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What is religion? The word "religion" can have so many values \u200b\u200bthat it is practically not possible to describe them in a few words. But six qualities are inherent in most religions. Yes, consider them briefly:

Most of all religions of the world are based on these six principles. Religion of primitive people, which includes worship ...

What is religion? The word "religion" can have so many meanings that it is almost impossible to describe them in a few words. But six qualities are inherent in most religions. Let's look at them briefly:

Vera in force or the power of heaven is stronger than faith in human strength. These celestial forces are afraid, they are extolled, they pray, they bring sacrifices. There are special ceremonies for these sacrifices and prayers. Certain places and objects associated with the cult and history of religion are declared sacred. There is a belief that, compliance with the requirements of religion, people may have best life both on earth and in heaven, after his death. Proper behavior is the only way for a person to die God, or gods, and only it leads a person to a better life.

Most of all religions of the world are based on these six principles. Religion of primitive people, which includes the worship of the "spirits" of animals, stones, rivers and so on, is considered primitive. Later, as far as ...

World Three: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism

Realities (from the verb of Lat. Ligare - to bind, connect with a recurrent particle Re - again) - a set of ways to achieve a person of unity with the highest ideal being, which can be understood differently. For example, as a certain strength (nature of nature, the highest mind), the Universal Law (Dharma, Dao) or the Divine Person (God, Elohim, Allah, Krishna).

Totemism Many researchers are considering as ancient and universal religion of primitive humanity. They point to traces of totemism in paganism, in all modern religions And even in fairy tales and myths.

Polyteistic religion (paganism)
Anthropomorphic essence of the pagan gods natural way It assumes that it is possible to achieve their favor with material means - gifts (including human and other victims), persuasion (that is, to refer to them with a prayer, which, among other things, can have the nature of self-painting or even deception) or special, ...

On the Internet, there are various expressions on this. Number of religions B. modern world It is estimated from 400 to more than 3000.
How many of them do we personally know?

Under the term "know" I mean, we know at least the following:
- Name of Cult (People)
- To whom (or what) are enlightened
- the name of the sacred book or text (if any)
- Additional details (who wants to boast their horizons)

I propose not to stop in ancient religions, which no one professes today, such as beliefs of the ancient Greeks or Romans.
Also I will not raise the beliefs of the American Indians, since they, alas, went along with their civilization, as lost and beliefs of druids with the destruction of the Celts.

Abrahamic religions
These are religions based on the Bible. These include:
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1. Faith due to or the strength of heaven is stronger than faith in human strength.

2. These celestial forces are afraid, they are convicted, they are praying, they bring sacrifices.

3. There are special ceremonies for these sacrifices and prayers.

4. Certain places and items associated with the cult and history of religion are declared connected.

5. There is a belief that, observing the requirements of religion, people can have a better life on both Earth and in heaven, after their death.

6. Proper behavior is the only way for a person to die God, or gods, and only it leads a person to a better life.

Most of all religions of the world are based on these six principles. Religion of primitive people, which includes the worship of the "spirits" of animals, stones, rivers and so on, ...

If you define briefly, religion is a worldview based on faith in something supernatural (for example, in God). Regardless of which religions exist, all of them are inherent in certain qualities. it

- faith that the forces of heavenly powerful of human forces;
- believers are afraid of heavenly forces and at the same time extol them, pray for them and bring them sacrifices;
- For praying and sacrifices, special places or buildings are distinguished, and they are held according to specially invented ceremonies;
- significant in the history of religion and religious places are declared sacred;
- There is an unshakable faith in the fact that living according to the rules of religion, a person can make his terrestrial life and the life of Heaven, which will definitely take place after his death;
- Only the correct behavior in terms of religion leads a person to a better life.

For his centuries-old history, humanity refused many religions, according to the rules of which they lived ...

When a trinitarian configured interlocutor asks me why I do not recognize Christ by God, I often ask a counter question: why doesn't he recognize the Moses God? In the outcome 7: 1 it is quite clear that Moses is God, and even from the capital letter (in Jewish and Greek there were no capital letters, they appeared much later by creating confusion and headache for linguists and theologists). This verse is very similar to John 1: 1: And there, and there are two gods in one verse, of which only one is almighty. At the same time, no church for some reason has not yet declared Moses to a one-way God. Any trinitarian understands that Moses is called God here in some other sense, not in such as the creator. So it prevents to apply this logic to John 1: 1? Apparently, something interferes.

