a god or deified mortal

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• GOD, NAMES OF — Various Hebrew terms are used for God in the Bible. Some of these are employed in both the generic and specific sense; others are used only as the personal name of the God of Israel. Most of these terms were employed also by the Canaanites, to… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• chen-jen — ▪ Taoism       (Chinese: “realized man”), in Taoism, a god or deified mortal; the term has been the official title of the head of the Cheng i Taoist sect since the late 13th century.       The Taoist sage Chuang tzu (Zhuangzi) used the term chen… …   Universalium

• Cosmogony — • By this term is understood an account of how the universe (cosmos) came into being (gonia • gegona = I have become). It differs from cosmology, or the science of the universe, in this: that the latter aims at understanding the actual… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• demigod — /dem ee god /, n. 1. a mythological being who is partly divine and partly human; an inferior deity. 2. a deified mortal. [1520 30; trans. of L semideus. See DEMI , GOD] * * * …   Universalium

• Tarot — The tarot (also known as tarocchi, tarock or similar names) is typically a set of seventy eight cards, comprised of twenty one trump cards, one Fool, and four suits of fourteen cards each ten pip and four face cards (one more face card per suit… …   Wikipedia

• demigod — dem•i•god [[t]ˈdɛm iˌgɒd[/t]] n. 1) myt a mythological being who is partly divine and partly human 2) a deified mortal • Etymology: 1520–30; trans. of L sēmideus …   From formal English to slang

• Imperial cult (ancient Rome) — Ancient Roman religion Marcus Aurelius (head covered) sacrificing at the Temple of Jupiter …   Wikipedia

• List of Metamorphoses characters — Cover of George Sandys s 1632 edition of Ovid s Metamorphosis Englished This is a list of characters in the poem Metamorphoses by Ovid. It contains more than 200 characters, summaries of their roles, and information on where they appear. The… …   Wikipedia

• Hinduism — /hin dooh iz euhm/, n. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many… …   Universalium

• Middle Eastern religion — Introduction       any of the religious beliefs, attitudes, and practices developed in the ancient Middle East (extending geographically from Iran to Egypt and from Anatolia and the Aegean Sea to the Arabian Peninsula and temporally from about… …   Universalium

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