A dying-and-rising, death-rebirth, or resurrection deity is a religious motif in which a god or goddess dies and is resurrected. Examples of gods who die...

the unknown. Types of liminal deities include dying-and-rising deities, various agricultural deities, psychopomps and those who descend into the underworld:...

(Thompson's motif A193), see Dying-and-rising god. Death deity Descent to the underworld Dionysus in comparative mythology Dying-and-rising god S. Thompson, Motif-index...

earlier texts, although the names of some deities were changed in Babylonian texts. Many Babylonian deities, myths, and religious writings are singular to that...

Shadow person Umibōzu Ubume Vengeful ghost Yūrei Yuki-onna Wraith Dying-and-rising deity Afterlife Death (personification) Grógaldr Immortality Necromancy...

been created by AnKi or Enki, the son of the An and Ki. Heaven was reserved exclusively for deities and, upon their deaths, all mortals' spirits, regardless...

centered on Ashur, patron deity of the city of Assur, and Ishtar, patroness of Nineveh. The last positively recorded worship of Ashur and other Assyrian-Mesopotamian...

sacred groves of village communities where the village deity, known as Gram deoti resides, and where sacrificial offerings are made twice a year. It is...

lightning and air. King of the gods. Uses the weapons Driver and Chaser in battle. Often referred to as Baalshamin. Ba'al Hermon, titular local deity of Mount...

ISBN 1-884964-98-2 Balode-Anelauskaitė, Laimutė. "Baltic names of deities in the hydronyms of Latvia and Lithuania". In: Perspectives of Baltic philology. 1 / ed...

from other countries, including the Egyptian deities Isis and Serapis, and the Syrian gods Atargatis and Hadad, which provided a new outlet for people...

religion consists of the beliefs and spiritual practices of the Zulu people of southern Africa. It contains numerous deities commonly associated with animals...

popularity and memory were not erased and it is still present in the decoration of the island's church. Make-make, creator of humanity Uoke, tectonic deity Hotu...

there are a few images of deities, for the Hittites often worshipped their gods through Huwasi stones, which represented deities and were treated as sacred...

the Church and thus considered pagan. Similarly, classical pagans would have found it peculiar to distinguish groups by the number of deities followers...

An offering to the female deity Eijebong was made. Dead spirits are believed to be invoked through trances by a medium, and those spirits were said to...

waging for the favour of the Goddess. Alban Arthan Dying-and-rising deity Green Man Krampus Ritual of oak and mistletoe Seven Days in New Crete (1949) Triple...

phenomena were considered to be manifestations of divine power, and that power was embodied in deities who acted continually on the world but could be dissuaded...

(such as mountains and rivers), and other entities of the natural environment. Examples include water sprites, vegetation deities, and tree spirits, among...

Bernensia, which stated that sacrifices to the deities Teutates, Esus and Taranis were by drowning, hanging and burning, respectively (see threefold death)...

wizards, witches, and fairies are common performers of incantations in culture and folklore. In medieval literature, folklore, fairy tales, and modern fantasy...

supplied a list of purported deities of the Häme (in Swedish, Tavastia) and Karjala (Karelia). It detailed twelve deities in each region with their supposed...

encompasses the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia (a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle) together...

the primordial hermaphroditic deity Phanes/Protogonus (variously equated also with Zeus, Pan, Metis, Eros, Erikepaios and Bromius), who in turn created...

values. Mythology portal Literature portal Allegory of the Cave Dying-and-rising deity Gregory Nagy (professor of classics) How to Kill a Dragon (1995)...

as well but were simply lost over time, many new deities were modeled after Greek and Roman deities. An example of the trend is the epic poem Lāčplēsis...

goddess Political deity (such as a king or emperor) Sky deity (celestial) Solar deity Trickster deity Water deity Lunar deity Deities of music, arts, science...

Dupe or Tricksters A192. Death or departure of the gods A193. Gods of Dying-and-rising A200—A299. Gods of the Upper World A210. Gods of the Sky A220. Gods...

called Pulotu Tete, Pulotu 'Aka'aka, and Pulotu Tu'uma'u. Tangaloa, the sky god, was regarded in Vava'u as the deity who hauled up the islands of the Vava'u...

Mandaeism, and Zoroastrianism. Arabian polytheism, the dominant form of religion in pre-Islamic Arabia, was based on veneration of deities and spirits....