Thus, for example, the funerary god Anubis was portrayed as a jackal, a creature whose scavenging habits threatened the preservation of the body, in an effort to counter this threat and employ it for protection.

Thus Osiris was identified explicitly with Apis, really an aspect of Ptah, who had already been identified as Osiris by this point, and a syncretism of the two was created, known as Serapis, and depicted as a standard Greek god.

Thus am I, and everyone else here not the  conscious representations of god, or GOD himself?

" Thus the meaning of the word in Greek was " rule by god ( s )" or human incarnation ( s ) of god ( s ).

Thus, the Athenians sent a religious mission to the island of Delos ( one of Apollo's most sacred sanctuaries ) on the Athenian state galley — the ship itself — to pay their fealty to the god.

Thus Dumézil conceives of Víðarr as a spatial god ( per the hypothesized Víð -/ wide root-O. E.

Thus, the god of kingship becomes the embodiment of his kingdom.

Thus, the meaning of the Greek word, under the influence of the Hebrew word, was eventually taken as meaning " set apart ", ( like herem ) rather than " offering to god ", and eventually the word came to be seen as meaning " banished " and to be considered beyond the judgment and help of the community.

Thus, the Greek god of interpretive communication was combined with the Egyptian god of wisdom as a patron of astrology and alchemy.

Thus, in later versions of the story, the ram is said to have been the offspring of the sea god Poseidon and Themisto ( less often, Nephele or Theophane ).

Thus the Rhodians traced their mythic descent from Rhode and the Sun god Helios.

Thus he became the patron god of cattle, fruit trees, hunting, husbandry and bee-keeping.

Thus Virpiranta sees Efnisien as a Sun god and therefore the Welsh equivalent to Esus.

Thus, Nephthys was also seen in the Pyramid Texts as a supportive cosmic force occupying the night-bark on the journey of Ra, the majestic sun god, particularly when he entered Duat at the transitional time of dusk, or twilight.

Thus this deity is also known as the " god of millions of years ".

Thus later she was sometimes said to be paired with Shai, who became a god of destiny after the deity evolved out of an abstract concept.

Thus, seen as a symbol of the later sun god, Ra, the Mnevis was often depicted, in art, with the solar disc of their mother, Hathor between its horns.

Thus Indra, the chief of the devas, was regarded as the regent of the east ; Agni, the fire, was in the same way associated with the southeast ; Yama, lord of death and justice with the south ; Surya, the sun, with the southwest ; Varuna, originally the representative of the all-embracing heaven ( atmosphere ), now the god of the ocean, with the west ; Vayu ( or Pavana ), the wind, with the northwest ; Kubera, the god of wealth, with the north ; and Soma with the northeast.

Thus, Mahishi began performing a fearsome set of austerities, and pleased the creator god Brahma.

Thus there is a reciprocal link between the god of beginnings and unending motion, who bestows life to the beings of this world ( Cerus Manus ) as well as presiding over its end, and the goddess of the hearth of man, which symbolises through fire the presence of life.

Thus Jerome's Chronicon lists 36 kings of the Assyrians, beginning with Ninus, son of Belus, down to Sardanapalus, the last king of the Assyrians before the empire fell to Arbaces the Median.

Thus began what is now often called " The Golden Age of Hollywood ", which refers roughly to the period beginning with the introduction of sound until the late 1940s.

Isaac Newton wrote of the earth, "“ Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather inanimate vegetable, draws in æthereall breath for its dayly refreshment & vitall ferment & transpires again with gross exhalations, And according to the condition of all other things living ought to have its times of beginning youth old age & perishing .”

Thus, he cautiously states: " But knowing the sure number declared by Scripture, that is six hundred sixty and six, let them await, in the first place, the division of the kingdom into ten ; then, in the next place, when these kings are reigning, and beginning to set their affairs in order, and advance their kingdom, them learn to acknowledge that he who shall come claiming the kingdom for himself, and shall terrify those men of whom we have been speaking, have a name containing the aforesaid number, is truly the abomination of desolation.

Thus, Hillel called attention to seven commonly used in the interpretation of laws ( baraita at the beginning of Sifra ); R. Ishmael, thirteen ( baraita at the beginning of Sifra ; this collection is largely an amplification of that of Hillel ).

* Nietzsche's teaching of the " raising of the wrist " possibly references the rising of the sun at the beginning of " Thus spoke Zarathustra.

* " Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Thus the North dominated the federation government from the beginning of independence.

Thus will find the matching string " ex " in two possible locations, ( 1 ) at the beginning of words, and ( 2 ) between two characters in a string, where the first is not a word character and the second is a word character.

Thus the modern sound film era may be regarded as coming to dominance beginning in 1929.

Thus by the beginning of the 1980s, skateboarding had once again declined in popularity.

Thus, the samba and musical genre was born in the houses of Tias Baianas ( Bahian aunts ) in the beginning of the 20th century, as a descendant of the style lundu of the candomblé de terreiro parties between umbigada ( Samba ) and capoeira's pernadas, marked in pandeiro, prato-e-faca ( plate-and-knife ) and in the palm of the hand.

Thus, at the beginning of the 17th century, the Rhine lands and those south to the Danube were largely Catholic, while Lutherans predominated in the north, and Calvinists dominated in certain other areas, such as west-central Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Thus, 1933 is usually seen as the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of Hitler's Third Reich.

Thus, in the beginning of the 18th century, a French travel writer, the Baron de Lahontan, who had actually lived among the Huron Indians, put potentially dangerously radical Deist and egalitarian arguments in the mouth of a Canadian Indian, Adario, who was perhaps the most striking and significant figure of the " good " ( or " noble ") savage, as we understand it now, to make his appearance on the historical stage: Adario sings the praises of Natural Religion.

Thus, any gait can completely be described in terms of the beginning and end of stance phase of three limbs relative to a cycle of a reference limb, usually the left hindlimb.

Thus began the Press's tradition of publishing the Bible, a tradition that has endured for over four centuries, beginning with the Geneva Bible, and continuing with the Authorized Version, the Revised Version, the New English Bible and the Revised English Bible.

Thus, at the end of this phase and at the beginning of the next they are finally in a position to go up against their primary goal.

Thus from the beginning, Brzezinski made sure that the new NSC institutional relationships would assure him a major voice in the shaping of foreign policy.

Thus the beginning of the Middle Helladic period would be marked by the immigration of these " Minyans ".

Thus in a short time Charles's own cabinet, the Cabal Ministry, went over to the " Dutch " peace party ; Lord Shaftesbury, much shocked by the revelation, even beginning to consider driving out the troublesome House of Stuart entirely and inducing his secretary, John Locke, to further develop the legal concepts which would later be the basis of the Two Treatises of Government, which justified the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Thus according to Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1893 the year started at the time of the Rigveda at the vernal equinox and the Ribhus recommenced working after their awakening in the beginning of the new year.

Thus, beginning on July 31, 1930, " The Shadow " was the name given to the mysterious narrator of the Detective Story Hour.

Thus founding the city of Kirkland in 1888, officially one of the earliest on the Eastside at the time, Kirk ’ s vision of a " Pittsburgh of the West " was beginning to take form.