| The beauty of the sun god, Shamash, shone in his face, and the courage of the storm god, Adad, was in his blood. |
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| For example, it might reenact the healing performed by a god at the beginning of time in order to heal someone in the present. |
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| Arthur's main protagonist in the fight is Bedwyr, later known as Sir Bedivere, and the poem also mentions the euhemerized god Manawydan. |
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| Because of their mental faculties, dolphins were considered for the god Dionysus. |
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| In Greek Mythology, the deadly monster Typhon was trapped under the mountain by Zeus, the god of the sky. |
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| Portuguese wines have enjoyed international recognition since the times of the Romans, who associated Portugal with their god Bacchus. |
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| According to Greek Mythology, The Diktaean Cave at Mount Dikti was the birthplace of the god Zeus. |
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| The Paximadia islands were the birthplace of the goddess Artemis and the god Apollo. |
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| The ancient Greek god Zeus launched a lightning bolt at a giant lizard that was threatening Crete. |
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| The god of the seas, according to Chinese folklore, was a large whale with human limbs. |
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| Lughnasa, called Calan Awst in Welsh, is a summer feast and was dedicated to the god Lug. |
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| Medang's religion centred on the Hindu god Shiva, and the kingdom produced some of Java's earliest Hindu temples on the Dieng Plateau. |
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| The god is often depicted riding a chariot pulled by or composed of swans in his ascension from Delos. |
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| The garden had been planted by the god Yahweh, who had caused a spring to gush forth in the eastern desert to create a paradisal oasis. |
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| Tales of love often involve incest, or the seduction or rape of a mortal woman by a male god, resulting in heroic offspring. |
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| It was a source of pride to be able to trace the descent of one's leaders from a mythological hero or a god. |
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| This enrages Poseidon, causing the god to thwart Odysseus' homecoming for a very long time. |
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| This god is believed by scholars to have been at least partially derived from the Mayan creator god, Huracan. |
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| Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incantations. |
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| The prominent deity Eshmun of Sidon developed from a chthonic nature for agriculture into a god of health and healing. |
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| Modern scholars at first associated Baal Hammon with the Egyptian god Ammon of Thebes, both the Punic and the Egyptian being gods of the sun. |
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| As Tanit was associated with Ba'al Hammon the principal god in Punic Carthage, so Astarte was with El in Phoenicia. |
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| Yamm and Baal, the storm god of Ugaritic myth and often associated with Zeus, have an epic battle for power over the universe. |
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| She is the daughter of El, the god of heaven, and of his wife the Lady Asherah of the Sea. |
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| I watched him work, saw huge-phallused Frey emerge from the weathered wood, and helped pour libations to the god. |
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| In ancient lays, their only type of historical tradition, they celebrate Tuisto, a god brought forth from the earth. |
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| Chapter 17 and 18 focuses on the divinities the Gauls believed in and Dis, the god which they claim they were descended from. |
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| Otherwise, a Roman god might be paired with a native goddess, as with Mercury and Rosmerta. |
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| This helps explain the name of its temporary replacement, the inti, named for the Incan sun god. |
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| In 1985 the Peruvian sol was replaced at one thousand to one by the inti, representing the sun god of the Incas. |
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| The death of the god Baldr is recounted in chapter 49, where the mistletoe that is used to kill Baldr is described as growing west of Valhalla. |
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| And they had more than all other races a deep spirit of religion, since the worship of this god seemed to be really bestowed upon their ancestor. |
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| Hephaestus, the Greek god of blacksmiths, and Wayland the Smith, a nefarious blacksmith from Germanic mythology, are both described as lame. |
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| In Hittite mythology, in which the storm god Tarhunt slays the giant serpent Illuyanka. |
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| In Celtic mythology, a well belonging to the god Nechtain is said to blind all those who gaze into it. |
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| This multitude of names makes Odin the god with the most names known among the Germanic peoples. |
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| The presence of the birds has led to the iconographic identification of the human figure as the god Odin, flanked by Huginn and Muninn. |
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| This is thought to symbolize the power of the god to bind and unbind, mentioned in the poems and elsewhere. |
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| The god Odin has been a source of inspiration for a variety of modern artists working in fine art, literature, and music. |
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| In Thor's case, the identification with the god Hercules is likely at least in part due to similarities between Thor's hammer and Hercules' club. |
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| The god Freyr's servant Beyla interjects, and says that, since all of the mountains are shaking, she thinks that Thor is on his way home. |
