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In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity ... Just like Cronus in Greek mythology, Saturn was the son of the supreme ...

In Greek mythology, Cronus (Ancient Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos) ... the personification of time in Greek mythology; although Cronus was the ...

it was built there stands today a famous Christian church, the Santa Maria ... *Grant, Michael & John Hazel. Who's Who in Classical Mythology ...

Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... mythologies are Mercurius in Roman mythology, Hermes in Greek mythology ...

In Greek mythology, Lamia was a Queen of Libya who became a child ... Lamia's image as a seductress in the Christian imagination. ...

== Etiological Mythology == An etiological myth is a myth intended ... By the Christian era, the Greco-Roman world had started to use the ...

The idea of dragons was not unique to Herodotus in Greek mythology ... he then gave to Hermes. Edith Hamilton, Mythology (New York, NY: Little Brown ...

around the World, A Study in Comparative Mythology." (Algora Publishing ... folklore meet the Nixes of Scandinavian mythology.]] The Scandinavian ...

role in Mesopotamian religion and mythology. He was the god of the ... In Mesopotamian mythology, Nanna was the son of the sky god Enlil ...

His most important function within Norse mythology is to herald the coming ... Dyaus, and also between Heimdall and the Christian archangel Michael (see below). ...

recounts a number of stories out of Norse mythology while explicating on the ... which contains many stories from Norse mythology. Its purpose was to enable ...

an 'Olympiad.' In 394 C.E., the Christian emperor Theodosius I abolished ... the ruler of Mount Olympus. In Greek mythology he was the bringer of thunder ...

a peacock or an eagle. According to Greek mythology, the phoenix lived in Arabia ... Christ's resurrection, central to Christian belief. The phoenix is ...

come out of ancient Persia. In Persian mythology, in particular during the ... Elsewhere in Ancient Greek mythology, the griffins were said to be ...

In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ... him. A similar sea-demon appears in the mythology of many cultures. The biblical ...

An elf is a mystical creature found in Norse mythology that still ... of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called ...

for several reasons. First, the Christian belief in the Holy Trinity ... Nevertheless, several non-Trinitarian Christian denominations are ...

missionaries in China to refer to the Christian God. Much like the ancestors ... names used by Chinese Christians for the Christian God. It is first used in ...

of Israel imposing itself on the older mythology of Canaan and Egypt. Campbell ... In early Christian literature, the idea of the hieros gamos may also ...

In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag (NIN.URSAG) was the earth and mother ... is not unusual in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, in which variants of myths ...

intelligence. Serpents are found in the mythology of many cultures and world ... lurking in the Garden of Eden. In Greek mythology, the Serpent/Dragon Ladon ...

H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Greek Mythology (London: Methuen & ... of Satan, which became common in much Christian literature and art in the ...

In Greek mythology, a nymph, from the Latin word nympha, is any member ... Jennings Rose, A Handbook of Greek Mythology (New York, NY: E.P. Dutton ...

The Christian cross, which is today one of the most widely recognized ... The ankh was gradually adopted by the fourth century Christian church ...

turned his attention to northern mythology, which he believed should ... He had accordingly to resort to Christian mythology; but circumscribed ...

the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion ... and research on rituals and mythology. His first major project was ...

Mythology (from the Greek μῦθος (mythos), meaning a narrative ... Mythology reflects humankind's quest for meaning. Most myths ...

In Norse mythology, Asgard (Old Norse: Ásgarðr) was the realm of ... As an important tale in Norse mythology, Asgard belonged to a complex ...

not a secular principle imposed on the Christian worldview. become Pope Benedict XVI) referred to the Christian religion as the religion ...

quot;) that he came to be known in Roman mythology; the corresponding Etruscan ... which could be fruitfully compared to the Christian conceptions of Heaven and Hell). ...

In medieval Christian theology, the Devil was once the archangel Lucifer ... In the Western Christian and Jewish tradition, the Devil has entered ...

The symbol of the Tree of Life predates the Judeo-Christian tradition ... In Egyptian mythology, Isis and Osiris were said to have emerged from ...

reading. This tradition was inherited by Christian writers, for whom allegorical ... the ancient world and the "new" Christian world. People of the Middle ...

is beloved by Destiny”) as in Greek mythology, or that of some blind ... Fate is strongly connected with mythology, especially that of Ancient ...

Enki was a major deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in ... for those treated unfairly. In Babylonian mythology he was also the father ...

today as Nigeria. Their indigenous pre-Christian religious beliefs remained ... worshiping the Orisha. The slaves' Christian masters did not allow them ...

a magical amulet, for example. Later Christian writers rejected the idea ... Norse mythology also contains examples of necromancy (Ruickbie 2004 ...

of the Gospel of Thomas, an early Christian document. ==Etymology== River that was also important in Egyptian mythology. According to ancient Egyptian ...

he went to Venice to study medieval Christian art. It was here that, in the words of an art historian, "his palette acquired new strong ...

the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends ... In Scandinavian folklore, Norse mythology has long held cultural currency ...

identified spiritual principles within Christian contexts. ... philosophers from story tellers of Greek mythology. While their predecessors ...

Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian legends and religious beliefs of the Scandinavian people and Northern Germanic tribes ...

areas, although it has been re-cast as a Christian pilgrimage. Since the latter ... James MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Oxford University Press ...

(such as those of the Greek or Norse mythology), the stories of the gods ... :Main article: Greek Mythology The Greek gods provide the example of ...

to the Hebrew Scripture and not the Christian New Testament, which had ... may be irrelevant to matters of faith and Christian practice, may contain errors ...

The Star of David is a widely recognized symbol of Judaism, named after King David of ancient Israel, which consists of two interlocking equilateral ...

of the Nymphs, an interpretation of classical mythology. ... theory, natural science, and classical mythology. Most of them are now lost ...

Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... ==Symbols drawn from pre-Christian traditions== Common in most Christian ...

