People first worshipped the earth and the sun because they were the magical entities which cyclically provided for their needs. |
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I actually went to college with his son Andy, a youth who worshipped the music of Phil Collins rather too much to be completely healthy. |
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Their society worshipped metal, and some of the best gear in existence came from the Ele system's massive forges and factories. |
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Helianthus was first grown by the Aztec Indians who worshipped it, ate it, and decorated their wigwams with it. |
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Gorakhnath, being an incarnation of Shiva, is worshipped as a deity by the Jogis, and has a number of temples dedicated to him. |
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The Baroness and her friends worshipped novelty, inappropriateness, audacity, not piously but with ferocious abandon. |
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Shiva is also the god of fertility and is mostly worshipped in the phallic symbol called Linga. |
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She was worshipped by poets, and had two sisters of the same name connected with leechcraft and smithwork. |
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Fascism ostentatiously worshipped male virility and was explicitly anti-feminist. |
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In certain neighborhoods of Havana and the villages skirting the city, cherubic black Marys and Christs are worshipped. |
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His phallus, or lingam, enshrined in most Hindu temples, is worshipped and revered by the world's 300 million followers of the Hindu religion. |
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The great Argive goddess was Hera, worshipped at the Heraeum some 10 km north of Argos. |
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Across in Biggar, the bonfire celebrations date back to the pagan times when fire was worshipped. |
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And the Greeks believed in their gods, they worshipped their gods, they offered up sacrifices, and they were very real to the Greeks. |
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Have we moved past the agrarian vision of the God of the Harvest, to a more immanent God who wants to teach us, rather than be worshipped? |
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Aryans on the other hand had no idols and worshipped nature, as human forms that resided in the heavens. |
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They even went to heathen temples, worshipped idols, and called to the Devil for help. |
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The sun itself was worshipped and regarded as a supernatural force, and all temples contained a shrine to the sun, Ra, or both. |
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She was a devoted mother who hero-worshipped her children, and they similarly worshipped her. |
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We are in for a seriously scary time, if research is to be deemed heretical and old bones worshipped. |
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The Himalayan cave houses an icy stalagmite worshipped as an incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva. |
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On the surface it may appear to be polytheistic with many gods and objects worshipped in various forms. |
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Similarly, the Brigantes fought sporadically with the Caledonians in pre-Christian Britain, but both worshipped Brigidda. |
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The Chin worshipped the spirits of their ancestors and proved difficult to reach with the gospel. |
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Throughout history they have been the bringers of wisdom to humanity, and in many places were worshipped as gods. |
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The god of this world is worshipped by many Wiccans, Witches, Druids, other Neo-Pagans, and even theistic and spiritual Satanists. |
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How often had I heard talk of superstitious idiots, often relatives, who worshipped a God they didn't have the brains to doubt? |
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They found the Christ child in a stable, worshipped him, and presented their gifts of gold, incense and myrrh. |
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Where they are found in nature they may be worshipped as Shiva despite being unconsecrated. |
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In our everyday life we worshipped force, despised compassion, and obeyed no law but our unappeasable appetite. |
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Cybele was worshipped in Rome and was called the great queen mother goddess. |
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The Ugarites worshipped an elaborate pantheon in which the Rephaim, the departed spirits of their ancestors, held special powers. |
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Sum Sae-Ng, 47, the leader, told officers that the cult worshipped ghosts and land spirits. |
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Idols are worshipped by various religions, while idolatry is blasphemy to others. |
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Aten was the god of the solar disk who was monotheistically worshipped by Akhenaten, a religious theory which only lasted for one reign. |
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The shrine of a Mohammedan saint which is at the present day neglected and forgotten by Mohammedans, is worshipped by Hindus! |
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And mages were like the kings of magic by the sounds of it, worshipped by the people who ranked beneath them. |
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In ancient Egypt they worshipped all kinds of creatures even insects and bugs like a scarab beetle. |
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He bedded scores of women and got drunk with his men and worshipped his king. |
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You almost feel sorry for the band, looking at their fanbase and realizing that an intelligent band is worshipped by throngs of idiots. |
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Until then, Tenno, Japanese Emperor, was regarded as the God on earth, and the people worshipped him. |
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The Temple in Jerusalem was God's house and that was where He was to be worshipped. |
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The spring rain that she had worshipped before now trickled down the back of her neck like the most exquisite torture. |
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This is borne out by scarabs dating from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, which suggest that he was still worshipped some 2,000 years after his death. |
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Lord Ganesha, the infallible dispenser of justice, is worshipped at all holy places before his elder brother, Kumar Kartikeya. |
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Lord Venkateshwara, Shiva and Parvati and Nandi are worshipped devoutly by the south Indian devotees. |
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This historic church has been sanctified by the prayers and praises of countless thousands who have worshipped within its walls. |
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Therefore she absolutely worshipped her son although she had been greatly disappointed in his weak character. |
