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A dying god, or departure of the gods, is a motif in mythology in which one or more gods (of a pantheon) die, are destroyed, or depart permanently from their place on Earth to elsewhere. Henri Frankfort speaks of the dying god as " The dying God is one of those imaginative conceptions in which early man made his emotional and intellectual ...
Nehebkau, the primordial snake and funerary god associated with the afterlife, and one of the forty-two assessors of Maat; Osiris, lord of the Underworld [2] Qebehsenuef, one of the four sons of Horus; Seker, a falcon god of the Memphite necropolis who was known as a patron of the living, as well as a god of the dead. He is known to be closely ...
Following is a list of pantheons of deities in specific spiritual practices: . African pantheons; Armenian pantheon; Aztec pantheon; Buddhist pantheon; Berber pantheon; Burmese pantheon
Names of God, names of deities of monotheistic religions This page was last edited on 14 November 2024, at 17:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Medjed – A minor god from the Book of the Dead [115] Mehen – A Serpent god who protects the barque of Ra as it travels through Duat [116] Min – A god of virility, as well as the cities of Akhmim and Qift and the Eastern Desert beyond them [117] Mnevis – A live Bull god worshiped at Heliopolis as a manifestation of Ra [118] Nefer Hor ...
Gods depicted as dying-and-rising deities, deities who die and are then resurrected. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. ...
List of Norse gods and goddesses; Greek deities (see also Ancient Greek religion, Twelve Olympians, Greek hero cult, Family tree of the Greek gods, Mycenaean gods, Hellenismos) Neoplatonic triad; Hungarian deities; Lusitani deities; Paleo-Balkan deities (Dacian/Illyrian/Thracian) List of Roman deities; Sami deities; Slavic deities; Thelemic deities
The gods continue to reproduce, forming a noisy new mass of divine children. Apsu, driven to violence by the noise they make, seeks to destroy them and is killed. Enraged, Tiamat also wars upon those of her own and Apsu's children who killed her consort, bringing forth a series of monsters as weapons.