* Mothra, a giant moth-like deity who was sent by the people of Infant Island to save the trapped people on the other island.

Deluge myths are mythical stories of a great flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution, and are featured in the mythology of many cultures.

Since then, a young man and a young girl were sacrificed to the goddess each year until, in accordance with the instructions of the Delphian oracle, a strange king ( Eurypylus, son of Euaemon ) introduced the worship of a new deity ( Dionysus, whose image he brought from Troy ) in Patrae, thus both putting an end to the sacrifices and curing himself of madness which had been sent upon him when he had first looked at the god's image.

However, he did not see the sending of the goat as honouring Azazel as a deity, but as a symbolic expression of the idea that the people's sins and their evil consequences were to be sent back to the spirit of desolation and ruin, the source of all impurity.

Mead claimed Marcionism makes certain points of contact with Gnosticism in its view that the creator of the material world is not the true deity, rejection of materialism and affirmation of a transcendent, purely good spiritual realm in opposition to the evil physical realm, the belief Jesus was sent by the " True " God to save humanity, the central role of Jesus in revealing the requirements of salvation, the belief Paul had a special place in the transmission of this " wisdom ", and its docetism.

He remained at Ikegami until he received a dream sent by the guardian deity of Enryakuji, who commanded him to return to Enryakuji.

However Hononinigi found Ihanaga-Hime so ugly he sent her back to her father and then proceeded to consummate his marriage with Konohana-no-Sakuya-Bime, which was the first marriage between a deity of earth with one of heaven.

Similar to the company's previous game ActRaiser, the player takes the role of a divine angel, deity or lesser-deity, or avatar, sent by a divinity, called The Master, to destroy monsters and release the captured souls of a world's inhabitants.

* The Hero ( Blazer ) is the protagonist, a divine angel, deity or lesser-deity, or avatar, sent by The Master to restore the world's creatures to life.

A flood myth or deluge myth is a symbolic narrative in which a great flood is sent by a deity, or deities, to destroy civilization in an act of divine retribution.

On November 29, 2005, Archbishop Nikon of the Russian Orthodox Church sent a letter to the mayor of Moscow, describing the Hindu deity Krishna as an ' evil demon '.

Upon consulting the Sibyl, the Roman Senate was instructed to build a temple to Aesculapius, the Greek god of healing, and sent a delegation to Epidauros to obtain a statue of the deity.

Also, Akilam tells of a false deity which was sent to the world by Narayana after Vaikundar attained Vaikundam.

There are three main reasons for this: the principle of nonviolence ( ahimsa ) applied to animals ; the intention to offer only " pure " ( vegetarian ) food to a deity and then to receive it back as prasad ; and the conviction that a sentient diet is beneficial for a healthy body and mind and that non-vegetarian food is detrimental for the mind and for spiritual development.

The Emperor also tried to bring about a union of Roman and Syrian religion under the supremacy of his deity, which he placed even above Jupiter, and to which he assigned either Astarte, Minerva or Urania, or some combination of the three, as wife.

It is possible that statues of a bull with three horns, such as the one from Autun ( Bourgogne, France, ancient Augustodunum ) are related to this deity.

In modern Dievturi these three goddesses are referred to as the three Laimas, indicating they are the same deity in three different aspects.

The celebration usually lasted three or four days ; each day was devoted to a specific deity, though no source gives the names of the respective deity.

In the late 1540s, three community leaders of Yanhuitlán were accused of making sacrifices to the deity, including human sacrifices, by the inhabitants of hostile neighbouring villages and were tried by the inquisitor Francisco Tello de Sandoval.

Savitr disappeared as an independent deity from the Hindu pantheon after the end of the Vedic period, but in modern Hinduism, his name occurs in the well-known Gayatri mantra ( taken from book three of the Rigveda ), which is also known as Savitri because of this.

There are a number of other major temples in the ceremonial center including three round ones, which are unusual for the Maya area and are also linked to the deity Kukulkan / Quetzalcoatl in his wind god ( Ehecatl ) aspect.

In this ritual, dress of the deity is changed three times a year to correspond to the seasons.

A great deity destroyed them with a flood, leaving only three worthy chiefs who were preserved in heaven to be the founders and guides for a new race of people.

Most Christian denominations — following theology standardized by the Nicene Creed — explains the concept of omnipresence in the form of the " Trinity ", by having a single deity ( God ) made up of three omnipresent persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Here it also denotes a hand gesture, now linked to three other hand mudrās — the action ( karma ), pledge ( samaya ), and dharma mudrās — but also involves " mantra recitations and visualizations that symbolize and help to effect one ’ s complete identification with a deity ’ s divine form or awakening mind ( bodhicitta ).

Oneness theology sees the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as one transcendent, personal, omnipresent God manifesting Himself in three personal and distinct ways or forms to redeem and sanctify sinful and lost humanity, and also that all the fullness of the deity resides fully in the person of Christ.

In Athens there were three great public gymnasia: the Academy, the Lyceum and the Cynosarges, each of which was dedicated to a deity whose statue adorned the structure.

