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	Lunar New Year in Taiwan
		It begins on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the day, it is believed, when various gods ascend to heaven to pay their respects and report on household affairs to the Jade Emperor, the supreme Taoist deity.
		At the stroke of midnight, the doors are thrown wide open and people surge forward in an attempt to be the first to place their incense sticks into the censer, as another long-standing tradition states that the first person to do so will be blessed with good luck throughout the coming year.
		Familiar songs and traditional music associated with Lunar New Year are broadcast through loudspeakers in department stores, many of which hold year-end sales to attract wage earners, whose pockets are weighted down by the traditional annual bonus that is always paid at this time of year.
	www.gio.gov.tw /taiwan-website/5-gp/culture/lunar-NY (1651 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Lunar deity
		In the study of mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with or symbolizing the Moon.
		She is usually female, perhaps because of the association between women's menstrual cycles and the moon.
		She was usually sister, mother, daughter and/or enemy of the solar deity.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/lu/Lunar_deity (85 words)

	Lunar Deities
		He is the ancestor of the Chandra-vansa, the lunar race, from which Krishna, the eighth avatar (incarnation) of the god Vishnu was descended.
		Possibly, she was associated with the moon because she was depicted carrying a torch and riding a bull, a lunar animal.
		The chief astral deity, sometimes regarded as the son of Enlil and Ninlil; father of Utu-Shamash, the sun, and of Ishtar.
	www.wyldwytch.com /weavings/articles/altar/pages/lunar.htm (1938 words)

	Lunar Glyphs in the Maya Celendrics
		Note the order of reading of glyphs, which is two Glyphs Blocks, left to right, in the first row, then two Glyphs Blocks in the second row, etc.; when the bottom of column B is reached, the text would continue with the next two columns, not drawn here, at C1 and D1, and so forth.
		Block A1 is called the ISIG Initial Series Introductory Glyph), and it announces that following it is the date; it is adorned with the patron deity of the month of the event, in this case the month Yax.
		This calendrics recap is a review of Dawn Jenkins’ document "Maya Astronomy" which appeared in the Fall 1995 OTAA issue of "Asteroid Belt", where she treats in more detail these calendric specifics.
	www.astras-stargate.com /maya_lunar_series.html (398 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lunar deity
		These deities can have a variety of functions and traditions depending upon the culture, but they are often related to or an enemy of the solar deity.
		Chang'e or Heng O. The moon does not represent any deity in Chinese culture.
		The moon is a palace where immortals and fairies live.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Moon_god (125 words)

	Astronomy articles, forums, listings, and other resources about Astronomy.
		The related adjective for the Moon is lunar (again from the Latin root), but this is not found in combination, the combining forms seleno-/-selene (again from the Greek) and -cynthion (from the Lunar deity Cynthia) being used in terms relating to the Moon in various other contexts (e.g.
		The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2 in 1959; the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year.
		The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 in 1966.
	www.astronomy.net /moon (281 words)

	Venus of Willendorf Fertility Goddess Lunar Goddess Jewelry Pendants Charms
		Venus of Willendorf Fertility Goddess Lunar Goddess Jewelry Pendants Charms
		Lunar Goddess Navel Ring / Goddess Belly Ring
		Goddess Jewelry and Deity Jewelry : 1
	www.silverenchantments.com /Goddess-God-Charms-pg2.html (322 words)

	The Gods of Ancient Egypt -- Thoth
		Thoth is considered a lunar deity and is often depicted wearing the lunar crescent on his head.
		There is a story told of how Thoth won a portion of Khonsu's light, and this may be the reason.
		As a lunar deity his totem animal is the baboon, a nocturnal animal that goes to sleep only after greeting the new day.
	www.touregypt.net /godsofegypt/thoth.htm (249 words)

	Arthur Drews - The Legend of St. Peter
		Solar deities of a given use to adopt imaginery from the constellation at the primaveral equinox.
		The complementarity of solar- and lunar deity was already important in Phoenician faith.
		The deity Cervan Acarana, the Timelord, is closely connected to Mithra.
	www.egodeath.com /arthurdrewslegendstpeter.htm (3530 words)

	Lunar deity
		In the study of mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with or symbolizing the Moon.
		She is usually female, perhaps because of the association between women's menstrual cycles and the moon.
		She was usually sister, mother, daughter and/or enemy of the solar deity.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Lunar_deity.html (60 words)

