pagan deities

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• pagan — 1. adjective /ˈpeɪɡən/ a) relating to, characteristic of or adhering to non biblical religions, especially earlier polytheism. Many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints. b) savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild …   Wiktionary

• pagan — paganish, adj. paganishly, adv. /pay geuhn/, n. 1. one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks. 2. a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim. 3. an irreligious or hedonistic person. adj.… …   Universalium

• Cthulhu Mythos deities — Writer H.P. Lovecraft created a number of fictional beings throughout the course of his literary career, including the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods. The Elder Gods are a later creation of writer such as August Derleth, who is credited with… …   Wikipedia

• List of Germanic deities — A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: the Germanic gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905) In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peo …   Wikipedia

• chthonic deities —    In classical mythology, the dreaded deities of the underworld, who are so feared that they usually are nameless and are called only by euphemisms. They often appear in the form of SERPENTs, which are associated with tombs and death. Chthonic… …   Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology

• Romuva (church) — Romuva is a Baltic pagan organization, reviving the religious practices of the Lithuanian people before their Christianization. Romuva is an ethnic religion community that claims to continue living Baltic pagan traditions which survived in… …   Wikipedia

• Household deity — A Domovoi, or household spirit, found in the folklore of Eastern Europe. It is a survival belief from Slavic paganism. A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members. It… …   Wikipedia

• De Falsis Deis — De falsis deis, also known as ”Homily XII ” and ”On False Gods””, is one of the homilies written by Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York and was an expansion of part of one of Ælfric of Eynsham’s homilies. Both works also drew on the writing of Martin …   Wikipedia

• Odin — This article is about the chief god in North Germanic tradition. For other uses, see Odin (disambiguation). For a comparative discussion of North and West Germanic, see Wodanaz. Odin Odin, the Wande …   Wikipedia

• GOD — IN THE BIBLE The Bible is not a single book, but a collection of volumes composed by different authors living in various countries over a period of more than a millennium. In these circumstances, divergencies of emphasis (cf. Kings with… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Jewish mythology — is generally the sacred and traditional narratives that help explain and symbolize the Jewish religion, whereas Jewish folklore consists of the folk tales and legends that existed in the general Jewish culture. There is very little early folklore …   Wikipedia