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Anubis , Anubis
ANUBIS . The Egyptians represented the god Anubis as a black jackal (a wild dog?) crouching "on his belly," or as a man with a jackal's or dog… Language, Linguistics, and Literary Terms , dark often used figuratively to mean unenlightened or ominous.
Dark Ages the period in western Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the hi… Shamash , Shamash
Nationality/Culture
Assyrian/Babylonian
Pronunciation
shah-MAHSH
Alternate Names
Utu, Babbar, Chemosh
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, Great… De-Shalit, Amos , dead / ded/ • adj. 1. no longer alive. ∎ (of a part of the body) having lost sensation; numb. ∎ having or displaying no emotion, sympathy, or sensiti… Hermes , Hermes
Nationality/Culture
Pronunciation
Alternate Names
Mercury (Roman)
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Hesiod's Theogony, Ovid's Metamorphoses, the Homeric Hymns
Lineag… Mitra , Mitra (Mithra or Mithras) God who in different forms was worshipped in India, Persia and then the Roman Empire, and whose cult was the basis of Mithr…
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