It centered on the Egyptians ' interaction with a multitude of deities who were believed to be present in, and in control of, the forces and elements of nature.

Many deities could be given epithets that seem to indicate that they were greater than any other god, suggesting some kind of unity beyond the multitude of natural forces.

He therefore argued that, while some individuals may have henotheistically chosen one god to worship, Egyptian religion as a whole had no notion of a divine being beyond the immediate multitude of deities.

Adler noted that it was this belief in polytheism that had allowed the " multitude " of different Pagan religions to " exist more or less in harmony ", as in enabled them to accept the existence and worship of one another's deities.

The multitude of minor deities of no mention in the scriptures have also been formed by the Janapadas i. e. the tribal masses over the centuries in a localised manner, which is true with most of the Oriental Paganism / Animism.

# The acceptance of the worship of a multitude of deities besides Allah-a view challenged by strict Islamic monotheism, which dictates that Allah has no partner in worship nor any equal ;

According to Confucianism, the worship of great deities was the affair of the state, ancestral worship is required of all, and a multitude of popular cults are tolerable.

had previously adopted one deity as royal patron and supreme state god, there had never been an attempt to exclude other deities, and the multitude of gods had been tolerated and worshipped at all times.

Some groups during the pre-Spanish conquest era believed in a single Supreme Being who created the world and everything in it, while others chose to worship a multitude of tree and forest deities ( diwatas ).

Exhibition design has as multitude of strategies, theories, and methods but two that embody much of the theory and dialogue surrounding exhibition design are the metonymy technique and the use of authentic artifacts to provide the historical narrative.

There are a multitude of processions: historical processions, religious processions, and comedic processions.

One might expect that a historical work covering nine centuries and countless different peoples would involve a multitude of testimonials from different periods.

Elsewhere around the town there are a multitude of historical sites such as the old State House ( the first stone building in Bermuda, other than fortifications, built in 1620 to house Bermuda's Parliament, and today the oldest building on the island ), the Unfinished Church, the Old Rectory, St. Peter's ( the oldest surviving Anglican and oldest continuously occupied Protestant church in the Western hemisphere ), the Tucker House, the Bermuda National Trust Museum, and the St. George's Historical Society Museum and the Featherbed Alley Printshop museum ( both in the Mitchell House ).

The crew unearthed original wooden beams from the Fort and a multitude of historical artifacts.

Oliver Stone has, in his various commentaries in the film's DVD, defended many of the most glaring historical issues by claiming that he had no time or resources to portray accurately a multitude of battles at the expense of storytelling.

It contains Colonel Light Gardens Primary School, the Colonel Light Gardens RSL, a number of sporting clubs using the name Reade Park, and a multitude of historical parks and gardens.

This constituent aspect of the movement of the multitude, in its myriad faces, is really the positive terrain of the historical construction of Empire, an antagonistic and creative positivity.

While socially evolved base level pagan ways are existing side by side and the multitude of these images cannot be attributed to the great Vedic Religion / Sanatana Dharma which is an abode of divine disposition.

Claims of Indo-Aryan migration are drawn from linguistic, genetic and even archaeological sources, as well as from a multitude of data stemming from Vedic religion, rituals, poetics as well as some aspects of social organization and chariot technology.

His exploits have earned him a multitude of enthusiasts, who celebrate him as the head deity of the parody religion kibology, centered on the humor newsgroup alt. religion. kibology.

The students created a manifesto that detailed a nonsensical ( yet internally consistent ) religion based on a multitude of invisible pink unicorns.

The ritual became strictly connected with the calendar of rural works and other factors of this kind ; witnesses of that time found a multitude of sacred objects ( they simply described them as " gods "), which were connected totally with all material life, but didn't refer to more philosophically common or abstract ideas ( in opposition to descriptions of religion in the 14th century ).

With the rise of positivistic trends in psychology over the course of the 20th century, especially the demand that all phenomena be measured, psychologists of religion developed a multitude of scales, most of them developed for use with Protestant Christians.

The rabbi dismisses these beliefs as unworthy ideas held by a dissolute and unreliable people with no fixed form of religion, or book " concerning which a multitude of people held the same opinion ".