New Testament and Old Testament of the Christian Bible forbid premarital ... 25; Luke 1:34). It is commonplace for Christian believers to accept this ...

Some have claimed that the mainstream Christian tradition has mistakenly ... they were universally credited by the Christian community there. There ...

Watchers to the gods of the four winds. Christian theologians, in their attempts ... the Book of Genesis. According to Christian mythology, their "sins ...

destruction occurred at the hands of a Christian mob led by St. John Chrysostom ... wonders of the world until well into the Christian era. ...

In Norse Mythology, Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) was a widely worshipped ... In Norse mythology, Thor owned a short-handled war hammer, called ...

Müller is an early pioneer of mythology and a notable scholar who ... claim Müller derived his theory that mythology is 'a disease of language ...

===Early Christian origins=== [[Image:St nicolas clerey.jpg|thumb|French ... Saint Nicholas of Myra is the primary inspiration for the Christian ...

a group of ethnobotanists and scholars of mythology (Carl A. P. Ruck, Jeremy ... example is the bread and wine of the Christian (especially Roman Catholic ...

The crypt developed out of the early Christian Church's desire ... about whom legends abound in Irish and Scottish mythology. ...

is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ... In addition to this unique role in Greek mythology, the figure of ...

time that Lewis officially denounced his Christian faith. Lewis went on to ... centered around his love of Norse mythology. He also developed a great ...

of the Bible. However, unlike the Judeo-Christian text, the Book of the Dead ... Geraldine Pinch. Handbook of Egyptian mythology. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC ...

particularly well-known in the context of Christian theology, in reference ... of ancient thought. Greek and Roman mythology contain many characters ...

miraculous powers. The legend may combine Christian lore with a Celtic myth ... romances, deriving perhaps from some pre-Christian folklore, in the later ...

For example, Inuit mythology includes the Adlet (also called Erqigdlet ... to resume human form. Edith Hamilton, Mythology. (Back Bay Books, 1998 ...

hostile to, their people's mythology. Many of these philosophers developed monotheistic views. Plato's (427–347 B.C.E.) Demiurge ...

In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles ... continue to be evidenced in the Judeo-Christian tradition, such as the ...

In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon ... === In Christian mythology=== Building upon the references to daemons ...

The combination of this now rather esoteric mythology (which also ... overlap in the development of the Christian nativity narrative. ...

was one of the most important deities in Norse mythology. He was said ... image of him at Skara was destroyed by a Christian missionary. Further, his ...

The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging ... Greek mythology has exercised an extensive and profound influence ...

===Early and modern Christian interpretations=== Some Biblical scholars ... Many pre-modern Christian sources discussed the curse of Ham in connection ...

studies he was chosen by classicist Christian August Brandis to accompany him on a journey to Greece, as a tutor for his children. It was on ...

In Norse mythology, Njord or Njordr (Old Norse Njörðr) is one of ... of the odder tales in the corpus of Norse mythology. The tale reverses traditional ...

Some early Christian sects and rabbinical sages considered that the ... * Schearing, Linda S. Eve & Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ...

system. He also began his treatment of mythology and religion which in his ... period of his later years was that of mythology and revelation. Schelling ...

it was one of the most widely collected books of Christian popular piety, which fell in popularity following the Protestant Reformation and the ascendancy ...

bishops are selected. In virtually all Christian traditions, celibacy is ... outside of marriage in Islamic and Judeo-Christian ethical contexts, and are ...

blanket statement to circumscribe all non-Christian (or, more broadly, non ... and demonize the adherents of non-Christian faiths since the first ...

was a Phrygian goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose ... In Roman mythology, she was given the name Magna Mater deorum Idaea ...

in the Hindu Puranas, Deucalion in Greek mythology, and Utnapishtim in the ... Greek mythology knows three floods. The flood of Ogyges, the flood ...

is similar to some interpretations of the Christian Trinity such as Sabellianism ... each have their own origins in Hindu mythology, scripture, and folklore ...

In the Christian Bible, the magi (or "wise men") are sent ... There is an oppositional element in Christian thought between secular ...

Moreover, in the sources for Norse mythology, "troll" can ... physical aspects of trolls within Scandinavian mythology: ...

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (March 20, 1770 – June 6, ... Like Blake, he also invented a personal mythology based on the Greek gods ...

Isis was a goddess in ancient Egyptian mythology, often worshiped ... Worship of Isis continued in pockets of Christian Europe as late as the sixth ...

Nephthys, which became important in later Egyptian mythology. ... In early Egyptian mythology, Geb was revered as the personification ...

faith survived until 385 C.E., when Christian fundamentalists destroyed ... of the Egyptians; or, Studies in Egyptian mythology. A Study in Two Volumes ...

his life and of those of his successors. Christian sources commonly refer ... sole emperor, Julian's zealous Arian Christian cousin Constantius II led ...

Korean mythology represents Dangun Wanggeom as the founder of Gojoseon ... of the Korean people. In the later Dangun mythology, he is portrayed as the ...

time, most successful theologian in early Christian Gnosticism. In his Alexandrian ... a metropolitan center of early Christian theology. There, he became ...

of the universe is more naturalistic than Christian concept of Creation. Plotinus, in a sense, offered an alternative to the orthodox Christian ...

In Hindu mythology, the Puranas are said to have been composed by ... said to contain references to the Judeo-Christian creation myth (Adam and ...

soul and spirit became current in Judeo-Christian terminology.) A spirit ... In Christian theology, the term spirit is used to describe God, or ...

that their origins were prior to Christian influence. Edward S. Curtis ... * Dorsey, George A. The Mythology of the Wichita. Norman, OK: University ...

speleologists: Eliette Brunel Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie ... the cave is named, Eliette Brunel, and Christian Hillaire. A current of ...

