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In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.
The contrast between the roles of these gods is reflected in the adjectives Apollonian and Dionysian.
However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.
When they tried to depict the most abiding qualities of men, it was because men had common roots with the unchanging gods.
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Aquarius is also sometimes identified with Ganymede, a youth in Greek mythology who was taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus to act as cup-carrier to the gods.
They also worshipped gods such as Indra, Varuna and Mitra, which again were to become part of the Hindu religion in India.
Because of her beauty, other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, and so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who was not viewed as a threat.
Aphrodite had many lovers, both gods like Ares, and men like Anchises.
Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband.
Due to her immense beauty, Zeus was frightened that she would be the cause of violence between the other gods.
Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific plane of existence after death, as determined by a god, gods, or other divine judgment, based on their actions or beliefs during life.
Death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment.
The Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the gods, would take the dead soul of a person to the underworld ( sometimes called Hades or the House of Hades ).
Tartarus was for the people that blasphemed against the gods, or were simply rebellious and consciously evil.
* Ása, genitive of Æsir, the predominant group among the Norse gods
After Constantius ' death in 361, his successor Julian the Apostate, a devotee of Rome's pagan gods, declared that he would no longer attempt to favor one church faction over another, and allowed all exiled bishops to return ; this had the objective of further increasing dissension among Christians.
Amethystos prayed to the gods to remain chaste, a prayer which the goddess Artemis answered, transforming her into a white stone.
In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.

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