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Since Moses was gone so long, his brother, Aaron, at the request of the people built a golden calf that they all worshipped. |
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He died after a misunderstanding with his wife, but was deified and worshipped for many generations. |
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Templeton is like a temple for Bedloe, a place of highest reverence where deities are worshipped. |
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The ancient world, or the religion that we're talking about, worshipped a pantheon of gods, a gallery of gods. |
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The temple is said to be of Mephitis, a female deity worshipped by the Samnites, a mysterious ancient people who preceded the Romans in Pompeii. |
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In the small communities of villages, all the forces of nature were deified and worshipped. |
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Potato deities were worshipped and used for telling the time and treating illness. |
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In India, the most colourful and elaborate celebrations take part in Bengal, where huge idols of the goddess are worshipped. |
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He said his aunt was well known in the area where she lived and was a religious woman who worshipped at the Church of the Nazarene. |
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When J. C. Ryle became the first Bishop of Liverpool in 1880, he and his family worshipped at St Nathaniel's when not engaged elsewhere. |
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They invoked the elements and the ancient Welsh gods who their family had worshipped for millennia. |
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Each village has its own goddess or Gramadevata, often in the form of an idol worshipped under a sacred tree. |
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Journalists were not the only ones who failed to genuflect before the lessons of history that he worshipped. |
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The temple at Madurai is one of the few temples in India containing both male and female deities where the Goddess is always worshipped before the Gods. |
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She then expressed her annoyance that the leader of the Oklahoma mosque where Nolan had worshipped refused to appear on her show. |
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A central tenet of Shintoism is the concept of kami, spirits that abide in and are worshipped at shrines, representing human beings and things found in nature. |
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It is to be worshipped for the attainment of union with the Absolute. |
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The one Italian icon not worshipped here is the motorcar, which is of little more use in the stepped alleyways than it would be in the Tyrrhenian Sea. |
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Part Grim Reaper, part angel, this deathly saint had few followers, and they mostly worshipped in private. |
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The Mother Goddess is worshipped as Durga, but also assumes the form of local ammans, or goddesses, such as Mariamman, who protects against disease. |
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I was asked to appear on covers of art magazines I had once worshipped. |
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I longed for you, I worshipped you at your feet, come to me my rock star. |
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Therefore forms of Durga are worshipped with their respective yantras. |
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As a child, he worshipped leaders like Malcolm X and remembers having imagining Africa as a mythical place. |
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He negotiates a long, perilous journey to a new land where he finds himself worshipped as a demigod, plied with regalia and invested with law-giving powers by a local tribe. |
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To the south, in England, heathenism still reigned in the various kingdoms ruled by the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, and pagan gods were worshipped. |
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The census officers kept complaining that it was nearly impossible for them to decide who was an animist and who was a Hindu, since all worshipped God in many forms. |
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Idols of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana are worshipped in the main sanctum, which remains still neat and simple and unencumbered by temple paraphernalia. |
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Nancy Kerrigan was practically worshipped by the media for her miraculous recovery and flawless routines. |
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This, the most important beam of the house, stretches across the upstairs reception hall, where women of the house daily worshipped the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. |
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For almost 40 years Father Alec Reid lived and worshipped at the Clonard Monastery off the Falls Road in West Belfast. |
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But perhaps what Indian women really want is not to be worshipped, but merely to be treated the same as other human beings. |
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It is in your nature to be worshipped and venerated by those around you. |
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Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. |
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He was worshipped by cartoon creeps and hot-rod hooligans alike. |
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The god is worshipped as an icon and the devotee is the archaka. |
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We are granted a glimpse of another world, a world that we share with the animals, who are dignified as antagonists, worshipped as totems and pursued as quarry. |
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Hadrian himself had worshipped at the ancient shrine of the Eleusinian mysteries in Greece and a variety of mystery religions became respectable and accepted. |
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Visitors picnicked and bathed on the flat slabs of rock between the eight broad strands on the falls, and then worshipped at the small temples enshrining hero stones. |
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The Celtic gods were worshipped at the temple of Sulis at Bath and possibly the temple on Brean Down. |
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The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. |
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Deities first worshipped as the patrons of cities or places came to be collected together as empires extended over larger territories. |
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And what about the great aerolith at Paphos which they are supposed to have worshipped under the name of Bahomet? |
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The local devatas worshipped by the people outside the urban areas are also called vyantara devata. |
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Where God is worshipped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. |
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The Achaemenid Persians ruled over heterogeneous populations who worshipped different gods, often representing them anthropomorphically. |