Abenaki greeted them and accepted their Christian message, albeit often combined ... According to their mythology, the history of the Abenaki people is ...

the vast storehouse of philosophy and mythology found in Hinduism. Indeed ... In Hindu mythology, 'Aum' has another symbolic meaning: ...

debates and struggles within the early Christian community. ... because Thomas lacks the full-blown mythology of Gnosticism as described ...

In Egyptian mythology, Apep (also spelled Apepi, and Aapep, or Apophis ... led to the development of an involved mythology of conflict between these ...

Tsmishian mythology is known from orally-passed tales. An Adaox is ... in the past, but the persecution from Christian missionaries in the early ...

for the Cyrillic alphabet and Bulgarian Christian culture. ... to Christianity Boris adopted the Christian name Michael. He is sometimes ...

of icons in the Byzantine and Orthodox Christian tradition. The term is ... 1982), 60-72. all specialists in Christian religious art—the main ...

she was required to revert back to her Christian married name, Lydia K. Dominis. ... and High Chiefess Keohokalole. Her Christian name given at her baptism ...

In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon ... character in all the world's mythology; his representation in ...

Gnosticism was widespread within the early Christian church until ... spirit is the only true reality. Thus Christian gnostics emphasized spiritual ...

their interpretation according to Zuni mythology or cosmology sufficed as ... According to Zuni mythology, the first humans came from four caves ...

the history and tradition of the early Christian church. ... is to be found in the Ante-Nicene Christian Library (Edinburgh, 1868–1869 ...

devas, who are considered evil in Persian mythology. Thus, when combined together ... with Angra Mainyu. According to Zurvan mythology, Ahura Mazda and Angra ...

In Irish mythology, the beginning of the summer season for the Tuatha ... Monaghan, The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore (Checkmark ...

his persecutions and confiscations of Christian property, Christianity ... general, Macrianus, to issue anti-Christian edicts calculated to create ...

also with demons as associated with some Christian teachings and lore. ... The Goblin and the Huckster by Hans Christian Andersen (1853), The Benevolent ...

It has seen great empires come and go—both Christian and Muslim—each leaving their unique mark in architecture, religion, culture, and government. ...

Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... point of continuity in the Judeo-Christian tradition. ==Composition ...

of the Egyptians; or, Studies in Egyptian mythology. A Study in Two Volumes ... * Larson, Martin A. The Story of Christian Origins. J.J. Binns, 1977 ...

anthropology, theology, psychology, mythology, sociology, cultural studies ... of modern philosophy and his outspoken Christian views (such as his assertion ...

history of mankind according to medieval Christian doctrine. ... history of mankind according to medieval Christian doctrine. ...

Samhain is known to have pre-Christian roots. It was the name of the ... According to Irish mythology, Samhain (like Beltane) was a time when ...

their faith or performing acts of Christian charity, the only means ... virtuous pagans of classical history and mythology inhabit a brightly lit ...

it bears similarity to the Gorgons of Greek mythology. the incarnation of evil resonates with Christian symbolism of the devil ...

of the most prominent military saints. Christian folklore also honours him ... In Christian hagiography, Saint George is the patron saint of Aragon ...

According to ancient mythology, human beings appeared from a marriage ... Mythologie" ("Old Turkic Mythology") section in: Käthe ...

While Christian and pre-Christian societies in Europe commonly celebrated ... was a Phrygian goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose ...

Epistles and the lack of early non-Christian documents to argue that ... ISBN 978-0155003781). J.N.D Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines (HarperSanFrancisco ...

and a recurring token in Greek and Roman mythology. It continues to serve ... history in symbolism, religious decoration, and mythology. ...

Within the bulk of Greek mythology, Dionysus was described as the ... population, are at their origin not the Christian rites they are constructed ...

and Greek descriptions of evil. In the Christian understanding of the Hebrew ... of the Angels. As with Lucifer in the Christian tradition, Iblis was proud ...

An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ... life, Kingsley committed himself to the Christian Socialist movement, alongside ...

Another interpretation of the Frieze is based on Greek Mythology. ... of her father, Zeus. According to Greek mythology Zeus gave birth to Athena ...

*The Seven Sacraments in the Christian faith (though some traditions ... * As per Hindu mythology, there are seven worlds in the universe, ...

religious world of the Vikings. In Norse mythology, Skáldskaparmál (1) tells ... Snorri Sturluson. He recorded Norse mythology in the form of the Prose ...

polytheism, which went against the Christian teaching to love one's ... In the fourth century C.E., the Christian Church was wracked with ...

century and became a fixture of Christian mythology and literature. It concerns a Jew who, according to legend, taunted Jesus on the way to the ...

In Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: Ἄρτεμις or Ἀρτέμιδος ... with the Roman goddess Diana. In Etruscan mythology, she took the form of Artume. ...

who is best known for his development of Christian realism. As he served as ... human sinfulness, which he adopted in his Christian realism to address social ...

battles, and dramas based on classical mythology. The building eventually ... it sanctified by the blood of the Christian martyrs who perished there ...

archaic "mother right" with the Christian veneration of the Virgin ... by Bachofen to devote her career to mythology) Erich Fromm, Robert Graves ...

or judge. In a Spanish era when purity of Christian lineage (limpieza de sangre ... #039;s a gambling den; not much of a Christian, / but he's very much ...

answers.com/topic/nzambi Nzambi.] World Mythology Dictionary. A Dictionary ... of God in Africa. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. New York, NY: ...

evolving into the familiar archetype of Christian chivalry and the tragic ... applying the conventions of chivalric Christian society onto a much earlier ...

while at the same time remaining Christian, in his words: "I ... the relationship between theology, mythology, and science" in a ...

the Fall of Man becomes explicit in later Christian theology, and also the ... for them traveling to and from heaven. In Christian art, the use of wings is ...

Wabanaki confederacy allies. They adopted Christian teachings from the French ... The Penobscot were Christian, noting that "Christ is our Saviour ...

Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary ... Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day ...

in early religious texts. In Greek mythology, for example, the rape ... by committing suicide. The failure of Christian women, having been raped ...

Gabriel is also, according to Jewish mythology, the voice that told ... * Christian Art. [http://www.icon-art.info/topic.php?lng=en&top_id ...

the use of religious schools, set up by Christian missionaries to draw people ... Yoruba religion and mythology is a major influence in West Africa ...

(September 1, 1862 – October 15, 1933) was a Christian, agricultural ... http://www.twcu.ac.jp/ Tokyo Woman's Christian University] (Tokyo Joshi ...

by arson and finally by a mob allegedly led by the Christian bishop St. John Chrysostom. The Statue of Zeus was destroyed by fire. Four of the wonders ...

have an indigenous spirituality, today many are Christian. Exposure to international markets has led to a change in hunting methods, and their activities ...

sometimes used as a hooked version of the Christian Cross, the symbol of Christ ... symbol of Odinism," citing the pre-Christian Germanic use of the symbol. ...

virgin. A universally held belief in the Christian church by the second century, ... this doctrine was included in the two most widely used Christian creeds ...

the origin of foot binding. Chinese mythology includes the story of a fox who, in an attempt to disguise himself as an empress, concealed his ...

Rosicrucianism was based on an amalgamation of Christian mysticism ... who adopted the symbolic name of Christian Rosenkreuz. It was said ...

varieties of crosses found throughout the Christian world. For example, the ... In Christian theology, the cross symbolizes God's self-sacrificing ...

his physical form. Nonetheless, a mythology developed concerning the ... of Brahman and that of the Father in the Christian Trinity. ...

public interest in the culture and mythology of ancient Greece. ... His father, a convinced Evangelist Christian and a famous pedagogue ...

respect for him and mock him if he became a Christian. Serge A. Zenkovsky ... for example, Mikhail Artamonov and David Christian proposed that the sack ...

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... There are 39 books common to essentially all Christian canons. They ...

events in human life without resorting to mythology. They initiated a new method ... but used abstract reasoning rather than mythology to explain themselves, ...

in lush backgrounds. Turning away from the solemn Christian subjects that dominated the preceding Baroque era, Boucher's art was criticized for ...

strangle,” as the sphinx from Greek mythology strangled anyone incapable ... on fragmented summaries of early Christian writings gleaned from the ...

future savior figure had an influence on Christian views of the apocalypse ... *Knappert, J. Indian Mythology. London: Diamond Books, 1995. ISBN ...

as goats, eagles, and hawks, leading many Christian scholars to surmise that ... The Christian interpretation of Leviathan is often considered to be ...

In Ancient Egyptian mythology, the god Chnum was depicted as forming ... * Kirkpatrick, Christian. [http://historynet.com/bh/bl-staffordshire ...

Nilotic speakers.Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, Sources and Methods ... in outlook, but many have become Christian under the influence of ...

Akhkharu is mentioned in Sumerian mythology. Bram Stoker's Dracula ... Akhkharu is discussed in Sumerian mythology. These female demons were ...

on his reign as well as insights into Goguryeo mythology. ... The Nestorian Stele documents the existence of Christian communities ...

of monotheism struggled against primitive mythology, without completely defeating ... was a Jewish gnosticism that preceded Christian gnosticism. This is not ...

Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, ... thought has very much been influenced by Christian philosophers such as St ...

were the "alien" enemies of the Christian world. European knowledge ... of Eastern cultures as superior to the Christian West. For example Voltaire ...

roots in Ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology. Greek mythology has exercised ... major focal point for the development of Christian thought. The Museum, or ...

|religions = Christian, African Traditional Religion |related = Bantu ... South Africa, and Zimbabwe, or part-Christian, part-Traditionalist in ...

traditions, writings, history, and mythology. As religious traditions ... of the term that was inherited by early Christian writers. Jonathan Z. Smith ...

in the epic form, is a long, dense allegory of Christian virtues, tied into England's mythology of King Arthur. Spenser intended to complete ...

in the folklore of other cultures. In Norse mythology, for example, Mökkurkálfi (or Mistcalfa) was a clay giant, built to help the troll Hrungnir ...

a seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of mythology, religion, and philosophy ... astrology, alchemy, dreams, art, mythology, religion, and philosophy. ...

*Christian Jürgensen Thomsen proposed the three-age system to divide ... * In the Christian concept of the Holy Trinity, God is a single being ...

During the second and third centuries C.E., various semi-Christian ... removed and put up for sale. The early Christian writer Irenaeus of Lyons ...

artists and writers by combining Christian religious themes and subjects ... subjects from 'pagan' classical mythology. This would have been in ...

as an attempt by the Church and ancient Christian politicians to destroy her messages of erotic love and worship of pagan gods, especially Aphrodite ...

The Government of Indonesia officially recognizes the two main Christian ... 1534. Between 1546 and 1547, the pioneer Christian missionary, Francis Xavier ...

south of modern Baghdad. In Mesopotamian mythology Gilgamesh is credited to ... *[http://www.christian-thinktank.com/gilgy09.html Comparison of the ...

with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock up a mountain ...

|rels= Crow Way, Sundance, Tobacco Society, Christian: Catholic, Pentecostal ... === Mythology === Like other Plains Indians, the Crow believed in supernatural ...

as one of the later incarnations of Christian Rosenkreuz, an enigmatic ... as a major source of knowledge for Greek mythology and cosmology (circa 700 B.C.E.) ...

) is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish ... became her cult animals. It is from this mythology that the later Kabbalah ...

Pontifex Maximus as well. Even the early Christian Emperors continued to use ... were avoided in the vocabulary of Christian Latin in favour of neologisms ...

Marathe, and published in Madras by the Christian Literature Society (1909 ... deal with topics such as the Puranas (mythology); lives of Saints; panegyric ...

estimates are dependent upon Persian mythology, and give dates as early ... Persian mythology, primarily from the Shāhnāma ("The Book of ...

century, through poems such Hans Christian Andersen's "I ... the governor of Norway, crown prince Christian Frederick (later Christian ...

