"Evil God" in the mythology of Europe.
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Year of issue: 2016
Number of chapters: 110
Release: continues
Chapter release frequency: every 2.55 days
Free chapter release schedule: 1 chapter every 4 days at hours
Alternative name: Evil God
Alternative name: Rasubosu no mukō-gawa ~ saikyō no ura bosu = jashin ni tensei shitakedo, 1000-nen dare mo kona ikara gakuen ni kayou koto ni shita ~
Alternative name: The Other Side of the Last Boss~The Strongest Hidden Boss=He Reincarnates into an Evil God, But Since No One has Come After 1,000 Years, He Decides to Go to School~
The short life of a 16-year-old boy who loved to watch ended after an accident, after which God appeared. The boy was the perfect candidate for reincarnation, so he was asked if he was okay with it. The boy accepted this and reincarnated into another world. He reincarnated as the God of Evil Ashtal. Just like in the game, one day someone defeated the Last Boss, the Demon King, later they would face their opponent, the stunning Secret Boss.
He observed 1000 years with the help of magic. Hey! Why hasn't anyone done this before? I should be the Secret Boss!
And finally, Ashtal got bored, after some event he began to go to school. Sometimes he had to fight a demon who overestimated his strength, once he had to become the chairman of a bank in order to attack a great nation that thought too much of itself. Here is a story about the God of Evil.
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Posted by Kyoufu Nov 13 2017, 03:43 pm
You shouldn't read this. Gg such OYASH that even makes me sick. At the sight of the girl, he almost died! Literally! He also lays eggs! In short, if you decide to read this, you should then go to a psychiatrist. Is it a little...
Two years have flown by in Naruto's world. Former rookies have joined the ranks of experienced shinobi in the ranks of chūnin and jonin. The main characters did not sit still - each became a student of one of the legendary Sannin - the three great ninja of Konoha. The guy in orange continued his training with the wise but eccentric Jiraiya, gradually ascending to a new level of martial prowess. Sakura has moved into the role of assistant and confidant of the healer Tsunade, the new leader of the Leaf Village. Well, Sasuke, whose pride led to expulsion from Konoha, entered into a temporary alliance with the sinister Orochimaru, and each believes that he is only using the other for the time being.
The brief respite ended, and events once again rushed with hurricane speed. In Konoha, the seeds of old strife, sown by the first Hokage, sprout again. The mysterious leader of the Akatsuki set in motion a plan for world domination. Restless in the Village of Sand and neighboring countries, old secrets pop up everywhere, and it is clear that someday you will have to pay the bills. The long-awaited sequel to the manga has breathed new life into the series and new hope into the hearts of countless fans!
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Swordsman Tatsumi, a simple boy from the countryside, goes to the Capital to earn money for his starving village.
And having reached there, he will soon find out that the great and beautiful Capital is only an appearance. The city is mired in corruption, cruelty and lawlessness that comes from the prime minister who rules the country from behind the scenes.
But as everyone knows - "There is no warrior alone in the field" and nothing can be done about it, especially when your enemy is the head of state, or rather the one who is hiding behind him.
Will Tatsumi find like-minded people and be able to change something? Watch and find out for yourself.
Fairy Tail is the Guild of Wizards for Hire, famous all over the world for its crazy antics. The young sorceress Lucy was sure that, becoming one of her members, she ended up in the most wonderful Guild in the world ... until she met her comrades - explosive fire-breathing and sweeping away everything in its path Natsu, flying talking cat Happy, exhibitionist Gray , berserker Elsa, glamorous and loving Loki... Together they have to overcome many enemies and experience many unforgettable adventures!
18-year-old Sora and 11-year-old Shiro are half-brother and sister, complete recluses and gamers. When two loneliness met, the indestructible union "Empty Place" was born, terrifying all Eastern gamers. Although in public the guys shake and twist not like a child, on the Web, little Shiro is a logical genius, and Sora is a monster of psychology that cannot be fooled. Alas, worthy opponents soon ended, because Shiro was so happy chess game, where the handwriting of the master was visible from the first moves. Having won at the limit of their strength, the heroes received an interesting offer - to move to another world, where their talents will be understood and appreciated!
Why not? Nothing holds Sora and Shiro in our world, and the merry world of Disbord is ruled by the Ten Commandments, the essence of which boils down to one thing: no violence and cruelty, all disagreements are resolved in a fair game. There are 16 races in the game world, of which the human race is considered the weakest and most untalented. But after all, the miracle guys are already here, in their hands is the crown of Elkia - the only country of people, and we believe that the successes of Sora and Shiro will not be limited to this. The envoys of the Earth just need to unite all the races of Disboard - and then they will be able to challenge the god Tet - their, by the way, old acquaintance. Just when you think about it, is it worth it?
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Fairy Tail is the Guild of Wizards for Hire, famous all over the world for its crazy antics. The young sorceress Lucy was sure that, becoming one of her members, she ended up in the most wonderful Guild in the world ... until she met her comrades - the explosive fire-breathing and sweeping away everything in its path Natsu, the flying talking cat Happy, the exhibitionist Gray , berserker Elsa, glamorous and loving Loki... Together they have to overcome many enemies and experience many unforgettable adventures!
University student Ken Kaneki is hospitalized in an accident, where he is mistakenly transplanted with the organs of one of the ghouls - monsters that eat human flesh. Now he himself becomes one of them, and for people he turns into an outcast to be destroyed. But can he become his own for other ghouls? Or is there no more room in the world for him now? This anime will tell about the fate of Kaneki and what impact he will have on the future of Tokyo, where there is a continuous war between the two species.
The continent that lies in the center of the Ignol Ocean is the large central one and four more - Southern, Northern, Eastern and Western, and the gods themselves look after him, and he is called Ente Isla.
And there is a name that plunges anyone on Ente Isla into Horror - the Lord of Darkness Mao.
He is the master of the other world where all the dark creatures live.
He is the embodiment of fear and horror.
The Lord of Darkness Mao declared war on the human race and sowed death and destruction throughout the Ente Isla continent.
The Lord of Darkness served 4 powerful generals.
Adramelech, Lucifer, Alciel and Malacod.
Four Demon Generals led the attack on 4 parts of the continent. However, a hero appeared that opposed the army of the underworld. The hero and his comrades defeated the troops of the Lord of Darkness in the west, then Adramelech in the north and Malakoda in the South. The hero led the united army of the human race and attacked the central continent where the castle of the Lord of Darkness stood...
Yato is a wandering Japanese god in the form of a thin, blue-eyed youth in a tracksuit. In Shintoism, the power of a deity is determined by the number of believers, and our hero has neither a temple nor priests, all donations fit in a sake bottle. The guy in the neckerchief moonlights as a jack of all trades, painting ads on the walls, but things are going very badly. Even the tongue-tied Mayu, who for many years worked as a Shinki - the Sacred Weapon of Yato - left the owner. And without a weapon, the younger god is no stronger than an ordinary mortal magician, you have (what a shame!) To hide from evil spirits. And who needs such a celestial anyway?