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| In this way Thor, as well as Odin, may be seen to continue the cult of the sky god which was known in the Bronze Age. |
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| There are essentially no taboos against depicting a god, or other religious figures, in a representational fashion. |
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| Balder, the radiant god of sunshine, reminds us not only of Apollo and Orpheus, but of all the other heroes of sun myths. |
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| The god, in fine, of every savage tribe. And as he stood, a thrill of dread instinct, As from a serpent coiled, bechilled the whole Assembly. |
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| Room by room, Sarrasine advances to the cella of the hermaphrodite god, veiled like Spenser's Venus. |
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| A male god stands in three-quarter view to right, wearing a chlamys fastened at his right shoulder with a round clasp. |
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| Master, we knowe that thou sayest, and teachest ryght, nether considerest thou eny mannes degre, but techest the waye of god truely. |
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| Atheists argue that there is no experiential confirmation for the existence of a god. |
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| Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design? |
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| Myths and religions often ascribe natural forces to supernatural beings, as acts of god or hero shaking the earth, raising a storm or flood etc. |
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| Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god. |
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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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| Christ appeared, only to reveal himself as the naked god Pan. Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi. |
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| The Angles were part of the grouping of the Ingvaeones, claiming descent from the legendary ancestor and fertility god Yngvi. |
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| Some Swedish historians believe the name derives from the god Balder of Nordic mythology. |
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| For instance, the Irish god Lugh, associated with storms, lightning, and culture, is seen in similar forms as Lugos in Gaul and Lleu in Wales. |
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| The results of all these efforts were recognized even by Seneca, who has an ancient Latin god defend Claudius in his satire. |
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| The agricultural turned healing god Eshmun was worshipped at Carthage, as were other deities. |
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| His physique is like a Roman god with very pronounced iliac furrows or Apollo's belt. |
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| It is probable that these suicides represented sacrifices to appease the god Woden. |
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| Jimson is a total nonconformist and his god is William Blake, whom he quotes endlessly in his somewhat Joycean interior monologues. |
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| And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god. |
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| And I feel that under those conditions it will be necessary to assume the existence of a god to start off life. |
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| On the other hand, if life can start very easily and does not need any divine influence, then I will say that there is no god. |
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| He adopted the name of Antoninus but history has named him after his Sun god Elagabalus, represented on Earth in the form of a large black stone. |
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| Bhakti refers to devotion, participation in and the love of a personal god or a representational god by a devotee. |
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| Another commonly used Heathen symbol is the valknut, used to represent the god Odin or Woden. |
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| If they did not have enough gods yet, they should elevate one of their deceased kings, Erik, to be a god. |
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| Effigies of Fawkes and the pope were present, the latter represented by Pluto, Roman god of the underworld. |
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| The significance, to those of Shakespeare's audience who had read Hero and Leander, was Marlowe's identification of himself with the god Mercury. |
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| In pagan religions, the king was often seen as a kind of god and so was an unchallengeable despot. |
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| He was sick of the mickey-taking. He found a Pampers disposable nappy on his desk one morning. Thank god it was clean! |
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| In Ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh wielded absolute power over the country and was considered a living god by his people. |
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| He is viewed as a personal god who responds whenever a person in need or distress calls him. |
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| The concept of state religions was known as long ago as the empires of Egypt and Sumer, when every city state or people had its own god or gods. |
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| One of the first rulers to be proclaimed a god during his actual reign was Gudea of Lagash, followed by some later kings of Ur, such as Shulgi. |
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| Later, when the Myceneans travelled along the sea, he was assigned a role as god of the sea. |
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| In the mythology of ancient Greece, cairns were associated with Hermes, the god of overland travel. |
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| It has been suggested that some early myths surrounding the Welsh hero Culhwch involved the character being the son of a boar god. |
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| He draws out the purificatory implications of Apollo's apotreptic intervention when an uneasy feeling rises from the mantic spirit within him to meet the voice of the god. |
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| Since eagles were considered sacred animals of Jupiter, the supreme god of the Romans, it was later seen as an omen predicting his election to the consulship seven times. |
