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Ahura Mazda
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the zoroastrian creator god and principle god (good)
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Ahriman
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evil zoroastrian power that opposed ahura mazda, stood for chaos, imperfection, disease, sorrow, destruction
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Magi
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zoroastrian priests of the ancient medes and persians. christian tradition is that they visited jeusus after his birth.
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Homoousious
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word meaning same stuff essentially meaning that god and jesus are one in the same and consubstantial. this supported athanasius's theology behind the divinity of jesus christ
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Enkidu
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central figure in epic of gilgamesh. he is a wild man that wrestles and becomes friends with Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Bromance leads to them going on many adventures however Enkidu dies and makes Gilgamesh realize that death is evident and if he doenst want to become like his friend he needs to pursue divinity.
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Utnapishtim
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Immortal old man in the Epic of Gilgamesh. this man survived the great flood with the help of a god looking out for him and taking him out of harms way. Gets blessed with immortality. Enkidu goes to this man to get knowledge about becoming immortal.
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Miasma
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a contagious power that has an independent life of its own. Until purged by the sacrificial death of a wrongdoer, society would be chronically infected by catastrophe.
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Constantine
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Ruler of rome, he set up multiple councils in an effort to gain political order of his county because of the relgious debates between Arius and Athanasius.
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Cyrus
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Zoroastrian ruler whom conquered the Babylonian empire and allowed the captured Jews to return to their homes and practice their own religion.
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Unmoved mover
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A philosophical concept of Aristotle that describes the god of the greek philosophers. this idea is taht a primary mover of all the motion in the universe is present, implicit in the name unmoved mover which is god.
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Apologist
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the discipline of defending a position through the systematic use of information or rationality.
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Sheol
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translated as grave or pit, is the old testament underworld, is a place of darkness where the dead go, both righteous and unrighteous regardless of the moral choice made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from god.
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