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[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").
"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 .
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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 .
Some lists of the Twelve Olympians omit her in favor of Dionysus, but the speculation that she gave her throne to him in order to keep the peace seems to be a modern invention. [citation needed] Dionysus: Bacchus Liber: God of wine, the grapevine, fertility, festivity, ecstasy, madness and resurrection. Patron god of the art of theatre.
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 .
Isis, Serapis and their child Harpocrates In Egyptian mythology, Horus was the child of Isis and Osiris.Osiris was the original divine pharaoh of Egypt, who had been murdered by his brother Set (by interpretatio graeca, identified with Typhon or Chaos), mummified, and thus became the god of the underworld.
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'.