Deities

every living creature, therefore that meant both humans and animals shared positions of general equality, meaning humans did not hold such a position of dominance over the animal world, as we do in modern times. Additionally, with many animal-based deities, the bar of respect was raised regarding the outlook and treatment towards animals. For example, their attitude upon cats. The Egyptians held a high appreciation and devotion for felines. Bastet, the goddess of cats, fertility, domesticality in the

Both tales contain a single, omnipotent, all-powerful deity that keeps himself entirely separate from the humans, and requires their worship of his greatness. In this version, the almighty created humans to bear the burden of the gods (Norton Anthology, 158.) The Enuma Elish addresses the omnipotence of the

instability and confusion. Within this essay, I will reference to the one myth of the Gilgamesh Epic. Before there was anything to have appeared on earth, there was the belief that water, and before anything, it caused water chaos. There were three water deities, which are; Apsu, Ti’amat and Mummy. Gilgamesh was a semi-god of the Uruk, who possessed an enormous amount power and influence. From seeing his level of supremacy, God created Eniku, who then eventually became his friends and they both worked together

In Egyptian mythology, Chons (alternately Khensu, Khons, Khonsu or Khonshu) is an ancient lunar deity, from before formal structure was given to a pantheon. His name reflects the fact that the Moon (referred to as Iah in Egyptian) travels across the night sky, for it means The Wanderer, and also had the titles Embracer, Pathfinder, and Defender, as he was thought to watch over night travelers. As the god of light in the night, Chons was invoked to protect against wild animals, increase male virility

When discussing monotheism as a type of religion, we are talking about religion as the act of worship by man, not the origin of God. The former is something that could theoretically be proven based on anthropology and other earth sciences; the latter can only be revealed through God himself or the supernatural world. Because of my bias as a devout Christian, I believe that in the beginning there was one true God who created all. However, as Winfried Corduan pointed out in his book, Neighboring Faiths

“divine gift” (41), it consequently places him in a rather opposite path to Barthes. Specifically, Plato claims that “the god himself is the one who speaks … through them [poets]” (42). That is to say, Plato affirms that the author is possessed by a deity that communicates through his voice. In fact, Plato states that “poets are nothing but representatives of the gods” (42). In other words, Plato claims that the author is just a channel through which gods communicates their message. In accordance with

and Deadly Egyptian Gods and Goddesses By: Gian Galan Most ancient civilizations have many of their own gods and goddesses like Greece. Egypt is not different. With at least 2000 Egyptian gods and goddesses there had to have been some lesser known deities, and some even deadly. Mafdet - Mafdet was the first feline goddess, before Bastet and Sekhmet, two other feline gods. She was the goddess of judgement, justice, and execution. Being a cat goddess she defended against venomous bites of snakes and

The artist who created the piece titled Plate With Quetzalcóatl Deity was either male or female, we don’t know exactly, but we do know that the plate was made around 1200-1400 and they were from the Mixtec culture that included the regions of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Ouebla, Mexico.1 Furthermore knowing the artists’ culture we have a better understanding of the significance of the representation of the Quetzalcóatl (feathered serpent) on this three-dimensional plate. Onward, the plate itself seems to

Religion is a combination of beliefs, ceremonies and set of rules used to follow god or group of gods. I myself belong from a monotheistic religion, known as Islam. Islam is second largest religion in the world. Islam is revealed through Mohammad as a prophet of god. Quran is the holy book of Islam. The Quran was first revealed to Prophet Mohammad, being a messenger of god he started telling those teachings to the people of Mecca and Madinah. After that, people started to convert to Islam. I always

Elder, and St. Benedict, conflicting ideas and ideals are evident. While Plato and much of Greek elite culture believed in always questioning and relying on philosophy, Roman authors such as Pliny and St. Benedict rebuked questioning the existence of deities. Contradictions appear between Pliny the Elder and St. Benedict as well. Pliny recognizes the religious belief of many gods, but never begs the reality of one over another. St, Benedict requires a strict adherence to the belief of one god of his specific