Narratives often centre on historical epics featuring dynastic royalty, concubines, deities and supernatural creatures.
Hinduism, while superficially polytheistic, regards the various deities as manifestations of a higher force.
When history is turned into scripture and men into deities, truth is the victim.
And features on Pluto, when they are eventually mapped, will be called after underworld deities.
And a crucial role in this, fostering social cohesion, was religion, which centers on myths and deities.
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They have no concept of what people would be like in a world that has no deities whatsoever.
Titan and Shiva were prominent deities in the ancient temples of Greece and India for this very reason.
Pulque has been consumed by Mexicans since Aztec times and no fewer than four Aztec deities are devoted to the beverage.
Worshipping deities would seem to be an irrational and wasteful habit, yet it has been found in all cultures.
But the sanctuary also honored an earth-mothers' union of fertility deities Granny Gaia, Mommy Rhea and Daughters Hera and Demeter.
Its enactment also commemorates events from Japanese history and celebrates one of the mountain deities worshipped throughout the country.
There are countless deities who exhibit all the virtues and vices of humans, providing rich material for the sculptors' narratives.
There is a Mesoamerican ballcourt, for example, where sporting events and feasts took place, as well as sculpted monuments dedicated to deities and kings.
The animated Hindu deities and Mahayana Buddhist figures, wearing all manner of stone decorations, were added later, mostly in the 5th to 10th Centuries.
Believing that deities can be found in their surroundings, the Ainu frequently use dance to worship and give thanks for nature.
Ethics, morality, love, and friendship on a world that has an Absolute Zero concept of Religion via Deities might not be possible.
Often molded into deities, the tiny pieces became particularly popular during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), when they were collected by the nobility.
There is a polyglot of deities, holdovers from ancient rural animism, including earth gods, sea gods, kitchen gods and hundreds of patron saints.
The roots of the problem lie there as much as they do with male control of resources, male deities, male control of government, etc.
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Virtually every visible interior surface of this stone temple, save the floor, is devoted to sculpted representations of deities and mythical beings drawn from the gospels of the Jain sects.
Two to five local men dress as deities called Toshidon, donning straw raincoats decorated with the leaves of indigenous plants and monstrous masks with long, pointed noses, oversized fangs and demonic horns.
Indeed, spirituality lies at the heart of Diwali, with devotees specifically seeking blessings from two prominent Hindu deities: Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and Ganesh, the elephant-headed god of good fortune and auspicious beginnings.
In this study, the people taking the drug rated the hallucinogenic experience as "stressful" at some times but "psychologically and spiritually uplifting" - describing encounters with past lives, faraway planets, and communing with deities.
Even among the Hindu faithful, you may notice there are statues of Chinese deities like Kuan Yin that are decorated with the same garlands draped on Shiva and Ganesh, another testament to Penang's cross-cultural appeal.
Some of the scenes are filmed in Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation, with trains curving around the spires that Navajos believe are petrified deities, and Depp and co-star Armie Hammer looking out beyond the cliffs.
There is no point of stacking our Government with women, letting them run our country and worshiping them as religious deities if they are not safe on our streets, if they are killed at birth for being born girls.
Rectangular niches of varying sizes carved into the surface contain ritual objects, Buddhas, deities, human and animal figures, and conic architectural shapes that may represent other temples (possibly the stele is a stone version of the painted maps depicting the Jain sites).
For the residents of Kinmen Island, a frontline in the defence against a communist invasion of Taiwan, those good times were the days of handsome brick villages, a thickly forested landscape, raucous festivals in tribute to protective deities and kilometres of sandy beaches free of terrifying landmines.
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The monks wear ritual clothing and use hand gestures and various musical instruments while praying for the spiritual and moral well-being of the people, for purification and peace of mind, to appease the wrath of evil spirits or to invoke the blessing of various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, deities and rinpoches.
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