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Wells and springs had female, divine links exemplified by the goddess Sulis worshipped at Bath. |
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And behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. |
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The Roman historian Livy explains that Poeninus was actually a corruption of Penninus, the name of a deity worshipped by a local tribe. |
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He died on 21 March 1843 and was buried in the churchyard of Crosthwaite Church, Keswick, where he had worshipped for forty years. |
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Vishnu has been worshipped for more than 2,000 years throughout India, and today, his devotees, known as Vaishnavas, can be found the world over. |
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He is seen as a man who clonked a woman on the head and dragged her back to the cave but the truth was they actually worshipped women. |
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The Samar, Samadi, the Vad the peepul and the mango trees are worshipped by the Rani Paraj people along with a stone cave known as Goval dev. |
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In addition, Manchus worshipped Cai Shen and the Kitchen God just as the Han Chinese did. |
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He was considered as the God Protector of the Nation and was sincerely worshipped by Manchus. |
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The Germanic gods Woden, Frigg, Tiw and Thunor, who are attested to in every Germanic tradition, were worshipped in Wessex, Sussex and Essex. |
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Charles Lamb worshipped, like the Spartans in Edgar Poe's story, at the mysterious shrine of the god Gelasma. |
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Some deities were worshipped widely across the Germanic lands, albeit under different names. |
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Now Mars has always been worshipped by the Goths with cruel rites, and captives were slain as his victims. |
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The Romans described a variety of deities worshipped by the people of Northwestern Europe. |
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No man, however indulgent to corpulency, ever worshipped a man as round as the sun or a woman as round as the moon. |
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In common with other Mesoamerican cultures, the Maya worshipped feathered serpent deities. |
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The agricultural turned healing god Eshmun was worshipped at Carthage, as were other deities. |
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Both deities are closely affiliated with goats and were worshipped as pastoral deities. |
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Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses. |
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The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped the sea and its animals, and often depicted sea lions in their art. |
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Different cities often worshipped the same deities, sometimes with epithets that distinguished them and specified their local nature. |
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Dahl and his sisters were raised in the Lutheran faith, and were baptised at the Norwegian Church, Cardiff, where their parents worshipped. |
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Dhul Khalasa is referred to as both an idol and a temple, and it was known by some as the Ka'ba of Yemen, built and worshipped by pagan tribes. |
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Nanak stated that the human Guru is mortal and not divine, who is to be respected and loved but not worshipped. |
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These denominations differ primarily in the central deity worshipped, the traditions and the soteriological outlook. |
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The Mersey is considered sacred by British Hindus, and worshipped in a similar way to the River Ganges. |
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Many key names associated with Newcastle's history worshipped and were buried here. |
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A PAINTING by Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam, named for an African Yoruba goddess also worshipped in the Caribbean, led Sotheby's strongest Latin American evening art sale ever. |
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The first journey he had to make was to go to the great lagoon of Guatavita, to make offerings and sacrifices to the demon which they worshipped as their god and lord. |
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He worshipped Barbra Streisand and got all verklempt when discussing her. |
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The Hindu goddess Shitala was both worshipped and feared during her reign. |
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If a case of smallpox did occur, shrines would be set up in the homes of the victims, to be worshipped and offered to as the disease ran its course. |
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In the face of the devastation of smallpox, various smallpox gods and goddesses have been worshipped throughout parts of the Old World, for example in China and in India. |
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In some cases these spirits are divided into celestial or chthonic classes, and belief in the existence of all these beings does not imply that all are worshipped. |
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The goddess he worshipped the most zealously, however, was Minerva. |
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Among the most important gods worshipped in Treveran territory were Mercury and Rosmerta, Lenus Mars and Ancamna, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Apollo, Intarabus, and Minerva. |
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In Italy he was worshipped as a god of merchants and traders, although others also prayed to him for his characteristic gifts of good luck or rescue from danger. |
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Their system of gods and goddesses was loose, there being certain deities which virtually every Gallic person worshipped, as well as clan and household gods. |
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Around 500 AD, many of the Gods of the Norse pantheon had lost their previous significance, except a few such as Thor, Odin and Frey who were increasingly worshipped. |
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Already, while alive, he received the widespread private worship of a living Princeps and was worshipped in Britannia in his own temple in Camulodunum. |
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No less important to fannish than mundane drinking, this useful beverage is even given divine honors by the sect of Beeros and worshipped as either Beer or Bheer. |
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A private funeral was held on 5 January 1987 at St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, where he had regularly worshipped and read the lesson. |
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In the United States, the spellings kidnaped and worshiped, which were introduced by the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s, are common, but kidnapped and worshipped prevail. |
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The sun has long been worshipped as a mood enhancer and an energy uplifter, but when it comes to your skin, there's definitely a love-hate relationship. |
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