anthropomorphic deities

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• anthropomorphic — adjective Etymology: Late Latin anthropomorphus of human form, from Greek anthrōpomorphos, from anthrōp + morphos morphous Date: 1827 1. described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes < anthropomorphic deities > 2. ascribing… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• List of Roman deities — Ancient Roman religion Marcus Aurelius (head covered) sacrificing at the Temple of Jupiter …   Wikipedia

• Greek religion — Beliefs, rituals, and mythology of the ancient Greeks. Though the worship of the sky god Zeus began as early as the 2nd millennium BC, Greek religion in the established sense began с 750 BC and lasted for over a thousand years, extending its… …   Universalium

• Religions of the Indo-Greeks — The Indo Greeks practiced numerous religions during the time they ruled in northwestern India from the 2nd century BCE to the beginning of the 1st century CE. In addition to the worship of the Classical pantheon of the Greek deities found on… …   Wikipedia

• Anthropomorphism — is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. Subjects for anthropomorphism commonly include animals and plants… …   Wikipedia

• anthropoid — anthropoid, anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous all mean resembling man. Anthropoid in its basic meaning is used primarily of certain apes (as the chimpanzee and gorilla) and certain prehuman primate fossils that approach modern man in structure… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Mark S. Smith — Mark Stratton John Matthew Smith (born December 6, 1956) is an American professor and Biblical scholar who currently holds the Skirball Chair of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York… …   Wikipedia

• Historical Vedic religion — This article discusses the historical religious practices in the Vedic time period; see Hinduism and Indian religions for details of continued religious practices. See Śrauta for the continuing practice of performance of rituals by an oral… …   Wikipedia

• History of the world — The history of the world [Williams, H. S. (1904). The historians history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages. New York: The Outlook… …   Wikipedia

• Shinto shrine — A Shinto shrine is a structure whose main purpose is to house ( enshrine ) a Shinto kami , and is usually characterized by the presence of a nihongo|shinden|神殿 (also called nihongo| honden |本殿 [ Shinden ,… …   Wikipedia

• Lord of the animals — The Lord of the animals is a generic term for a number of deities from a variety of cultures with close relationships to the animal kingdom or in part animal form (in cultures where that is not the norm). The implication being these all have a… …   Wikipedia