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• Victory
  ...g/wiki/Oslac Oslac]). In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic Roman Republic], victories were [[celebrated]] by triumph [[ceremonies]] and [[mo ...rinthians.2C_XV 1 Corinthians 15:55]; see also Jesus Christ in comparative mythology).
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• Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
  ...family life; [[language]], [[literature]], and [[art]]; [[religion]] and [[mythology]]; [[technology]], [[science]], and [[medicine]].
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• Scourge
  ...ail depicted in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_mythology Egyptian mythology] is that it was an agricultural instrument used to thresh wheat, not implem ...dered Jesus to be scourged, it being the first [[step]] in the traditional Roman punishment for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parricide parricide].[https:/
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• Cornucopia
  ...]] attendants, including the goat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalthea_(mythology) Amalthea] ("Nourishing Goddess"), who fed him with her milk. The suckling ...ucopia was created when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles Heracles] (Roman Hercules) wrestled with the river god [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achelo
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• Satyrs
  ...a sylvan [[deity]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology Greek mythology] having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian re ...g a goat-tail, goat-like ears, and sometimes a goat-like phallus. In Roman Mythology there is a similar concept with goat-like features, the [https://en.wikiped
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• Archon
  ...club leader" to "master of the tables" at syssitia to "Roman governor". In Roman terms, archontes ruled by imperium, whereas Basileis ("Kings") had [[auctor [[Category: Mythology]]
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• Pantheon
  ...s a set of all the gods of a particular [[polytheistic]] [[religion]] or [[mythology]]. ...the increasingly multicultural [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman Empire], with subjects worshipping gods from many [[cultures]] and [[tradit
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• Triad
  ...ated with the number [[three]]. Such deities are common throughout world [[mythology]]; the number three has a long [[history]] of mythical associations. [https ...The [[religious]] iconographic repertoire of Gaul and Britain during the [[Roman]] period includes a wide range of triple forms: the most common triadic dep
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• Grace
  #Graces Greek & Roman Mythology Three sister goddesses, known in Greek mythology as Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, who dispense [[charm]] and [[beauty]].
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• Labyrinth
  In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology Greek mythology], the '''Labyrinth''' (Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, possibly the ...e designs became more elaborate, visual depictions of the Labyrinth from [[Roman]] times until the [[Renaissance]] are almost invariably unicursal. Branchin
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• Polytheism
  ...ry, have a belief in polytheism, such as Shinto, Ancient Greek Polytheism, Roman Polytheism, Germanic Polytheism, Slavic polytheism,Chinese folk religion, N The deities of polytheistic religions are [[agents]] in [[mythology]], where they are portrayed as [[complex]] personages of greater or lesser
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• 185:6 Pilate's Last Appeal
  ...d illegal [[procedure]] since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_law Roman law] provided that only those [[condemned]] to die by [[crucifixion]] shoul ...ecalling his [[wife]]'s note and the [https://www.library.theoi.com/ Greek mythology] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology#Age_of_gods_and_mort
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• Christmas
  ...te of birth, and the date may have been chosen to correspond with either a Roman festival[6] or the winter solstice.[7] ...Saint Nicholas and elements from [[pagan]] [[Nordic]] and [[Christian]] [[mythology]], and his modern appearance is believed to have originated in 19th century
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• Destiny
  ...re tossed to read destiny, from [[Thrace]] to pagan [[Mecca]]. In [[Yoruba mythology|Yoruba]] traditional [[religion]], the [[Ifá]] oracle is consulted via a s ...in Greek mythology, [[Parcae]] in Roman mythology, and [[Norns]] in Norse mythology, who determinted the events of the world. One word derivative of "fate" is
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• 121:5 The Gentile Religions
  ...'The [[pagan]] [[cults]]''. These were a combination of Hellenic and Latin mythology, patriotism, and tradition. ...ions]] of both churches by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman government].
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• Heart
  ===In mythology, spirituality and religion=== In Egyptian [[mythology]], the Egyptian soul (heart) was weighed in a balance against the feather o
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• Pagan
  ...in the towns and cities of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman Empire]; cf. Orosius Histories 1. Prol. "''Ex locorum agrestium compitis et ...raditions is the absence of [[proselytism]] and the presence of a living [[mythology]], which informs religious [[practice]].
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• Ambrosia
  .../Greek_mythology Greek] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology Roman gods] In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology ancient Greek mythology], '''ambrosia''' (Greek: ἀμβροσία) is sometimes the [[food]] or dr
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• Celt
  By the early first milennium AD, following the expansion of the Roman Empire and the Great Migrations (Migration Period) of Germanic peoples, Cel * MacKillop, James. ''A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-280120-1
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• Mythology
  ...natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. '''Mythology''' also refers to the branch of [[knowledge]] dealing with the collection, ...least since Tocqueville compared American society to 'a vast lottery', our mythology of business has celebrated risk-taking." The adjective ''mythical'' dates t
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