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However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.
She begs the moon god Nanna to intercede for her because the city of Uruk, under the ruler Lugalanne, has rebelled against Sargon.
Also, there was an ancient statue, representing the god in chains, to indicate that the martial spirit and victory were never to leave the city of Sparta.
Just east of Sparta stood an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.
Temples were still being dedicated to the national god Ashur in his home city and in Harran during the 4th century AD, indicating an Assyrian identity was still strong.
Artemis may have been represented as a supporter of Troy because her brother Apollo was the patron god of the city and she herself was widely worshipped in western Anatolia in historical times.
He alienated the powerful priests of Marduk, the official god of Babylon, by taking up the worship of Sin, the god of Harran ( a city in northern Mesopotamia ), absenting himself for long periods from the city and neglecting crucial ceremonies.
The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.
In ancient Greece, the Acropolis ( literally: " peak of the city "), placed on a commanding eminence, was important in the life of the people, serving as a refuge and stronghold in peril and containing military and food supplies, the shrine of the god and a royal palace.
For instance, the god Monthu was the original patron of the city of Thebes.
He was originally patron god of the city of Eridu, but later the influence of his cult spread throughout Mesopotamia and to the Canaanites, Hittites and Hurrians.
In Southern Iraq each city had a patron god, worshipped in a massive central temple called a ziggurat, and was ruled by a priest-king ( ishakku ).
On arriving in Attica, he asked Zeus to punish the city, and the god struck it with plague and hunger.
Osiris ' soul, or rather his Ba, was occasionally worshipped in its own right, almost as if it were a distinct god, especially in the Delta city of Mendes.
They were believed to be dwelling places for the gods and each city had its own patron god.
After his death at the age of 54, Romulus was deified as the war god Quirinus and served not only as one of the three major gods of Rome but also as the deified likeness of the city of Rome.
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.
The city's patron deity was Nanna ( in Akkadian Sin ), the Sumerian and Akkadian ( Assyrian-Babylonian ) moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name, being the classical Sumerian spelling of LAK-32. UNUG < sup > KI </ sup >, literally " the abode ( UNUG ) of Nanna ( LAK-32 )".
Yahweh was the god of the northern kingdom of Israel by at least the early 9th century, and this is confirmed by an inscription from Kuntillet Ajrud which refers to Yahweh of Samaria, probably meaning the kingdom rather than the city.
One appears to be divinities of an indigenous nature: Catha and Usil, the sun ; Tivr, the moon ; Selvans, a civil god ; Turan, the goddess of love ; Laran, the god of war ; Leinth, the goddess of death ; Maris ; Thalna ; Turms ; and the ever-popular Fufluns, whose name is related in some unknown way to the city of Populonia and the populus Romanus.
The second myth features Saturn, who eviscerated his father Uranus, god of the sky, with a sickle which, falling into the sea, created the city.

god and was
Each aspired to be a god in human form, but with each it was a different kind of god.
At dinner one night, when he was fourteen, Richard announced, `` There is only one god ''.
`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.
Fudo, the god of wisdom, was also thought of as the Japanese version of Acala.
As the patron of Delphi ( Pythian Apollo ), Apollo was an oracular godthe prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.
Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague.
Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.
However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.
As sun-god and god of light, Apollo was also known by the epithets Aegletes ( ; Αἰγλήτης, Aiglētēs, from αἴγλη, " light of the sun "), Helius ( ; Ἥλιος, Helios, literally " sun "), Phanaeus ( ; Φαναῖος, Phanaios, literally " giving or bringing light "), and Lyceus ( ; Λύκειος, Lukeios, from Proto-Greek * λύκη, " light ").
As a god of archery, Apollo was known as Aphetor ( ; Ἀφήτωρ, Aphētōr, from ὰφίημι, " to let loose ") or Aphetorus ( ; Ἀφητόρος, Aphētoros, of the same origin ), Argyrotoxus ( ; Ἀργυρότοξος, Argurotoxos, literally " with silver bow "), Hecaërgus ( ; Ἑκάεργος, Hekaergos, literally " far-shooting "), and Hecebolus ( ; Ἑκηβόλος, Hekēbolos, literally " far-shooting ").
In the traditionally Celtic lands he was most often seen as a healing and sun god.
Apollo Belenus was a healing and sun god.
Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo.
An epithet for Apollo at Alesia, where he was worshipped as god of healing and, possibly, of physicians.
He was a god of healing, especially of the eyes.
In archaic Greece he was the prophet, the oracular god who in older times was connected with " healing ".
In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.
The magicians were also called " seer-doctors " ( ιατρομάντεις ), and they used an ecstatic prophetic art which was used exactly by the god Apollo at the oracles.
It was in this way that Apollo had become recognised as the god of music.

god and originally
Cunomaglus himself may originally have been an independent healing god.
Here we have an apotropaic situation, where a god originally bringing the plague was invoked to end it.
Whether Bragi the god originally arose as a deified version of Bragi Boddason was much debated in the 19th century, especially by the German scholars Eugen Mogk and Sophus Bugge.
The name " mountain house " suggests a lofty structure and was perhaps the designation originally of the staged tower at Nippur, built in imitation of a mountain, with the sacred shrine of the god on the top.
Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.
** Phlya, near Koropi, in the mysteries of Phlya: These have very old roots, and were probably originally dedicated to Demeter Anesidora, Kore, and Zeus-Ktesios, who was the god of the underground stored corn.
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.
The Christian writer Justin Martyr identified him as Lupercus (" he who wards off the wolf "), the protector of cattle, following Livy, who named his aspect of Inuus as the god who was originally worshiped at the Lupercalia, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple, February 15, when his priests ( Luperci ) wore goat-skins and hit onlookers with goat-skin belts.
Wissowa opines that the relationship existed in the concept of creative abundance through which the supposedly-separate Liber might have been connected to the Greek god Dionysos, although both deities might not have been originally related to viticulture.
The names, originally spelled Phobus and Deimus respectively, were suggested by Henry Madan ( 1838 – 1901 ), Science Master of Eton, based on Book XV of the Iliad, in which the god Ares summons Dread ( Deimos ) and Fear ( Phobos ).
Another god, known as Tecuciztecatl, originally boasted that he would become the sun but was fearful of the pain.
The puzzle was originally popularized by The Eighth Book Of Tan, a fictitious history of Tangram, which claimed that the game was invented 4, 000 years prior by a god named Tan.
Begawan is a name given to Bruneian monarchs who have abdicated, originally coming from the Sanskrit word for " god ": भगव ा न bhagavān.
Either " Baʿal " was here a title for El, or the covenant of Shechem perhaps originally did not involve El at all, but some other god who bore the title Baʿal.
They chose Set, originally Upper Egypt's chief god, the god of foreigners and the god they found most similar to their own chief god, as their patron, and so Set became worshiped as the chief god once again.
She was originally worshiped in Crete, where according to myth, she saved the new-born Zeus from being devoured by Cronus, by substituting a stone for the infant god and entrusting him to the care of her attendants, the Curetes.
The Finnish word for thunder, Ukkonen, is the diminutive form of the name Ukko .< ref group =" note "> Compare to English thunder (< Old English þunor ) and German donner (< Old High German donar ) both derived from Proto-Germanic * þunraz and originally synonymic with appellations of the thunder god .</ ref > Ukko is often equated with Perkele, and some hold Perkele to be the original personal name of Ukko with the name Ukko being an euphemism.
According to Lowell K. Handy, the Nehushtan was originally the symbol of a minor god of snakebite-cure within the Temple.

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