All civil and military officers who may fail to detect Europeans clandestinely residing in the country within their jurisdiction, and propagating their religion, thereby deceiving the multitude, shall be delivered over to the Supreme Board and be subjected to a court of inquiry.

We apprehend that this culprit may have propagated the religion and deceived the multitude: or perhaps done something else which is criminal ; it is therefore incumbent on us to lay these circumstances before your majesty, and request your will, commanding, that all these four culprits, the cross and the eatechism be together delivered to the penal tribunal, and that the men be then subjected to a severe trial, and have their sentence determined.

All civil and military officers who may fail to detect Europeans clandestinely residing in the country within their jurisdiction, and propagating their religion, thereby deceiving the multitude, shall be delivered over to the Supreme Board and be subjected to a court of inquiry.

All civil and military officers who may fail to detect Europeans clandestinely residing in the country within their jurisdiction, and propagating their religion, thereby deceiving the multitude, shall be delivered over to the Supreme Board and be subjected to a court of inquiry.

Symbols are derived from a multitude of sources such as legends, history, religion, philosophy and superstition.

Writers Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri have together in their books ( Empire & Multitude ) expanded on this idea of a disunified multitude: humans coming together for shared causes, but lacking the complete sameness of the notion of ' the people '.

Nothing approaching this level of detail is available for any other organism, and the information has been used to enable a multitude of studies that would not have been possible without it.

A multitude of modes of operations have been designed to allow their repeated use in a secure way, commonly to achieve the security goals of encryption and authentication.

The code quality and general utility along with the licensing terms have led to its use in a multitude of free and open source software.

Chance, one would say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals ; a small number found themselves constructed in such a manner that the parts of the animal were able to satisfy its needs ; in another infinitely greater number, there was neither fitness nor order: all of these latter have perished.

Following this, in 1985, Daniel Schacter proposed a more general distinction between explicit ( declarative ) and implicit ( procedural ) memory With the recent advances in neuroimaging technology, there have been a multitude of findings linking specific brain areas to declarative memory.

Understandably, the new Emperor was not eager to alter this arrangement: he would have expected to rule for at least another twenty or thirty years, and urgent attention was required to address the multitude of disasters which struck during 79 and 80.

Thus, a multitude of Japanese emperors have ascended as children, as young as 6 or 8 years old.

For the next seven centuries, up to today, a veritable multitude of European monarchs have used the title of King of Jerusalem.

A mysterious interest appears to be attached to it, and now that so many precautions have been resorted to, and so much difficulty attends its inspection, the crowd is enormously enhanced, and the policemen at either end of the covered entrance have much trouble in restraining the struggling and impatient multitude.

Woodwind players ( Saxophone, Clarinet, and Flute ) have a multitude of exercises to help with tonguing techniques, finger dexterity, and tone development.

Those who speak the same language are joined to each other by a multitude of invisible bonds by nature herself, long before any human art begins ; they understand each other and have the power of continuing to make themselves understood more and more clearly ; they belong together and are by nature one and an inseparable whole.

Since this cause has been pending in this court, we have been favored, in addition to briefs of counsel and various amici curiae, with a multitude of resolutions, addresses, and communications from scientific bodies, religious factions, and individuals giving us the benefit of their views upon the theory of evolution.

In the mid-19th century, a multitude of small breweries grew into existence in all the larger cities of Sweden, and every town had to have at least one brewery, if nothing else for sating the local patriotism.

In countries such as Britain and Spain, two major parties emerge which have strong influence and tend to elect most of the candidates, but a multitude of lesser parties exist with varying degrees of influence, and sometimes these lesser parties are able to elect officials who participate in the legislature.

Breeders have developed a multitude of color varieties ( e. g. orange, red, yellow, red / black, and black / white ) which are common aquarium fish for hobbyists.

Whenever you have a multitude of individuals interacting with one another, there often comes a moment when disorder gives way to order and something new emerges: a pattern, a decision, a structure, or a change in direction ( Miller 2010, 29 ).

Moore compares the multitude of increasingly outlandish Ripper theories to a Koch snowflake, where a finite, fixed location, event and era ( London, in late 1888 ) can have an infinite number of nooks and crannies.

" If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long — as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.

Unfortunately due to the recession and economic crash, a multitude of business and factories have closed down in Drogheda.