It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves, so it may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth.

High continues that, once the gods found that these three children were being brought up in the land of Jötunheimr, and when the gods " traced prophecies that from these siblings great mischief and disaster would arise for them " the gods expected a lot of trouble from the three children, partially due to the nature of the mother of the children, yet worse so due to the nature of their father.

High continues that, once the gods found that these three children are being brought up in the land of Jötunheimr, and when the gods " traced prophecies that from these siblings great mischief and disaster would arise for them " then the gods expected a lot of trouble from the three children, partially due to the nature of the mother of the children, yet worse so due to the nature of their father.

After Aaron had received golden earrings from the people, he made a golden calf and said, " These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.

" The result was a syncretistic religion, in which national groups worshiped the Hebrew god, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.

At the beginning of Skáldskaparmál, a partially euhemerized account is given of Ægir visiting the gods in Asgard and shimmering swords are brought out and used as their sole source of light as they drink.

Legend tells us that the long and arduous Trojan War, although nominally a Greek victory, brought anarchy, piracy, and ruin ; already before the Greek fleet set sail for Troy, the conflict had divided the gods as well, and this contributed to curses and acts of vengeance following many of the Greek heroes.

From Cronus, of the race of Titans, the Olympian gods have their birth, and Hera mentions twice in Iliad book XIV her intended journey " to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Oceanus, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own house.

It is also a misconception that this reversal can be brought about by a higher power ( e. g. the law, the gods, fate, or society ), but if a character ’ s downfall is brought about by an external cause, Aristotle describes this as a misadventure and not a tragedy.

According to Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Caligula " gave orders that such statues of the gods as were especially famous for their sanctity or for their artistic merit, including that of Zeus at Olympia, should be brought from Greece, in order to remove their heads and put his own in their place.

The wedding was the first celebrated on Earth to which the gods brought gifts, according to Diodorus and dined with Cadmus and his bride.

And such Christians will also show, that as in philosophy there are many who appear to be in possession of the truth, who have yet either deceived themselves by plausible arguments, or by rashly assenting to what was brought forward and discovered by others ; so also, among those souls which exist apart from bodies, both angels and demons, there are some which have been induced by plausible reasons to declare themselves gods.

The gods had pity on his widow, Laodamia, daughter of Acastus, and brought him up from Hades to see her.

However, Zeus had pity on Ixion and brought him to Olympus and introduced him at the table of the gods.

He becomes the mediator between humanity and the gods, since it is through the fire on the altar that the offering is brought into the presence of the gods.

As reported by Sahagún's informants, the midwife would say in florid language: " My son, the gods Ometecutli and Omecioatl who realm in the ninth and tenth heavens, have begotten you in this light and brought you into this world full of calamity and pain take then this water, which will protect you life, in the name of the goddess Chalchiutlicue.

According to the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, " then the sky would fall, it would fall down, it would fall down upon the earth, when the four gods, the four Bacabs, were set up, who brought about the destruction of the world.

In antiquity, Greek reports of cannibalism, ( often called anthropophagy in this context ) were related to distant non-Hellenic barbarians, or else relegated in Greek mythology to the ' primitive ' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian gods: see the explicit rejection of human sacrifice in the cannibal feast prepared for the Olympians by Tantalus of his son Pelops.

He cut Pelops up, boiled him, and served him up in a banquet for the gods.

* King Tantalus was also in Tartarus after he cut up his son Pelops, boiled him, and served him as food when he was invited to dine with the gods.

In Chrysippus, Euripides develops backstory on the curse: Laius ' " sin " was to have kidnapped Chrysippus, Pelops ' son, in order to violate him, and this caused the gods ' revenge on all his family-boy-loving having been so far an exclusive of the gods themselves, unknown to mortals.

Clotho also used her life-giving powers in the myth of Tantalus, the god who had slain and prepared his son Pelops for a dinner party with other gods.

When the other gods had found out what Tantalus had done, they put the remaining pieces of Pelops in a cauldron.

Tantalus initially held the favor of the gods, but decided to cook his own son Pelops and feed him to the gods as a test of their omniscience.

Wanting to make an offering to the Olympians, Tantalus cut Pelops into pieces and made his flesh into a stew, then served it to the gods.

