pantheon

Examples of pantheon in the following topics:

• Ancient Egyptian Religion

  • The pantheon included gods with major roles in the universe, minor deities (or "demons"), foreign gods, and sometimes humans, including deceased Pharaohs.

• The Vedas

  • The Aryan pantheon of gods is described in great detail in the Rig Veda.

• Etruscan Religion

  • Ruling over this pantheon of lesser deities were higher ones that seem to reflect the Indo-European system: Tin or Tinia, the sky, Uni his wife (Juno), and Cel, the earth goddess.

• The Hittites

  • "Storm gods" were prominent in the Hittite pantheon.

• The Sumerians

  • The core pantheon consisted of An (heaven), Enki (a healer and friend to humans), Enlil (gave spells spirits must obey), Inanna (love and war), Utu (sun-god), and Sin (moon-god).

• Art and Culture Under the Nerva-Antonines

  • In Rome, the Pantheon, originally built by Agrippa but destroyed by fire in 80, was rebuilt under Hadrian in the domed form it retains to this day.

• The Rise of Christianity

  • The idea of monotheism was considered offensive against the polytheistic Roman pantheon and came into further conflict with the Imperial Cult, in which emperors and some members of their families were worshipped as divine.

• Aztec Religion

  • Due to the flexible imperial political structure, a large pantheon of gods was incorporated into the larger cultural religious traditions.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Rousseau was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.

• The Origins of Etruria

  • Ruling over this pantheon of lesser deities were higher ones that seem to reflect the Indo-European system: Tin or Tinia, the sky, Uni his wife (Juno), and Cel, the earth goddess.