Arabic poetry even when composed by the Christian ʿAdī ibn Zayd.Nicholas ... Regional variants of the word Allah occur in both pagan and Christian ...

There are only very limited records from pre-Christian times written ... To the extent that sources are available, they depict a pre-Christian ...

The dialogue was frequently used by early Christian writers, such as Justin, Origen and Augustine, and a particularly notable dialogue from late ...

stand as a legacy to Handel's Christian faith. Messiah was composed ... oratorios, Handel turned to classical mythology for subjects, producing ...

where it unified elements of Jewish and Christian mysticism with Hellenistic ... from Judaism, Hellenistic philosophy and mythology, and classical Egyptian ...

in other stories, not only in Irish mythology but in other traditions ... Celtic elements from Ireland and combines Christian and fairy tale elements ...

under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era.—We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as ...

were named after figures from Greco-Roman mythology, but as such names started to run out, others were used—famous people, literary characters ...

#039;s Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Hans Christian Andersen's satirization ... had reached the West by the start of the Christian era and were included in ...

The rights of groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian ... of the best-known stories in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Confronting ...

He believed in a Mediterranean-wide Christian order politically, religiously ... Swan, a play that managed to mock Greek mythology and Christian morality ...

(1820-1823), promoting the idea of a Christian state; his attack on the ... *Arvidsson, Stefan. Aryan idols: Indo-European mythology as ideology ...

their culture, which is based on a mythology of their origin, spiritual ... The Hopi have much in their culture and mythology which emphasized ...

Dr. Martin Luther for the sake of Christian truth. It matters more ... the bronze portrait statue of Dürer by Christian Daniel Rauch (1777–1857 ...

use of allusions to classical literature, mythology, and Christianity symbolism ... of Jesus in the wilderness. Some Christian readers allude the British ...

de Argel which is about the lives of Christian slaves in Algiers and El ... captive, Cervantes dealt with the life of Christian slaves in Algiers. The ...

the Tale of Bygone Years, and the Christian-inspired жития святых ... by commentaries in the spirit of medieval Christian symbolism. The images from ...

as well as the emerging influence of Christian ideas and values. ... The chansons de geste created a body of mythology that lived on well ...

setting sun, which was the focus of the pre-Christian Celtic rituals of the area. To wit, the pre-Christian roots of the Way of St. James was a Celtic ...

over nineteen centuries. Among medieval Christian theologians, Trajan was ... from the dead and baptized him into the Christian faith. An account of this ...

such as the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament, which were ... stages. Critical points in Protestant Christian history were the translations ...

or undeclared inclusion or exclusion of Christian Todas by the various enumerators ... that the believe in the rest of the Hindu mythology. Toda temples, constructed ...

#039;s account with a tale found in Lozi mythology, wherein the wicked men ... 73) languages are the second century Christian writers Clement of Alexandria ...

and debated everything from classical mythology and ethics, to education ... about religion. She did not give up her Christian faith, like many of the ...

eighth month staging elaborate rituals. Christian Roy, Traditional Festivals: ... Anderson Turner, Handbook of Chinese Mythology (Oxford University Press ...

which went against the mainstream Christian teaching of resurrection ... the protectors of the Holy Grail of Christian mythology. ...

narratives and songs. Although Christian missions were established ... *Euler, Robert C. 2002. Havasupai Legends: Religion and Mythology ...

villages. As with most Christianized peoples, Christian Igbos incorporated many of the culture's indigenous values, customs and traditions into their ...

Niobium (Greek mythology: Niobe, daughter of Tantalus) was discovered ... a different name, niobium. In 1864, Christian Blomstrand was the first ...

God-given is important to various Judeo-Christian beliefs. The biblical Book ... In Christian tradition, Solomon is viewed as a great king of Israel ...

Josiah. It served to bolster the national mythology of the tribes as a national ... In early Christian tradition, the church celebrated the Resurrection ...

in Egypt. Sometime during Egypt's Christian period (c.200-639) the ... * The Christian churches calculate Easter as the first Sunday after ...

purely Druidic, without a Roman and/or Christian overlay or interpretation. ... mac Cerbaill more accurately than three Christian saints, but there is little ...

time, not unlike the Golden Age in Greek mythology. The Dharma bull stands ... htm Comparison of Hindu and Christian end-of-world prophecies] ...

and even ridiculed by both Jewish and Christian commentators and scholars ... === In Christian tradition === [[Image:Nuremberg chronicles f 11r 1 ...

reenacting various other aspects of his mythology in communion rituals, where ... Sahajayana Buddhist Song." Buddhist-Christian Studies 1, 1980. 51-58. ...

Xia Dynasty and the ancients of Chinese mythology, but he criticized the ... and punished the evil, similar to the Christian idea of God. Thus he writes ...

==Some Christian and Theological Periodizations== Several theological ... Scofield parted company from traditional Christian thought in regarding the ...

predator features in Native American mythology, often intertwined with ... In Native American mythology the bobcat is often twinned with the ...

a religious city as a hub of Judaism and Christian seafaring missions. ... A number of Christian missions to seafarers are based in Antwerp, ...

Inuit mythology While the dominant religious system of the Inuit today ... Inuit mythology has many similarities to the religions of other polar ...

later come to have an impact on the Christian version of the Old Testament ... [[Image:NicholasLyrapage.jpg|thumb|A page from the Christian writer ...

significance in kabbalistic thought and Christian apocalypticism. ... This prophecy became influential in Christian times as prediction of ...

traditional school and a school run by a Christian church. Older children ... the lake's largest islands. In Inca mythology it figured as the place ...