Later, Zeus threw Pelops out of Olympus, angry that his father, Tantalus, had stolen the food of the gods, given it to his subjects, and revealed the secrets of the gods.

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

The same Tantalus is famed through Greek mythology by the accounts relating that he had cut up his son Pelops and served him up as food for the gods.

Atreus broke a promise to Artemis, who in turn cursed his family, which was a house or lineage descended from Pelops and from Tantalus, who had fed his own son to the gods at a dinner party.

When the gods came to see Tantalus in turn, he tested their omniscience by offering his own son Pelops to them as their meal.

The practice goes back to the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, but then it was done for the different reason — that money offered to the temple did not have the images of pagan gods on it.

" Elijah responds by throwing the charge back at Ahab, saying that it is Ahab who has troubled Israel by allowing the worship of false gods.

These events are all according to the will of the gods, who have decreed the fall of Troy, and therefore intend to tempt Achilles back into the war.

Loki tells Heimdallr to be silent, that he was fated a " hateful life ," that Heimdallr must always have a muddy back, and serve as watchman of the gods.

Loki flies off, the feather cloak whistling, away from Jötunheimr and back to the court of the gods.

O ' Neil and the resistance youths disguised as slave-workers, by suddenly overpowering and killing their overseers and retracting the metal god-masks they wore, convince the locals that their " gods " are mere mortals and, with their help, O ' Neil, Jackson, and the remaining members of the team make it back to the Stargate hoping to deactivate the bomb.

There he is said to have misbehaved and stolen ambrosia and nectar to bring it back to his people, and revealed the secrets of the gods.

Garuda promised that once he had delivered the elixir, thus fulfilling the request of the serpents, he would make it possible for Indra to regain possession of the elixir and to take it back to the gods.

But I will go, and if thy gods and thy sun go before me, I will bring back the cities to the king, my lord, from the Habiri, to show myself subject to him ; and I will expel the.

The Kojiki ( Record of Ancient Matters ) and the Nihon Shoki ( History of Japan ), both of which were compiled in the eighth century A. D., are but two outstanding examples in which iron swords and swordsmanship are dated back to the Japanese mythological age of the gods ( kami ).

In addition, the tragic hero may achieve some revelation or recognition ( anagnorisis --" knowing again " or " knowing back " or " knowing throughout ") about human fate, destiny, and the will of the gods.

Gilgamesh prays to the gods to give him back his friend.

Carpo ( Καρπώ ), Carpho or Xarpo was the one who brings food-though Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ) translates this name as " withering ") was in charge of autumn, ripening, and harvesting, as well as guarding the way to Mount Olympus and letting back the clouds surrounding the mountain if one of the gods left.

Telchines use their black magic not only to get back at the gods, but to create weapons that can harm not just immortals but mortals too.

The shattered bones were collected by Quetzalcoatl and carried back to the land of the living, where the gods transformed them into the various races of mortals.

Trinity could revert back to their original form only after she did herself on the request of gods.

Sitchin has constructed what appears to be a convincing argument, but when he gets close to single images on ancient tablets, he falls back into the literalism of " Here is an image of the gods in rockets.

A mountain was placed on his back by the other gods so that they could churn the sea and find the ancient treasures of the Vedic peoples.

When the Armenians advanced to avenge their leader, she disguised one of her lovers as Ara and spread the rumor that the gods had brought Ara back to life.

He uses quite a lot of common chords and progressions ; in fact, he has gone back to the harmony of the musical gods.

Thea leads him to a place where the other Titans sit, similarly miserable, and they discuss whether they should fight back against their conquest by the new gods ( the Olympians ).

The 536 event and ensuing famine has been suggested as an explanation for the sacrifice, by depositing hoards, of large amounts of gold by Scandinavian elites at the end of the Migration Period, possibly to appease the angry gods and get the sunlight back.

Those who argue for a pagan basis note that as far back as Babylonia, the worship of pagan gods grouped in threes, or triads, was common, and that this influence was also prevalent among the Celts, as well as in Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Within a culture, the descent groups may be considered to lead back to gods ( see mythology, religion ), or animal ancestors totems.