gods

It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves, so it may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth.

Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods ' other form of sustenance, nectar.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

" Homer speaks of ambrosial raiment, ambrosial locks of hair, even the gods ' ambrosial sandals.

Additionally, some modern ethnomycologists, such as Danny Staples, identify ambrosia with the untameable hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria: " it was the food of the gods, their ambrosia, and nectar was the pressed sap of its juices ", Staples asserts.

The Greek ἀμβροσία ( ambrosia ) is semantically linked to the Sanskrit अम ृ त ( amrita ) as both words denote a drink or food that gods use to achieve immortality.

A semantically similar etymology exists for nectar, the beverage of the gods ( Greek: νέκταρ, néktar ) presumed to be a compound of the PIE roots * nek -, " death ", and -* tar, " overcoming ".

After she partakes, she and Eros are wed as gods.

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to Theyyam gods, despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Theyyam deities are propitiated through the cock sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

Category: Dualistic gods

As-gard, he conjectures, is the home of the Æsir ( singular Ás ) in As-ia, making a folk etymological connection between the three " As -"; that is, the Æsir were " men of Asia ", not gods, who moved from Asia to the north and some of which intermarried with the peoples already there.

In Asgard also is a temple for the 12 gods, Gladsheim, and another for the 12 goddesses, Vingólf.

The gods hold court there every day at the Well of Urd, beneath an ash tree, Yggdrasil, debating the fates of men and gods.

Long descriptions of the gods follow.

Toward the end of the chapter Snorri becomes prophetic, describing Ragnarök, the twilight of the gods.

" Thor has defended Asgard and Ygg's people gods with strength.

Demoted from his position as all-father, or king of the gods, Odin becomes a great sorcerer in the Ynglinga Saga.

And Álfheim the gods to Frey once gave

In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla )— male and female respectively — were the first two humans, created by the gods.

In both sources, three gods, one of whom is Odin, find Ask and Embla and bestow upon them various corporeal and spiritual gifts.

The völva says that the two were capable of very little, lacking in ørlög and says that they were given three gifts by the three gods:

In the Iliad, Aeneas is a minor character, where he is twice saved from death by the gods as if for an as yet unknown destiny.