One day, a pretty high school student, Hiyori Iki, threw herself under a truck to save some guy in black. It ended badly - the girl did not die, but gained the ability to “leave” her body and walk on the “other side”. Having met Yato there and recognized the culprit of her troubles, Hiyori convinced the homeless god to heal her, for he himself admitted that no one can live between worlds for a long time. But, having got to know each other better, Iki realized that the current Yato did not have enough strength to solve her problem. Well, you need to take matters into your own hands and personally direct the tramp on the true path: first, find a good-for-nothing weapon, then help earn money, and then, you see, what will happen. No wonder they say: what a woman wants - God wants!
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Suimei University Art High School has many dormitories, and there is a Sakura tenement house. If dormitories have strict rules, then everything is possible in Sakura, not without reason its local nickname is “madhouse”. Since in art genius and madness are always somewhere nearby, the inhabitants of the "cherry orchard" are talented and interesting guys who are too out of the "swamp". Take the noisy Misaki, who sells her own anime to major studios, her friend and playboy screenwriter Jin, or the reclusive programmer Ryunosuke, who communicates with the world only via the Web and the phone. Compared to them, the protagonist Sorata Kanda is a simpleton who ended up in a "psychiatric hospital" just for ... a love of cats!
Therefore, Chihiro-sensei, the head of the dorm, instructed Sorata, as the only sane guest, to meet her cousin Mashiro, which is being transferred to their school from far away Britain. The fragile blonde seemed to Kanda a real bright angel. True, at a party with new neighbors, the guest was constrained and spoke little, but the freshly baked fan wrote off everything as understandable stress and fatigue from the road. Only real stress awaited Sorata in the morning when he went to wake up Mashiro. The hero realized with horror that his new friend, a great artist, is absolutely not of this world, that is, she is not even capable of dressing herself! And the insidious Chihiro is right there - from now on, Kanda will forever look after her sister, because the guy has already trained on cats!
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in the 21st, the world community has finally managed to systematize the art of magic and raise it to a new level. Those who are able to use magic after finishing nine classes in Japan are now expected in magic schools - but only if applicants pass the exam. The quota for admission to the First School (Hachioji, Tokyo) is 200 students, a hundred of the best are enrolled in the first department, the rest are in the reserve, in the second, and teachers are assigned only to the first hundred, "Flowers". The rest, "Weeds", learn on their own. At the same time, an atmosphere of discrimination constantly hovers in the school, because even the forms of both departments are different.
Shiba Tatsuya and Miyuki were born 11 months apart, allowing them to study for the same year. When entering the First School, the sister finds herself among the Flowers, and her brother among the Weeds: despite his excellent theoretical knowledge, the practical part is not easy for him.
In general, we are waiting for the study of a mediocre brother and an exemplary sister, as well as their new friends - Chiba Erika, Saijou Leonhart (you can just Leo) and Shibata Mizuki - at the school of magic, quantum physics, the Nine Schools Tournament and much more ...
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The "Seven Deadly Sins", once great warriors revered by the British. But one day, they are accused of trying to overthrow the monarchs and killing a warrior from the Holy Knights. In the future, the Holy Knights arrange a coup d'état, and seize power in their own hands. And the "Seven Deadly Sins", now outcasts, scattered throughout the kingdom, in all directions. Princess Elizabeth managed to escape from the castle. She decides to go in search of Meliodas, the leader of the Seven Sins. Now the whole seven must unite again to prove their innocence and avenge their exile.
2021 An unknown Gastrea virus hit the earth, which in a matter of days destroyed almost all of humanity. But it's not just a virus like some kind of Ebola or Plague. It doesn't kill a person. Gastreya is a sentient infection that rebuilds DNA, turning the host into a fearsome monster.
The war began and in the end 10 years passed. People have found a way to isolate themselves from infection. The only thing that Gastreya cannot stand is a special metal - Varanium. It was from it that people built huge monoliths and fenced Tokyo with them. It seemed that now few survivors can live behind the monoliths in the world, but alas, the threat has not gone away. Gastrea is still waiting for the right moment to infiltrate Tokyo and destroy the few remnants of humanity. There is no hope. The extermination of people is only a matter of time. But the terrible virus had another effect. There are those who are already born with this virus in their blood. These children, "Cursed Children" (Exclusively girls) have superhuman strength and regeneration. In their bodies, the spread of the virus is many times slower than in the body. ordinary person. Only they can resist the creatures of "Gastrea" and there is nothing more for humanity to count on. Will our heroes be able to save the remnants of living people and find a cure for a terrifying virus? Watch and find out for yourself.
The story in Steins, Gate takes place one year after the events of Chaos, Head.
The action-packed storyline of the game is partly set in a realistic recreation of Akahibara, Tokyo's famous otaku shopping area. The plot is as follows: a group of friends mount a device in Akihibara to send text messages to the past. The experiments of the heroes of the game are interested in a mysterious organization called SERN, which is also engaged in its own research in the field of time travel. And now friends have to make great efforts in order not to be captured by SERN.
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Added episode 23β, which is an alternate ending and lead to the continuation in SG0.
Thirty thousand players from Japan and many more from all over the world are suddenly trapped in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Legend of the Ancients. On the one hand, gamers were transferred to the new world physically, the illusion of reality turned out to be almost flawless. On the other hand, the “fallers” retained their previous avatars and acquired skills, the user interface and the pumping system, and death in the game only led to resurrection in the cathedral of the nearest major city. Realizing that there is no great goal, and no one called the price for the exit, the players began to huddle together - some to live and rule according to the law of the jungle, others - to resist lawlessness.
Shiroe and Naotsugu, a student and a clerk in the world, a cunning magician and a powerful warrior in the game, have known each other for a long time from the legendary Crazy Tea Party guild. Alas, those times are gone forever, but in the new reality you can meet old acquaintances and just good guys with whom you will not be bored. And most importantly - in the world of "Legends" appeared the indigenous population, considering the aliens as great and immortal heroes. Involuntarily, you will want to become a sort of knight of the Round Table, beating dragons and rescuing girls. Well, there are enough girls around, monsters and robbers too, and there are cities like hospitable Akiba for recreation. The main thing is that it’s still not worth dying in the game, it’s much more correct to live like a human being!