	Deity - Theo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A deity or a god, is a postulated preternatural being, usually, but not always, of significant power, worshipped, thought holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, or respected by human beings.
		Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the universe.
		Dualism is the view that there are two deities: a deity of Good who is opposed and thwarted by a deity of Evil, of equal power.
	forumhost.us /theo/index.php?title=Deity (1046 words)

	Lunar Astrology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Chinese culture, the sun and the moon, or yang and yin, are said to represent the masculine and the feminine, respectively.
		A feminine lunar connection is easily overstated, however, for male lunar gods are also frequent, such as Nanna or Sin of the Mesopotamians, Mani of the Germanic tribes, Thoth of the Egyptians, the Japanese god Tsukiyomi, and Tecciztecatl of the Aztecs.
		The bull was lunar in Mesopotamia (its horns representing the crescent).
	www.crystalinks.com /lunarastrology.html (1067 words)

	Lunar deity - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with or symbolizing the moon: see moon (mythology).
		These deities can have a variety of functions and traditions depending upon the culture, but they are often related to or an enemy of the solar deity.
		Lunar deity, List of Lunar Deities, Lunar deities, Mythological archetypes and Moon.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Lunar_deity (128 words)

	Theosophy Trust
		That men fear the lunar nature, both in themselves as well as in women, seems to be indicated in their almost universal desire not only to control women but to create social spheres which are exclusively male and which permit the 'rational' elements of their nature to dominate.
		The lunar chain is inferior to the earth chain and it is on the latter that the monads of lunar ancestors have to become 'men' so as to reach a plane of higher conscious activity.
		This is at the heart of the symbolic lunar initiation whereby the worshipper becomes the 'child' of the moon goddess and, through knowledge of her, becomes her husbandman.
	www.theosophytrust.org /tlodocs/articlesSymbol.php?d=MoonThe-0976.htm&p=49 (3035 words)

	EGYPTIAN GODS AND RELIGION
		As a deity closely associated with resurrection, Khepri was believed to be swallowed by Nut the sky goddess every evening, where he would pass through her body to be reborn in the morning.
		Household deity in the form of a female hippopotamus who was particularly associated with the protection of women in childbirth.
		Thoth was a lunar deity and is often depicted wearing the lunar crescent on his head.
	www.egyptologyonline.com /gods_and_goddesses.htm (3904 words)

	Chapter XXII (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lunar Worship--The Great Mother of Darkness.--Anion as a Moon God--Fusion with Ra--Ptah a Form of the Theban Deity--Fenkhu--"and "Fenish" Artisans--Osiris and Amon--Veneration of Religious Pharaohs--Amon's Wife and Concubine--Conquests of Thothmes I--Rival Claimants to the Throne--Queen Hatshepsut--Her Famous Expedition--Rise of Thothmes III--A Great Strategist--His Conquests--The Egyptian Empire --Amon's Poetic Praise--The Emperor's Buildings and Obelisks.
		Osiris, the human incarnation of primitive Nilotic deities, absorbed the attributes of the moon spirit and the male earth spirit.
		Amenhotep I and his wife Aahmes-Nefertari were, after their death, revered as deities; references are made to them as protectors and punishers of men in the Nineteenth Dynasty.
	www.earth-history.com /Egypt/egypt-eml33.htm (3754 words)

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		As periodic re-creation it is Time and measurement, time being first measured by lunar phases, and, as such, the bringer of change, suffering and decay, man's condition on earth; as variable in its phases it symbolizes the realm of becoming.
		The soul may ride the tide in lunar form, according to Caesarius of Heisterback: "The soul is a spiritual substance of spherical nature, like the globe of the moon." Scottish girls refused to schedule a wedding day for any time other than the full moon, the most fortunate time for women.
		The moon was the special deity of women even during the Renaisance, when it was said if a woman wanted anything she should not ask God but should pray instead to the moon.
	www.mit.edu /~mbarker/othex/barb/symbol15a.txt (2980 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tlaloc
		He could have been the sun god, but he feared the suns fire, so Nanahuatzin became the sun god and Tecciztecatl (in the form of a rabbit) was...
		The cultural areas of Mesoamerica The term MesoamÃ©rica is used to refer to a geographical region that extends roughly from the Tropic of Cancer in central Mexico down through Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to northwestern Costa Rica, and which is characterized by the particular cultural homogeneity...
		Chaac (also rendered as Chaak or Chac) is an important deity in the pantheon of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Mesoamerica.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tlaloc (955 words)