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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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| Many of the early Sumerian rulers were priests of their patron city god. |
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| He is believed to have been regarded as the god of the daylit skies. |
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| Cut some shapes at Madeira's grooviest temple to the god of night. |
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| Often, the state religion was integral to the power base of the reigning government, such as in Egypt, where Pharaohs were often thought of as embodiments of the god Horus. |
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| In Rome, the office of Pontifex Maximus came to be reserved for the Emperor, who was often declared a god posthumously, or sometimes during his reign. |
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| Failure to worship the Emperor as a god was at times punishable by death, as the Roman government sought to link emperor worship with loyalty to the Empire. |
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| For example, Poseidon is the god of the sea, Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, Ares is the god of war, and so on and so forth for many other gods. |
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| While Odysseus was away praying, his men ignored the warnings of Tiresias and Circe and hunted the sacred cattle of the sun god Helios as their food had run short. |
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| Because Romans had never been obligated to cultivate one god or one cult only, religious tolerance was not an issue in the sense that it is for competing monotheistic systems. |
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| When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. |
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| Volcanic rocks are named after Vulcan, the Roman name for the god of fire. |
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| Besides Zalmoxis, the Dacians believed in other deities, such as Gebeleizis, the god of storm and lightning, possibly related to the Thracian god Zibelthiurdos. |
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| He has also been interpreted in the light of his association with ecstatic practices, and Jan de Vries compared him to the Hindu god Rudra and the Greek Hermes. |
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| Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. |
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| There is no doubt that the Druids offered sacrifices to their god. |
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| Her father, Julius Bassianus, descended from the royal house of Samsigeramus and Sohaemus, and served as a high priest to the local cult of the sun god Elagabal. |
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| The first gods held sacred by the Romans were Jupiter, the most high, and Mars, god of war, and father of Rome's twin founders, Romulus and Remus, according to tradition. |
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| The polynymy of the Stoic god was not an isolated phenomenon. |
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| In Armenian mythology, the god Vahagn slays the dragon Vishap. |
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| The indicible nature of god has perturbed preachers throughout history. |
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| To do so, Manu sacrifices either Yemo or the cow, and with help from the sky father, the storm god and the divine twins, forges the earth from the remains. |
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| While Yamm is the god of the sea, he truly represents vast chaos. |
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| The name of the god is the origin of the weekday name Thursday. |
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| Asherah figured prominently as the wife of El the chief god. |
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| Eventually, the king or warrior is remembered only as a god. |
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| In Egyptian mythology, the god Setekh murdered his brother Osiris. |
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| A cure was found only after those men begged Priapus to return, named him god of gardens and herds, and made macrophallic statues of him, which they placed in their yards. |
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| The antelope's ability to run swiftly has also led to their association with the wind, such as in the Rig Veda, as the steeds of the Maruts and the wind god Vayu. |
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| Guru Nanak emphasized the revelation through meditation, as its rigorous application permits the existence of communication between god and human beings. |
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| Spotted deer are believed in China to accompany the god of longevity. |
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| An alternative interpretation sees the central head as the image of a water god such as the image of Oceanus, and yet another as a Celtic sun god. |
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| For instance, the boat of Sumerian god Enki is named the Stag of Azbu. |
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| Albert Einstein was not an atheist, but did not believe in a personal god. |
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| In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Tarrotarro, the lizard god, split the human race into male and female, and gave people the ability to express themselves in art. |
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| These names are variously descriptive of attributes of the god, refer to myths involving him, or refer to religious practices associated with the god. |
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| It also plays an important part of myth and legend, such as the contest between the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. |
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| Alternatively the epithet may identify a particular and localized aspect of the god, sometimes thought to be already ancient during the classical epoch of Greece. |
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| In Norse mythology, the oak was sacred to the thunder god, Thor. |
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| For example, Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, Ares was the god of war, Hades the ruler of the underworld, and Athena the goddess of wisdom and courage. |
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