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In the world of Hunter x Hunter, there is a class of people called Hunters who, using psychic powers and trained in all sorts of combat, explore the wild corners of a mostly civilized world. Main character, a young man named Gon (Gong), the son of the greatest Hunter himself. His father mysteriously disappeared many years ago, and now, having matured, Gong (Gong) decides to follow in his footsteps. Along the way, he finds several companions: Leorio, an aspiring MD whose goal is to enrich himself. Kurapika is the only survivor of his clan whose goal is revenge. Killua is the heir to a family of assassins whose goal is training. Together they achieve their goals and become Hunters, but this is only the first step on their long journey ... And ahead is the story of Killua and his family, the story of Kurapika's revenge and, of course, training, new tasks and adventures! The series was stopped on the revenge of Kurapika ... What awaits us next after so many years?
The ghoul race has existed since time immemorial. Its representatives are not at all against people, they even love them - mostly in their raw form. Lovers of human flesh are outwardly indistinguishable from us, strong, fast and tenacious - but they are few, because the ghouls have developed strict rules for hunting and disguise, and violators are punished themselves or quietly handed over to fighters against evil spirits. In the age of science, people know about ghouls, but as they say, they are used to it. The authorities do not consider cannibals a threat, in fact, they see them as an ideal basis for creating super-soldiers. Experiments have been going on for a long time ...
The main character Ken Kaneki will have to search for a new path painfully, because he realized that people and ghouls are similar: they just eat each other literally, others figuratively. The truth of life is cruel, it cannot be changed, and the one who does not turn away is strong. And then somehow!
The action takes place in an alternate reality where the existence of demons has long been recognized; in the Pacific Ocean there is even an island - "Itogamijima", where demons are full-fledged citizens and have equal rights with humans. However, there are also human magicians who hunt them, in particular, vampires. An ordinary Japanese schoolboy named Akatsuki Kojo, for some unknown reason, turned into a "purebred vampire", the fourth in number. He is followed by a young girl, Himeraki Yukina, or "blade shaman", who is supposed to keep an eye on Akatsuki and kill him in case he gets out of control.
The story is about a young man named Saitama who lives in a world ironically similar to ours. He is 25, he is bald and beautiful, besides, he is so strong that with one blow he annihilates all dangers for humanity. He is looking for himself in a difficult life path, along the way handing out cuffs to monsters and villains.
Now you have to play the game. What kind of game it will be - roulette will decide. The bet in the game will be your life. After death, people who died at the same time go to Queen Decim, where they have to play a game. But in fact, what is happening to them here is the Heavenly Court.
Even in ancient Iran, the mythological picture of the world was built against the background of the opposition of the forces of Good and Light, embodied in the ethical law of Art and personified by the great Ahura Mazda - "Lord Wisdom", "Wise Lord" (Greek - Ormuzd), and the forces of Darkness and Evil , embodied in lies and personified by Anghro-Mainyu (Ahriman).
This dualism spread widely throughout the East and later passed into the ancient and medieval world. Mazdaism did not immediately become the state religion of Iran. When Cyrus Ahmenides (558-529) founded his state, he professed religious tolerance, but gradually the gods of Iran were supplanted by the cult of Ahura Mazda.
According to ancient Iranian ideas, at the cosmological level, the first creation belonged to a principle higher than this duality of light and darkness - Zervan Ayon (Infinite Time). In a purely symbolic aspect, it is the embodiment of the cycles of time - in application not only to the historical epochs of the existence of the world, but also to the life-death transformation to which all living beings are subject. As Zervan-Akaran (Infinite Time), he represents Time as Fate, Law, Inevitability.
In some Iranian schools, dualism was developed to such an extent that the role of Zervan as the supreme deity was revised and supplemented. The result was the magical concept of Azrvan Akarana - a combination, even if standing "on the other side of good and evil", but still strictly creative God of Time Zervan with the feminine, but destructive energy of Az, later displayed by the ancient Arameans who adopted the legend as Ru "ha or, in anthropomorphic form, Lilith.
The most esoteric Iranian traditions explain that evil appeared before the creation of the world. Zervan, as the Supreme God, made sacrifices for 1000 years in order to gain offspring, and when he had already lost hope, he had two sons - Ahriman, the fruit of his doubts, and Ormuzd, the fruit of his faith. Ahriman saw the light before Ormuzd, but the second was to win, though not without a struggle.
The second stage of Creation - the creation of the world of people - had as its goal the victory over evil. The world process was considered as a struggle between eternal good and evil, or Truth (Arta) and its antipode - Lies (Draug, Druj). The earthly world in its good part was created by a good beginning; the evil spirit responded to this with a counter-creation, creating death, winter, heat, harmful animals, etc.; the constant struggle of the two principles determines the entire existence of the world.
The original divine duality has turned into a similar duality among humans. Indeed, even before creation, two twin spirits made a choice between good and evil (which determined their existence as one as a saint, the other as a hostile spirit). Then a similar choice was made by the Amartha Spentas, who took the side of good, and the daivas who chose evil, cattle ("Bull's Soul"), who chose good, etc. The same choice is given to man.
In the middle of the 1st c. n. e. near the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea, in the region of Engadi, lived a secluded, estranged sect that rejected marriage and family life, "knew no money", that is, obviously, earned their livelihood by joint labor - the Essenes. The name “Essenes” they chose for themselves comes from the Syrian word Asaya, which means “doctors”, and in Greek “therapists”, because their open activity among the people consisted in curing physical and moral ailments. They lived on collectivist principles, that is commune.
Also noteworthy is Pliny's remark that "newcomers weary of life" enter the Essene community. That is, in the search for social reasons for the emergence and long-term historical existence of the Essenes, Pliny finds in an effort to isolate from society people who are disappointed in their lives or the social system and its spiritual values. At the same time, however, he expresses surprise at the large number of this group and the very possibility of reproducing itself in new and new generations.
The Essenes practiced the socialization of property, were distinguished by exceptional piety and moral purity, they put celibacy above marriage. Moral values occupied the main place in the life of the Essenes, they avoided oaths and did not attach much importance to sacrifices. Although they performed the rituals zealously, it seems that their goal was spiritual perfection.
They paid much attention to preaching, physical and spiritual cleanliness, ablutions and other hygienic procedures, which they considered related to spiritual life.
The Essenes' "creed" begins with the following words: "From God, the omniscient of all that is and has been ... He created man to rule over the world and put two spirits in him to be guided by them until the time appointed by Him. These are the spirits of Truth and Falsehood. In the hall of light is the genealogy of Truth, and from the sources of darkness is the genealogy of Krivda” (3:15 s.). Thus, their views were also dualistic.
The three pillars of Krivda, or Belial, are called intemperance, wealth, and impiety. The servants of Krivda are rapists and oppressors, corrupt and greedy people, lawlessly trampling on their fellows. The truth, on the contrary, stands on asceticism, non-possession and reverence for the Existing. Her spirit is “the spirit of humility, long-suffering, great mercy, eternal goodness, understanding, understanding and mighty wisdom, which inspires faith in all the deeds of God”
The path of man, the Essenes believed, was predetermined before his creation. The “servants of Krivda” will remain such forever, but only the “chosen ones” will be saved, who should happily await the death of the “sons of darkness”. Moreover, the Essenes believed that they would have to take part in the world battle, which would be waged by angels with pagans and Jews who did not accept the doctrines of the Essenes.
