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They include the Indian goddess Aditi who is called two-faced as she is the one who starts and concludes ceremonies, [261] and Scandinavian god Heimdallr. The theological features of Heimdallr look similar to Janus's: both in space and time he stands at the limits.
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown.
Thoth, originally a moon deity, later became the god of knowledge and wisdom and the scribe of the gods; Sia, the deification of wisdom; Isis, goddess of wisdom, magic and kingship. She was said to be "more clever than a million gods". Seshat, goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing. Scribe of the gods.
The exclusion of all but one god and the prohibition of idols was a radical departure from Egyptian tradition, but most scholars see Akhenaten as a practitioner of monolatry rather than monotheism, as he did not actively deny the existence of other gods; he simply refrained from worshiping any but Aten.
He is the messenger and herald of the gods, [137] the god of boundaries and their crossing, [138] and a trickster deity. [139] He is likely derived from a god which existed in Mycenaean Greece , and the most ancient location of his cult was the region of Arcadia , where his worship was especially prevalent; [ 140 ] his cult was spread through ...
Binitarianism is a Christian theology of two persons, personas, or aspects in one substance/Divinity (or God). Classically, binitarianism is understood as a form of monotheism—that is, that God is absolutely one being—and yet with binitarianism there is a "twoness" in God, which means one God family.
The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards proved to be the perfect place for Mulder and Scully’s next team-up.. Former The X Files costars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson jointly appeared at the ...
A diagram of the names of God in Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652–1654). The style and form are typical of the mystical tradition, as early theologians began to fuse emerging pre-Enlightenment concepts of classification and organization with religion and alchemy, to shape an artful and perhaps more conceptual view of God.