Jesus is featured throughout the New Testament and other Early Christian ... Early Christian sources outside the New Testament also mention Jesus ...

images, sculpture, dance, visual mythology, and symbols deriving from ... all “foreign” religions (including Christian Nestorianism, Zoroastrianism ...

only place names remain from the pre-Christian era. The date at which ... The cult of Saints was, as throughout Christian lands, of great importance ...

Hebrew versions of the scriptures. Early Christian translators of the Hebrew ... In Canaanite mythology, the divine offspring of the god El were called ...

separates oneself from the canons of the Christian Church, the further one ... Stravinsky's ballets to draw on folk mythology. But it is the third ballet ...

without being distinctively Jewish or Christian. Levinskaya speculates that some of the people who converted to Christianity in this region in ...

later produced some leading Christian scholars. The Roman emperors ... Ages as the liturgical language of the Christian minority. ...

Rank was an expert in philosophy, literature, and mythology, and brought ... , Buddhist (story of Siddhartha), and Christian (story of Jesus). Rank ...

Basilica, is considered one of the holiest of all Christian sites in the Catholic tradition and is the location of principal church of the Pope, over ...

America, whose cultures are based on a Christian model, political and religious ... In 1 Timothy 2:8-15, Paul outlined the role of women in the Christian ...

of Illiam Dhone (also known as William Christian) rebelled and captured ... Castle Rushen and Peel Castle and Christian remained receiver general ...

Haakon the Good was Norway's first Christian king. Norse traditions ... and elected the Danish crown prince Christian Fredrik as king on May ...

is also known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism." He attacked ... of the British Labor party and of Christian socialism. Upon the death ...

particularly from later period Norse mythology. Wagner drew largely from ... his plots were based on Northern European mythology and legend. Further, Wagner ...

and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder ... of this account were taken from Greek mythology, and that the work as a ...

in about the tenth century. Maori mythology credits Maui with fishing ... percent) of Wellingtonians are nominally Christian, and 30.4 percent profess ...

incorporated a god of death into their mythology or folk religion. As death ... as a figure or fictional character in mythology and popular culture since ...

he took jobs as a cook at the house of a Christian railway guard and at a ... images from Hindu, Muslim and Greek mythology. Nazrul won admiration ...

of the Acropolis were converted into Christian churches. The Parthenon ... * Hurwit, Jeffrey M. The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and ...

It is considered auspicious in Hindu mythology. These yantras are made ... images of esoteric Christianity (i.e., Christian Hermeticism, Christian ...

with the truth about God, untainted by mythology, bad analogies, or false ... as Father, as Son and as Holy Spirit. The Christian God has certain positive ...

the Hindu concept of avatar and the Christian concept of "Incarnation ... In Hindu mythology, Matsya saved Manu Vaisvasta, the eventual creator ...

gilgul resembles reincarnation. The Christian thinker Geddes MacGregor ... lives. Such relationships, according to Christian theologian John Hick, may ...

a renowned British author, translator and Christian humanist. She was also ... Sayers' Christian and academic interests also shine through in ...

Philo of Byblos later adopted into his mythology as his eponym for the Phoenicians: ... commercial rivals. They appear in Greek mythology. Traditionally, the city ...

Hinduism arrived in Indonesia from India before the Christian era, and was slowly adopted as the local belief system. Sanskrit became the literary ...

ancient German folk songs and Norse poetry and mythology. ... *Christian Writings (1794-8) (on the New Testament gospels) ...

of Ararat, upon which, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, Noah's ... constitutionally a secular state, but the Christian faith plays a major role. ...

in Sicily we find one of the very first Christian communities. Amongst the ... ferocious Norman mercenaries, who were Christian descendants of the Vikings; ...

the wine for consecration are placed. All Christian Churches see the altar ... Altars occupy a prominent place in most Christian churches, both Eastern ...

Chants told the stories of creation, mythology, royalty, and other significant ... influences. The primary influences were Christian morality and melodic harmony ...

such text as heretical and few survived Christian pyres. Only a few hidden ... of El Dorado, the city of gold from the mythology of Colombia. The Cañaris ...

in their soul). For instance, Egyptian mythology taught that an individual ... Augustine, one of the most influential early Christian thinkers, described ...

satirical example from A High-Toned Old Christian Woman Stevens plays with ... *Bates, J. Milton, Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self (1985) ...

Retrieved October 2, 2019. A specifically Christian focus was included in the ... season before Christmas in the Western Christian church calendars. Advent ...

set forward in the Bible are central to Christian beliefs. Some denominations ... In Christian Science, Truth is God. [http://m-w.com/dictionary/truth ...

way. Vickie A. Vaclavik and Elizabeth W. Christian, Essentials of Food Science ... religious purposes—holy water in some Christian denominations; Amrit in ...

(Pagan) Rome, perhaps ensuring their survival in Christian monastic scriptoria, a bottleneck in preservation when the large majority of ancient texts ...

to make predictions. Superstition and mythology played a significant role ... the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, a Christian legend dating from around ...

as a sea monk to the Danish king Christian III c.1550. The Lusca of the Caribbean and Scylla in Greek mythology may also derive from giant squid ...

Bellow cherished and championed Judeo-Christian religious values and scorned ... which challenged the conventional mythology of the Palestinian people. ...

Simultaneously, writers such as Hans Christian Andersen and George ... **Hans Christian Andersen, for Andersen fairy tales **Joseph Jacobs ...

Christian missionaries arrived in 1841 and were effective in conversion ... After the arrival of missionaries representing Christian and Catholic ...

Europeans brought Christianity, enabling Christian missionaries to ... and the Philippines, Asia's largest Christian nation. In addition, older ...

In the context of Greek mythology Athos was the name of one of the ... (crosses, chalices), codices and other Christian texts, imperial chrysobulls ...