After the spread of Christianity at the very beginning of the Christian era, in the 1st century AD. in the Middle East or in Alexandria, a complex of religious and philosophical schools developed, called "Gnostics" (from "gnosis" - knowledge). As such, the Gnostic movement appeared in the pagan world before Christianity, but it also existed simultaneously and in parallel with Christianity, in contact with it, was exposed to it and influenced it itself, giving rise to a special Christian Gnosticism.
Gnosticism is characterized by two myths, in most cases corresponding to dualism and based on the presence of a demiurge (“the artisan god” who created the world, in contrast to the Creator). The first is the myth of a female trickster, the heavenly goddess Sophia, who caused the catastrophe that resulted in the creation of the world. The second is the myth of a male trickster, the illegitimate offspring of Sophia, who created the world either from impure matter called water, or from garbage or thoughts that came to him from above from the true god. As a rule, in Gnosticism the demiurge is identified with the Old Testament God. The Gnostic Demiurge has nothing in common with the Demiurge of Plato's Timaeus, who is conceived as unconditionally good and creating the visible world in accordance with the divine pattern. According to the Gnostics, the Highest God lives in the heavenly realm, but out of compassion for humanity, he sends his messenger (or messengers) to people to teach them how to free themselves from the power of the Demiurge.
Seen in this way, the world itself—material existence in all its forms—is at best an inferior state and at worst evil, and the same applies to the God who created this world. According to Gnostics, the sensual world is the result of a tragic mistake in the Absolute, or an invasion of the forces of darkness into the worlds of light. The Unborn Father reveals himself in special entities-eons (Sephiroth in Kabbalah), often forming pairs. The completion of these eons forms the divine fullness-Pleroma. The pride of one of the aeons leads to its falling away from the pleroma and to the beginning of cosmogenesis, and the lowest of the emerging worlds is our material world. The Universe is the possession of the Archons, who are often called the names of God from the Old Testament (Sabaoth, Adonai, etc.). Around the world are cosmic spheres, like concentric shells, the number of which varies from 7 (most often) to 365 in Basilides. The religious significance of this architecture lies in the infinite remoteness of man from God, expressed here by the many eons inhabited by demonic archons, whose tyrannical rule is called "gemarmen" (universal fate). As the guardian of his sphere, each archon blocks the way for souls who return to God after death. The main role in the creation of the world belongs to the head of the archons, the Demiurge.
The teachings of the various Gnostic sects found their way into an extremely large corpus of writings, but for the most part these writings were destroyed as heretical. The most famous founders of the Gnostic sects were Simon Magus, Menander, Saturninus, Cerinthus (1st century AD), Basilides (d. c. 140), Valentinus (mid-2nd century) and Marcion (2nd century), each of these had their own gnostic system.
In the IV century. in the Roman Empire, the Manichean movement appears, based on a dualistic worldview and close to Gnostic teachings. The name of this movement comes from the name of its founder, the semi-legendary Mani (c. 21b - 276). He was born in Ctesiphon (Persia), in a family of sectarian "baptizers" who adjoined the Gnostic communities of the Mandaeans. Because of this, Mani became acquainted with esoteric teachings. For a time he was a Christian pastor. Drawing little by little from various sources, he worked out his Christian Gnostic doctrine.
Manichaeism is certainly a syncretic religion, as Mani himself says. It includes Zoroastrian (original principles), Christian (Jesus as a savior) and Buddhist (ascetic morality, the doctrine of reincarnation) elements. “The basis of the teachings of Mani is the infinity of the first principles (Light and Darkness), the middle part is interested in their mixing, and the end is the separation of Light from Darkness”
Mani's teaching is pessimistic, because it expounds the idea of the primordial and irresistible evil, which is the beginning as independent and primordial as good. Associating evil with matter, and good with light and spirit, Mani, however, did not consider darkness or matter to be the result of the extinction of light; in Manichaeism, the kingdom of darkness as an equal opposes the kingdom of light. World history is a struggle between light and darkness, good and evil, God and the devil. Man is dual: the creation of the devil, he is nevertheless created according to the model of the heavenly “bright first man”. According to Mani, the Gospel Christ was a false Christ. The real Christ did not incarnate and did not combine the natures of God and man. After Christ, Mani was sent - the paraclete (comforter) - the main messenger of the Kingdom of Light. The fundamental principles of Manichaeism: the protection of the soul from all bodily filth, self-denial and abstinence, the gradual overcoming of the fetters of matter and the final liberation of the Divine essence contained in man.
The Manicheans were expelled from Ctesiphon and fled to all nearby territories. The Manichaean "patriarch" Sissinius, recognized after a short internal struggle within the sect, settled in Babylon, forgotten by the gods and authorities. Part of the Manicheans fled beyond the Oxus (Amu Darya) and there in the 5th century proclaimed their autonomy from the Babylonian patriarch; this autonomy lasted until the 8th century, when the Manichaean communities of Central Asia recognized the supreme authority of Babylon. Further spread of Manichaeism occurs already through his disciples, who pass on the teachings of the founder to their heirs, along a long hereditary chain - centers of the spread of Manichaeism appear in various states and many of them remain cut off from their ancestral homeland and exist like autonomous cults - ideas, however, laid down by Mani in the moment of its creation and subsequent development, its teachings are so well balanced that they practically do not change over time and are able to supplant many indigenous religions.
During the 4th century, Manichaeism spread throughout the territory of the Roman Empire - from Egypt to Rome, southern Gaul and Spain. Both the Christian church and the Roman state subjected the Manichaean communities to severe persecution. Emperor Diocletian, in a decree of 296, ordered the proconsul of Africa to persecute the Manichaeans in order to “uproot with branches and roots” the “repulsive and impious teaching” that came from Persia. Its leaders and preachers were supposed to be burned along with their books, the clergy were to be beheaded, and followers were to be sent to hard labor with confiscation of property. This edict was provoked by the complaint of the proconsul to the emperor that the Manichaeans were causing unrest and disorder in the cities.
Theodosius I, by an edict of 381, deprives the Manicheans of civil rights, and in the following year appoints the death penalty for practicing this religion. Valentinian II sends the remaining Manicheans into exile (of course, with confiscation of property). Honorius in 405 confirms all the decrees of his predecessors and again outlaws the Manichaeans. The same is done by Valentinian III, Anastasius, Justin and Justinian, the latter not only with regard to the Manicheans, but also in relation to those who renounced, but continued to maintain contacts with their former co-religionists.
