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Do vegetation deities tend to be connected with the Moon?
Egyptian Osiris is associated with vegetation and this is what Wikipedia says about him:
Through syncretism with Iah, he is also the god of the Moon.
This is what Wikipedia says about Jarilo, Slavic god of vegetation:
From comparison to Baltic…
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Who are the twenty four elders in Revelation?
From Revelation 4 (KJ21):
4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats; and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment, and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Who are these "four and twenty"…
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Hoenir in Tolkien's writing
The Norse god Hoenir is very confused from what I can tell, but my question is about his mention in the book The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien. In I.1, he writes
at [Odin's] right Hoenir
roamed beside him.
This is fairly…
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What is the difference between Ra and Horus?
I'm wondering what the difference is between Ra and Horus. I know there are both the gods of the sun/sky.
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Hugin and Muninn in runes
Is there a way to write the names "Hugin" and "Muninn" in Norse runes? Are there differences in the meaning of each ("memory" and "thought")?
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What do all the treasures Sun Wukong got from the Dragon Kings do?
I tried to look for information on them, but I can't find anything. Are they just strong pieces of armor or do they grant him special abilities?
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How was the world tree Yggdrasil created?
Cannot find any origin story for the world tree on wikipedia. Was it created from the body of Ymir too?
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Roman - exactly what did they think the Sun was?
I can find a few references here and there to it being a chariot or something, but I don't just want to take any old lackey on the Internet's word for it. What exactly did they think it was?
This probably comes closest but Helios seems to be more on…
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Are there any other mythology with female warriors like Durga from the Hindu Mythology?
In Hindu Mythology, Durga takes on an entire army of Demons, and slays them all singlehandedly at the last moment. She also takes on Mahishashur (Buffalo Demon) and slays him as well, earning her the title "Mahishashura Mardini". I was wondering…
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Have any dragons in mythology been able to breathe fire underwater?
Are there any dragons in any mythological canons that have been able to breathe fire while underwater?
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Did Greeks and Romans allow for belief in only some of their gods?
Did Greeks and Romans believe in all their gods, or was it permissible to believe in some of them only (e.g., only in Diana, Jupiter, Apollo, Mercury, etc.)?
{It seems it was permissible to believe only in some of the gods. It was a common theme for…
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Are Artemis and Bendis the same?
The following quote is from Plato's The Republic:
I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess (Bendis, the Thracian Artemis.); and also because I wanted to see in what manner…
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Destruction of the universe by fire in the Ancient Greek canon?
In Ovid's Metamorphosis, Zeus, thoroughly freaked out* by his encounter with Lycaon, returns to Olympus, determined to rid the world of the evil race of men.
A few lines later, Ovid relates that:
"And now his thunder bolts
would Jove wide…
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Are there stories of a hero or god fighting off old age?
I recently learned of Geras, the personification of old age. The deity is primarily known from vase depictions that show him with Heracles. One example is this Attic red-figured neck-amphora1:
Unfortunately, the mythic story of Heracles fighting…
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Is the apocalypse prophesied by Hesiod mentioned elsewhere?
In Works and Days Hesiod outlines the successive Ages of Man. His description of the current times, the Iron Age, includes a doom and gloom prediction of the destruction of mankind at the hands of Zeus1:
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal…
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