As the patron of Delphi ( Pythian Apollo ), Apollo was an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.

The earth deity had power over the ghostly world, and it is believed that she was the deity behind the oracle.

One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).

As, however, the deity is represented in an Neo-Attic, archaistic and conventional character, this copy cannot be relied on as giving us much information as to the usual style of Alcamenes, who was almost certainly a progressive and original artist.

She is thought to bear the name of the deity who was derived from Libya, where known as Neith, the same source sometimes identified as the parallel for Athene.

Plato drew a parallel between Athene and the ancient Libyan and Egyptian goddess Neith, a war deity who also was depicted carrying a shield.

They thought that the deity which was the most popular fire-controlling deity in central and eastern Japan must have been enshrined in it.

This theological viewpoint was also widespread among Judah ’ s neighbors of differing religions who believed the destruction of a particular city could be attributed to the city ’ s deity who was punishing the city for some communal sin or wrongdoing.

The central sanctuary of an Angkorian temple was home to the temple's primary deity, the one to whom the site was dedicated: typically Shiva or Vishnu in the case of a Hindu temple, Buddha or a bodhisattva in the case of a Buddhist temple.

The deity was represented by a statue ( or in the case of Shiva, most commonly by a linga ).

Since the temple was not considered a place of worship for use by the population at large, but rather a home for the deity, the sanctuary needed only to be large enough to hold the statue or linga ; it was never more than a few metres across.

Erwin Rohde wrote that the Python was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo, and buried under the Omphalos, and that it is a case of one deity setting up a temple on the grave of another.

* Christian revivalist movements, such as Pietism or Methodism, which taught that a more personal relationship with a deity was possible

The reverse depicts the Roman goddess Minerva, who was Domitian's favoured deity, and appeared on numerous coin types throughout his reign.

This house was the assembly place for the dead before they began the journey to the Otherworld. He is similar in some regards to the Hindu deity Yama.

According to myth, taiko was started by Ame no Uzume, a shaman-like female deity.

Although the names are old, this opposition is a modern western-influenced development popularized by Martin Haug in the 1880s, and was in effect a realignment of the precepts of Zurvanism ( Zurvanite Zoroastrianism ), which had invented a third deity, Zurvan, in order to explain a mention of twinship ( Yasna 30. 3 ) between the moral and immoral.

Enlil ( nlin ), ( EN = Lord + LÍL = Storm, " Lord ( of the ) Storm ") was the name of a chief deity listed and written about in Sumerian religion, and later in Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets.

Eris has been adopted as the matron deity of the modern Discordian religion, which was begun in the late 1950s by Gregory Hill and Kerry Wendell Thornley under the pen names of " Malaclypse the Younger " and " Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst ".

For example, the name Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo carried Cretans over the sea in the shape of a dolphin () to make them his priests.

In this respect, Hera bears some resemblance to the Ancient Egyptian deity Hathor, a maternal goddess associated with cattle.

The leading proponents of intelligent design are associated with the Discovery Institute, a politically conservative think tank, and believe the designer to be the Christian deity.

* Vahana, also called a mount, an animal or mythical entity closely associated with a particular deity in Hindu mythology

A nymph (, nymphē ) in Greek mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform.

The satyrs ' chief was Silenus, a minor deity associated ( like Hermes and Priapus ) with fertility.

Tacitus also named the German " Mars " as the primary deity, along with the German " Mercury ", associated with the Germanic custom of the disposal of the spoils of war ; as practiced from the 4th century BC to the 6th century AD.

Almost every nation has associated blood drinking with some kind of revenant or demon, or in some cases a deity.

As a funerary deity, she was associated with Osiris, lord of the underworld, and was considered his wife.

He wore the regalia traditionally associated both with the ancient Roman monarchy and with the statue of Jupiter Capitolinus: the purple and gold " toga picta ", laurel crown, red boots and ( again, possibly ) the reddened face of Rome's supreme deity.

The Wheel of Time or Kalachakra is a Tantric deity that is associated with Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, which encompasses all four main schools of Sakya, Nyingma, Kagyu and Gelug, and is especially important within the lesser-known Jonang tradition.

" Hokusai was a member of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism, who see the North Star as associated with the deity.

Sætere has been identified as either a god associated with the harvest of possible Slav origin, or alternately Sætere could be another name for Loki a complex deity associated with both good and evil.

In Thai, the word is Wan Pharuehatsabodi-referring to the Hindu deity Bṛhaspati, also associated with Jupiter.

Ra and Atum (" he who completes or perfects ") became the same god, Atum, the " counter-Ra ," was associated with earth animals, including the serpent: Nehebkau (" he who harnesses the souls ") was the two headed serpent deity who guarded the entrance to the underworld.

Atwood claims that this concept is ingrained in the human psyche, that it is apparent in early historical peoples, who associated their understanding of debt with that of justice, ideas that are typically exemplified by a female deity.

Rather than the strong bull, Hatshepsut, having served as a very successful warrior during the early portion of her reign as pharaoh, associated herself with the lioness image of Sekhmet, the major war deity in the Egyptian pantheon.

Shub-Niggurath, often associated with the phrase “ The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young ”, is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

In Tolkien's pantheon of Middle-earth, Aulë is a knowledge deity, sometimes worshipped as a god by men, representing skill and craftsmanship, who is also thematically associated with Earth, stone, metal and the dwarves.

Ehecatl (, ; ) is a pre-Columbian deity associated with the wind, who features in Aztec mythology and the mythologies of other cultures from the central Mexico region of Mesoamerica.

Similar phenomena are exemplified by some modern Indian communities of the Hijra, which are associated with a deity and with certain rituals and festivals – notably the devotees of Yellammadevi, or jogappas, who are not castrated and the Ali of southern India, of whom at least some are.

At Pessinos in Phrygia, the mother goddess-identified by the Greeks as Cybele-took the form of an unshaped stone of black meteoric iron, and may have been associated with or identical to Agdistis, Pessinos ' mountain deity.

She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local deity associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle.

These devotees were often from a particular city or city-state that held that deity as its patron deity, for instance the god Enki was often associated with the city of Eridu, and the god Marduk was associated with Babylon.