Thus, by the end of the 5th century, pure Manichaeism completely disappears from the territory of Western, and in the 6th century from Eastern Europe.
One of the currents following the Manichaeans were the Paulicans and the Bogomils. Pavlicans distinguished between the Good God, or Heavenly Father, who was revealed in Christianity, and the demiurge, who created the visible world and human bodies. The fall of the first man was understood as disobedience to the demiurge and, as a result, deliverance from his power and revelation to the Heavenly Father. Paulicans understood Christ docetically, arguing that he was not a man, but was only a ghost who passed through the Virgin Mary as through a channel in order to destroy the cult of Satan. The Holy Spirit is invisibly transmitted only to true believers, i.e. peacocks.
Pavlikans preached radical dualism, denying any rituals, ceremonies, religious buildings, icons, the cross and the sign of the cross, saints, sacraments, church hierarchy, fasting, asceticism, monasticism. Of all the sacraments, they left only baptism and the Eucharist, and they were carried out in an immaterial way, in the spirit. The divine service consisted exclusively of teaching and prayer. School leaders accepted the title of "Apostolic Disciples" and took the names of real-life apostolic students.
In bogomilism, two principles - good and evil - are recognized not as independent, but as subordinate to a higher good being. According to the teachings of the Bogomils, initially God had a firstborn son, Satanael, who was the second after God and ruled over all the angels. Proud of the consciousness of his power, Satanael decided to become independent from the Father, and for this he was cast out of heaven. But even there Satanail decided to build his own independent kingdom. Since he still had the divine creative power, he created a new heaven and earth out of chaos, as well as Adam, into whom he unsuccessfully tried to instill a living soul. Turning to God the Father, Satanail asked to breathe a soul into the first man and revive him. He assumed that after that he would rule over the bodily part of a person, and the Father over the spiritual, while human spirituality would replace God with the angels cast down with Satanail. Eve was created in the same way. However, Satanail was jealous of the people who were supposed to replace the apostate angels, and decided to conquer the human race. For this, having entered the serpent, he seduced Eve and produced from her Cain and his sister Calomena, hoping that his offspring would prevail over the offspring of Adam. Thus, Satanail was able to subjugate the entire human race, and only a few of the people remembered the original purpose of man - to replace the fallen angels. In their oblivion, people considered Satanael himself to be the Supreme God, and Moses, who was an instrument of Satanael, was especially active in spreading this opinion. In 5500 from the creation of the world, God decided to free people from the power of Satanael and produced a second son, Jesus, or the Word, also called Michael by the Bogomils. The Bogomils understood the incarnation, life and death of Jesus docetically. Jesus came into the world in an ethereal body that had the appearance of a human, and passed through the virgin Mary without her noticing that she did not understand how she found him as a baby in a cave. Satanail, seeking to shake the influence of Jesus on people, brought him to death, which was also illusory. However, Jesus, three days after his death, appeared to Satanail in his divine form, bound him with chains and took away the last, divine syllable “silt” from his name, after which he became simply Satan. Then Jesus ascended to heaven and became the second after God, the head of all the angels. To complete his work on earth, God the Father produced another power, the Holy Spirit, which acts directly on the souls of people. The souls of the Bogomils, who feel the action of the Holy Spirit and communicate this action to other souls, are true Mother of God. Such people do not die, but discard the body shell and move to the kingdom of God. When the Holy Spirit completes his work and all souls are transferred to the Kingdom of God, all matter will turn into chaos, and Jesus and the Holy Spirit will return to the Father from which they originated.
Cathars (from Greek pure), or Albigensians, arose in Occitania (south of France) on the basis of a numerous "heretical" movement of commoners and nobility. Cathars spread in the XI-XIV centuries. in northern Italy and France. They believed that the earthly world, the Catholic Church, secular power were created by Satan, and declared the Pope of Rome the vicar of the devil. The Cathars adhered to a dualistic doctrine similar to the Manichean one about the presence of two principles - good in the form of God and evil in the form of the devil. They denied the dogmas of the death and resurrection of Christ, rejected the cross, temples, icons. The Cathars declared the seven Christian sacraments to be a diabolical deception and practiced public confession, which took place once a month at a community meeting. The Eucharist was replaced by the blessing of bread, which was served daily at the common table. Water baptism was replaced by spiritual baptism, performed through the laying on of hands and the apocryphal Gospel of John on the person being baptized. Out of fear that the priest's hands were defiled by sin, baptism was often performed twice or thrice. The Cathars rejected marriage, without forcing, however, family members entering the community to terminate it. Marriage between young people was also occasionally allowed under the strict condition of their observance of chastity before marriage and the cessation of sexual activity immediately after the birth of the first child. Some Cathars forbade marriage only for the "perfect", but unequivocally negatively viewed sexuality as a manifestation of original sin, through which Satan continues to maintain his power over people.
The Cathars claimed the coexistence of two fundamental principles - a good deity (God of the New Testament), who created spirit and light, and an evil deity (God of the Old Testament), who created matter and darkness. Accordingly, they rejected marriage and childbearing. At the same time, cohabitation was seen as a lesser evil compared to marriage; the departure of a husband or wife was considered worthy of praise. Although angelic souls, as the Albigensians believed, were created by a good deity, their fall into sin led to the fact that Satan imprisoned them in the prison of the body. That is why earthly life is a punishment and the only hell that exists. However, suffering is only temporary, for all souls will eventually be saved. Like the Arians, the Albigensians argued that Christ is just a created being who never had a human body and could not really die on the cross, because in this case he would be in the power of an evil inclination. His redemption gives us an example of a noble life, high morality; but he did not really succeed in conquering sin. Following their tradition of dualism, the Albigensians encouraged liberation from the body, in particular through suicide. Since they considered the birth of children tantamount to the imprisonment of their souls in the dungeon of the body, the Albigensians insisted on complete abstinence. They believed in metempsychosis, or the reincarnation of souls, so they did not eat meat, milk, or other foods of animal origin. Denying the power of church and state, they appealed to the Holy Scriptures, mainly to the New Testament, because the Old Law (Old Testament) was considered as a whole as the work of the devil. Oaths, participation in wars, and the death penalty were forbidden.
The last and bloodiest stage in the history of the Cathars is a series of battles (1209-1228), often called the Albigensian Wars or the Albigensian Crusades. Particularly fierce were the battles of Beziers, Carcassonne, Lavor and Muret; the troops were led by the Count of Toulouse (from the side of the sectarians) and Simon da Montfort (from the side of the crusaders). Even before that, in 1208, Pope Innocent III called for a crusade after the sectarians killed the papal legate. According to the peace treaty of 1229 in Meaux (Treaty of Paris), most of the territory of the Albigensians passed to the king of France. However, scattered remnants of the sect survived until the end of the 14th century.
