Deity

Chaos. Out of Chaos, Gaia was born. She was one of the many primordial deities. Gaia was the goddess of the earth and mother of many of the first-generation gods. She is also the great mother of all creation and life. Gaia is the mother and wife of Ouranos, the sky. The titans were the children of Ouranos and Gaia. One of these children, was the titan Kronos. He was husband of his sister Rheia, and father of Zeus and other deities. Like father like son, both Ouranos and Kronos were bad fathers…

urban, Robigo was put out to pasture. Another early roman principle deity was mars who was originally associated with vegetation but changed into a war god when Rome began to fight major military battles. As the Romans became more global their success in foreign wars forced dramatic changes including an influx of new ideas in deity’s. First among these were the Greek gods who became very much part of Roman society. Greek and Roman deities grew dramatically in number to include Jupiter and Zeus,…

There are many differences between Christianity and the different Japanese beliefs such as Shinto or kami worships. One of the most obvious differences is the difference in god worship. Christianity follows one God who is believed to be the creator of everything and believe in the holy trinity. The Japanese however, believe in many gods, goddesses and kami. These gods played many roles and include a story of the god, Izanagi, and a goddess, Izanami, creating islands. These gods also created…

origins to the herbal medicines of the Witch. Witchcraft is a nature religion, not unlike the shamanism of the Native Americans. As the concepts of male and female exist through-out life — indeed, are necessary to create it — most Witches perceive Deity as male and female: the Goddess and the God. Like the concept of the Trinity, these aren’t “many” Gods; they are aspects of the ONE Creator. The Goddess is seen as Mother Earth and Mother Nature, and is represented by the Moon.…

illustrating pride and glory in their place. Around 110 BCE the ‘Roma’ head began to disappear, to be replaced with deities and legendary heroes. Catalogued between 110-44 BCE were varied types of minted coins, featuring Jupiter, Juno, and Mars frequently. The coins of this period show extreme syncretism, with symbols such as tridents and sceptres being added to portraits of deities not usually depicted with those items. Luce suggests that this is ‘intended not as means of identification, but to…

The same deity may be male in one village and female in another. The pantheon of deities is called the Orisha. Olorun/Olodumare is the supreme deity who is “regarded as the creator of everything – he created all the other gods, and the earth was created on his initiative, though not by him personally” (Larsen 21). Olorun breathes…

Monotheism is the belief of just one supreme and all powerful god. Throughout the world there are many religions that have a belief of worshipping only one god such as Baha'i Faith, Caodaiism, Cheondoism, Christianity, Deism, Eckankar, Islam, Judaism, Mandaeism, Rastafari, Shaivism, Seicho no Ie, Shaktism, Sikhism, Tengrism, Tenrissm, Vaishnavism, and Zoroastrianism as well as other ancient religions that are no longer in practiced such as Atenism. Those who only worship one god normally believe…

Artemis/Diana Artemis became widely established in Greece; whereupon her Roman counterpart existed as Diana. Controversially, there exists a debate over which goddess, Artemis or Diana, deserves the earliest recognition, but reportedly Artemis maintains as the earliest goddess. Diana’s status within ancient society became elevated due to her association as being highly sought out for temple prostitution. The goddess known as Artemis/Diana acquired her Ephesians form in 7000 B.C; in addition, the…

Ethics have a place in every society in the world; one will find a system of what is considered morally right and wrong regardless of the location or culture being observed. What does depend on location and culture is the nature of each ethical system. The way in which a society or culture views the world shapes its ethical system and determines which aspects of that system are emphasized. Examining the major ethical systems of the Eastern and Western world, Confucian and Christian ethics…

two categories, “the succession of notable events in the life of an enlightened one or saint and the succession of events from the past lives of some great being” (Jackson 26). Thankas that depict the main figure in its spiritual realm show the main deity in a pure realm or sometimes the deity’s own specific realm. For example, “Padmasambhava often appears on his famous copper coloured mountain (zings mdog dpal gyi ri)” (Jackson 26). Another frequently seen thanka composition is that of…