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GODDESSES |
Deities |
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GODS |
Deities |
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AVATARS |
Incarnations of deities, persons or ideas |
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GOURDS |
Squash relatives of deities surrounding ancient city |
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INTERCOMMUNION |
Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. |
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FURY |
Pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto,
and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides. |
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SEKES |
A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities
were inclosed. |
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DEMON |
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place
between men and deities in pagan mythology. |
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MANES |
The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead
ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors. |
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TRIAD |
A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a
trinity; as, a triad of deities. |
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PAEAN |
An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity,
and, later, a song addressed to other deities. |
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ZEPHYRUS |
The west wind, or zephyr; -- usually personified, and
made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities. |
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DEIFY |
To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to
enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was
deified. |
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SATURN |
One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus
and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The
corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time. |
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LAR |
A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector
of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house;
household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house. |
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THEOGONY |
...nch of
heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the
deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of
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CABBIRI |
Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical
rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards
throughout Greece; -- also c... |