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	Deus otiosus - Βικιπαίδεια
		Ο όρος deus otiosus (ανενεργός θεός) χρησιμοποιείται κυρίως στην ανθρωπολογία και στη θρησκειολογία και σημαίνει τον θεό που έχει αποτραβηχτεί από τον κόσμο.
		Ο deus otiosus έχει δημιουργήσει τον κόσμο, αλλά μετά τη δημιουργία έχει αποτραβηχτεί, συνήθως γιατί έχει κουραστεί, οργιστεί ή απογοητευτεί από τον κόσμο, παραχωρώντας τη θέση του είτε σε νεώτερους θεούς είτε σε πνεύματα που μεσολαβούν μεταξύ αυτού και των ανθρώπων.
		Ο deus otiosus είναι μέρος του κοσμολογικού μύθου των θρησκειών αυτών.
	el.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deus_otiosus (788 words)

	Umbanda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For insance, Ogum, the flsmith Orisha, is associated with Saint George, while Yansan, with Saint Barbara.
		God himself is regarded as deus otiosus and is seldom referred to directly.
		As in Candomblé, the cult used to be carried out in rustic temples called terreiros — large round spaces surrounded by wooden seats and covered with palm-leaf roofs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Umbanda (396 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In belief systems that involve a deus otiosus, the distant High God is believed to have been closer to humans during the mythical age.
		Because the gods (particularly the High God, according to Eliade's deus otiosus concept) were closer to humans during the mythical age, the shaman's easy communication with the High God represents an abolition of history and a return to the mythical age.
		Because of his ability to communicate with the gods and descend to the land of the dead, the shaman frequently functions as a psychopomp and a medicine man.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Mircea_Eliade (6890 words)

	Deus Otiosus \| Encyclopedia of Religion
		The Latin term deus otiosus (pl., dei otiosi), meaning literally "god at leisure" or "god without work," denotes a god who has withdrawn or retired from active life.
		The paucity of detailed descriptions of these deities, when coupled with their widespread appearance in cultures around the globe, presents a puzzle for the study of religions.
		The manifestation of the sacred in the sky and the belief in supreme beings of the sky is most often overwhelmed and replaced by other sacred forms.
	www.bookrags.com /other/religion/deus-otiosus-eorl-04.html (467 words)

	ON DEUS OTIOSUS IDEOLOGY - Congo Times News
		While the majority of scholars promote this doctrine of Deus Otiosus, their own writing often carry a profound contradiction.
		As John Mbiti rightly pointed out, assertions like those of Uchendo and the whole cohort of Western scholars are misleading, and the notion that Africans conceive God as deus otiosus is false.
		We can thus conclude with John Mbiti that the doctrine of Deus Otiosus, which is a miscarriage of Colonial scholarship, stems from a superficial reading of African religion.
	www.congotimes.com /news/ubbhtml/Forum9/HTML/000079.html (578 words)

	deus otiosus -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The god of heaven may be a deus otiosus, who has, after completing the creation, withdrawn into heaven and abandoned the government of the world to the human ancestors or to nature spirits that are dependent on him and act as mediators.
		It may be correlated with the mythical meaning of deus otiosus, the deity who retires from the world after his creation, or with the mythic theme from some...
		Includes a biography, a bibliography, the text of her poetry collection Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, and a listserv.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9030117 (541 words)

	CHAPTER IV
		ancient Indian deva ‘god’ and dyazts ‘sky’, Latin deus and dies, originating from the Indo-European root deiuo-s, which means both God and sky.
		In the mythology of the Balts, Dangaus Dievas (God of the Sky) retains quite a few original Indo-European characteristics — he lives in heaven, is related to shining celestial bodies and is imagined as a light, radiant person deciding fates.
		In some lists of Prussian gods he does not figure at all, while in Lithuanian tales he takes part in the creation of the world and its aftermath.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-17/chapter_iv.htm (3937 words)

