"The smoke allowed the priests to connect with their gods, " Mr Guillen said.
The Greeks portrayed their gods and their primeval battles on the exteriors of temples, in the pediments and friezes.
They are flesh feeders loathsome to the Gods, but friendly to the asuras, a selfish aggressive supernatural being that become their Gods and Goddesses.
They had no hope of an afterlife and little confidence in their gods, who seemed unable to make any impact on their difficult environment.
Its fiery colour and erratic movement across the night sky terrified the ancient Greeks and Romans, causing them to name the planet after their gods of war.
It offers freedom to Babylon's slaves and their right to worship their own gods.
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That is, until they fall from grace and then the media dons its armored lances and savages their fallen Gods of Mammon.
To walk in the footsteps of legionaries and the Roman elite, with their strange gods and oddly familiar habits, is both exhilarating and humbling.
And, of course, Brazil and India have the same fears of China as global low cost manufacturer as the US. In India, each village has their own little gods of protection and people tend to have god idols in their homes the way a Brazilian might have a statue of Jesus with open arms, like the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, decorating their book shelves.
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There was a red cloth wound around the tower, and Sopheng said that the cloth showed that this was a living temple where locals came to leave their offerings and to ask the gods to answer their prayers.
The gods do their business in aged office buildings, with wide marble corridors and dark-wood walls.
According to Mr Zeldin, the Caucasian gods and their Nibelungen equivalents have a lot in common.
Only by stripping the old gods of their powers, and taking control of the elements as your own, can humanity hope to survive the coming oblivion.
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It was only later that the very existence of other gods, and their worship, was considered unacceptable.
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Even today, wrestlers scatter a handful of salt to purify the ring and clap their hands to call the gods before every match.
Long ago they were used for performing sacrificial rituals so that the Sun Gods would signal the Rain Gods to replenish their crops for harvesting.
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We get it: The gods are losing their power, there's a whole lot of betrayal going on, and this means, somehow, that the world is about to end.
Instead of crossing their fingers and praying to the app store gods, when developers launch apps they should have a strategy in place that will allow them to grow their business by building a community around those apps.
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Whether the gods will smile on their newly remade friendship effort remains to be seen.
And there they are, the four river gods, rising from their base, each with his symbolic mark.
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In remembrance of his own coming-of-age, he delves back to the nineteen-sixties and tells the story of Douglas (John Magaro), who clubs together with friends to form a band, plays reverential cover versions of Buddy Holly and other gods, and cultivates their hopes of making it big.
Every caption tells a story of an ordinary person being touched by the Olympic gods, or at least their spirit.
Britain had to fall back on claims of safer, more competent and more scholarly stewardship: claims now demolished, almost literally, by the image of British workmen in overalls scraping their blades across the shoulders of the gods.
Together, the future of sumo clapped their hands, not to honor the Shinto gods, but simply to signal the start of some good, dust-kicking fun.
Many teams grind their teeth over questions about their next game as they pay homage to the gods of cliche and avoid even the slightest temptation of fate.
By choosing to side with humanity against their own world and against the prospect of becoming Gods to us all, the Autobots represent the choice to reject a dichotomy between the inner humanity and technology.
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The pharaohs asserted their authority over the population by claiming the power to intercede with the gods to ensure the Nile River flooded each year.
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