In fact, I am always ready to recognize Christ by God (or God, no matter), because the question from the header is not so unequivocal, as many have accustomed to thinking. On the one hand, many biblical places indicate ...

How many religions in the world

Science is known about five thousand religions. The greatest number of adherents have several world religions.

Christianity. The followers of Jesus Christ are combined into more than 100 churches, flows and sects. This is an East Catholic church. Starokolicyism. Protestantism. Orthodoxy. Spiritual Christianity. Sect This is the largest world religion as the number of adherents, which is about 2.1 billion and geographic prevalence - in almost every country of the world there are at least one Christian community.

Islam disintegrates to 7 currents: Sunnites, Shiites, Ismailites, Harijits, Sufism, Salafites (Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia), radical Islamists. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims. Muslim communities are available in more than 120 countries and unite, according to various sources, up to 1.5 billion people.

Buddhism consists of three main and multiple local schools: Tharavada is the most conservative school of Buddhism; ...

The main gods in the ancient Ellad recognized those that belonged to the younger generation of celestials. Once it took away power over the world from the older generation, personified the main universal forces and elements (see about this in the origin of the gods of ancient Greece). Older generation gods are usually referred to titans. By defeating Titans, the younger gods led by Zeus settled on Mount Olymp. The ancient Greeks were honored by the 12 Olympic gods. Their list usually included Zeus, Gera, Athena, Hephaest, Apollo, Artemis, Poseidon, Ares, Aphrodite, Demeter, Hermes, Gestiya. To the Olympians of the Olympians is close and aid, but he lives not on Olympus, but in his underground kingdom.

Gods Ancient Greece. Video film

God Poseidon (Neptune). Antique statue II century. According to R. Kh.

Olympic goddess of Artemis. Statue in Louvre

Statue of Athena Virgin in Parfenone. Ancient Greek sculptor fidium

Venus (Aphrodite) Milos. Statue ok. 130-100 to R. Kh.

Eroy earth and heavenly. Artist J. Balon, 1602

Hymen - Satellite Aphrodite, God of marriage. According to his behalf and wedding hymns were called in ancient Greece by Himena.

- Daughter Demeter, kidnapped by God Aid. A quick-hearted mother after long searches found Persephone in the underground kingdom. Asid, who made her his wife, agreed that she follows the part of the year on earth with his mother, and the other - with him in the depths of the Earth. Persephone was the personification of grain, which, being "dead" sown to the ground, then "comes to life" and comes out of it.

Persephone abduction. Antique jug, approx. 330-320 to R. Kh.

Amphitrite - Poseidon's wife, one of nonreide

Proteus - One of the marine deities of the Greeks. Son Poseidon, who had a gift to predict the future and change his appearance

Triton - Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, Bulletin sea depthsTubbing in the sink. By appearance - a mixture of man, horse and fish. Close to the eastern God Dagon.

Aireren "The goddess of the world, standing at the throne of Zeus on Olympus." IN Ancient Rome - Goddess Pax.

Nika - Goddess of Victory. Permanent satellite Zeus. In Roman mythology - Victoria

Dick - In ancient Greece - the personification of the Divine Truth, the goddess, hostile deception

Tyukh - Goddess of good luck and happy occasion. Romans - Fortune

Morpheus - Ancient Greek god of dreams, son of the Sleep Holness

Plutos - God of wealth

Phobos ("Fear") - Son and Arise satellite

Damos ("Horror") - Son and Arise satellite

Enio. - In the ancient Greeks - the goddess of a vile war, which causes rage in fighters and makes confusion in battle. In ancient Rome - Bellona

Titans

Titans are the second generation of the gods of ancient Greece, generated by natural elements. The first titans were six sons and six daughters who occurred from the Gay Earth's connection with uranium-sky. Six sons: Kron (time. Romans - Saturn), Ocean (Father of all rivers), Hyperion, Kay., Krii., Jap. Six daughters: Tefida (Water), Tayya (Gloss), Reia (Mother-mountain?), Femis (justice), Mnemosina (Memory), Phoebe.

