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Resheph (also Reshef and many other variants, see below; Eblaite ππππ, Rašap, Ugaritic: πππ, ršp, Egyptian ršpw, Phoenician: π€β¬π€β¬π€β¬, ršp, Hebrew: Χ¨ΦΆΧ©ΦΆΧΧ£ RešepΜ) was a god associated with war and plague, originally worshiped in Ebla in the third millennium BCE. He was one of the main members of ...
Wen Shen (Chinese: ηη₯) is a deity or group of deities responsible for illness, plague, and disease in Chinese folk religion. In some belief systems, Wen Shen is identified as a single entity who commands wen spirits; in others, the term is used for a grouping of several distinct deities.
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List of death deities. Yama, the Hindu god of death and Lord of Naraka (hell). He was subsequently adopted by Buddhist, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean, and Japanese mythology as the king of hell. Maya death god "A" way as a hunter, Classic period. The mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine ...
Pazuzu is the god of the southwestern wind and is associated with the plague. [1] Pazuzu was invoked in apotropaic amulets, which combat the powers of his rival, [30] the malicious goddess Lamashtu, who was believed to cause harm to mother and child during childbirth. He would protect humans against any variety of misfortune or plague. [31]
However, his main symbol is the caduceus, a winged staff intertwined with two snakes copulating and carvings of the other gods. [10] In Roman mythology and religion many of Hermes' characteristics belong to Mercury, [11] a name derived from the Latin merx, meaning "merchandise," and the origin of the words "merchant" and "commerce." [3]: 178
Amulet to ward off plague inscribed with a quotation from the Akkadian Erra Epic. Erra (sometimes called Irra) is an Akkadian plague god known from an 'epos' [1] of the eighth century BCE. Erra is the god of mayhem and pestilence who is responsible for periods of political confusion. He was assimilated to Nergal at some point.
Aker – A god of Earth and the horizon [ 3 ] Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in Egypt during the New Kingdom [ 4 ] Anhur – A god of war and hunting [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of Akhenaten.