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belief that many
deities exist, but that only one of
these deities may be
validly worshipped.
Monotheism is the
belief that only one
deity exists.[excessive...
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antiquity sometimes applied as an
epithet to
deities such as Hermes, Demeter, and Zeus. The
chthonic deities have been
compared to the more
commonly referred-to...
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Hindu deities are the gods and
goddesses in Hinduism.
Deities in
Hinduism are as
diverse as its traditions, and a
Hindu can
choose to be polytheistic...
- of
lists of
deities of the
different religions,
cultures and
mythologies of the world. List of
deities by
classification Lists of
deities by cultural...
- the
names of the
Roman deities with
which he
equated them, a
procedure that
complicates the task of
identifying his
Gaulish deities with
their counterparts...
- In Buddhism,
wrathful deities or
fierce deities are the fierce,
wrathful or
forceful (Tibetan: trowo, Sanskrit: krodha)
forms (or "aspects", "manifestations")...
- Gr****s also
thought deities guarded specific places: for instance,
Athena was the
patron goddess of the city of Athens.
Tutelary deities who
guard and preserve...
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relationships between deities:
family ties,
loose groups and hierarchies, and
combinations of
separate gods into one.
Deities'
diverse appearances in...
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archaic deities have
Italic or
Etruscan counterparts, as
identified both by
ancient sources and by
modern scholars.
Throughout the Empire, the
deities of peoples...
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Egyptian texts mention deities'
names without indicating their character or role,
while other texts refer to
specific deities without even
stating their...