Uranus and gay. Ancient Roman mosaic 200-250 across R. Kh.

In addition to Titans, Gay gave birth from marriage with uranium cyclops and hactonheyers.

Cyclops. - Three giants with a large, round, fiery eye in the middle of the forehead. In the deep antiquity - the personification of clouds, of which zipper sparkles

Hektonheira - "Storuchnaya" giants, against the terrible strength of which nothing can resist. The incarnation of terrible earthquakes and floods.

Cyclops and Hektonheira were so strong that the Uranus himself came terrified from their power. He connected them and threw the land inland, where they are now rapidly, causing eruption of volcanoes and earthquakes. The stay of these giants in the womb of the earth began to cause her terrible suffering. Gai has taken his youngest son, Crohn, take revenge on his father, uranium, sagging him.

Cron made it with a sickle. From the blood drops spilled at the same time, Zhana won and gave birth to three erynia - goddesses of chat with snakes on the head instead of hair. The names of Erinnia - Tisifona (killing Avenience), Alelecto (tireless persecutant) and Meghera (terrible). From the part of the seed and blood of a loose uranium, which fell not on the ground, and in the sea, the Goddess of Love Aphrodite was born.

Night-Nyukta in anger on the lawlessness of Crown gave birth to the terrible creatures and the deities of the Tanat (death), Erida (Discord) Apatu (Cheating), goddesses of violent death Ker., Gins (Sleep-nightmare) Nememida (Revenge), Geras (Old age), Charon (The carrier of the dead to the underground kingdom).

The power over the world has passed since uranium to titanas. They shared the universe among themselves. Cron instead of the Father became the Supreme God. The ocean received power over a huge river, which, according to the ideas of the ancient Greeks, flows around the whole land. Four other Krone brothers reigned in four sides of the world: Hyperion - in the East, curios - in the south, IPPER - in the West, Kay - in the north.

Four of the six senior Titans married their sisters. They had a junior generation of titans and deities of elements. From the marriage of the ocean with his sister the Tefid (water), all the earthly rivers and water nymphs were born. Titan Hyperion - ("High") took his sister Tayy (glitter). Helios (Sun) were born from them, Selena (Moon) and EOS. (Dawn). From Eos stars and four god winds were born: Borea (North wind), Notot (south wind), Marshmallow (Western Wind) and Evr. (Eastern wind). Titans Kay (Heavenly Axis?) And Feba gave birth to summer (night silence, mother of Apollo and Artemis) and Asteria (star light). The crown itself married at the rete (Mother-Mountain, the personification of the productive forces of mountains and forests). Their children are the Olympic gods of Gestius, Demeter, Gera, Aid, Poseidon, Zeus.

Titan Kryri married the daughter of Ponta Eurybia, and Titan Jappets - on the Oceanide Klumen, who gave birth to Atlanta titans from him (he holds on his shoulders of the sky), the arrogant Mesetia, ingenious Prometheus ("Thought before, foreseeing") and a weak epimeta ("Thinking after").

Others occurred from these titans:

Gesper - God of the evening and evening star. His daughters from night-nucts - Nymphs Geversis, who guard the garden with gold apples on the western edge of the Earth, once donated gay-earth goddess heer with her marriage with Zeus

Ore. - Goddess of parts of the day, the seasons and periods of human life.

Harita - goddess grace, fun and joy of life. Their three - Aglaya ("Licacy"), Efrosina ("Joy") and a waist ("abundance"). A number of Greek writers Harita wear different names. In ancient Rome they met grace

The life of the ancient Greek gods on Mount Olympus seemed to people with solid fun and daily holiday. Myths and legends of those times are a storehouse of philosophical and cultural knowledge. Having considered the list of the gods of ancient Greece, you can plunge into a completely different world. Mythology surprises with its uniqueness, it is important in that mankind has pushed humanity to the development and emergence of multiple sciences, such as mathematics, astronomy, rhetoric, logic.

First generation

Initially, there was a mist, and the chaos arose from it. Ereve appeared from their union (darkness), Nikta (night), uranium (sky), Eros (Love), Gaya (Earth) and Tartar (Abyss). All of them played a gigantic role in the formation of Pantheon. All other deities are somehow connected with them.