Since the emergence of the mythology of romantic love in the Christian world in medieval times, the pursuit of happiness via such romantic love ...

for protection. With the coming of Christian missionaries and their ... Deluge (mythology) The Ojibwa also have a story of a Great Deluge that ...

association with Tartarus (Hell in Greek mythology), though some claimed that ... as a confusion with the Tartarus of Greek mythology, due in part to the popular ...

attack, dated June 8, 793, was on the Christian monastery on the island ... the Vikings’ strandhögg targeting of Christian buildings. ...

the once-held Persian belief that the pre-Christian Georgians worshipped a ... after Armenia officially to become a Christian state. However, Christian ...

Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew: נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ...

he infused them with an essentially Christian message. His works address ... Germanic and Norse mythologies, Finnish mythology and the Bible. ...

In 1180, Christian missionaries arrived. As the Balts did not readily ... The population is mostly Christian, the largest group being Lutheran ...

*In Greek Orthodox Christian mysticism, the number 5 symbolizes the ... *According to some traditions of Maya mythology, we are now living ...

War Memorial Museum, featuring Maori mythology, genealogy (Whakapapa) ... 4 percent) of Aucklanders are nominally Christian, but fewer than 10 percent ...

term for which he was elected. His "Christian Socialist" policies ... Efraín Ríos Montt, a candidate of the Christian Democratic Party, who claimed ...

thin gold coins bearing the image of the Christian cross and various Byzantine ... In Greek mythology Charon, the ferryman of Hades, charged the newly ...

The earliest bishops appear to have been chosen for a Christian community ... a small silver hammer and calling out his Christian (not papal) name three ...

Rumors and mythology have surrounded Johnson, but it is an established ... from Tommy's brother, LeDell, a Christian minister who likely considered ...

in the Indian consciousness that even Christian converts have been known ... was able to incorporate ahimsa into his Christian worldview, and used non ...

individual, the spiritual void of post-Christian Europe—yet believed that ... of Calw in Württemberg, Germany, to a Christian missionary family. Both ...

Crete has a rich mythology mostly connected with the ancient Greek ... According to Greek Mythology, The Psychro cave at Mount Dikti was ...

a strong interest in folklore and the mythology of the ancient Teutonic ... Soon, Himmler began to reject many tenets of Christian doctrine and ...

There is thus a continuum from pre-Christian royal accumulation of precious ... * Henderson, G.D.S. Vision and Image in Early Christian England. Cambridge ...

by seventeenth century European Christian missionaries. ... com The Encyclopedia of Hotcâk (Winnebago) Mythology] *[http://www ...

Leigh was introduced to authors Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, and Rudyard Kipling by her mother, who instilled in her an appreciation ...

that non-Western peoples (that is, non-Christian "heathens") do ... as they generally lack a deeply developed mythology. Thinkers holding that ...

In Christian Bibles, Yahweh is usually translated as "the LORD ... a common national identity, religious mythology, and origin story. In any ...

With Christian religion came the idea of nature as a manifestation ... The Renaissance produced both Christian and Pagan symbols along with ...

named after gods and goddesses from Greco-Roman mythology. ... around it. Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Christian Huygens followed on from ...

Blavatsky and the archetypes of Nordic mythology." ... verisons of the same legend, and that “Christian dogmatizers” had fused ...

to the infant Jesus is described in the Christian New Testament. ... and it was prominent in the pre-Christian Caucasus (especially modern ...

are reserved for Muslims. Jewish and Christian schools must be run by ... * Hoveyda, Fereydoun. The Shah and the Ayatollah: Iranian Mythology ...

Latinoamericano), Latin-American Christian Socialist Party, which ... is the historic Christ as depicted in Christian Churches; then, there is ...

others enquire about their beliefs, the Christian's answer generates ... In Aztec mythology, Huixtocihuatl was a fertility goddess who presided ...

or worshiped. Muslims reject the Christian notion of the Trinity as ... many Muslims do not approve of the Christian appellation "Father ...

as we know it. Kandinsky was raised an Orthodox Christian. He drew upon the Biblical mythology of Noah's Ark, Jonah and the Whale, Christ's ...

had been founded in 1778 by the Reverend Christian Friedrich Schwarz. His ... and decorate various scenes from Hindu mythology. Tanjore plates made of ...

that would come to influence later Christian thought and the development ... This distinguishes philosophy from Greek mythology, which sought transcendent ...

tone of satire was considered "un-Christian" and discouraged, with the exception of "moral satire," which criticized misbehavior ...

of intellect against will in terms of Greek mythology. Finally, it ... ethics can be called a secularized for of Christian ethics, Schopenhauer’s ...

although he always considered himself a Christian and had all of his children ... 039;s voyage to the New World. In popular mythology, Boone became the first ...

with a host of subjects, such as religion, mythology, art, music, government systems, social structures and hierarchies, family dynamics, traditions ...

A number of primarily neo-Assyrian and Christian native Mesopotamian states ... Wilfred G. Lambert, Ancient Mesopotamian Religion and Mythology: Selected ...

claims of abduction. On the other hand, Christian skeptics consider them ... bodies inspiring cultural beliefs and mythology. Beliefs in creatures and ...

eaten by the people. This looked like the Christian communion to the Roman ... in der griech. Mythol. (Plants in Greek Mythology). * National Research ...

9781588340337). In 1780, Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr placed the raccoon ... In the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the raccoon ...

rather than rational discussion. Early Christian thinkers like Augustine ... of the Roman religion. In Roman mythology the creator goddess, Gaia ...

be said to be a society (such as Judeo-Christian, Eastern, and Western) ... Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, ...

had long been closely allied; Norse mythology and even the language were ... The remaining 6.6 percent are mostly divided among 20-25 other Christian ...