For more than 30 years, popes and French kings waged a bitter struggle against the Cathar "heresy". But, a strange thing: the most powerful and militant organization of the Crusader Knights - the Order of the Temple (Templars), during all these years remained away from campaigns in Languedoc. In response to the pope's call to take part in the war against the Cathars, the leaders of the Templars bluntly stated that they did not consider the invasion of French troops in the County of Toulouse a "real" crusade and did not intend to participate in it.
The Albigensian campaigns and persecution of the Cathars increased the Cathar influence among the Templars. Back in 1139, Pope Innocent II, who patronized the Crusaders, granted the Order of the Temple numerous freedoms and privileges, including the right to accept knights who were excommunicated for sacrilege, heresy, blasphemy and murder into the brotherhood. This right allowed the Templars to save excommunicated heretic knights from persecution by accepting them into their ranks. Especially many Cathars entered the Order after 1244, when the Albigensians suffered a final defeat and spies of the Holy Inquisition and the French crown roamed all over southern France in search of heretics.
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I think this is overrated. This is similar to tensei shitara slime datta ken, but isn't... in fact it's way worse. I could not immerse myself well with the main lead. She isn't bad, and the story isn't too bad, but there are times im like "WTF"?! The author made the character seem like an OP character and one that just went along with things, but a bit failing if I do compare it to tensei shitara slime. And sometimes the reasoning the story had to go along with made... more>> me irritated. the 3 god "s have a competition. Two of them send in their best men to see who conquers the dungeon. If no one conquers it in a years time, it" s the mc "s win. The one that wins in the end is someone who didn't even "conquer" it but just happened to be a friend who just happened to be there at the end and picks up the final trophy?! And then they all come to a conclusion in a second that the winner is that person. Being that friend was also of another race and worshiper of one of the other gods, the main lead did not win......-_-........
I stopped after realizing how irritated I was and also that I couldn't get into the story as well as other novels. I believe this would have been a great story if the author spent more time building up tension and character. It is somehow lacking in both.< December 8, 2016 status: v2 A simple, straightforward story. Pretty Japanese high school girl with scary eyes piques the interest of a trickster god from a higher plane of existence and gets thrown into a magical world. At first it looks like your run-of-the-mill isekai story, with the heroine even trying her hand at adventuring, but due to her (namely that the aforementioned trickster god made her have the aura and glare of an "average" god of evil), she has to leave town and start anew as a dungeon master. Then things get weird... more>> and weirder. First off, as I said above, the story is incredibly straightforward. While the side-stories done from different POVs add some fluff to the story at the end of each volume, the main plotline is streamlined to the extreme. It sets out to tell a story, and it does so without any added fat. In some ways I respect the author for that attitude in the age of never-ending ligh- and webnovels that keep piling up the padding for years. Overall this was a nice, fluffy read. The characters are not particularly deep, but they were entertaining, and since there were not a lot of them, they all got just enough screen time to not be completely one-note. The plot, thin as it is, actually follows a logical escalation pattern and it "s written well, with the protagonist"s personality actually reflecting in the narration (which should be a given, but a lot of light-novel authors seem not to get this and have their MCs narrate like a robot). In the end this was sort of the literary equivalent of comfort-food. The reason why I knocked one star down was the shallow worldbuilding and, more importantly, the lame ending. So, in the end the Evil God shows up and presents the protagonist with the opportunity to become a human again, and she chooses to accept it, dividing herself to be a "Divine" and a "Human" version existing at the same time, so that the divine version could stay in her temple and do nothing while her human version could go out into the world and... oh, wait... I mean, so her human version could live in her mansion a few hundred meters from the temple and do nothing. How riveting. So yeah, in the end this was an enjoyable read. It did a bit of deconstruction, it did a bit of comedy, it did a bit of combat and suspense, but overall it was a pretty mellow novel I could recommend for reading under the blankets during a long winter night. It won "t floor you or change the way you look at fiction, but not all stories have to do that.< Status: v1c11 Hilarious religious/isekai story~ just taking in all cliches and making fun of them.. ... more>>
summonig heroes: she was "cloned" from her original self world building: mostly done and managed by a fervent worshiper holy wars: solved by a bet that culminated in the unification of two mortal enemies slaves: pseudo sisters, helpers reverse harem: it seems she ends up as an old maid.. enemy nations: cowed by the overzealous powers of misunderstandings the darkest text in history: apparently makes you stub your pinky a lot level system: MC never left level 1 despite being ridiculously OP Evil god: she's never taken a life Evil god level up > Weirdo god... pointy eared beauties: demons the ruination of everything everyone believed in: the world's original gods are a bunch of freeloaders.. obligatory adventurers guild quests: MC is so OP she can only do the basic herb collecting ones obligatory senior adventurer bully: was just trying to help by pretending to be a bad guy Japanese culture worship: minimal references supposedly related to summoned heroes Also: rather than getting rid of an invading god in their territories, the original gods of that world chose to "give MC a chance" and kindly treated her like senpais and ruthlessly tried to push all the hard work on her.. Going completly against the expectations of the Evil god who first summoned her for the sake of chaos. Of course he "d be winning either way - but we the MC getting one up over him in the end. There isn't a lot of background on the MC - rather, the focus of the stories is mainly kept on the present action and the consequences of choice.. We see the MC paying dearly for her poor choices even if they only make her more powerful , its not what she wanted at all - her Karma sucks.I laughed myself to tears at every turn~ And the writing work is pretty decent! .