Gay is one of the first deities on Earth, which arose on a par with heaven, sea and air. She is a great mother of everything on Earth: Heavenly gods were bored with her union with her son Uranus (Heaven), sea gods from Pontos (Sea), giants from Tartaros (hell), and mortal creatures were created from her flesh. Depicted in the form of a fat woman, half towering out of the ground. We can assume that it came up with all the names of the gods of ancient Greece, the list of which can be found below.

Uranus is one of the primitive gods of ancient Greece. He was the initial ruler of the Universe. He was overthrown with his son Kronos. Born by one gay, also her husband. Some sources refer to his father ink. Uranus was depicted in the form of a bronze dome covering the world.

List of gods of ancient Greece, born uranium and gays: Ocean, Couce, Hyperion, Cryr, Teya, Reia, Femis, Japletus, Monsina, Tetis, Kronos, Cyclops, Bronuts, Sterree.

Uranus did not experience special love for his children, more precisely, hated them. And after birth, he concluded them in Tartar. But during their uprising was defeated and neutered by his son Kronos.

Second generation

Titans born by uranium and gay were six gods of time. The list of titans of ancient Greece includes:

Ocean - heads the list of the gods of ancient Greece, Titan. Represented large riversurrounding the land was the extensive all fresh water. The wife of the ocean was his sister, Titanide The Phidis. Their union spawned rivers, streams and thousands of oceanide. They did not take part in Titanoachei. The ocean was depicted in the form of horned Byk. With the tail of the fish instead of the legs.

Kay (Koi / Keos) - Brother and Husband Phoebe. Their union gave rise to summer and asteria. Depicted in the form of a heavenly axis. It was around her clouds revolved and walked in the sky Helios and Selena. Spouses were dropped by Zeus to Tartar.

Cry (Cryos) - Ice titanium, capable of freeze all living things. Shared the fate of his brothers and sisters dropped into Tartar.

Jappetus (Japet / Japteg) is the most eloquent, commanded titans when the gods occurs. Also sent Zeus to Tartar.

Hyperion - dwell on the island of trinacria. He did not participate in Titanoachei. The wife was Titinide Teea (dropped into the tartar along with his brothers and sisters).

Kronos (Cronus / Cronus) is a temporary ruler of the world. He was so afraid to lose the power of the Supreme God, which devoured his children, so that none of them would claim the throne of the Lordeline. He was married to his sister Ray. She managed to save one child and hide him from Kronos. He will overthrow with its only saved heir to Zeus and sent to Tartar.

Closer to people

The next generation is the most famous. They are the main gods of ancient Greece. The list of their feats, adventures and legends with their participation are very impressive.

They not only became closer to people, descending from heaven and coming out of the chaos to the top of the mountain. The third generation gods became more likely to contact people more often.

This was especially brazed by Zeus, who was very not indifferent to earthly women. And the presence of the Divine wife of the Gera did not confuse him. It was from his union with a man who became a friend of all the hero of myths - Hercules.

Third generation

These gods lived on Mount Olympus. From her name they received their title. There are 12 gods of ancient Greece, the list of which is known to almost everyone. All of them performed their functions and were endowed with unique talents.

But more often talk about fourteen gods, the first six of which were children of Kronos and Rei:

Zeus is the main god of Olympus, the ruler of the sky, personified power and strength. God of the zipper, thunder and the creator of people. The main attributes of this god were: aegis (shield), Labris (bilateral ax), Zeus zipper (double-eyed forks with jar) and eagle. Distributed good and evil. Was in alliance with several women:

Metida - the first wife, the goddess of wisdom, was swallowed by his spouse;
Themis is the goddess of justice, the second wife of Zeus;
Gera - last wife, the goddess of marriage was the sister of Zeus.

Poseidon is the god of rivers, floods, seas, droughts, horses and earthquakes. His attributes were: trident, dolphin and chariot with white horses. Wife - Amphitrite.

Demeter - Persephone mother, sister Zeus and his beloved. It is the goddess of fertility and patronize farmers. The demeter attribute is a wreath of sections.

Gestiya - Sister Demeter, Zeus, Aida, Hera and Poseidon. Patron sacrificial fire and family focus. Gave the vow of chastity. The main attribute was a torch.