Colony have become part of American mythology, including the North American ... to church traditions, had no place in Christian practice. The Pilgrims ...

language as Ardha-Māgadhi, but after the Christian era, Sanskrit became more ... *Campbell, Joseph. Oriental Mythology. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin ...

other species." In this sense, a Christian woman of African-American ... in the world, much as in later Greek mythology. Many stories in the Sumerian ...

founded by Nicolae Bălcescu, Ion Ghica, Christian Tell, and Alexandru G. ... Zburătorul, borrowing from Romanian mythology its main character ...

writes to her mother constantly, and as a Christian girl, she is always on ... creates an epic battle, complete with a mythology of sylphs and metempsychosis ...

as divine, and what reflects later Christian theology. In its work, ... tradition within the small communities of Christian believers, then written ...

on fragmented summaries of early Christian writings gleaned from the work of the Hellenistic Period Egyptian priest Manetho, who compiled the ...

day human beings were created. In Chinese mythology, Nüwa was the goddess ... * Roy, Christian. Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia ...

Native American mythology There was never one universal Native American ... Native American beliefs reflect Christian influence on indigenous beliefs. ...

bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross ... In The Antichrist, Nietzsche attacked Christian pedagogy for what ...

Cuígí), about the beginning of the Christian era. These were Ulster ... changing only those that conflicted with Christian practices. He is also credited ...

on reason, and their thought influenced Christian theology, the Renaissance ... *Buxton, Richard. The Complete World of Greek Mythology. London: Thames ...

century. These are some of the first established Christian churches in the world. At first, Christian Orthodoxy made gains in modern-day Sudan and other ...

ancient deity Taara, or Tharapita. Pre-Christian religion of the Baltic ... was written to create a unified Estonian mythology. Estonia's first native ...

In 301, the kingdom of Armenia became the first Christian state in the world. Following the example of their founder, rulers of the Arsacid dynasty ...

conscience' and confession in early Christian literature. These themes ... 039;etat and, ultimately, to the medieval Christian 'pastoral' concept ...

in conflict with the beliefs of many Christian adherents: liberal acceptance ... the Roman Empire occupied the South, mythology became important there ...

K. Dick," and one as "Thomas," a Christian persecuted by Romans in the first century C.E. Despite his history of drug use and elevated ...

home and briefly at the Congregation of Christian Brothers school on North ... include the use of classical mythology as a framework and the ...

believe that the Bible represented Hebrew mythology in the same way that the ... willing to tell jokes involving the Judeo-Christian God, Satan, Garden of Eden ...

Ancient Greek art, mythology, and philosophic works depict a society ... and in Persia wrote odes to the beautiful Christian wine boys who, they claimed ...

built a port called São Tomé after the Christian apostle, St Thomas, said ... satire, slapstick comedy, history, mythology and drama number among ...

is its continuing place in the mythology of the militant end of ... speakers, Joe Hill wrote parodies of Christian hymns so that union members ...

Burroughs as an attempt to create "a mythology for the space age." ... this final, mature stage, creating a complete mythology. ...

which became known as the "Christian Community," was a ... festivals, in Europe generally through Christian festivals, in Egypt, through ...

the people they wanted to rule. Christian missionaries sought to learn folklore so that they could create religious literature for evangelistic ...

Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo village of Ogidi in south ... traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash ...

through birdwatching based ecotourism (Christian et al. 1999). ... * Christian, C., T. Potts, G. Burnett, and T. Lacher. 1999. Parrot ...

valid and thus turned back to ancient mythology and contemporary ethnography ... It is part of the mythology of psychoanalysis that Freud was a lone ...

the Māori language and record Māori mythology was George Grey, Governor ... Although essentially all Māori today are Christian, tapu and noa remain part ...

schools, which were primarily run by Christian missionaries, often proved ... Native American mythology Native American spirituality includes a number ...

Muslims, though there is a significant Christian minority. ... Virgin Mary. The Old City has the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Armenian quarters ...

and Bakhtiari, and Isfahan. In Iranian mythology, the Bakhtiari consider ... cooperative relationship with many Christian denominations and their ...

by a Franco-Egyptian team led by Christian Leblanc.[http://www.culture ... really was.Egyptian Civilization & Mythology course, [http://www.uwm ...

He spoke Nahuatl, but was raised as Christian and wrote in Latin characters. their gods. After the conquest, the first Christian churches had open chapels ...

complex attitude toward "orthodox Christian tragedy" than is often ... injury or worse to cast members. A large mythology has built up surrounding ...

universe is governed by a recognizably Christian moral order, yet threatened ... Shakespeare's Othello. Traditional Christian categories of heaven, hell ...

and the Palk Strait. According to Hindu mythology, a land bridge to the Indian ... There are many schools and academies run by Buddhist and Christian ...

the Greek coast. Some elements of Greek mythology mixed with the local cults ... 81 percent, Shi'a 19 percent), while Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and others ...

away from art, Rodin briefly joined a Christian holy order. Father Peter ... to critics. It did not commemorate mythology nor a noble historical ...

the epics of Homer and much other Greek mythology. The Mycenaean period takes ... by the Greek Orthodox Church and many Christian Greeks to shelter Jews ...

figures to ward off evil spirits. Great mythology and legend is associated ... or equated many Tlingit concepts with Christian ones. ===Dualism=== ...

in Malacca he met with a new Japanese Christian convert from whom he felt ... During the Azuchi-Momoyama period, Christian converts rapidly increased ...

sought peaceful conversion of Indians to the Christian faith. Cortés hoped to acquire a productive province informed by Christian principles, not a ...

phenomena through science, philosophy, mythology, and religion. Humans also ... (or mind), with soul giving form to body. Christian views after Aquinas have ...

was partly influenced by Moses,The Mythology of Superman DVD (Warner ... cultural iconAnne Magnussen, Hans-Christian Christiansen. Comics & ...

syllabics, an abugida developed by Christian missionaries for Indigenous Canadian languages]] Throughout history a number of different ways of ...

diamonds were no exception to this. In Greek mythology for example it was the youth on the island of Crete that disturbed Zeus and who were then (as a ...

the seeds for Thessaloniki's first Christian church. Later, Paul wrote ... acquired a patron saint, St. Demetrius, a Christian whom Galerius is said to ...