< The main leitmotif of mythology is the struggle between good and evil. The battle has been going on since the very creation of the world. Demiurges, the gods of creation, are opposed by the destroyer gods, the “bad guys” of world mythology. Set is the "bad guy" of Egyptian mythology, the god of Sirocco, death, devastation, foreigners, eclipses and other misfortunes. Set cut down sacred trees, ate the sacred cat of the goddess Bast, killed his brother Osiris. Set - the personification of the evil inclination, was one of the four children of the earth god Geb and Nut, the goddess of the sky. Despite his negative image, in the era of the Old Kingdom, Set was revered as a warrior god, assistant to Ra and patron of the pharaohs. The sacred animals of Set were considered a pig (“abomination for the gods”), an antelope, a giraffe, and the donkey was the main one. The Egyptians imagined him as a man with a thin long torso and a donkey's head. Some myths attributed to Set the salvation of Ra from the serpent Apep - Set pierced the giant Apep, personifying darkness and evil, with a harpoon. Ahriman, also called Angro Mainyu, is the main anti-hero of ancient Iranian and Zoroastrian mythology, the head of the forces of darkness, evil and death, an ardent enemy of Ahuramazda. Ahriman gave birth to death, old age, sins, sorcery, sorcery, severe winter, suffocating heat, destructive hail, poisonous snakes and insects, diseases and killed the first man Gayomart. Usually he did not act on his own, but through the demonic forces subordinate to him - the devas. Because of his deeds of Ahriman, the world was divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. He penetrated into the bowels of the earth and laid the foundation for hell. In ancient Persian cuneiform writing, Ahriman wears the epithet "hated". It is he who is the source of the harmful forces of nature, diseases, crop failure, the creator of poisonous plants, predatory animals; all physical and moral calamities are generally reduced to it. Ahriman is obedient to all the devas, the spirits of evil, he is the lord of death and darkness. According to Zoroastrian beliefs, when the three saviors of Sosieshi defeat Ahriman and destroy the host of his demons, then the undivided dominion of Ahuromazda over the whole world will be established. Ravana - in Indian mythology, the king of the Rakshas demons and the owner of the island of Danka (Ceylon), from which he drove his half-brother, the god Kubera. For his zeal, Ravana received from Brahma invulnerability from the gods and demons, which he did not fail to take advantage of, starting to oppress the gods and forcing them to serve him: Agni made a cook, Varuna a water carrier, Vayu forced revenge on his palace and so on. The gods, led by Inlroy, went to Brahma to complain about Ravana, but Brahma himself could not take away the invulnerability granted to them by Ravana and sent a “delegation” to Vishnu, who promised to destroy Ravana through mortals and monkeys, from whom Ravana did not ask for invulnerability. Then Vishnu incarnated as Rama and began his struggle with the Rakshasas. At first, Ravana wanted to seduce Rama's wife Sita, but, having been refused, he simply stole her, taking her to the island of Lanka. During the battle between Rama and Ravana, where bears and monkeys were on the side of Rama, Ravana was defeated, and Rama returned with his wife to his kingdom of Ayodhya. When Rama killed Ravana, the gods in heaven rejoiced and glorified Rama as Vishnu, who saved them from threatening death. The history of this struggle is told in the Ramayana, where the appearance of Ravana is also described: 10 heads, 20 hands, copper-red eyes, shiny teeth, like a young month; he is the size of a large cloud or mountain: his body is covered with traces of blows inflicted on him by various gods in his struggle with them. Ravana's power was so great that he could move the seas and crush the mountains. He violated all divine and earthly laws, kidnapped other people's wives, etc. Due to his gigantic growth, he could stop the sun and the moon in their course and interfere with their sunrise. Ravana struck such fear into all nature that the sun did not dare to rise above his head, the winds stopped blowing at his approach, the sea - to worry. The word "Lucifer" comes from the Latin Lucifer "light-bearing", in Greek and Roman mythology "Lucifer" was an analogue of Venus - the morning star. The relationship of Lucifer with the devil and Satan began in Christianity in the 17th century. The first mention of the morning star with a negative connotation is found in the Book of the prophet Isaiah, written in Hebrew. In this book, the dynasty of the Babylonian kings is compared to a fallen angel, and "heylel" (morning star) was one of the cherubs who desired to become equal to God and was cast down from heaven for this. At the turn of the 4th-5th centuries, when translating the indicated passage from the Book of Isaiah, Jerome of Stridon used in the Vulgate the Latin word lucifer (“light-bearing”, “light-bearing”), which was used to designate the “morning star”. The idea that, like the king of Babylon, cast down from the heights of earthly glory, Satan was once cast down from the heights of heavenly glory (Luke 10:18; Rev. 12:9), led to the fact that the name Lucifer was transferred to Satan . This identification was also reinforced by the remark of the apostle Paul about Satan, who "takes the form of an angel of light" Jerome himself did not use the word "luminiferous" as a proper name, but only as a metaphor, but it was Jerome's translation, which enjoyed great authority in the Christian world, that ultimately served as the basis for giving the Latin equivalent of the Hebrew "heylel" the meaning of the personal name of Satan. In the King James Bible (1611), the phrase took on a different meaning: “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!”. Written with a capital letter, the appeal was no longer perceived as a metaphor. These words could no longer be perceived as a song about the victory over the king of Babylon, it was a direct appeal to Satan. In Dante's Divine Comedy (early 14th century), Lucifer is described as a sinner frozen into ice in the very depths of hell, and having 3 mouths. There he gnaws traitors and traitors, the greatest of them are Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius. Iblis is an Islamic devil, an evil spirit, a genie, who is at the head of other evil spirits and demons. He is also called ash-Shaitan (as the head of all evil spirits - shaitans), Aduvv Allah ("enemy of Allah") or simply al-Aduvv ("enemy"). According to the Qur'an, Iblis was originally an angel, but refused to obey Allah's order to bow down to the Adam created by Allah, stating: "I am better than him: you created me from fire, and you created him from clay." The Koran says about the fall of Iblis: “When God said to the angels: I want to put a viceroy on the earth,” they answered: “Do you really want to put a creature on the earth that would spread evil there and shed blood, while we glorify and magnify you incessantly? » “I know that,” answered the Lord, “what you do not know.” When God commanded the angels to bow to Adam, they obeyed, except for Iblis, who "was haughty with pride and was from among the unbelievers." For this, Iblis was expelled from heaven and swore to seduce people everywhere: “I will sit down against them on your straight path”, “I will decorate with them what is on earth and knock them all down.” Having made his way to the paradise of Jannah, he seduced Adam and Havva; in the Koranic episode of the worship of angels, the devil is named Iblis, and in the episode of the fall - Ash-Shaitan. The designation of the devil Iblis as Ash-Shaitan is used in the Koran and other Muslim texts. Iblis, having fallen away from God himself, inclined the forefathers of the human race to fall, torn away some other spirits from God; thus came the jinn, devas and peri. According to legend, Iblis lives on earth in unclean places - in caves, ruins of ancient settlements, in cemeteries. The food and drink of Iblis are sacrifices and wine, entertainment is music, dancing. The punishment of Iblis is postponed until the day of the Last Judgment, when he, along with the sinners, will be thrown into hell Jahannam. Surt is translated from Old Norse as "dark" or "black". This is the main fiery giant of the German-Scandinavian mythology, the lord of Muspelheim. Its origin goes back to the very beginning of the cosmos. Surtr rules over the fire giants. On the day of Ragnarok, his hordes will move north "like the south wind" to fight the Æsir gods. In the battle, Surt will kill Freyr, his sword will cut down the world tree Yggdrasil, and this will be the beginning of the death of the whole world. All life in the nine worlds will be destroyed, with the exception of those creatures that hid in the crevices of the bark of the World Tree and those whose essence is the purest incarnation of the Wyrd. Hoddmimir Grove will also remain, as this is the place where Surt's flaming sword loses its power. Gimle's chamber will also survive, in which good and righteous people will live at all times. Surt also survives, for as fire he cannot