The religion now consists of about twenty-five million people and is more than one thousand years old. ... One story that tells of his mischievous is when he posed as a merchant, alternately sold increasingly magnificent gifts to each of a man's two wives. ... Olokun, owner of the sea, is described as both a god and a goddess, lives under the sea with his or her soldiers and mermaids. ... Family ancestors, who gained their supernatural status by living a good life until an old age, are only worshiped by their families. ... Where the modes of worship conflicted with Western civilization, t...

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Fear has always been man's most primal instinct since the dawn of time. ... Some of them included Poseidon, the god of the seas, whose fury can cause shattering earthquakes and the most devastating of sea storms. ... Still my hopes ride high- I'll give that man his swamping fill of trouble!... In book ten of The Odyssey, while traveling the vast Mediterranean Sea, Odysseus and his men stumble upon another remote island. ... Never has any other man withstood my potion, never, once it's past his lips and he has drunk it down. ...

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I think that if the Devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. ... Originally, Zarathushtra's dualism was based on the conflict between the ahuras, the elder gods, and the daevas. ...

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• Grade Level: High School