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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Sky father

The sky father is a recurring theme in pagan and neopagan mythology. The sky father is the complement of the earth mother and appears in some creation myths, many of which are European or ancient Near Eastern. Other cultures have quite different myths; Egyptian mythology features a sky mother and an earthly dying and reviving god of vegetation. Shinto gives precedence to a sun goddess. A sky father also relates to a solar deity, a god identified with the sun. In Maori mythology, Ranginui was the sky father. In this story, the sky father and earth moth ...

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Sky father - History of the concept

Sky Father: Encyclopedia II - Sky father - History of the concept In late nineteenth century opinions on comparative religion, in a line of thinking that begins with Friedrich Engels and J. J. Bachofen, and which received major literary promotion in The Golden Bough by Sir James G. Frazer, it was believed that worship of a sky father was characteristic of nomadic peoples, and that worship of an earth mother similarly characterised farming peoples. According to this body of doctrine, nomads militarily overran farming societies, and replaced goddesses with male gods. During the process, it was believe ...

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Goddess worship - Examples of goddess worship

Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a goddess portrayed as the Earth Mother who serves as a general fertility deity, the bountiful embodiment of the earth. From the elegant snake-offering goddess figures of Knossos to the rock-cut images of Cybele, to Dione ("the Goddess") who was invoked at Dodona, along with Zeus, until late Classical times, it is sometimes too facile to class all archaic female goddesses as manifestations of the mother goddess. Archaeologists tend to avoid such theories in interpreting sites and material remains and sometim ...

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Olorun

In Yorùbá mythology, Olorun is the Sky Father (though occasionally androgynous or female), and a god of peace, purity and harmony. He is strongly associated with the color white, and controls everything that is white, such as bones, the brain, and clouds. He is the father of Odudua and Obatala. Olorun - Other names. Ogus Olorum Yansan Categories: Peace gods | Sky and weather gods | ...

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Olorun - Other names

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Dyaus Pita

In vedic religion, Dyaus Pita is the Sky Father, husband of Prthivi and father of Agni and Indra (RV 4.17.4). His origins can be traced to the Indo-European sky god *Dyeus, who is also reflected as Zeus in Greek mythology, Jupiter (from Latin Iove pater, "father-god") in Roman mythology, Div in Slavic mythology and Tyr in Norse mythology. Sharing a fate similar to nordic Tyr's, already in the Rig Veda, Dyaus Pita is all but featureless, appearing in hymns 1.89, 1.90, 1.164, 1.191 and 4.1 in simple invocations. In RV 1.89.4b, Pita Dyaus "Father Sky" appe ...

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Dyaus Pita - Literature

Sky Father: Encyclopedia - God and gender

This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional religious views, and modern views of these faiths, especially as to how modern feminism has influenced the theology of these religions. For the discussion of the topic in Hinduism, see Hindu views on God and gender. Monotheists hold a belief in one God as a fundamental religious principle. In Judaism and Islam, God is believed to be sexless, but has been traditionally referr ...

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God and gender - Mormon views

God and gender - Translating the names of God into English

Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Abrahamic religions on God and gender

This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional religious views, and modern views of these faiths, especially as to how modern feminism has influenced the theology of these religions. Monotheists hold a belief in one God as a fundamental religious principle. In Judaism and Islam, God is believed to be sexless, but has been traditionally referred to using male grammatical gender. In Christianity, God is ...

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Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Mormon views

Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Translating the names of God into English

Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Caelus

Caelus was the Latin name that the Romans used for the Greek sky god Uranus. Caelus (sometimes spelt Coelus), was, by marriage to Tellus (Greek: Gaia), the father of Saturn (Cronus), Ops (Rhea), Oceanus and the other Titans, as well as the Gigantes. Alone, Caelus was the father of Venus (Aphrodite). Other related archivesAphrodite, Cronus, Gaia, Gigantes, Latin, Oceanus, Rhea, Tellus, Uranus, Venus

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Nuit

In the Ennead mythology, Nuit (alternatively spelt Nut) was the sky goddess, in contrast to most other mythologies, which usually have a sky father. Nuit is a daughter of Shu, god of the air, and Tefnut, goddess of moistness. Her husband was Geb, the earth, with whom she had 4 children: Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nepthys. In myth, she originally lay eternally having sex with Geb, but Shu (the air) later separated them, and it was said that if she ever returned to that position, chaos would reign (because the world ...

