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  2. Nemesis - Wikipedia

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    O. Gruppe (1906) and others connect the name with "to feel just resentment". From the fourth century onward, Nemesis, as the just balancer of Fortune 's chance, could be associated with Tyche . Divine retribution is a major theme in the Greek world view, providing the unifying theme of the tragedies of Sophocles and many other literary works. [ 8 ]

  3. List of Latin phrases (C) - Wikipedia

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    The source of the word camera. Cane Nero magna bella Persica: Tell, oh Nero, of the great wars of Persia: Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny from modern Italians because the same exact words, in today's dialect of Rome, mean "A black dog eats a beautiful peach", which has a ridiculously different meaning. canes pugnaces

  4. List of death deities - Wikipedia

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    Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa, one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead; Amokye, Psychopomp in Akan religion who fishes the souls of the dead from the river leading to Asamando, the Akan underworld

  5. Víðarr - Wikipedia

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    A depiction of Víðarr stabbing Fenrir while holding his jaws apart by W. G. Collingwood, 1908, inspired by the Gosforth Cross. In Norse mythology, Víðarr (Old Norse: [ˈwiːðɑrː], possibly "wide ruler", [1] sometimes anglicized as Vidar / ˈ v iː d ɑːr /, Vithar, Vidarr, and Vitharr) is a god among the Æsir associated with vengeance.

  6. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Deus alternatively Deo/Dios in Romance languages is the name of God. It comes from the Latin which in turn comes from the Greek "Zeus", who in Greek mythology he was the god of the gods. The word "Zeus"which has the same Indo-European root*dyeu-or "day", and means sun or bright. The Romans incorporated the Greek pantheon by giving them their ...

  7. Erinyes - Wikipedia

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    Ἐρινύς Erinys), [2] also known as the Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, the "Gracious ones") [a] and commonly known in English as the Furies, are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a ...

  8. List of Roman deities - Wikipedia

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    Even in invocations, which generally required precise naming, the Romans sometimes spoke of gods as groups or collectives rather than naming them as individuals.Some groups, such as the Camenae and Parcae, were thought of as a limited number of individual deities, even though the number of these might not be given consistently in all periods and all texts.

  9. List of demigods - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains ...