The association of the weekdays with the respective deities is thus indirect, the days are named for the planets, which were in turn named for the deities.

In His place they invoke only females (the pagan deities) and instead of Him they invoke Satan the obstinate rebel

In addition to Buddha and the great Buddhist divinities, the Sherpa also believe in numerous deities and demons who inhabit every mountain, cave, and forest.

And when God will ask O Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to mankind 'Worship me and my mother as two deities apart from God?'

But why is reverence of women reserved to the gods, and not their mortal counterparts on whom the deities are in fact based? Aditya Aryal, Gairidhara, Kathmandu

Since there are eight million kami (gods, deities) in Japan, it's tough not to believe that all things correspond with the intentions and personalities of those who made them.

One of its leading deities is the efficient market hypothesis the belief that the market accurately prices all trades at each moment in time, ruling out booms and slumps, manias and panics.

Loa Jenny LýThe Mother Goddesses of the Three Realms represent deities from heaven, water, and mountains and forests, and have been affiliated with both real, historical figures, as well as mythical ones.

Just as whites attribute extraordinary sexual powers to black men, the Christian West's instinct is to treat Jews as the masters of extraordinary forces including the power to kill deities and control world finance.

The wisiratu holds the power of the gods of the North, East and South, and from the moment of their initiation, they carry in their body six children of these cardinal deities, which act as guardians.

According to local myth, on July 30, the deities of Jagannatha, Balabhadra, Subhadra, and Sudarshana return to the temple (known as Niladribije ) after their annual trip to their aunt's house during the grand procession of Ratha Jatra.

K. van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible External links The Geography , Book XVI, Chapter II The entire context of the cited chapter of Strabo's work

The highest ranking wisiratu is known as the Guardian of the Sacred Stone, who plays a dual role they are an incarnation of one of the deities, while at the same time they serve as the deity s main source of protection.

It's more about what's inside the taxis in Bangkok the menagerie of gods, goddesses, deities, and monk statuettes, flowers, and other trinkets chosen for their ability to protect the driver and the car, and to assure that the driver has ample passengers.

Features on Io are named after characters and places from the Io myth, as well as deities of fire, volcanoes, the Sun, and thunder from various myths, and characters and places from Dante's Inferno names appropriate to the volcanic nature of the surface.

Had Dorje remained in Tibet, he could have lost out to his rival, because the 280 year old Rumtek monastery, the Kagyu school s holiest institution, is where the sect s all powerful black hat, the symbolic crown of the Karmapa believed to be woven from the hair of female deities is located.