyuga.

He had an elder brother named Hiranyakashipu, who after having undertaken penances which made him incredibly powerful and invincible unless several conditions were met, was later slain by Narasimha, another avatar of Vishnu.

The legend of Bhagavata has it that the Vamana avatar was taken by Vishnu to restore Indra's authority over the heavens, which was taken away by Mahabali, a benevolent Asura King.

Some traditions also hold that Vamana was an avatar of Ganesha.

Jamadagni has five children with wife Renuka, the youngest of whom was Parashurama, an avatar of Lord Vishnu.

Arjuna was an avatar of Nara, who along with the avatar of Narayana, Krishna, established Dharma in the Dvapara Yuga.

# Narasimha, the half man-half lion avatar, who killed the tyrant demon-king Hiranyakashipu, to rescue the demon's son Prahlada, who was a Vishnu-devotee

Each participant was represented by a visual avatar who could interact with other avatars using text chat.

Iravati Karve has suggested in her book, Yuganta, that the actual father of Yudhisthira, or of all of the brothers, may have been Vidura ( probably since he was considered to be an avatar of Yama ), and that this was edited and hidden in the story to strengthen the claim for the kingdom by the brothers.

When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as " the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as ' beat ,' and whose principal avatar he is.

* Ramona ( computer program ), a fictional computer avatar created by Ray Kurzweil

This is seen as an avatar to the Spider God, created by the goblins, to show their fear of these spiders.

Once the member has created an avatar to represent herself or himself, the member can pick up various pieces of clothing or other items, such as hats, handbags, cans of soda, candy bars, bicycles, or hand tools.

Once the member has created an avatar to represent herself or himself, the member can pick up various pieces of clothing or other items, such as hats, handbags, cans of soda, candy bars, bicycles, or hand tools.

These ancients then battled the Avatars with a potion created to vanquish an avatar.

* Mii, a simulated avatar created on the Wii console

In 2007, Los Angeles artist Micha Cárdenas created Becoming Dragon, a " mixed-reality performance " in which a virtual reality experience was created to allow a person to completely experience life through the eyes of a dragon avatar in the virtual world, Second Life.

Gravatar ( an abbreviation for globally recognized avatar ) is a service for providing globally unique avatars which was created by Tom Preston-Werner.

It is also advised by the avatar of Lord Visnu, Devahuti-suta-Kapiladev that the attraction to the oppossite sex is the cause of material captivity:

In EverQuest, players create a character ( also known as an avatar, or colloquially as char or toon ) by selecting one of 16 races in the game, which range from humans ( basic human, Erudite, and barbarian ), elves ( high elves, wood elves, and dark elves ), half-elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, trolls, and ogres of fantasy, to cat-people ( Vah Shir ), lizard-people ( Iksar ), frog-people ( Froglok ), and dragon-people ( Drakkin ).

Visual chat rooms add graphics to the chat experience, in either 2D or 3D ( employing virtual reality technology ). These are characterized by using a graphic representation of the user, an avatar ( virtualing elements such as games ( in particular massively multiplayer online games ) and educational material most often developed by individual site owners, who in general are simply more advanced users of the systems.

The Ramayana consists of 24, 000 verses in seven books () and 500 cantos (), and tells the story of Rama ( an avatar of the Hindu preserver-God Vishnu ), whose wife Sita is abducted by the king of Sri Lanka, Ravana.

In " The Dreams in the Witch House " ( 1933 ), Nyarlathotep appears to Walter Gilman and witch Keziah Mason ( who has made a pact with the entity ) in the form of " the ' Black Man ' of the witch-cult ," a black-skinned avatar of the Devil described by witch hunters.

The festivities are broken up, however, by the appearance of a large avatar in the sky, nicknamed the Hell Ditch Pilgrim ( after the supernatural crevice it appeared above ).

In the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game published by Chaosium, the King In Yellow is an avatar of Hastur who uses his eponymous play to spread insanity among humans.

The Ramayana, written by the poet Valmiki, describes the life and times of Lord Rama ( the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu ) and occurs in the Treta Yuga.

The Buddha avatar, which occurs in different versions in various Puranas, may represent an attempt by orthodox Brahminism to slander the Buddhists by identifying them with the demons.

The mention of the Kalki avatar have been made by Guru Gobind Singh ( 10th Sikh guru ) in his writings Sri Dasam Granth ( there also some who believe it is mentioned in Sarbloh Granth ).

The higher the ranking the more Force powers will be available to use by the avatar.

In this type of virtual community, people are connected by living as an avatar in a computer-based world.

An avatar, username, game name, alias, gamer tag, screen name, or handle is a name ( usually a pseudonym ) adopted by a video gamer, used as a main preferred identification to the gaming community.

Usually set up by other users, camping locations might involve the avatar doing an activity, or simply sitting and doing nothing ; a certain number of Linden dollars ( which vary from place to place ) are paid out based upon how long an avatar camps.

While inside the simulation, the participant's consciousness is represented by an avatar, which can look very different from the participant's actual appearance.