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		Zeus Pater, Jupiter) Father of Heaven and Father of the Gods, which already is regarded as a deus otiosus
		Cultural Diffusion: Process where an existing culture adopts the traits of another and the two eventually merge into a new culture.
		Deus Otiosus: god that is neutral, disengaged, not concerned with the affairs of man.
	www.akshin.net /introduction/intro-antecedents.htm (1577 words)

	bibliotheca Augustana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		[11] Summa igitur prudentia deus materiam virtutis in malis posuit; quae idcirco fecit, ut nobis constitueret agonem, in quo victores immortalitatis praemio coronaret.
		Deus in principio antequam mundum institueret, de aeternitatis suae fonte deque divino ac perenni spiritu suo filium sibi ipse progenuit incorruptum, fidelem, virtuti ac maiestati patriae respondentem.
		Fuit enim nobiscum in terra, cum induit carnem, et nihilominus deus fuit in homine et homo in deo.
	www.fh-augsburg.de /~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost04/Lactantius/lac_epit.html (7173 words)

	www.myspace.com/deusotiosus
		Deus Otiosus was formed in a frenzy in 2005, by two lost souls:
		”Deus Otiosus” basically means that God has abandoned
		Deus Otiosus channels the horrors of this orphaned world
	www.myspace.com /deusotiosus (397 words)

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		Long before the early modern scientists found their deus ex machina, Moses displayed Yahweh from the Ark of the Covenant.
		Or else, says he, the divine name may have been too sacred to utter, and the ritual of the synagogue replaced it by "My Lord Adonai." Both may be true reasons and connected with the third, more basic reason, that is, that Yahweh was no longer manifesting himself because he could not.
		Or he had retired, deus otiosus, and would not create the electrical conditions of the earlier world.
	saturniancosmology.org /files/degrazia/gf_4.txt (12312 words)

	CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE DALL
		The Kalasha religious system corresponds to a general morphology that, according to Eliade (1974: 26-29), was found among both Indoeuropean and Turco-Tartar peoples, and which had among its main traits: "...the supremacy of an uranic God, the absence or lesser importance of female gods, fire-cults..." (Eliade 1974: 404).
		Among the Kalasha, a supreme Uranic God (D'izala Dez'au) has become a deus otiosus (_), while a number of localized male gods are sacrificed and prayed to for the increase of the population and of the products of herds and fields.
		That D'izala Dez'au was traditionally a deus otiosus is shown by the fact that he is almost absent from calendrical festivals and that no shrines are dedicated to him.
	www.giottoulivi.it /spaziodocenti_ata/ricercheepubblicazioni/ricerche/Augusto_Shamans.htm (4497 words)

	Idle Theory: religion
		And this same work forever interrupted their reasoning and their study, so that they were always ignorant and confused.
		The perfectly idle God - deus otiosus - was not an abstraction, but a person.
		He was someone who did not have to do anything in order to stay alive.
	www.idlex.freeserve.co.uk /idle/evolution/human/religion/religion.html (2347 words)

	Tertullian : Ernest Evans, Adversus Marcionem. Book 5
		potest deus Marcionis, qui nec irasci novit nec ulcisci.
		mus: In quibus deus, dehinc: aevi huius excaecavit mentes
		Ita etsi huius aevi deus, sed infidelium huius aevi
	www.tertullian.org /articles/evans_marc/evans_marc_11book5.htm (8929 words)

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		Mythically, the _deus otiosus_ would be Atum-Ra, who is manifested within all other deities who are present.
		His problem is generally solved by having this god abstain from exercising his omnipotence and withdraw to the sky as a _deus otiosus_ (inactive god).
		It is to the latter that explicit theology was devoted in ancient Egypt...They [the Egyptians] held on to both truths, the unity of god and the differentiated plurality of gods, until Akhenaten, who would not tolerate this tension and made an attempt to found a new religion that knew only a single god.
	www.rostau.org.uk /aegyptian-l/archives/week283.txt (4582 words)