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Nuit - Nuit in Thelema

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Shango

In Yorùbá mythology, Shango (Xango), or Changó in Latin America, is perhaps the most popular Orisha; he is a Sky Father, god of thunder and the ancestor of the Yoruba. In the Lukumí (O lukumi = "my friend") religion of the Caribbean, Shango is considered to be the center point of the religion as he represents the Oyo people of West Africa. The Oyo Kingdom was sacked and pillaged and its residents brought in chains as slaves to the Caribbean and Brazil. All the major initiation ceremonies (as performed in Cuba, Puerto ...

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Baiame

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Baiame was the ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi. He was a sky god and a deity of death and life, and a god of rain and the shamans. He was married to Birrahgnooloo, with whom he was the father of Daramulum. Other related archivesAustralian, Birrahgnooloo, Daramulum, Kamilaroi, aboriginal mythology, deity of death

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Chandra

In Hinduism, Chandra is a lunar deity. Chandra is sometimes identified with Soma. He is white and rides his chariot (the moon) across the sky every night, pulled by ten white horses. He is connected with dew, and as such, is one of the gods of fertility. He is the father of Budha, (planet Mercury) the mother being either Tara or Rohini. He is also married to Anuradha and Bharani, both daughters of Daksha. Chandra - Other meanings. Chandra is also the word in Sanskrit, Hindi and other Indian language ...

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Chandra - Other meanings

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Sabazios

Sabazios is the nomadic horseman sky and father god of the Phrygians. In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the '-zios' element in his name goes back to Dyeus, the common precursor of 'deus' (god) and Zeus. Though the Greeks associated Phrygian Sabazios with Zeus, representations of him, even into Roman times, show him always on horseback, as a nomadic horseman god, wielding his characteristic staff of power. Sabazios - Thracian/Phrygian Sabazios. It seems likely that the migrating Phr ...

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Tuisco

Tuisto or Tuisco was according to Tacitus (Germania, ch. 2) the ancestor of all Germanic tribes. He was the father of the first man, Mannus. He was worshipped with human sacrifice. According to Jakob Grimm, his name and variant forms (Thuisco, Thuiskon, Tuisco) come from the adjective tivisco derived from the name of the god Tiu; the name Tiu, Proto-Germanic *Tîwaz, derives from Proto-Indo-European *Dyeus, the god of the daylit sky, and the adjective derived from it could ...

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Zuni mythology

The Zuni are a Pueblo people located in the southwest of the United States. Awonawilona is the creator god. He made the sun and ocean, which was covered with green algae that hardened, split and became Awitelin Tsta and Apoyan Tachi. Apoyan Tachi and Awitelin Tsta are the sky father and earth mother and the parents of all life on Earth. Achiyalatopa is a monster with knives for feathers. Amitolane is a rainbow spirit. Yanauluha is a culture hero, who brought agriculture, medicine and all the customs of the Zuni people. Uhepono is a hairy giant that lived ...

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Zuni mythology - Creation

Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Anansi

Anansi is one of the most important and famous gods of west African lore. He is a trickster and a culture hero, who acts on behalf of Nyame (his father, the sky god) and brings rain to stop fires and performing other duties for him. His mother is Asase Ya. There are several mentions of Anansi's children. According to some myths his wife is known as Miss Anansi or Mistress Anansi. Eventually, Anansi was replaced by a chameleon. He is depicted in numerous form ...

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Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Zulu kaNtombhela

Zulu kaNtombhela, son of Ntombhela kaMalandela, (also known as Zulu Nkosinkulu ?) was the founder and chief of the Zulu clan from ca. 1709. In the Zulu language, Zulu means heaven, or sky. When his father Ntombhela died his eldest son Qwabe laid claim to his land, causing his younger son Zulu, along with his mother Nozinja, to set out to find land of his own. He lead his followers south to the Mkhumbane river basin on the White Mfolozi river (are they the same ?). Here, amid the tall euphorbia trees that were destined to become the symbol of Zulu chieftan ...

Sky Father: Encyclopedia - Religion

Religion (see etymology below) —sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system—is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine; and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. In its broadest sense some have defined it as the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. In the course of the development of religion, it has taken ...