Encyclopedia - Adriatic Sea: Encyclopedia - Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea (Italian Mare Adriatico, German Adriatisches Meer or Adria, Croatian Jadransko more or Jadran) is an arm of the Mediterr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apennine Mountains: Encyclopedia - Apennine Mountains
The Apennine Mountains (Greek: Απεννινος; Latin: Appenninus--in both cases used in the singular; Italian: Appennini) is a mounta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia - Demon
In religion, folklore, and mythology a demon or demoness is a supernatural being that has generally been described as a malevolent spirit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adriatic Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Adriatic Sea - Name And Etymology
The name has existed since the antiquity; in Latin it was Mare Hadriaticum. In modern languages, it is Mare Adriatico in Italian, Deti Ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In The Hebrew Bible
Demons as described in the Tanakh are not the same as "demons" commonly known in popular or Christian culture. The demons mentioned in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In The Hebrew Bible
Demons as described in the Tanakh are not the same as "demons" commonly known in popular or Christian culture. The demons mentioned in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apennine Mountains: Encyclopedia Ii - Apennine Mountains - Divisions
Modern geographers divide the range into three parts: northern, central and southern. Apennine Mountains - Northern Apennines. The nort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Hinduism
There are three kinds of anthromorphic beings, the devas (demigods), the manushyas (human beings) and the asuras (demons). The asuras liv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In Other Cultures And Religions
Demons are found in many religions, and many cultures have developed a rich mythology of demons. The study of demons is called demonology...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Islam
Islam recognized the existence of all the pagan demons, good and evil, protesting only against their being considered gods. Islam divides...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Pre-islamic Arab Culture
Pre-Islamic mythology does not discriminate between gods and demons. The jinn are considered as divinities of inferior rank, having many ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Christian Myth And Legend
Building upon the few references to daemons in the New Testament, especially the visionary poetry of the Apocalypse of John, Christian wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In Hellenistic Neopaganism
In modern Hellenistic Neopaganism (particularly in self-described Hellenistic sects in the United States), a demon can be a variety of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Science
Scientists occasionally invent hypothetical entities with special abilities as part of a thought experiment. These "demons" have abilitie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Art Literature And Television
In Mikhail Lermontov's long poem (1840), the Demon makes love to the virgin Tamara in a scenic setting of the Causcaus mountains. Many cl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Etymology
The idea of demons is as old as religion itself, and the word "demon" seems to have ancient origins. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Art Literature And Television
In Mikhail Lermontov's long poem (1840), the Demon makes love to the virgin Tamara in a scenic setting of the Caucasus mountains. Many cl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In The New Testament And Christianity
"Demon" has a number of meanings, all related to the idea of a spirit that inhabited a place, or that accompanied a person. Whether such ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In Hellenistic Neopaganism
In modern Hellenistic Neopaganism (particularly in self-described Hellenistic sects in the United States), a demon can be a variety of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Games
The earliest connection of the word with games is that the British call a form of solitaire "Demon", from at least the nineteenth century...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Art Literature And Television
Many classic books and plays feature demons, such as the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost and Faust. Anton Rubinstein's lushly chromatic oper...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In Ancient Persia
During the time of Zarathustra the same word (Div) received the notion of demon in the Iranian tradition. In Zoroastrianism and the Avest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apennine Mountains: Encyclopedia Ii - Apennine Mountains - Geology
The Apennines are the continuation of the Alpine chain, but the individual zones of the Alps cannot be traced into the Apennines. The zon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apennine Mountains: Encyclopedia Ii - Apennine Mountains - Character
The Apennines are to some extent clothed with forests, though these were probably more extensive in classical times (Pliny mentions espec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adriatic Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Adriatic Sea - Extent
The Adriatic extends northwest from 40° to 45° 45' N., with an extreme length of about 770 km (415 nm, 480 mi). It has a mean breadth o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adriatic Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Adriatic Sea - Coasts And Islands
The west shore is generally low, merging, in the northwest, into the marshes and lagoons on either hand of the protruding delta of the ri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adriatic Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Adriatic Sea - Miscellaneous
The bora or bura (northeast wind), and the prevalence of sudden squalls from this quarter or the southeast, are dangers to navigation in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Etymology
The idea of demons is as old as religion itself, and the word "demon" seems to have ancient origins. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Jewish Rabbinic Literature
Rabbinical demonology has three classes of, demons, though they are scarcely separable one from another. There were the shedim, the mazzi...   » Read the article