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deities and Anu
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.
* Anu and Ki ( goddess ), Sumerian deities similar to Rangi and Papa
She is identified as the wife or consort of the Sumerian Anu or Ugaritic El, the oldest deities of their pantheons.
Her parents are the deities Anu and Uras.

deities and replaced
All other deities were replaced by the Aten, including Amun-Ra, the reigning sun god of Akhenaten's own region.
Christian saints replaced the Slavic deities, and the ritual itself survives as a national custom of the Serbs.
Many Babylonian deities, myths and religious writings are singular to that culture ; for example, the uniquely Babylonian deity, Marduk, replaced Enlil as the head of the mythological pantheon.

deities and later
Due to the hero cults, and chthonic underworld deities, the elemental of earth is also associated with the sensual aspects of both life and death in later occultism.
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.
* The many early Egyptian goddesses who are related as sun deities and the later gods Ra and Horus depicted as riding in a solar barge.
In many Gaelic tales the aos sí are later, literary versions of the Tuatha Dé Danann (" People of the Goddess Danu ") – the deities and deified ancestors of Irish mythology.
Much of the Mycenaean religion survived into classical Greece in their pantheon of Greek deities, but it is not known to what extent Greek religious belief is Mycenaean, nor how much is a product of the Greek Dark Ages or later.
In general, later Greek religion distinguishes between two types of deities: the Olympian, or sky, deities ( including Zeus ), which are now commonly known in some form or another ; and, the chthonic deities, or deities of the earth.
In the later classical tradition of the West, Venus becomes one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality.
The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked tobacco and various psychoactive drugs in religious rituals and frequently depicted priests and deities smoking on pottery and temple engravings.
Here too, each word in the kuji was associated with Buddhist deities, animals from Taoist mythology, and later, Shinto kami.
It was the eye of one of the earliest of Egyptian deities, Wadjet, who later became associated with Bast, Mut, and Hathor as well.
She often was confused with ( and later was absorbed by ) their primal snake goddess Wadjet, the Egyptian cobra, who from the earliest of records was the patron and protector of the country, all other deities, and the pharaohs.
The Greeks later linked Set with Typhon because both were evil forces, storm deities, and sons of the Earth that attacked the main gods.
Initially, the pantheon of deities was not ordered, but later Mesopotamian theologians came up with the concept of ranking the deities in order of importance.
One of the most important of these early Mesopotamian deities was the god Enlil, who was originally a Sumerian divinity viewed as a king of the gods and a controller of the world, who was later adopted by the Akkadians.
Originally a chthonic god of riches, fertile agricultural land, and underground mineral wealth, he was later commonly equated with the Roman deities Pluto and Orcus, becoming an underworld deity.
Nerio was later supplanted by mythologized deities appropriated and adapted from other religions.
As one of the indigitamenta, Rumina lacked the elaborate mythology and personality of later Roman deities, and was instead a more abstract, numinous entity.
Making up a complete triad of deities for the later pantheon of Thebes, it was said that Mut had adopted Menthu, god of war.
Thus, to fit their own cosmology, to the Greeks Bast is thought of as the sister of Horus, whom they identified as Apollo ( Artemis ' brother ), and consequently, the daughter of the later emerging deities, Isis and Ra.
Eventually, later in Egyptian history that spanned thousands of years and whose pantheon evolved toward a merger of many deities, Serket began to be identified with Isis, sharing imagery and parentage, until finally, Serket became said to be merely an aspect of Isis, whose cult had become very dominant.
Artifacts from pre-dynastic times depict cow deities using the same symbolism as used in later times for Hathor and Egyptologists speculate that these deities may be one and the same or precursors to Hathor.

deities and first
The worship of deities symbolized by the female breast in Greece became less common during the first millennium.
The first part of the Codex Regius preserves poems that narrate the creation and foretold destruction and rebirth of the Old Norse mythological world as well as individual myths about gods concerning Norse deities.
Murray's central thesis that images of the Devil were actually of deities and that Christianity had demonised these worshippers as following Satan, is first recorded in the work of Levi in the fashionable 19th-century Occultist circles of England and France.
Yet another myth speaks of the three founding deities of Jeju Island, who were to be wed to the three princesses of Tamna ; the deities brought seeds of five grains which were the first seeds planted, which in turn became the first instance of farming.
Most Egyptian deities were first worshipped by very local cults, and they retained those local centres of worship even as their popularity spread, so that most major cities and towns in Egypt were known as the home of a particular deity.
The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos () is a theory by Eduard Norden first published in 1913 that proposes, based on Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts 17: 23, that in addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshipped a deity they called " Agnostos Theos ", that is: the " Unknown god ", which Norden called " Un-Greek ".
As in the first phase of the myth, she often has the aid of other deities, who protect her son in her absence.
Lucina was chief among a number of deities who influenced or guided every aspect of birth and child development, such as Vagitanus, who opened the newborn's mouth to cry, and Fabulinus, who enabled the child's first articulate speech.
It may be that only the cults of deities considered indigenous were first established within the sacred boundary of Rome ( pomerium ), with " new " gods on the Aventine Hill or in the Campus Martius, but it is uncertain whether the terms indigetes and novensiles correspond to this topography.
All pagan deities were referred to as " devils " by some Christian sorces, thus it is possible that this image is merger of several deities, first of all chtonic gods, and folklore does indeed refer to there being several devils, though occasionally there is one main entity identified.
The god's association with human sacrifice meant that Tohil was one of the first deities that the Spanish clergy tried to eradicate after the conquest of Guatemala.
Several of the first humans were considered to have ascended upon their deaths and become minor deities.
In Vaishakha month, the fifteen days in Shukla paksha ( first fortnight / first half of the month ) are dedicated to fifteen gods or deities.
While earlier texts mention deities taking on different forms, the Bhagavad Gita ( 4. 5-9 ) is the first text to discuss the doctrine associated with the term even though the word avatāra itself is not mentioned.
At some time around 493 BC, soon after the expulsion of Rome's last King and the establishment of the Roman Republic, the Roman senate provided a temple for the so-called Aventine Triad of Ceres, Liber and Libera, patron deities of the Roman commoners or plebs ; the dedication followed one of the first in a long series of threatened or actual plebeian secessions.
Probably we should connect with this the statement that Xenocrates called unity and duality ( monas and duas ) deities, and characterised the former as the first male existence, ruling in heaven, as father and Zeus, as uneven number and spirit ; the latter as female, as the mother of the gods, and as the soul of the universe which reigns over the mutable world under heaven, or, as others have it, that he named the Zeus who ever remains like himself, governing in the sphere of the immutable, the highest ; the one who rules over the mutable, sublunary world, the last, or outermost.
In the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, she gives birth to the first generation of deities ; she later makes war upon them and is killed by the storm-god Marduk.
In this short story, written in August 1921 and first published in November 1933, Atal, now an adult, becomes an apprentice to Barzai the Wise and travels with him to seek out the tale's eponymous deities.

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