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"Peace"), [1] more commonly known in English as Peace, is one of the Horae, the personification and goddess of peace in Greek mythology and ancient religion. She was depicted in art as a beautiful young woman carrying a cornucopia , sceptre , and a torch or rhyton .
He was the god of light, [4] sky, prosperity, wealth, ruler of gods, and the creator of the universe. Dievas is a direct successor of the Proto-Indo-European supreme sky father god *Dyēus of the root *deiwo-. [5] Its Proto-Baltic form was *Deivas. [6] [7] Dievas had two sons Dievo sūneliai (Lithuanian) or Dieva dēli (Latvian) known as the ...
Tangaroa – god of the sea; Tūmatauenga – god of war and humans (also known as Tūkāriri); Rūaumoko - god of earthquakes (also known as Rūaimoko); Whiro-te-tipua – god of darkness, evil, and death. In the Samoan language, [1], where atua means "god", traditional tattooing was based on the doctrine of tutelary spirits. [2]
Freyr (Old Norse: 'Lord'), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, fair weather, and good harvest. Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi -Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house .
Pax (Latin for Peace), more commonly known in English as Peace, was the Roman goddess of peace derived and adopted from the ancient Greek equivalent Eirene. [1] Pax was seen as the daughter of the Roman king god Jupiter and the goddess Justice .
[1] [2] William F. Albright identified Shalim as the god of the dusk and Shahar as the god of the dawn. [3] In the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, Venus is represented by Shalim as the Evening Star and Shahar as the Morning Star. [1] His name derives from the triconsonantal Semitic root Š-L-M ("whole, safe, sound, peace").
Fróði's Peace (Old Norse: Fróðafrið) is a semi-legendary period of peace throughout Northern Europe that is referenced in Nordic mythology, skaldic poetry and historical accounts. Attestations [ edit ]
Woden, king of the gods and god of wisdom. Cognate to Norse Odin. Source of the word 'Wednesday'. Tīw, a war god and possibly a sky god. Cognate to Norse Týr, as well as Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter, Baltic Dievs/Dievas and Hindu Dyaus. Source of the word 'Tuesday'. Thunor, god of thunder and cognate to Norse Thor and source of the word 'Thursday'.