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Nonetheless Charles is a member of a pantheon of famous Napoleonic figures that includes the Emperor himself, Louis Nicolas Davout, Andre Massena, Karl von Schwarzenberg, Mikhail Kutuzov, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and the aforementioned Duke of Wellington.
The Thelemic pantheon includes a number of deities, focusing primarily on a trinity of deities adapted from ancient Egyptian religion, who are the three speakers of The Book of the Law: Nuit, Hadit and Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
This pantheon includes Odin, Frigg, Thor, Baldr and Tyr.
The mythology of the Dahomey includes an entire pantheon of thunder gods ; for example,
Palos are related to Dominican folk Catholicism, which includes a pantheon of deities / saints ( here termed misterios ) much like those found in the Afro-American syncretic religious traditions of Cuba, Brazil, Haiti, and elsewhere.
According to Venerable Tripitaka Master Bhikshu Shramana Hsuan Hua's " Shurangama Mantra Commentary " ( Buddhist Text Translation Society of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, 1981, Volume 1 ), the Shurangama Mantra mystically and literally includes all of the Buddha Dharma in its entirety, and its focus is on the Five Dhyana Buddhas ( Vairochana, Amitabha ), Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, and Amoghasiddhi, with stress on Vairochana and Ashobhya Buddhas ) and their retinues of Dharmapalas and wrathful deities in male and female forms, such as Vajrapani, wrathful Manjushri, Mahakala, Tara, Pandaravasini, Prakruti, Uchushma Fire Head Vajra, Brahma, Indra, Shiva as Rudra, Raudri-Umapati form of Vajrayogini, Narayana, Ganapati, various Dhakinis, Naga kings, Yaksha kings, Rakshasha kings, and many other Dharma Protectors of the Buddhist Pantheon and Vedic pantheon.
The pantheon includes Lespa of the Stars, Frella-Tiltheh the Inscrutable ( Bekla City ), Shardik the Bear ( Ortelga ), Shakkarn the Goat, Canathron the Winged Serpent ( Lapan ), Cran ( a fertility and harvest god ), and Airtha of the Diadem ( a sky-goddess and Cran's consort ).
In 2005 Heffernan was granted the Freedom of the City of Dublin, placing him in a pantheon that includes U2, Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton.

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The list of Lowell Lecturers during his tenure was a veritable pantheon of the most internationally celebrated figures in science, literature, political economy, philosophy, and theology, including Britain ’ s most celebrated geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz, and novelists Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.

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The New York Times has described Weems as one of the " early hagiographers " of American literature " who elevated the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion, into the American pantheon and helped secure a place there for George Washington ".

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* The Primary Chronicle ( Slavic mythos, 12th century ): Perun ( the creator of lightning and thunder ) and Veles oversee the 10th-century peace treaties between the Eastern Slavs and the Byzantine emperors ; Vladimir I of Kiev later introduces a pantheon of Perun, Hors, Dažbog, Stribog, Simargl, and Mokosh.
At the oracle of Dodona she will be called Diōnē ( the feminine form of Diós, genitive of Zeus, PIE * Dyaeus ; or of dīos, " godly ", literally " heavenly "), who represents the earth-fertile soil, probably the chief female goddess of the PIE pantheon.
The graveyard of former greats is littered with examples where the balance of risk went seriously awry ; the ENRON and RBS stories have become iconic references in the pantheon of corporate governance and corporate mortality.
The Romans easily accomplished this task by subsuming the entire set of gods from other faiths into their own religion ; this was done on rare occasion by adding a new god to their own pantheon ; on most occasions they identified another religion's gods with their own, see syncretism which can be a form of Inclusivism.
The pantheon tends to mirror the bureaucracy of Imperial China ; deities also may be promoted or demoted for their actions.
In Old Norse, ( or, plural ; feminine, plural ) is the term denoting a member of the principal pantheon in the indigenous European religion known as Norse paganism.
Old temples were restored ; new edifices of incredible magnificence were erected to the many gods of the Babylonian pantheon ( Diodorus of Sicily, 2. 95 ; Herodotus, 1. 183 ).
Thoth ( or ; from Greek, from Egyptian, perhaps pronounced ) was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon.
Marduk ( Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR. UTU " solar calf "; perhaps from MERI. DUG ; Biblical Hebrew Merodach ; Greek, Mardochaios ) was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi ( 18th century BCE ), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BCE.
The local pantheon of kachinas varies in each pueblo community ; there may be kachinas for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects, and many other concepts.
Later scribes sometimes renamed her Bastet, a variation on Bast consisting of an additional feminine suffix to the one already present, thought to have been added to emphasize pronunciation ; perhaps it is a diminutive name applied as she receded in the ascendancy of Sekhmet in the Egyptian pantheon.
Neith ( or ; also spelled Nit, Net, or Neit ) was an early goddess in the Egyptian pantheon.
This summary, titled Summary of the Doctrines of Zoroaster and Plato, affirms the existence of a pantheon of gods, with Zeus as supreme sovereign, containing within himself all being in an undivided state ; his eldest child, motherless, is Poseidon, who created the heavens and rules all below, ordaining order in the universe.
So too, many of the spirits especially concerned with the operations of nature are conceived as neutral or even benevolent ; the European peasant fears the corn-spirit only when he irritates him by trenching on his domain and taking his property by cutting the corn ; similarly, there is no reason why the more insignificant personages of the pantheon should be conceived as malevolent, and we find that the Petara of the Dyaks are far from indiscriminating and malignant, being viewed as invisible guardians of mankind.
Greek and Roman religion were essentially local in character ; the Roman Empire attempted to unite its disparate territories by inculcating an ideal of Roman piety, and by a syncretistic identifying of the gods of conquered territories with the Greek and Roman pantheon.
The Tharun setting was abandoned, but it is said that the world and its pantheon still exist ; some deities are worshiped in Myranor.
Journey to the West has a strong background in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology and value systems ; the pantheon of Taoist immortals and Buddhist bodhisattvas is still reflective of Chinese religious beliefs today.
Perun is always gore ( up, above, high, on the top of the mountain or in heaven ; Perun is a heavenly god, and he is also the ' highest ' deity of old Slavic pantheon ), he is suh ( dry, as opposite of wet ; he is god of thunder and lightning, which causes fire ), he treska / razbija / goni / ubija ( strikes / sunders / pursues / kills ; he is a god of thunder and storms, destructive and furious ) with strela / kamen / molnija ( arrow / stone / lightning ; Perun's weapons, are of course, his bolts of lightning.