be destroyed by fire, and as the spirit of creation and destruction must enter the new world as a manifestation of cosmic law. The lights of Surt and himself are regarded by some as symbols of the coming of the comet. It is also associated with volcanoes, one of the recently emerged volcanic islands on the coast of Iceland is called Surtsey. In Greek mythology, Typhon was a powerful monster born of Gaia. He was the personification of the fiery forces of the earth and its vapors with their destructive actions. In the legends, Typhon is represented as a creature with a hundred dragon heads, a body similar to a human, covered with plumage, instead of legs he had snake rings. Some sources report that Typhon's heads are human-like, but he can reproduce the cries of animals. Typhon is mentioned in Homer's Iliad. It describes the struggle of Typhon with Zeus. The location of this "bad guy" in the poem is called the underground bowels in the country of armies or under Mount Arima in Asia Minor. When the Greeks learned about volcanic activity on the Cuma coast of Italy, in Sicily and on the Lipari sotars, Typhon "moved" there. Typhon and Echidna gave birth to many terrible creatures: the Chimera, the Lernean hydra, the dogs of Orff and Cerberus. From his name came the word "typhoon". Typhon, crossing the Aegean, scattered the islands of the Cyclades, which had previously been closely spaced. The fiery breath of the monster reached the island of Fer and destroyed its entire western half, and turned the rest into a scorched desert. The island has since taken on the shape of a crescent. Giant waves raised by Typhon reached the island of Crete and destroyed the kingdom of Minos. The Olympic gods, frightened by the monster, fled from their abode. One Zeus, the bravest of the young gods, decided to fight Typhon. The fight went on for a long time, in the heat of battle, the opponents moved from Greece to Syria. Here Typhon shattered the earth with his giant body, subsequently these traces of the battle were filled with water and became rivers. Zeus pushed Typhon north and threw him into the Ionian Sea, near the Italian coast. The Thunderer incinerated the monster with lightning and threw him into Tartarus. According to another legend, Typhon first defeated Zeus. He entangled the god with his legs like snake rings, cut and pulled out all the tendons. Then Typhon threw Zeus into the Korikian cave in Cilicia and put the dragon Delphine to guard him. Zeus was imprisoned until Hermes and Aegipane stole the tendons of the god from Typhon and returned them to the Thunderer. Then Zeus again attacked the monster, and the battle continued. Moira helped Zeus, advising Typhon to eat the fruits of a poisonous one-day plant in order to increase his strength. Following this advice, Typhon completely lost his strength, and Zeus filled up the monster with a huge block. Etna volcano was formed at this place. Legends say that sometimes Typhon, remembering his defeat, spews smoke and flames from the mouth of a volcano. Chernobog is the "bad guy" of Slavic mythology. He was depicted as a humanoid idol, painted black with a silvered mustache. According to Helmold's "Slavic Chronicle", Chernobog is a navi, an "evil" god. In the Serbian-Lusatian pantheon, it was named by A. Frenzel (1696) - Czernebog. His main opponent is Sventovit. Al-Masudi in the tenth century gives a description of the sanctuary of a certain god on the black mountain: “... in it (the building on the black mountain) they (the Slavs) had a large idol in the form of a man or Saturn, represented as an old man with a crooked stick in his hand, with which he moves the bones of the dead from the graves. Under the right foot are images of heterogeneous ants, and under the left - black crows, black wings and others, as well as images of strange Khabash and Zanj (i.e. Abyssinians). Peter Albin in the “Misney Chronicle” says: “for this, the Slavs revered Chernobog as an evil deity, that they imagined that all evil was in his power, and therefore asked him for mercy, they reconciled him, so that in this or the afterlife not he harmed them." Helmold also wrote that when Chernobog was honored at the feast among the Slavs, then when the guests were carried around with a cup, everyone pronounced curses, not words of blessing. However, everyone understands to the best of their upbringing: “The amazing superstition of the Slavs, because at their festivities and feasts they surround a circular bowl, proclaiming words over it - I won’t say a blessing, but a curse, in the name of the good and evil gods, since they expect from a good god happy share, and from evil - unhappy; therefore, the evil god is even called in their own language the devil or Chernobog. According to the myth cited by Sreznevsky, Chernobog will defile the soul of a person created by God, in fact, according to Christian dogmas, this is so. According to another myth cited by Afanasyev, Satan (Chernobog) created man from the sweat of God. There is a similar myth in the Laurentian Chronicle. Chernobog is the co-creator of the World. In the mythology of the Balts, the black god is called Vielona, Velns or Vels, which actually means “devil”, “devil” - he is a constant opponent of the Thunderer and the owner of the world of the dead. Balor is the main anti-hero of Irish mythology, the god of death and "all that is bad against all that is good". Balor was the leader of the Fomorian demons who ruled Ireland until the beginning of the era of the tribe of the goddess Danu. Balor had one eye, but he possessed deadly power, during the battle his Balor was raised by several servants. The demon's eye began to possess this "skill" after Balor's childhood, when he was exposed to vapors of a magic potion brewed for Balor's father Dot. Balor knew that he was destined to die at the hands of his grandson, so he imprisoned his only daughter Ethlynn in a tower on Tory Island off the northwest coast of Ireland. The blacksmith god Goibniu, brother of Kian, saved the baby from the fury of Balor. The fateful meeting of an already adult grandson and grandfather took place during the second battle of Moitura, the last battle between the Fomorians and the Tribes of the goddess Danu. During the battle, Lug noticed that Balor's eye was closing from fatigue, then he made his way to his grandfather through the enemy regiments on one leg and with his eye closed (imitating one-legged fomorians and one-eyed grandfather). Lugh threw a stone from his sling at Balor's eye with such force that the eye flew out the other side, crushing the famors with his gaze. Balor died, the Famors were expelled from Irdandia, and young gods from the tribe of the goddess Danu came to power. Nergal was considered the ruler of the underworld. His very name translates as "lord of the dark city." He was the husband of the goddess of the underworld, Ereshkigal. The story of his "matchmaking" was as follows: he refused to pay tribute to his future wife and Ambassador Namtaru was sent for him. Nergal went down to Ereshkigal, bestowed fetishes on her, spent seven nights with her, and then cowardly fled. Of course, Ereshkigal was offended and threatened the gods that if Nergal did not return, she would release the dead to earth. The gods brought this threat to Negral, and he returned to Ereshkigal again. After spending seven days and nights with the underground goddess again, Nergal received an order from the god Anu to remain in the underworld forever.rated it
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However, Cian, the son of the healer god Dian Ceht, managed to penetrate to Etlinn, and she gave birth to Lug, the god of the sun.Nergal
Initially, Nergal in Sumero-Akkadian mythology was perceived as a destroying burning sun, then he became the god of all the most terrible things that you can imagine: drought, pestilence, wars and the underworld itself. Nergal's planet was Mars, and the expression "hand of Nergal" was synonymous with calamity and misfortune. During the period of Babylonian syncretism, Nergal became a warlike manifestation of Marduk.