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Aratus, Panacea's half-brother, a Greek hero and the patron/liberator of Sicyon. However, portrayals of the family were not always consistent; Panacea and her sisters each at times appear as Asclepius' wife instead. [2] Panacea may have been an independent goddess before being absorbed into the Asclepius myth. [1]
Salus. Salus (Latin: salus, "safety", "salvation", "welfare") [1] was the Roman goddess of safety and well-being (welfare, health and prosperity) of both the individual and the state. She is sometimes equated with the Greek goddess Hygieia, though their functions differ considerably. Salus is one of the oldest Roman goddesses: she has also been ...
Response to sneezing. In English -speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "[God] bless you", or, less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries). There are several proposed bless-you origins for use in the ...
Tawhid[ a ] (Arabic: تَوْحِيد, romanized:tawḥīd, lit. 'oneness [of God]') is the concept of monotheism in Islam. [ 2 ]Tawhid is the religion's central and single most important concept, upon which a Muslim's entire religious adherence rests. It unequivocally holds that God is indivisibly one (ahad) and single (wahid). [ 3 ][ 4 ]
The goodness of God means that "God is the final standard of good, and all that God is and does is worthy of approval." [12] Many theologians consider the goodness of God as an overarching attribute - Louis Berkhof, for example, sees it as including kindness, love, grace, mercy and longsuffering. [13]
Hygieia is a goddess of health (Greek: ὑγίεια – hugieia[2]), cleanliness and hygiene. Her name is the source for the word "hygiene". Hygieia is related to the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius, who is the son of the Olympian god Apollo. Hygieia is most commonly referred to as a daughter of Asclepius [3] and his wife Epione.
Allāh (Arabic: الله) is the Arabic term with no plural used by Muslims and Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews meaning 'the God', while ʾilāh (إِلَٰه, plural `āliha آلِهَة) is the term used for a deity or a god in general. [14][15][16] Muslims also use a multitude of other titles for God. In Hinduism, Brahman is often ...
One Health. One Health is at the intersection of human health, animal health, and environmental health. [1] One Health is an approach calling for "the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally, to attain optimal health for people, animals and our environment", as defined by the One Health Initiative ...