• Worship of the Gods is the second full-length album by Argentine pagan metal, folk metal band Tersivel. The album was released on October 27, 2017. The...
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    religions, idolatry has been considered as the "worship of false gods" and is forbidden by texts such as the Ten Commandments. Other monotheistic religions...
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  • practice – sacred acts, rituals and worship of the gods. Norse religion was at no time homogeneous, but was a conglomerate of related customs and beliefs. These...
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  • I Still Worship Zeus is a Greek documentary film about modern worship of the gods of ancient Greek religion and mythology. It was directed by Jamil Said...
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    Chinese gods and immortals are beings in various Chinese religions seen in a variety of ways and mythological contexts. Many are worshiped as deities because...
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  • Polytheism (category Philosophy of religion)
    Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god. According to Oxford Reference, it is not easy to count gods, and so not always obvious whether...
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    Solar deity (redirect from Sun-worship)
    culture, they began as the offspring of a mother (except Ra, King of the Gods who gave birth to himself).[citation needed] Sun worship was prevalent in ancient...
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    people continued to worship the Greek gods and to practice the same rites as in Classical Greece. Change came from the addition of new religions from other...
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  • truth and honor. Ritual worship of the gods in pursuit of maat is thus considered holy. Commonly worshipped Old Egyptian gods include Ra, Amun, Isis and...
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    strange worship of idols or images; the worship of polytheistic gods by use of idols or images; the worship of created things (trees, rocks, animals, astronomical...
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    Egyptian deities are the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Egypt. The beliefs and rituals surrounding these gods formed the core of ancient Egyptian...
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    by their symbolic content. The classical author Diodorus situated the origin of animal worship in a myth in which the gods, threatened by giants, disguised...
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    and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land...
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  • which the believer worships one god without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity, and monolatrism, the recognition of the existence...
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  • to the worship of the gods, especially sacrifice and prayer. They are either sacra privata or publica. The former were undertaken on behalf of the individual...
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    the reign of Akhenaten, he forbade the worship of other gods, a radical departure from the centuries of Egyptian religious practice. To emphasise the...
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  • seek the favor of the sun, considered a powerful life-giving force. In Hinduism, the deification of natural forces is evident in the worship of gods and...
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  • identification of gods with stars or planets. The Chaldeans, who came to be seen as the prototypical astrologers and star-worshippers by the Greeks, migrated...
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  • The clergy of ancient Egypt was made up of a multitude of priests and priestesses who worshipped the many gods of the Egyptian religion. In Egyptian thought...
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    China Wang Ye worship Nine Emperor Gods Festival Birthday of the Monkey God & Monkey King Festival Dajiao Kau chim & Jiaobei Ancestor worship Ancestral halls...
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    Church, icon painting, etc.), and the worship of Slavic gods has persisted in unofficial folk religion into modern times. The Slavs' resistance to Christianity...
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  • Demokratia (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    participated in the propitiation and worship of the gods. This fact well illustrates the way the various aspects of Athenian society — religious, political...
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    third and fourth generation of immortal beings, worshipped as the principal gods of the Greek pantheon and so named because of their residency atop Mount...
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  • Feralia (category Observances honoring the dead)
    insignia and any worship of the gods was prohibited as it "should be hidden behind closed temple doors; no incense on the altar, no fire on the hearth." As...
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  • λατρεία, latreia, 'worship') is the belief in the existence of many gods, but with the consistent worship of only one deity. The term monolatry was perhaps...
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    direct worship of the gods. As a result, priests developed a system of oracles to communicate the will of the gods directly to the people. The Egyptians...
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    of other Gods in contemporary Hinduism, he is still venerated and worshipped. In Greek mythology, the Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, was the final...
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    professions. The worship of this group of gods is also due to the importance of the number seven in Japan, supposedly a signifier of good luck. It is...
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  • During the New Kingdom the pharaoh Akhenaten abolished the official worship of other gods in favor of the sun-disk Aten. This is often seen as the first...
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    Mari religion (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    they worshipped many gods (the jumo, a word cognate to the Finnish Jumala), while recognising the primacy of a "Great God", Kugu Jumo. In the 19th century...
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