Aid is the ruler of the underground kingdom of the dead. Spouse Persephone (goddess fertility and queen of the kingdom of the dead). Aid's attributes were a two-way or rod. I was depicted with the underground monster Cerberom - three-chapted dogs, which was guarding at the entrance to Tartar.

Hera - sister and at the same time Zeus's wife. The strongest and wise goddess Olympus. There was a patroness family and marriage. Mandatory attribute of the gera - diadem. This is a decoration - a symbol of what it is home on Olympus. She was obeyed (sometimes with reluctant) all the basic gods of ancient Greece, whom she headed.

The rest of the Olympians

Let these gods and there were no so powerful parents, almost all of them were born from Zeus. Each of them was talented in its own way. And perfectly coped with her duties.

Ares is the son of Gera and Zeus. God of battles, war and masculinity. He was a lover, then the spouse of the goddess Aphrodite. Ares's companions were Eride (the goddess of contention) and Enio (the goddess of a frantic war). The main attributes were: helmet, sword, dog, burning torch and shield.

Apollo - the son of Zeus and the summer was the twin brother of Artemis. God of light, the leader of the music, the god-healer and the predictor of the future. Apollo was very loving, he had many mistresses and lovers. Attributes were: laurel wreath, chariot, onions with arrows and gold lira.

Hermes - the son of Zeus and the Pleiads of Maya or Persephone. God trade, eloquence, dexterity, rationality, animal husbandry and roads. Patron athletes, merchants, artisans, shepherds, travelers, ambassadors and thieves. He is a personal messenger of Zeus and the death of the dead in the kingdom of Aida. I trained people writing, trade and contractors. Attributes: Winged sandals, allowing him to fly, helmet invisible, Caduceus (rod, decorated with two intertwined snakes).

Ghefest is the son of Gera and Zeus. God of blacksmithing craft and fire. Chrome on both legs. Hephaesta's wife - Aphrodite and Aglaya. The attributes of God were: forge fur, ticks, chariot and pylos.

Dionysus - son of Zeus and the death female seeds. God of vineyards and winemaking, inspiration and ecstasy. Patron theater. He was married to Ariadne. Attributes of God: a bowl with wine, a wreath of grape vines and a chariot.

Artemis - daughter Zeus and Goddess Summer, Sister-twin Apollon. Young goddess - hunter. Appearing on the light of the first, helped His mother to give birth to Apollo. Chastryna. Attributes of Artemis: Lan, Quits with arrows and chariot.

Demetra - Daughter of Kronos and Rei. Mother Persephone (Aida's wife), sister Zeus and his beloved. Goddess of agriculture and fertility. The attribute of the demeter wreath from the bore.

Athena - the daughter of Zeus, completes our list of the gods of ancient Greece. She was born out of his head after he swallowed her mother to Femid. The goddess of war, wisdom and crafts. Patrone of the Greek city of Athens. Her attributes were: shield with the image of Jellyfish Gorgon, Owl, Snake and Spear.

Born in foam?

About the next goddess I want to say separately. It is not only to this day is a symbol of female beauty. Everything else, the history of its origin is hidden by the secret.

About the birth of Aphrodite walks a lot of disputes and assumptions. First version: The goddess was born from the seed and the blood of a rough uranium kronos, fallen into the sea and formed foam. Second version: Aphrodite arose from the sea shell. Third hypothesis: she is daughter Diona and Zeus.

This goddess has managed with beauty and love. Spouses: Ares and Hephaest. Attributes: chariot, apple, rose, mirror and pigeon.

How lived on great Olympus

All Olympic Gods of Ancient Greece, the list of which you see above had the right to live and spend everything free from wonderland on the Great Mountain. The relationship between them was not always rainbow, but few of them decided on the open enmity, knowing the power of their opponent.

Even among the great Divine creatures there was no permanent world. But everything was solved by the goats, secret conspiracies and betrayals. It is very similar to the world of people. And this is understandable, because humanity was created by the gods, so they are all like us.

