In later writers, the word, usually spelled " Paean ", becomes a mere epithet of Apollo in his capacity as a god of healing.

From it appeared the bisexual god Phanes, identified by the Orphics as Eros, who becomes the creator of the world.

The fecundating power of sacred fire is testified in Latin mythology in one version of the birth of Romulus, that of the birth of king Servius Tullius ( in which his mother Ocresia becomes pregnant after sitting upon a phallus that appeared among the ashes of the ara of god Vulcanus, by order of Tanaquil wife of king Tarquinius Priscus ) and that of the birth of Caeculus, the founder of Praeneste.

Thus, the god of kingship becomes the embodiment of his kingdom.

Dylan becomes a sea god and is accidentally murdered by his uncle, the metalsmith Govannon, but his brother is later weaned by Uncle Gwydion here.

As George ( 2008 ) notes, " in the course of time [...], it is no longer the gods guarding the Ṛta, the cosmic moral order, but the sacrifice becomes the ' protector of the order '", and " the one who sacrifices becomes the ' mortal hero ' who can even command a great god like Agni through the effectiveness of the sacrifice ".

Buddhists believe that Clinging to the view that one becomes pure simply through performing ritual or rigid moralism, such as praying to a god for deliverance, slaughtering animals for sacrifice, ablutions, etc.

He later becomes revered as a pagan god on Earth.

This job is a very low position, and when he realises that he is put into such a low position and not considered a full-fledged god, he becomes very angry.

After a brief stay in a city jail, Caligula proclaims himself a god and becomes determined to destroy the senatorial class, which he has come to loathe.

The addition of Nergal represents the harmonizing tendency to unite with Ereshkigal as the queen of the netherworld to the god who, in his character as god of war and of pestilence, conveys the living to Irkalla and thus becomes the one who presides over the dead.

His is beauty, true beauty, for it is God, and that man becomes a god, since God wills it.

becomes a god while still moving about in the flesh.

Opening a small costume shop in Sunnydale's business district around October 1997, Ethan curses his costumes in the name of the Roman god Janus, so that the wearer becomes whatever they are dressed as.

His is beauty, true beauty, for it is God, and that man becomes a god, since God wills it.

becomes a god while still moving about in the flesh.

However, a god never becomes angry about that.

In " Godfellas ", he becomes a god of a microscopic alien race ( the Shrimpkins ) and abuses his title by commanding them to produce beer for him.

Some Chinese communities do practise the custom of matching a child ( the " god son 乾兒子 / daughter 乾女兒 ") with a relative or family friend ( who becomes the " god mother 乾媽 / father 乾爹 ").

Bender is accidentally cast adrift in space and unwittingly becomes a god figure to a race of tiny people ( Shrimpkins ) living on an asteroid that impacts his body.

Dominion effects are adjusted by using design points to ' tilt ' 6 scales ( graphically 6 balance scales ), which represent the nature of the god which becomes manifest in territory under his dominion.

The ideal of the kouros ( a beardless, athletic youth ), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more.

When Alexander was trying to show that he is divine so that the Greeks and Macedonians would perform proskynesis to him, Anaxarchus said that Alexander could " more justly be considered a god than Dionysus or Heracles " ( Arrian, 104 )

Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon.

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

* Apostasy: the great tragedy of Israel's history, meaning the destruction of the kingdom and the Temple, is due to the failure of the people, but more especially the kings, to worship Yahweh alone ( Yahweh being the god of Israel ).

Conversely, in more recent times, Russian existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov viewed Job as the embodiment of the battle between reason ( which offers general and seemingly comforting explanations for complex events ) and faith in a personal god, and one man's desperate cry for him.

The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix ( which may mean " King of the Boii " or, more literally, " King of Strikers "), Gaesorix ( which means " Spear King "), and Lugius ( which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus ), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic ( compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix ).

After a debate between the two deceased bards, the god brings Aeschylus back to life as more useful to Athens on account of his wisdom, rejecting Euripides as merely clever.

Over the course of the Old Kingdom ( c. 2686 – 2181 BC ), however, he came to be more closely associated with the daily rebirth of the sun god Ra and with the underworld ruler Osiris as those deities grew more important.

Their societies are matriarchal, and they worship a god of darkness called Kyger Litor, mother of the Trolls, and the more violent and sinister Zorak Zoran.

He appears in folklore as a trickster, and in County Mayo thunderstorms were referred to as battles between Lugh and Balor, so he is sometimes considered a storm god: Alexei Kondratiev notes his epithet lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker ") and concludes that " if his name has any relation to ' light ' it more properly means ' lightning-flash ' ( as in Breton luc ' h and Cornish lughes )".

In other words, Nyaya says that the polytheist would have to give elaborate proofs for the existence and origin of his several celestial spirits, none of which would be logical, and that it is more logical to assume one eternal, omniscient god.

Nowhere has the essence of the myth been expressed more succinctly than in the Heroides attributed to Ovid, where Pasiphaë's daughter complains of the curse of her unrequited love: " the bull's form disguised the god, Pasiphaë, my mother, a victim of the deluded bull, brought forth in travail her reproach and burden.

This has led to theories about the relation of the two, including that Njörðr may have once been a hermaphroditic god or, generally considered more likely, that the name may indicate an otherwise unattested divine brother and sister pair such as Freyr and Freyja.

One of the " most important principles " of the Pagan movement is polytheism, the belief in, and veneration of, more than one god and / or goddess.

The symbolism of the flail is more uncertain with shepherds whip, fly-whisk, or association with the god Andjety of the ninth nome of Lower Egypt proposed.

This practise is more common in Australia and on the island of Timor, where the tribal leaders are seen as direct heirs to the sun god.

Discovering that Sha ' uri has some experience with drawn symbols, Jackson indicates to her that he wants to see more signs, and with her help leaves the city and learns from hieroglyphs in the people's hidden catacombs how the Egyptian god Ra was actually an alien lifeform who had abandoned his dying world to seek a cure for his own mortality, and had finally come to earth, where he " possessed " the body of one human youth like a parasite, and enslaved humans with his advanced technology.

Prometheus asked Zeus ' opinion on which offering pile he found more desirable, hoping to trick the god into selecting the less desirable portion.

Triskaidekaphobia may have also affected the Vikings — it is believed that Loki in the Norse pantheon was the 13th god — more specifically, Loki was believed to have engineered the murder of Balder, and was the 13th guest to arrive at the funeral.

Although Lugus may originally have been a deity of light or the sun ( though this is disputed ), similar to the Roman Apollo, his importance as a god of trade made him more comparable to Mercury, and Apollo was instead equated with the Celtic deity Belenus.

A later myth, when the cult of Osiris gained more authority, tells the story of Anubis, the god of the underworld.

Similarly, he points out that religions which give little importance to the concept of god exist, such as Buddhism, where the Four Noble Truths is much more important than any individual deity.

The name of the town means Thor's Harbour, and it may be named after the god of thunder and lightning in Norse mythology ; thus the town's coat of arms shows Thor's hammer Mjolnir, but more likely it was named after the first settler whose name then was Thor.