The Roman god and Paracelsian deity who was associated with alchemy, was cited no less than three times by Sir Thomas Browne in The Garden of Cyrus of 1658, firstly in its opening lines:

The deity was regarded as representing the earth, and as having three aspects, of which the first two were Maiden and Mother ; she did not name the third.

They give the example of Diana only becoming three ( Daughter, Wife, Mother ) through her relationship to Zeus, the male deity.

Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, the Maid, the Mother, and the Crone are three aspects of the septune deity in the Faith of the Seven.

* Triple deity, three deities commonly associated together

The shrine is dedicated to the three daughters of Susano-o no Mikoto, Shinto deity of seas and storms and brother of the great sun deity, Amaterasu ( tutelary deity of the Imperial Household ).

Much of the idea of Cortés being seen as a deity can be traced back to the Florentine Codex written down some 50 years after the conquest.

He argued, back in 1871, that narrowing the definition to mean the belief in a supreme deity or judgment after death or idolatry and so on, would exclude many peoples from the category of religious, and thus " has the fault of identifying religion rather with particular developments than with the deeper motive which underlies them ".

When ' Big Raven ', a deity in human form, found a stranded whale, he was told by the Great Spirit where to find special mushrooms that would give him the strength to drag the whale back to the sea and thus return order to the world.

When the Argo was driven ashore in the Gulf of Syrtes Minor, the crew carried the vessel to the " Tritonian Lake ", Lake Tritonis, whence Triton, the local deity euhemeristically rationalized by Diodorus Siculus as " then ruler over Libya ", welcomed them with a guest-gift of a clod of earth and guided them through the lake's marshy outlet back to the Mediterranean.

: we may believe that here Lovecraft was inspired by the traditional Christian depiction of the Baphomet Goat, an image of Satan harking back to the pre-Christian woodland deity Pan, he of the goatish horns and shanks.

Scholars have theorized that Agdistis is part of a continuum of androgynous Anatolian deities, including an ancient Phrygian deity probably named " Andistis " and one called " Adamma ", stretching all the way back to the ancient kingdom of Kizzuwatna in the 2nd millennium BC.

For since well-nigh all the people of Greece had come together and formed themselves in opposing lines, there was no one who did not suppose that if a battle were fought, those who proved victorious would be the rulers and those who were defeated would be their subjects ; but the deity so ordered it that both parties set up a trophy as though victorious and neither tried to hinder those who set them up, that both gave back the dead under a truce as though victorious, and both received back their dead under a truce as though defeated, and that while each party claimed to be victorious, neither was found to be any better off, as regards either additional territory, or city, or sway, than before the battle took place ; but there was even more confusion and disorder in Greece after the battle than before.

Linguist Giuliano Bonfante has speculated, on the grounds of his cult and of the meaning of his name, that he should be a very archaic deity and might date back to an era when Latins lived in dwellings built on pilings.

The name " Kokopelli " may be a combination of " Koko ", another Hopi and Zuni deity, and " pelli ", the Hopi and Zuni word for the desert robber fly, an insect with a prominent proboscis and a rounded back, which is also noted for its zealous sexual proclivities.

In the story of Venulus coming back from Apulia too we see the religious connotation of the wild olive: the king discovers one into which a local shepherd had been had been turned for failing to respect some nymphs he had come across in a nearby cavern, apparently Venilia, as she was the deity associated with the magic virtues of such tree.

There is usually a piece of metal that forms the back of the lamp, which has a picture of a Hindu deity embossed on it.

While offering prayers before the Buddha image, the sitting posture should avoid any offensive stretching of feet towards the deity ; the feet should be tucked in towards the back.

God pots are small ceramic bowls that have the head and face of the deity they represent attached to the rim of the pot, often with the head tilted back so that incense or offerings may be placed directly on it.

A movement back to the earlier tradition of a deity being placed on the obverse occurred in Byzantine coinage, where a head of Christ became the obverse and a head or portrait ( half or full-length ) of the emperor became considered the reverse.

To this day, the deity of Lord Krishna faces the back of the Mutt towards the Kanakana Kindi.

Front left is a protective deity: the Four Heavenly Kings | Heavenly King Zōchō, and back left another one: Heavenly King Kōmoku.

The name, given in August 2003, is after Tarvos, a deity depicted as a bull god carrying three cranes alongside its back from Gaulish mythology.

The origin of this resplendent relic – described as having the shape and proportions of half a hen's egg – can be traced back to the 18th century Sri Ranganathaswamy Hindu temple, in Srirangam, Tamil Nadu, India where it once served as the eye of the presiding deity.

Her various epithets thus show a complex of mutually interrelated functions that in the view of G. Dumezil and V. Basanoff can be traced back to the Indoeuropean trifunctional ideology: as Regina and Moneta she is a sovereign deity, as Sespeis, Curitis ( spear holder ) and Moneta ( again ) she is an armed protectress, as Mater and Curitis ( again ) she is a goddess of the fertility and wealth of the community in her association with the curiae.

) In contrast to the Buddhists, in a Daoist temple the main deity is located in the main hall at the front, the lesser deities in the back hall and at the sides.