	Jupiterkitty ~ The Egyptian Pantheon
		She is a multitude of mythological ideas including moon-goddess, sky goddess, a goddess of the east, a goddess of the west, a cosmic deity, an agricultural goddess, a goddess of moisture(Moon association), water goddess and on occasion a solar deity.
		Hathor is especially revered as a Moon goddess and the original form she was worshipped under was that of a cow which is itself a lunar symbol.
		Thoth was a lunar deity and wore a crescent Moon on his head.
	www.jupiterkitty.com /Mythology/egyptian2.html (1208 words)

	Deity - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia
		Such natural phenomena as lightning, floods, storms, other "acts of God," and miracles are attributed to them, and they may be thought to be the authorities or controllers of every aspect of human life (such as birth or the afterlife).
		Some Prasangikas hold that even the conventional existence of universal (monotheistic) deities is a non-existent, whereas others consider that the conventional existence of such a being is an existent.
		In this view, God is not a god or deity, and the anthropomorphic mythology and iconography associated with Him is regarded as symbolism, allowing worshippers to speak and think about something which otherwise would be beyond human comprehension.
	paganpedia.mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=God (1503 words)

	Hekate: Moving Through Darkness
		Wild animals are also loved by her (something I believe originates from her earliest days as a prehistoric fertility deity), and she is sometimes shown with three animal heads - the dog, snake, and lion, or alternately the dog, horse, and bear.
		Instead he cites her as being a deity who grants abundance to fishers, farmers, and herders, as well as victory to warriours and athletes.
		While Hekate is a versatile deity, she is best known as a goddess of death and the Underworld.
	home.comcast.net /~subrosa_florens/witch/hekate.html (10310 words)

	Erath
		Though born a mortal, she became a minor deity ("Saint") worshipped by the Droods and Carmanian peasants as a spirit cult to this day.
		Her cult is currently officially proscribed, following her attempted exposure of another Lunar deity's treachery which backfired, but appears to offer the only hope of overcoming the increasing local influence of Unuk-Halai, thus the players' interest; however overt support courts disaster.
		Erath became involved in a direct confrontation with a Lunar deity, I am talking of a battle you understand, something she was not versed in.
	www.furfur.demon.co.uk /erath.htm (697 words)

	LunarNET ~ http://www.lunar-net.com
		She is the deity to whom Lunar owes its existence; it was she who brought life to Lunar and populated it with humans and beastmen alike.
		The Four Dragons and the Dragonmaster are entrusted with her protection, and it is said that she is reborn many times among the people of Lunar, always protected by her servants.
		Lunar is a trademark of Game Arts Co. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
	www.lunar-net.com /ds/story1.php (160 words)

	Ina
		In Polynesian mythology, Ina is a lunar deity (daughter of Kui or Vaitere) who kept an eel in a jar, but it soon grew into the eel-god, Tuna, who tried to rape her.
		The people of Upolo[?] rescued her and sentenced him to death.
		She is the goddess of fish, the inventor of barkcloth, creator of Molokai and a lunar deity.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/in/Ina.html (155 words)

	Thoth - ArchaeoWiki
		Thoth (Egyptian: Djehuty) was a lunar deity within ancient Egyptian religion, who came increasingly to be associated with writing and knowledge, the patron of scribes and scribal arts.
		Thoth is most commonly depicted semi-anthropomorphically as an ibis-headed divine male figure; the god's other distinct primary rendering being in the form of a baboon—both animal manifestations, however, appear to be lunar-related.
		Thoth was later associated with the Greek deity Hermes, explaining the name of Thoth's ancient city as Hermopolis.
	www.archaeowiki.org /Thoth (380 words)

	Pagan Astronomy Network - The Moon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		First off, the lunar cycle is 18.61 years, often rounded to the mystical number 19 so often found in ancient lore.
		The artificial mountain known as the ziggurat was the "House of Nammar", or the "House of Heaven".
		Like the Hindu's, we again see the lunar deity both carry a bow and be accompanied by canine companions.
	paganastronomy.net /moon.htm (1655 words)

	The Role of Cats in Myth and Religion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Slaves and immigrants imported their native beliefs and some of their rituals and deities were incorporated into the mythology of their captors.
		Although she began as a solar goddess, the Greeks changed her to a lunar deity because the associated her with the Greek lunar goddess Artemis, brother of Apollo (and by extension, she became the daughter of Isis and Osiris).
		The Egyptian Sphinx may be found in the role of protector with the head of a Pharoah combined with the recumbent body of a lion; a combination of wisdom and strength called an androsphinx by the Greeks.
	messybeast.com /feline-deity.htm (2888 words)

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