By accommodating the conquered people's gods, religion became more polytheistic and government became somewhat more secular ; the title of lugal, big man, appears alongside the earlier religious titles, although his primary duty is still the worship of the state gods.

In the 19th century, various theories were proposed regarding the origin of religion, supplanting the earlier claims of Christianity of urreligion.

There is no real evidence to support claims that the religion originates earlier than the mid-20th century.

Modern liberalism has its roots in the Age of Enlightenment and rejects many foundational assumptions that dominated most earlier theories of government, such as the Divine Right of Kings, hereditary status, and established religion.

John Day argues that the origins of biblical Yahweh, El, Asherah, and Ba ' al, may be rooted in earlier Canaanite religion, which was centered on a pantheon of gods much like the Greek Pantheon.

When she eventually came across the Wiccan religion many years later, she then found that it confirmed her earlier childhood experiences, and that " I never converted in the accepted sense.

In 1938, The Christian leader attributed " the religion of Jesus, not a religion about Jesus " to Unitarians, though the phrase was used earlier by Congregationalist Rollin Lynde Hartt in 1924. and earlier still by US President Thomas Jefferson.

Rather, he subsumed the earlier Dei Lucrii as Roman religion was syncretized with Greek religion during the time of the Roman Republic, starting around the 4th century BC.

As a Pre-Raphaelite illustrator, Holiday took reference to earlier artists and earlier styles, where allegorical figures ( often women ) depicted abstract concepts like care, hope, religion, liberty etc.

The religion of Ancient Greece was a form of nature worship that grew out of the beliefs of earlier cultures.

The controversy was reinforced further by the publication of The White Goddess by Robert Graves ( 1948 ) and his later analysis of classical Greek mythology and the vestiges of earlier myths that had been rewritten after a profound change in the religion of Greek civilization that occurred within its very early historical times.

In the earlier historiography, the example of predestination by Laima was used to judge the Lithuanian religion as fatalistic.

A relic from the earlier laws of Denmark-Norway, Paragraph 2 originally read, " The Evangelical-Lutheran religion remains the public religion of the State.

Despite his Protestant creed, Albert was greatly aided by his elder brother George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, who had already earlier established Protestant religion in his territories of Franconia and Upper Silesia.

Wallinger's later work appears to have largely turned away from his earlier preoccupations, instead apparently focusing on religion and death and the influence of William Blake.

By the 11th century, however, an organized religious tradition, styling itself Bon and claiming continuity with the earlier, pre-Buddhist religion, appeared in central Tibet.

The Qur ' an is replete with references to earlier religious figures from the Jewish and Christian traditions, and advocates the view that Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mary and other holy beings were always Muslims, and that Islam is at the core of non-pagan religion.

The questions which lived in the earlier and more formative period of his life concerned mainly the idea of the church, the historical interpretation of the documents which described the persons who had created the Christian religion, especially the person and work of its founder ; but those most alive in his later and maturer time chiefly related to the philosophy of religion and ethics.

Faulkner's low-class characters had but few counterparts in earlier Southern novels dealing with plantation life.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

His earlier love for literature and history remained with him for his entire life.

and the hilarious picture of social life in an earlier day called `` City Quadrille '' are all just as good as one remembers them to have been, and they are welcome back.

The cold lingered, making sleep difficult that night, and he remained in bed still the next morning, now unable to keep from thinking about the inexplicable sight of burning metal, the wretched sound, the unbearable feeling of having been to a remote Tokyo temple at some earlier time in his life.

Little is known of his life, however it is clear that Alan entered the schools no earlier than the late 1140s ; first attending the school at Paris, and then at Chartres.

The Bronx's gritty urban life had worked its way into the movies even earlier, with depictions of the " Bronx cheer ", a loud flatulent-like sound of disapproval, allegedly first made by New York Yankees fans.

He argues that the power ballad broke into the mainstream of American consciousness in 1976 as FM radio gave a new lease of life to earlier songs like Led Zeppelin's " Stairway to Heaven " ( 1971 ), Aerosmith's " Dream On " ( 1973 ), and Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Free Bird " ( 1974 ).

Even earlier I would take my coffee at Martin's, at 54th Street – now, alas, vanished – where I would see creatures of the night life before they disappeared with the

Modern oxygen breathing animals would have been biochemically impossible until earlier photosynthetic life transformed Earth's atmosphere.

As a result, Pissarro went back to his earlier themes by painting the life of country people, which he had done in Venezuela in his youth.

It deals with a man named Charles Boatman, who mysteriously returns to Vietnam, where he had been a soldier earlier in his life, and his children, Ada and Jon, who also go to Vietnam to search for him.

No personal denunciation was made of Erasmus during his lifetime, however, and he took pains to put distance in later life with these earlier episodes by condemning sodomy in his works, and praising sexual desire in the context of marriage between men and women.

As the person experiencing a Dissociative Fugue may have recently suffered the reappearance of an event or person representing an earlier life trauma, the emergence of an armoring or defensive personality seems to be for some, a logical apprehension of the situation.

Since there are many stars older than the Sun, or since intelligent life might have evolved earlier elsewhere, the question then becomes why the galaxy has not been colonized already.

It superseded the earlier Geiger tube because of its much longer life and lower operating voltage, typically 400-600 volts.

This horror-of-Armageddon film about zombies blends psychological insights with gore, it moved the genre even further away from the gothic horror trends of earlier eras and brought horror into everyday life.

It is in a context attributed to the 5th century that the first mention of an image of Mary painted from life appears, though earlier paintings on cave walls bear resemblance to modern icons of Mary.

During the same month the entire government resigned, accepting blame for the loss of life during the protests earlier in the year.

Nasrallah also reiterated his earlier calls for the destruction of Israel saying " To this enemy we say again: There is no place for you here and there is no life for you among us.

On 4 August 1933, the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen " the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life ", trundling across the road toward the Loch carrying " an animal " in its mouth.

A fear exists that nanomechanical robots, if achieved, and if designed to self-replicate using naturally occurring materials ( a difficult task ), could consume the entire planet in their hunger for raw materials, or simply crowd out natural life, out-competing it for energy ( as happened historically when blue-green algae appeared and outcompeted earlier life forms ).

Shortly after the Norman Conquest, Goscelin wrote a life of Mellitus, the first of several to appear around that time, but none contain any information not included in Bede's earlier works.

Following earlier anti-Stratfordians, Looney argued that the known facts of Shakespeare's life did not fit the personality he ascribed to the author of the plays.