It is considered that he created also the New York kouros, which is the oldest fully preserved statue of Kouros type, and seems to be the incarnation of the god himself.

Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities ; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war, as she was attracted to his violent nature.

Attempting to decide is further confused because Hermóðr also seems to be sometimes the name of a god and sometimes the name of a hero.

Yahweh, later the national god of both Israel and Judah seems to have originated in Edom and Midian in southern Canaan, and may have been brought north to Israel by the Kenites and Midianites at an early stage.

Opponents of this view observe that the religion of the Torah seems different to Atenism in everything except the central feature of devotion to a single god, although this has been countered by a variety of arguments, e. g. pointing out the similarities between the Hymn to Aten and Psalm 104.

One of Sappho's poems ( fragment 31 ) was famously translated by the 1st century BC Roman poet Catullus in his " Ille mi par esse deo videtur " (" He seems to me to be equal to a god ") ( Catullus 51 ).

The judge Gideon was also called Jerubaʿal, a name which seems to mean ' Baʿal strives ', though the Yahwists ' explanation in is that the theophoric name was given to mock the god Baʿal, whose shrine Gideon had destroyed, the intention being to imply: " Let Baʿal strive as much as he can ... it will come to nothing.

The tithe seems to have been considered the rent due to the god for his land.

Thor's marriage with Sif of the golden hair, about which we hear little in the myths, seems to be a memory of the ancient symbol of divine marriage between sky god and earth goddess, when he comes to earth in the thunderstorm and the storm brings the rain which makes the fields fertile.

Melicertes being Phoenician, Palaemon also has been explained as the " burning lord " ( Baal-haman ), but there seems little in common between a god of the sea and a god of fire.

The name " Orcus " seems to have been given to his evil and punishing side, as the god who tormented evildoers in the afterlife.

The story may be the poet's invention, as seems to be the threatened rape of the virginal and venerable Vesta by the phallic god Priapus narrated later in Book 6 ( June ).

Portrayed in hymns and myths as a god of war and pestilence, Nergal seems to represent the sun of noontime and of the summer solstice that brings destruction, high summer being the dead season in the Mesopotamian annual cycle.

It seems the temple had been dedicated because the statue of the god which stood on the roof of the temple of Iupiter Capitolinus had been struck by a lightningbolt.

Ler, like his Welsh counterpart, is a god of the sea, though in the case of the Gaelic myths his son Manannán mac Lir seems to take over his position and so features more prominently.

The god Malak-bel of Palmyra is an example, though in the later period from which most of our information comes he seems to have become very much a sun god which Marduk was not.

Iah also seems to have assumed the lunar aspect of Thoth, god of knowledge, writing and calculation ; the segments of the moon were used as fractional symbols in writing.

Portunus seems to be a god closely related to Janus, if with a specifically restricted area of competence, in that he presides over doorways and harbours and shares with Janus his two symbols, the key and the stick.

In the scene with St. Philip expelling a monster from the temple, the statue of the pagan god is a living figure which seems to dare the Christian saint.

For it is this which seems to me to be god and to have reached everything and to arrange everything and to be in everything.

Because of his development of the concept of a " one god greatest among gods and men " that is abstract, universal, unchanging, immobile and always present, Xenophanes is often seen as one of the first monotheists, in the Western philosophy of religion, although the quotation that seems to point to Xenophanes's monotheism also refers to multiple " gods " who the supreme God is greater than.

Each aspired to be a god in human form, but with each it was a different kind of god.

It will be painful, but interesting, to see what kind of a god these people will create or what strong convictions they will develop.

Altruism is a motivation to provide something of value to a party who must be anyone but oneself, while duty focuses on a moral obligation towards a specific individual ( e. g., a god, a king ), or collective ( e. g., a government ).

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

The improvement of the old Anatolian god, and his elevation to an intellectual sphere, may be considered an achievement of the Greek people.

