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"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards .
The Nine Billion Names of God is a 2018 French short film based on the 1953 short story of the same name by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. [3] [4] The film was selected for many international film festivals. [5]
The Moon God: Lunar entity that dwells in the Dimension of Enno-Lunn. Arwassa The Silent Shouter on the Hill: A humanoid-torso with tentacles instead of limbs, and a short neck ending in a toothless, featureless mouth. Atlach-Nacha The Spider God, Spinner in Darkness: A giant spider with a human-like face. Ayi'ig The Serpent Goddess, Aeg, Aega
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is an epistolary science fiction/metafiction short story, by Carter Scholz. It was first published in 1984, in the anthology Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time .
A diagram of the names of God in Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652–1654). The style and form are typical of the mystical tradition, as early theologians began to fuse emerging pre-Enlightenment concepts of classification and organization with religion and alchemy, to shape an artful and perhaps more conceptual view of God.
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere; List of fictional deities; List of goddesses; List of people who have been considered deities; see also Apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king
Tlaltecuhtli is typically depicted as a squatting toad-like creature with massive claws, a gaping mouth, and crocodile skin, which represented the surface of the earth. In carvings, her mouth is often shown with a river of blood flowing from it or a flint knife between her teeth, a reference to the human blood she thirsted for.
Name (Old English) Name meaning Attestations Cyning "King" wuldres Cyning "King of Glory" The Dream of the Rood [1] Dryhten [2] "Lord" ece Dryhten "eternal Lord" Cædmon's hymn [3] dryhntes dreamas "the joys of the Lord" The Seafarer [4] heofones Dryhten "heaven's Lord" The Dream of the Rood [5] Ealdor [6] "Prince" wuldres Ealdor "Prince of Glory"