	ON THE ROLE OF CREATION AND ORIGIN MYTHS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Inti, on the other hand, was the tribal deity of the Inca who later became the highest ranking god in the pantheon.
		Thus, during this period one deity was substituted for another: Viracocha became deus otiosus, Inti, on the other hand became so popular that the first temple was built for him.
		Viracocha's promise to return refers to the fact that the sky god's cult never really disappeared, and in greatest troubles the Inca still addressed their sky god, as is common for deus otiosus (Kulmar 1999: 101-109).
	haldjas.folklore.ee /folklore/vol12/inca.htm (2840 words)

	Born of a woman.
		Sed et Paulus grammaticis istis silentium imponit: Misit, inquit, deus filium suum, factum ex muliere.
		For while writing to the Galatians he says: God sent his son, made of a woman, who of course it is established was a virgin, though Hebion resists it.
		ceterum deus ille otiosus, nec operationis nec praedicationis ullius, atque ita nec temporis alicuius, quid omnino egit quod efficeret tempus impleri et iam implendum sustineri?
	www.textexcavation.com /bornofawoman.html (2152 words)

	Geek Trivia: Planet X marks the spot
		According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the phrase deus otiosus is from the Latin for "hidden god".
		The god has delegated all work on Earth to ancestors or nature spirits..." It's appropriate because any tenth planet is hidden in as much as it can't be found with conventional optical techniques.
		Also, since it's pretty likely that it won't be the size of the 8 "official" planets, the fact that Otiosus is not the name of a god is fitting.
	techrepublic.com.com /5208-6230-0.html?forumID=6&threadID=200452 (344 words)

	Idle Theory: the Malthusian torpor
		In Idle Theory, Divinity is perfect idleness, the unattainable goal of all life.
		The Deus Otiosus of Idle Theory is perfectly inactive, tranquil, serene, and immortal - and the demonic is busy, toiling, industrious.
		Thus the devil of Idle Theory is Malthus' god.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/cuius/idle/evolution/malthus/torpor.html (970 words)

	Igbo Net: Ahiajoku Lecture Series:: the 2002 Ahiajoku Lecture, EN Onwu
		Deus Otiosus the withdrawn God, the absentee landlord.
		The acknowledgement of the High God, the Creator, at the same time as he is dealt with as remote or withdrawn forms the major basis of the concept of
		deus otiosus - the withdrawn God, a concept that at God does not enmesh himself in human affairs.
	ahiajoku.igbonet.com /2002 (10885 words)

	Viduramžių Lietuvos visuomenė
		the bona fide god of the gods, because the supreme god in Lithuania has a strong deus otiosus genus.
		Diviriks corresponds to the Indo-European realia as the god of Celts Teutates who is sometimes known as Toutiorix "the ruler of the nation, the bishop".
		At some time this word was to describe the lighted dome of sky, cf.
	viduramziu.lietuvos.net /socium/pagonybe.htm (6506 words)

	Britannica
		This is the only instance in which the sources allude to a hierarchy of divinities, but its centre is empty.
		The divinity mentioned by Helmold is a deus otiosus; i.e., an inactive god, unique in the mythology of the Indo-European peoples.
		Among the heavenly bodies the primary object of Slavic veneration was the moon.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/01britannica.html (3469 words)

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		It is this feeling which caused the monotheism underlying ancient religion to die out in favor of the idea of the "Deus otiosus".
		There is such a God, people thought, but he is separated from man by an unbridgeable chasm.
		Deism is not a new creation of the Enlightenment: it is merely the return of the "Deus Otiosus" of the mythical religions.
	www.ewtn.com /library/LITURGY/FEASTFTH.TXT (5366 words)

	World Mysteries - Mystic Places - Puma Punku and Tiwanaku [Tiahuanaco]
		Inti, on the other hand, was the tribal deity of the Inca who later became the highest ranking god in the pantheon.
		Thus, during this period one deity was substituted for another: Viracocha became deus otiosus, Inti, on the other hand became so popular that the first temple was built for him.
		Viracocha's promise to return refers to the fact that the sky god's cult never really disappeared, and in greatest troubles the Inca still addressed their sky god, as is common for deus otiosus (Kulmar 1999: 101-109).
	www.world-mysteries.com /mpl_6.htm (6615 words)