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Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was further diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea.
In Roman mythology, Evander ( from Greek Εὔανδρος Euandros, " good man " or " strong man ": a spelling and etymology affected by poets to emphasize the hero's virtue ), also spelled Euander, was a deific culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who brought the Greek pantheon, laws and alphabet to Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Rome, sixty years before the Trojan War.
* The writers ' and poets ' pantheon in Yerevan is named after Komitas.
Worse yet, the Cult of Pleasure ; a society of poets and artists founded by Morathi herself ; had become a front for a Chaos cult of Slaanesh ( In more recent history, these cults were of the darker aspects of the Elven pantheon ), was taking root in Elf society, being particularly strong in his homeland of Nagarythe.

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The epic poems, the consolidation of the Greek pantheon, the rise of firm political units, the self-awareness which could permit painted and sculptured representations of men -- all these had to await the progress of following decades.
Mahayana had gods, and magic, a pantheon, heavens and hells, and gorgeously appareled priests, monks, and nuns, all of whom wielded power over souls in the other world.
Some scholars have hypothesized an original Proto-Indo-European pantheon, with the chief male god ( Di -) represented by the sky and thunder, and the chief female god ( feminine form of Di -) represented as the earth or fertile soil.
When prompted by a pair of inauspicious oracles, the king sacked the E-kur temple, supposedly protected by the god Enlil, head of the pantheon.
As a result of this, eight chief deities of the Anunnaki pantheon were supposed to have come together and withdrawn their support from Akkad.
Christopher Columbus, as a hero and symbol, is an important figure in the pantheon of American myth.
Regardless, he remains among Austria's pantheon of heroes of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
A number of stories in Greek mythology involve cannibalism, in particular cannibalism of close family members, for example the stories of Thyestes, Tereus and especially Cronus, who was Saturn in the Roman pantheon.
An ongoing theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of mankind in the face of the cosmic horrors that apparently exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the " Great Old Ones ": a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a deathlike sleep.
There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).
David E. Schultz, however, believes Lovecraft never meant to create a canonical Mythos but rather intended his imaginary pantheon to merely serve as a background element.
The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.
Writer Will Murray noted that while Lovecraft often used his fictional pantheon in the stories he ghostwrote for other authors, he reserved Arkham and its environs exclusively for those tales he wrote under his own name.
Aristotle's natural theology admitted no creation or capriciousness from the immortal pantheon, but maintained a defense against dangerous charges of impiety.
The Celtic " horned god ", while well attested in iconography, cannot be identified in description of Celtic religion in Roman ethnography and does not appear to have been given any interpretatio romana, perhaps due to being too distinctive to be translatable into the Roman pantheon.
Another view holds that Apollo was a fairly recent addition to the Greek pantheon coming originally from Lydia.
She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that predated the Olympian pantheon.

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