She introduced herself in the language of the Rig-Veda, saying she was the form of the supreme female aspect of Brahman ( the male aspect being Shiva ) who had created all the gods.

He saw the gods of the Rig-Veda as active forces of nature, only partly personified as imagined supernatural persons.

However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

After she partakes, she and Eros are wed as gods.

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to Theyyam gods, despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Theyyam deities are propitiated through the cock sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.

A central ritual of Ásatrú is the sumbel, a drinking-ritual in which a drinking horn full of mead or ale is passed around and a series of toasts are made, usually to gods, ancestors, and / or heroes of the religion.

Adam also presents idolatry, human sacrifice as religious practice: For all their gods there are appointed priests to offer sacrifices for the people.

Whereas other nations have soothsayers and diviners who attempt to discover the will of their gods, according to Heschel the Hebrew prophets are characterized by their experience of what he calls theotropism — God turning towards humanity.

According to Grímnismál, the hall is the greatest of buildings and contains 540 rooms, located in Asgard, as are all the dwellings of the gods, in the kingdom of Þrúðheimr ( or Þrúðvangar according to Gylfaginning and Ynglinga saga ).

Loki then gives a greeting to all gods and goddesses who are in the hall save to Bragi.

The kings of Israel are uniformly evil, allowing gods other than Yahweh to be worshiped, and eventually God brings about the destruction of the kingdom.

The names are indeed unattested in Persian texts as gods, however the Talmud ( Sanhedrin 61b ) and Rashi both record a practice of deifying Haman and Josephus speaks of him being worshipped.

However, Israel has been unfaithful to God by following other gods and breaking the commandments which are the terms of the covenant, hence Israel is symbolized by a harlot who violates the obligations of marriage to her husband.

:"" There are there ," he said, " many great and powerful gods, and in former time a church was built there, and there are many Christians there who worship Christ --"" ( Chapter XIX )

:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).

Charles H. Long writes, " The beings referred to in the myth -- gods, animals, plants -- are forms of power grasped existentially.

Medhbh, however, attacks and wounds Corum, having been told by the being the Dagdah that their world must be free of all gods and demi-gods if they are to flourish as a people.

Divine representations of the Cernunnos type are exceptions to the often-expressed view that the Celts only began to picture their gods in human form after the Roman conquest of Gaul.

Although ditheism / bitheism imply moral dualism, they are not equivalent: ditheism / bitheism implies ( at least ) two gods, while moral dualism does not imply any-theism ( theos = god ) whatsoever.

In certain instances, individual humans are elevated to divine status without becoming actual gods: the eight immortals of taoism, for instance.

Prayers or propitiations are often offered to specific gods of pantheisms to garner favorable interventions in particular enterprises: e. g. safe journeys, success in war, or a season of bountiful crops.

The writers mostly criticized pagan works of art for pointing to false gods, thus encouraging idolatry.

Aztec gods are mostly mentioned in the codex Borgia, Fejérváry-Mayer, Chimalpopoca, Magliabechiano, Borbonicus, Ríos, Vaticanus, Laud, Cospi, Ixtlilxochitl, Telleriano-Remensis.

As with many nobles, the Pharaohs of Egypt emulated their gods, which were mostly androgynous throughout Africa.

Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires ( mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American / early American origin ), the Huli jing of East Asia ( including the Japanese kitsune ), and the gods, goddesses, and demons of numerous mythologies, such as the Norse Loki or the Greek Proteus.

The band's original lyrical themes focused mostly on Satanism, occultism and anti-Christian subject matter, but from Blessed Are the Sick onward, the lyrics moved toward the ancient Sumerian gods.

A maritime exchange system stretched from the west coast of Mexico to southernmost Peru, trading mostly in Spondylus, which represented rain and fertility and was considered the principal food of the gods by the people of the Inca empire.

The largest divergence from canon, however, is the addition of a range of divine magic not unlike that described in the Warhammer Fantasy or Dungeons and Dragons systems, mostly restricted to a small number of player-worshippable gods.

In the works of Homer wanax appears, in the form ánax, mostly in descriptions of Zeus ( ánax andrōn te theōn te, " king of men and of the gods ") and of very few human monarchs, most notably Agamemnon.

In Chinese folk religion it is mostly associated to temples which enshrine nature gods and patron gods.

Skullhead sang songs mostly about British pride and Nordic gods.

Aioma believes this is a sign, not from the gods, but from Uta Matu, the late king of Karolin, whose warriors Dick is responsible for having killed ( though they mostly killed each other ).

Adherents are mostly polytheists, having faith in a number of gods and goddesses, but in practice a pantheistic or " soft polytheistic " outlook is common ; the Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið defines " Asatru " as " Nordic pantheism ".

18 ; 20-21 .</ ref > These examples further show how Anaximenes like the other Milesians looked for the broader picture in nature, seeking unifying causes for diversely occurring events rather than treating each one on a case-by-case basis or attributing them to gods or a personified nature.

A similar model is found in the Homeric account of the 8th century BCE in which " Okeanos, the personified body of water surrounding the circular surface of the Earth, is the begetter of all life and possibly of all gods.

In some instances, such as Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto, kami are personified deities, similar to the gods of ancient Greece or Rome.

The natural elements were personified as gods of completely human form, and very human behaviour.

This rhetorical device addresses things which are personified ; absent people or gods.

In the Theogony of Hesiod, the three Moirai are personified, and are acting over the gods.

Some of them were closely associated with the Titan gods ( such as Calypso, Clymene, Asia, Electra ) or personified abstract concepts ( Tyche, Peitho ).

A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother of personified gods such as Hypnos ( sleep ) and Thánatos ( death ).

The gods Odin, Vili, and Vé fashioned the Earth ( elsewhere personified as a goddess ; Jörð ) from his flesh, from his blood the ocean, from his bones the hills, from his hair the trees, from his brains the clouds, from his skull the heavens, and from his eyebrows the middle realm in which mankind lives, Midgard.

Jupiter, the most powerful of all gods and " the fount of the auspices upon which the relationship of the city with the gods rested ", consistently personified the divine authority of Rome's highest offices, internal organization and external relations.

Most Southern Athabascan “ gods ” are personified natural forces that run through the universe.

However, the failings of past fallen civilizations are remembered and personified as an anti-trinity of evil gods ( the " three Rogues "): Dobeis, god of money and greed ; Pill, god of theft and violence ; and Machna, god of science and soulless machinery.

The word is often personified in poetry, as Simonides does: " Even the gods don ’ t fight against ananke ".

The Egyptians viewed their gods not as spirits but as intelligences that could be personified in a body.

The word ( aithēr ) in Homeric Greek means " pure, fresh air " or " clear sky ", imagined in Greek mythology to be the pure essence where the gods lived and which they breathed, analogous to the air breathed by mortals ( also personified as a deity, Aether, the son of Erebus and Nyx ).

These include the names of the Olympian gods, personified deities, and many words that describe abstract concepts.

They deal with personified animals, elaborate tricks, the participation of the gods in human affairs, and the origin of the universe.