In general, mortals with divine qualities are carefully distinguished from the deity or deities in their religion's main pantheon.

The final stage is Samādhi — Union with the All, it is considered to be the utmost level of awareness that one could possibly achieve, according to Hindu mythology, one of their main three deities, Shiva, had mastered this and thus was bestowed upon with stupendous power and control.

The two main deities found in Hoysala temple sculpture are Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu in their various forms and avatars ( incarnations ).

The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos () is a theory by Eduard Norden first published in 1913 that proposes, based on Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts 17: 23, that in addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshipped a deity they called " Agnostos Theos ", that is: the " Unknown god ", which Norden called " Un-Greek ".

In addition to his many other roles, the emperor acted as the highest priest in the land who made sacrifices to Heaven, the main deities known as the Five Powers, and the spirits ( shen 神 ) of mountains and rivers.

Maya mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles.

The Greeks later linked Set with Typhon because both were evil forces, storm deities, and sons of the Earth that attacked the main gods.

In her statues and coins, Opis is figured sitting down, as Chthonian deities normally are, and generally holds a scepter or a corn spike as her main attributes.

All pagan deities were referred to as " devils " by some Christian sorces, thus it is possible that this image is merger of several deities, first of all chtonic gods, and folklore does indeed refer to there being several devils, though occasionally there is one main entity identified.

On the other side of the peninsula, the head town of the Chontal province of Acalan ( Itzamkanac ) venerated Ixchel as one its main deities.

* A chart of the main Hindu deities ( with pictures )

# Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple: Lord Narasimha Murthy is one of the main deities in the temple.

The primary axis functioned as the main avenue of communication with deities.

Using this etymology, Venkateshwara refers to the Supreme Lord who destroys sins, and he is one of the main deities among 108 divya desams or Tirupathy ( www. srivari. com ).

On the occasion of the festival, metal idols of the deities of the main temples of Kumbakonam is carried on palanquins or chariots and taken around the different streets of the town.

They were so revered, that one of the main Mesoamerican deities, Quetzalcoatl, was represented as a feathered serpent.

Soliga people follow Hindu practices and their main deities are Madeshwara, Rangaswamy of Biligirirangana Hills ( who is considered as brother-in-law of the clan ), Karayya, Kyate Devaru and Jadeswamy.

Some practitioners use the infinity symbol as a cosmological glyph to illustrate the other main deities of the tradition, sometimes called The Infinitum.

In pre-Christian times, Dazhboh was one of the main deities in the Slavic pantheon ; birds were the sun god's chosen creations, for they were the only ones who could get near him.

The images of the deities from all temples of the village are taken on elephants to the main temple.

From the dynasties of Tang, Sung, Yuen, Ming and Ching and from the kingdom palace to the mass people, farming societies and deities ’ festivals, the lion dance was one of the main agenda the organizers must not go without.

The area around is referred as to the Chuttapalam, which generally includes other deities and the main boundary wall of the temple.

) In contrast to the Buddhists, in a Daoist temple the main deity is located in the main hall at the front, the lesser deities in the back hall and at the sides.

:" 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 ).

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

The predominant religion is Roman Catholicism, once the main faith of the population, into which many indigenous Guatemalans have incorporated traditional forms of worship.

Buddhist ( and Hindu ) temples were Mandala shaped, they are oriented according to the four cardinal points, the main gate being towards the east. Since building space and materials were scarce, Maldivians constructed their places of worship on the foundations of previous buildings.

The main opponents of The World Calendar in the 20th century were leaders of religions that worship according to a seven-day cycle.

Originally the main god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah, worship of Yahweh alone ( monotheism ) became entrenched in Judaism in the exilic and Persian periods.

The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.

By late in the Middle Kingdom, the centuries-old tomb of the First Dynasty ruler Djer, near Osiris ' main center of worship in the city of Abydos, was seen as Osiris ' tomb.

In the UK, the main historical distinction between a hamlet and a village was that the latter had a church, and so usually was the centre of worship for an ecclesiastical parish.

It is a common understanding that worship is the play's main function.

The main purpose for the existence of this group was the worship of the generative powers of nature, and the ritual and ceremonies of initiation were grossly licentious.

The Memphis triad, consisting of the creator god Ptah, his consort Sekhmet, and their son Nefertem, formed the main focus of worship in the city.

The Temple of Apis in Memphis was the main temple dedicated to the worship of the bull Apis, considered to be a living manifestation of Ptah.

M S Golwalkar, one of the main proponents of Hindutva believed that India's diversity in terms of customs, traditions and ways of worship was its uniqueness and that this diversity was not without the strong underlying cultural basis which was essentially native.

However, his main centres of worship were Qift ( Coptos ) and Akhmim ( Khemmis ).

Their worship was centered on one main god, in the Sioux language Wakan Tanka ( the Great Spirit ).

The city contains a historic main street district, several houses of worship, and a school district.

The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut (" The Most Selected of Places ") and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head.

Until the Protestant Reformation, a chapel denoted a place of worship that was either at a secondary location that was not the main responsibility of the local parish priest, or that belonged to a person or institution.

It is recognized for its singular, great frieze which is thought to be some main deity figure surrounded by either calendar signs or natural forces for agricultural worship.

Anonymity is directly related to the concept of obscurantism or pseudonymity, where an artist or group attempts to remain anonymous, for various reasons, not limited to: adding an element of mystique to themselves and / or their work, attempting to avoid what is known as the " cult of personality " or hero worship, where the charisma, good looks, wealth and / or other unrelated or mildly related aspects of the person ( s ) is the main reason for interest in their work, rather than the work itself ; also the ability to break into a field or area of interest normally dominated by males, such as James Tiptree, Jr, the famous science fiction author who was actually a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon, as seems to also be the case with JT LeRoy.

Peter Partner states in his 1987 book The Knights Templar and their Myth, " In the trial of the Templars one of their main charges was their supposed worship of a heathen idol-head known as a ' Baphomet ' (' Baphomet '

Strikingly similar to El Escorial is the layout of the Alcázar of Seville and the design of the Alhambra at Granada where, as at El Escorial, two courtyards in succession separate the main portal of the complex from a fully enclosed place of worship.

It was the official City Church of Oxford, where the Mayor and Corporation were expected to worship, between c. 1122 and 1896, when the main part of the church was demolished to make more room for traffic in the area.

The main item of worship in the temple is a laterite block, which is believed to have been used by Buddha to seek enlightenment.