The Egyptian god Set is said, by some, to have the head of an aardvark or to be part aardvark.

The goddess adapted but could very easily be seen as a god.

Opinions abound on Abraxas, who in recent centuries has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.

In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos ( not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus ).

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 )

Absalon, with only Bishop Sweyn of Aarhus, and twelve " housecarls " thereupon disembarked, passed between a double row of Wendish warriors, 6000 strong, along the narrow path winding among the morasses, to the gates of the fortress, and, proceeding to the temple of the seven-headed god Rugievit, caused the idol to be hewn down, dragged forth and burnt.

There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).

But the interpretation of Baldr as " the brave god " may be secondary.

In these poems Bragi could be either a god or a dead hero in Valhalla.

The story can be compared to that of a 13th century Hittite king who was forced to take the throne after a lifetime of loyalty when his life was in danger: like David, he was assisted by his god, whose divine will decided the course of events.

Even certain male deities representing regeneration and fertility were occasionally depicted with breast-like appendices, such as the river god Hapy who was considered to be responsible for the annual overflowing of the Nile.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

In this interpretative schema, the institution of the Rex Nemorensis and related ritual should be seen as related to the theme of the dying god and the kings of May.

Divination ( from Latin divinare " to foresee, to be inspired by a god ", related to divinus, divine ) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic standardized process or ritual.

Sileni is the plural ( Latin ) form of Silenus, a creature often related to the Roman wine god, Bacchus, thus represented in pictorial art as inebriated, merry revellers, who are mounted on donkeys, singing, dancing, playing flutes etc.

Henotheism is closely related to the theistic concept of monolatry, which is also the worship of one god among many.

Nuada is cognate with the British god Nodens ; Lug is a reflex of the pan-Celtic deity Lugus, the name of whom may indicate " Light "; Tuireann may be related to the Gaulish Taranis ; Ogma to Ogmios ; the Badb to Catubodua.

It is often found in association with the sun god and another mythical being called the Bison-man, which is supposedly related to the Greek constellation of Centaurus.

His name is related to the Romano-British god Maponos, whose name means " divine son "; Modron, in turn, is likely related to the Gaulish goddess Dea Matrona.

In ancient India, the oracle was known as Akashwani or Asariri ( Tamil ), literally meaning " voice from the sky " and was related to the message of god.

They were related with the god of rivers and springs ; Poseidon and especially with Artemis, the Mistress of the Animals who was the first nymph.

As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts.

The play's king ( never seen ) is only marginally related to the " Old Man of the Sea " and should not be confused with the sea god Proteus.

In Buddhism, the problem of evil, or the related problem of dukkha, is one argument against a benevolent, omnipotent creator god, identifying such a notion as attachment to a false concept.

They also have many parallels across the Celtic world: Nuada is cognate with the British god Nodens ; Lugh is a reflex of the pan-Celtic deity Lugus ; Tuireann is related to the Gaulish Taranis ; Ogma to Ogmios ; the Badb to Catubodua.

He was the brother or father of Oghma, who is probably related to the Gaulish god Ogmios ; Ogmios, depicted as an old man with a club, is one of the closest Gaulish parallels to the Dagda.

Another Gaulish god who may be related to the Dagda is Sucellus, the striker, depicted with a hammer and cup.

In related stories, the creation idea is caused by a single entity emanating or producing something by him-or herself, as in the Tibetan Buddhism concept of Adi-Buddha, the ancient Greek story of Gaia ( Mother Earth ), the Aztec goddess Coatlicue myth, the ancient Egyptian god Atum story, or the Genesis creation narrative.

Universalism broadly refers to a theological belief that all persons and creatures are related to a god or the divine and will be reconciled to ( a ) god ( Universal Salvation ).

Many of the major gods were related to Greek gods ; the primary god worshiped at the time of the arrival of Caesar was Teutates, the Gallic equivalent of Mercury.

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.