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.

She was beloved by two gods, Hermes and Apollo, and boasted that she was prettier than Artemis because she made two gods fall in love with her at once.

This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made.

The sacrifices made to Agni go to the deities because Agni is a messenger from and to the other gods.

*** The Classic of Poetry is made up of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs, 74 minor festal songs, traditionally sung at court festivities, 31 major festal songs, sung at more solemn court ceremonies, and 40 hymns and eulogies, sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.

In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.

Upon landing, a sacrifice is made to the gods.

Anthropomorphic kites made from cloth and wood were used in religious ceremonies to send prayers to the gods.

Each question made to High, Just-As-High, and Third is about an aspect of the Norse mythology or its gods, and also about the creation and destruction of the world ( Ragnarök ).

This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made.

In addition to seeing it as the most fundamental of the four elements and the one that is quantified and determines the quantity ( logos ) of the other three, he presents fire as the cosmos, which was not made by any of the gods or men, but " was and is and ever shall be ever-living fire.

As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus.

Upon seeing the skin, Regin and Hreidmar " seized them and made them ransom their lives " in exchange for filling the otterskin bag the gods had made with gold and covering the exterior of the bag with red gold.

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.

This was the ' good ' king Minos, and he was held in such esteem by the Olympian gods that, after he died, he was made one of the three ' Judges of the Dead ', alongside his brother Rhadamanthys and half-brother Aeacus.

Besides mythological gods, many deities made up by Marvel writers exist as well, such as the Dark Gods, enemies of the Asgardians.

Augustine relates to that: On this account there is no True God of souls, save One: but one soul by means of many false gods may commit fornication, but not be made fruitful.

It is made of violet-blue glass, and surrounded with a single continuous white glass cameo depicting seven figures ( humans and gods ).

What is known for certain is that the king alone possessed the right to the auspice on behalf of Rome as its chief augur, and no public business could be performed without the will of the gods made known through auspices.

Members of this species appeared human and when having personal contacts with the descendants of the humans they made, they previously misinformed ( on purpose ) early humanity that they were angels, cherubim or gods.

In ancient Greek religion, this was a way the gods made some physically immortal, including such figures as Cleitus, Ganymede, Menelaus, and Tithonus.

No ; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions.

The first is an otherwise obscure incident of the Trojan War, the " Quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles "; the second is the amusing tale of a love affair between two Olympian gods, Ares and Aphrodite.

Washington is depicted surrounded by 13 maidens in an inner ring with many Greek and Roman gods and goddesses below him in a second ring.

The first toast was to be drunk to Odin " for victory and power to the king ", the second to the gods Njörðr and Freyr " for good harvests and for peace ", and thirdly a beaker was to be drunk to the king himself.

At the end of the second milemnium BC, when the Mycenean city-state collapsed, it seems that the Greek thought was gradually released from the idea that each man was a servant to the gods, and sought a " moral purpose ".

A second clan of gods, the Vanir, is also mentioned in Norse mythology: the god Njord and his children, Freyr and Freyja, are the most prominent Vanir gods who join the Æsir as hostages after a war between Æsir and Vanir.

There were two forms of this title, the first had the names of other gods, and the second later one which was more ' singular ' and referred only to the Aten himself.

" Therefore when Antigone goes to bury her brother the " second " time, she is really going for the first time, and is not aware that the gods buried her brother already.

* One of three demon gods in the game Shadow Hearts Covenant ; also the second most powerful transformation in both Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts Covenant

Cicero defined aequitas as " tripartite ": the first, he said, pertained to the gods above ( ad superos deos ) and is equivalent to pietas, religious obligation ; the second, to the Manes, the underworld spirits or spirits of the dead, and was sanctitas, that which is sacred ; and the third pertaining to human beings ( homines ) was iustitia, " justice ".

The first gods of these pairs would incarnate the violent, nocturnal, mysterious aspect of sovereignty while the second ones would reflect its reassuring, daylight and legalistic aspect.

After the first occurrence of this refrain the Fimbulvetr is related ; the second occurrence is succeeded by the invasion of Jötnar ( giants ) in the world of gods ; after the last occurrence, the rise of a new and better world is described.

He also caused the Great Flood after the second generation of humans angered the gods.

Ra, the sun god, was the second to rule the world, according to the reign of the gods.

< blockquote class =" toccolours " style =" float: none ; padding: 10px 15px 10px 15px ; display: table ;"> “… second class of gods who may be called abstract is afforded by the agent gods, such as Dhatr, whose name expresses a function which they perform, so that they can be called functional gods.

Together with the sun, it appeared on Akkadian seals as early as 2300 BC and from at least the second millennium BC it was the symbol of the Mesopotamian Moon gods Nanna in Sumer and Sin in Babylonia, Sin being the " Lamp of Heaven and Earth ".

The second is Theurgy, divine magic reliant upon an alliance with divine spirits ( i. e. angels, archangels, gods ).

One novel concept explored in the second and third books of the series, is that Dira, the goddess of love and beauty in the pantheon of the Telnarian empire, is also the goddess of slave-girls, and herself enslaved among the gods.

According to legendary history, most of Rome's religious institutions could be traced to its founders, particularly Numa Pompilius, the Sabine second king of Rome, who negotiated directly with the gods.

According to legendary history, most of Rome's religious institutions could be traced to its founders, particularly Numa Pompilius, the Sabine second king of Rome, who negotiated directly with the gods.

* Still in the second century, Justin Martyr ( about 100 — 165 ) insisted that in the beginning men " were made like God, free from suffering and death ," and that they are thus " deemed worthy of becoming gods and of having power to become sons of the highest.

The first note blown upon the Horn will take Erik and his crew to Asgard, the second will awaken the gods, and the third will bring the crew home.