Characteristics of deity — Mythoi

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Characteristics of deity.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Deity. · view the constellation · filed as A102

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CCCXXXVII
Japanese / ShintoNihongi: Chronicles of Japan, Book 1
Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XVII
Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter VIII: Philo of Alexandria and the Hellenistic Theology

Within the index

Filed under Deity.

19 finer motifs beneath it

Omniscient god All-seeing god Immutable god Omnipotent god Omnipresent god Eternal god Holy god Sleepless god Invisible god Unity of God Purity of God Perfect God Loving kindness of God Goodness of God Modesty of God Justice of God Anger of God Imperfect god, subject to death and rebirth Conflict between God's justice and mercy

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Supreme god. One god chief of all other gods. (Often not worshipped as other gods are.)Father-god The making of gods Opposition of good and evil gods Gods of darkness and light. Darkness thought of as evil, light as good God of the living and the dead in the otherworld Deity: miscellaneous motifs