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.

The cult in the Temple of Artemis ( Diana ) at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World possibly originated with the observation of a meteorite fall which was understood by contemporaries to have fallen to the earth from Zeus, the principal Greek deity.

A number of oracles and local cults attracted devotees while the central deity, the earth mother and fertility figure Ala, was venerated at shrines throughout Igboland.

Python, daughter ( or son ) of Gaia was the earth dragon of Delphi represented as a serpent and became the chthonic deity, enemy of Apollo, who slew her and possessed the oracle.

Persephone is an old chthonic deity of the agricultural communities, who received the souls of the dead into the earth, and acquired powers on the fertility of the soil under which she reigned.

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.

Like other primal entities ( such as the earth and time ), Tartarus is also a primordial force or deity.

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.

Gymir has usually been interpreted as a sea-giant, but Magnus Olsen regarded him as an earth giant in connection with his interpretation of Skírnismál in light of the hieros gamos and he has also been seen as a chthonic deity.

In Etruscan mythology, Voltumna or Veltha was the chthonic ( earth ) deity, who became the supreme god of the Etruscan pantheon, the deus Etruriae princeps, according to Varro.

Coatlicue thus has creative aspects, which may balance the skulls, hearts, hands, and claws that connect her to the earth deity Tlaltecuhtli.

Retrieved September 1, 2012, from link According to the Florentine Codex, Centeotl is the son of the earth goddess, Tlazolteotl and solar deity Piltzintecuhtli, the planet Mercury.

More generally, Itzamna was the creator of humankind, and also the father of Bacab ( Francisco Hernández ), a fourfold deity of the interior of the earth.

He may conceivably be related to the patron deity of Izamal, Kinich Kakmo ' Fire Parrot ', who was reported to descend to earth while the sun was standing in the zenith in order to consume offerings ( Cogolludo ).

In Hinduism, an avatar (; ; from Sanskrit अवत ा र in the Devanagari script, meaning " descent ") is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being ( i. e., Vishnu for Vaishnavites ) and is mostly translated into English as " incarnation ," but more accurately as " appearance " or " manifestation ".

In Roman mythology, Saturn was an agricultural deity who reigned over the world in the Golden Age, when humans enjoyed the spontaneous bounty of the earth without labor in a state of social egalitarianism.

They bathed early, and those with means sacrificed a suckling pig, a traditional offering to an earth deity.

For, the whole universe consisting of moisture, and animals being continually generated therein, the deity above-mentioned took off his own head: upon which the other gods mixed the blood, as it gushed out, with the earth ; and from thence were formed men.

Traditional Dagaaba communities are based on the " Yir " subclan or household group, a series of which are clustered into the " Tengan ", an earth deity shrine area.

Other priestly / elder roles within the tendaalun include the suo sob who performs ritual animal slaughter to the earth deity, the zongmogre who

The deity sent the three chiefs back to the earth with a buffalo to help them till the land.

It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other names ; that which the crustaceans of Yuggoth worship as the Beyond-One, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable Sign ...

Then, in the landmark storyline The Horned God, Sláine united the tribes of the earth goddess against Slough Feg and his allies, while his personal devotion to the goddess led to him becoming a new incarnation of the Horned God Carnun ( based on the Gaulish deity Cernunnos ).

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

Today's earthquakes are most numerous in belts where the earth's restlessness is presently concentrated, but scars of the past show that there is no part of the earth that has not had them.

It was nine o'clock in the morning: the hour which, like a spade turning clods of earth, exposed to the day a myriad of busy creatures that had lain dormant in the quiet night.

There are a number of reasons why the Eighteenth Century designer had to develop `` down to earth '' designs -- or go out of business.

For ' God had not rained ', says the Scripture, before man was made, and there was no man to till the earth.

but if he did not, he would become mortal, melting into earth, whence his frame had been taken ''.

She had come to make her peace with the past, and of that past this ancient of the earth was only a kind of shadow.

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

In the homily by Timothy, Abbaton was first named Muriel, and had been given the task by God of collecting the earth which would be used in the creation of Adam.

" 65: 17 The author of Revelation has a corresponding vision: " I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.

John Perry had written an 1895 paper proposing that the earth's interior was fluid, and disagreeing with Lord Kelvin on the age of the earth.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

Anton Denikin's investigation discovered corpses whose lungs, throats, and mouths had been packed with earth.

Robert Graves ( relying on the work of Georges Dumezil argued for tracing the centaurs back to the Indian gandharva ), speculated that the centaurs were a dimly remembered, pre-Hellenic fraternal earth cult who had the horse as a totem.

Eusebius claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that Hadrian had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his own temple on top, due to his hatred for Christianity.

Delphi would have been a renowned city whether or not it hosted these games ; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the " omphalos " ( navel ) of the earth, in other words, the center of the world.

:" We do not believe that he ever had a church on earth without revealing himself to that church: consequently, there were apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, in the same.

Loki's wife Sigyn stood by him with a bowl to catch the poison, but whenever she had to empty the bowl the poison dripped on Loki's face, forcing him to jerk his head away and thrash against his bonds, which caused the earth to tremble.