Hindus account for less than 2 percent of all Indonesians, although Hinduism is the dominant religion on Bali and has many adherents in Lombok. Local religions are practiced in some remote areas. Who is Balinese God? The 3 primary Gods Bali is called the “Island of Gods”, and we canRead More →

In religious or mythological cosmology, the seven heavens refer to seven levels or divisions of the Heavens (Heaven). Which God created the world? The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. In the first, Elohim (the Hebrew genericRead More →

Some versions of pantheism believe in reincarnation, or vast cosmic minds and purposes, or magic. But the basic pantheism of John Toland, the Irish writer who coined the word ‘pantheist’ back in 1705, was a very rational affair. Toland revered the physical universe and believed that minds were an aspectRead More →

As one of the creator gods, he rose from the ocean of chaos on the primeval hill, creating himself and then in turn engendering eight other gods. The sun god Re (Ra), one of the creator gods of ancient Egypt. Who made the sun god? Ra was believed to ruleRead More →

Goethe was baptised as a Roman Catholic. After training to become a Catholic priest, he became a Protestant and went to England. What did Einstein say about Goethe? In a 1932 letter to Leopold Casper, Einstein wrote that he admired Goethe as “a poet without peer, and as one ofRead More →

The relationship between them is complex, especially on Goultard’s part because Percedal is the mortal reincarnation of Goultard’s father, the Iop God. He is aware of this but did not reveal the truth to Percedal until the young Iop tapped into his divine power to protect his children. Is DallyRead More →

intransitive verb. 1 : to lapse morally or in the practice of religion. 2 : to revert to a worse condition : retrogress. Other Words from backslide Example Sentences Learn More About backslide. Is backsliding the same as falling away? Backsliding is a sliding back. Though backsliding is not suddenRead More →

No, he was neither a fire god, nor a trickster god. Loki is not referred to by either of these titles in the source texts of Norse mythology. Rudolf Simek calls him “a god without a function,” and all the major scholars of Norse mythology and religion agree that LokiRead More →