	I am becoming what I am becoming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If this should a genuine story or not is secondary to us.
		We have Khepre bugs in Judaea, and according to Helck the equation of Egyptian Re, during the Ramesside period, with the semitic deus otiosus, El.
		There is the friendly tone of the (post eventu) prophecy of Isaiah 19,18-19: "On that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Ca´naan and swear allegiance to the Lord of hosts.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/2000-September/008558.html (258 words)

	Udo Anders : Mediterranean Topics : Ugarit - Birth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The euphemistic use of the words "hand" and "staff" to refer to El's penis is widely acknowledged.
		Several scholars think that the expression "to be long of hand" as well as the description of El's "staff" descending or being fatigued implies that his penis is flaccid and that the actions of the two females are undertaken to excite old man El (a deus otiosus), who suffers from impotency.
		Others interpret these two keywords in the opposite sense and see El as a "vigorous and prodigiously lusty old man" whose "hand" is stretched and taut.
	www.quantum-chemistry-history.com /MediterraneanTopics/Suria/Cultural/Ugarit/Epics_3/Birth_CAT123/birth.htm (1376 words)

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		Innanzitutto "etsi Deus non daretur" non va tradotto "come se Dio non esistesse" ma "come se Dio non fosse dato".
		Questo è imparare a vivere "etsi Deus non daretur", non nel senso che si dimentica Dio o si dimentica il Vangelo o si dimentica la Rivelazione, ma semplicemente che noi prendiamo atto di una responsabilità che con gli altri uomini va giocata, "etsi Deus non daretur", come se Dio non fosse dato.
		Quando Nietzsche dichiara che Dio è morto, in realtà intende morto il dio funzionale, è morto esattamente il "deus otiosus" che presiede all’ordine immutabile del mondo.
	www.we-are-church.org /it/mondo/59CorsoStudi.htm (5383 words)

	Si Bondye Vle
		The word 'God' is always on the lips of the Haitians but it would be unwise to conclude that they feared Him or even gave Him much thought.
		Métraux's mention of Deus otiosus is a term often applied to African notions of God: that God is remote, withdrawn and uninvolved.
		I'd like to take that to mean that he really discussed this idea of the Deus Otiosus with several people in Haiti, and asked their opinions about it.
	www.gede.org /lwas/bondye.html (1928 words)

	Introduzione "Dio è nato donna", Pepe Rodríguez
		Forse Dio si è limitato a comportarsi come un "deus otiosus"(dio ozioso) cosi come lo descrivono le più importanti religioni autoctone dell'Africa, che credono che l'Essere Supremo vive isolato da tutti gli affari degli esseri umani.
		Il concetto di deus otiosus continua ad essere profondamente intelligente, ingegnoso e realista.
		Le religioni, come istituzioni formali, esistono solo da pochi millenni pubblicando la natura di Dio e parlando in suo nome, però le forme e gli attributi di Dio sono cosi numerosi e diversi ed i comandamenti divini che emanano da loro sono talmente vari e contradittori, che risulta francamente difficile farsi un'idea di Dio.
	www.pepe-rodriguez.com /Dios_mujer/Italiano/Dios_mujer_intro_it.htm (3827 words)

	«Areopagus Speech» in African Religious Context
		When this tendency to pay less direct attention to the Supreme deity in public worship is observed, it could lead to the conclusion that God is unknown among many tribes of Africa.
		The high-god is, as a rule, not the object of religious cult and is of small or almost no significance in practical religion.
		The Africa's God is a deus incertus, and a deus remotus, there is always an atmosphere of indefiniteness about him.
	www.afrikaworld.net /afrel/areopagus.htm (7425 words)

	Eerie Forbodings
		A very religious dynamic, believe it or not, is found in the idea of the silence of God.
		Two phrases illustrate this quite well: the idea of a deus otiosus and the deus absconditas are Latin phrases to describe a god who withdraws or who hides.
		One can see this concept illustrated throughout the history of religions from African tribal sky gods to the Deist Clockmaker/Designer who withdraws from interaction with the creation.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/rcummings/get/rs310/eerie.html (587 words)

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