The gods that are not living on the top of Olympus

Not all of the deities failed to achieve such heights and climb on the mountain Olympus to rule there peace, pouring and having fun. Many other gods could not earn such a high honor, or were modest and satisfied with the usual life. If, of course, it is possible to name the existence of a deity. In addition to the Olympic gods, there were other gods of ancient Greece, the list of their names here:

Gimenta is the God of Marriage Nob (the son of Apollo and the Muse of Kallopa).
Nick is the goddess of Victory (daughter Styx and Titan Raft).
Irida - Goddess Rainbow (daughter of the Marine God of Tavmeth and Oceanides of the Electra).
Ata - the goddess of the mind of the mind (daughter Zeus).
APATA - Lady Lady (Heiress Goddess night dark Nukty).
Morfei is the god of dreams (the son of the Lord of Dream Hypnosis).
Phobos is the God of Fear (the descendant of Aphrodite and Ares).
Daimos - The Lord of the Horror (Son of Ares and Aphrodites).
Ore - Goddess Seasons (daughter Zeus and Femids).
Eaol - Windmob of the winds (the heir to Poseidon and Arna).
Hekata - Lady of Mraka and all monsters (the result of the Union of Titan Persian and Asteria).
Tanatos is the God of Death (the son of Ereb and Nyukty).
Erinia is the goddess of revenge (daughters of the ereb and nucts).
Pont - Lord of the Inner Sea (heir to ether and gay).
Moyry - Goddess of Fate (daughter Zeus and Femids).

This is not all the gods of ancient Greece, the list of which can be continued even further. But for acquaintance with the main myths and legends it is enough to know only these acting persons. If you want to read more stories About each, we are confident that the ancients came up with a lot of weave of their destinies and details of the Divine Life, in which you will gradually get acquainted with all new and new characters.

The meaning of Greek mythology

There were also muses, nymphs, satires, centaurs, heroes, cyclops, giants and monsters. All this huge world It was invented not in one day. Myths and legends were written with decades, with each retelling finally in favor of other details and not previously occurring characters. All the new gods of ancient Greece appeared, the list of names of which grew from one storytellor to another.

The main goal of these stories was to teach future generations of the wisdom of the elder, understandable to talk about good and evil, about honor and cowardice, about loyalty and lies. Well, moreover, such a huge pantheon made it possible to explain almost any a natural phenomenon, scientific justification which has not yet been.

The gods are great, such as Vishnu and Shiva, Zeus and Kronos, Allah and Christ, and small gods, so to speak Godheads. In India, in the Vedic Pantheon, this, for example, the Gods Aditi, embodying freedom, exemption from evil. The gods are also interstate (miter, Christ, Allah), state (Japanese goddess Amateras), national (God of Jews - Yahweh), urban, local, street (in the ancient Romans), generic, tribal, family (in the ancient Romans they called Lara And the Penates) and the personal ("personal" god of the ruler of Lagas was the god of Ningishzid, and the Hilgamesh was a personal god of the hero of the Sumerian epic, Lugalbande).

Each settlement center Mesopotamia had his own God. The so-called "big screen", which consisted of 12 columns, appeared, apparently, more than 2.500 names of the gods. They had wives and children, reasonable suits of the servants. In many documents that have reached us, along with the main gods, all their ministers, children and even slaves are listed. The gods of these lived very well, you can even say gorgeous. They lived in magnificent temples, in which Vassalov took, like autocrats.

According to the Indian Vedas (the ancient monument of Indian religious literature by a dated end of the II - the beginning of the I-th millennium BC), there are 33 basic and millions of secondary
demigods who are responsible for management of global processes. Much less of the gods in Japan: In the VIII-X century, there were only 3.132 gods in the Shinto Pantheoniaonia. About the same gods was
In Ancient India, 3.339 gods are mentioned in Vedi hymns. A large number of gods - a few thousand were at the Aztecs.

Already from what is clear that there is a huge number of gods in the world. Naturally, the question arises, but do they know each other? Apparently, they often do not even suspect the presence of other gods or pretend that other gods do not exist. They will learn about the existence of other gods only when as a result of the war they turn out to be winners or defeated. In one case, they become the main gods, and the gods of the defeated people are secondary. In other cases, the gods of the defeated people and their priests (priests) are simply destroyed.

When we have a prince Vladimir in 988 on political and economic considerations, I decided to adopt our religion to be alien to our people - Christianity, his squad began to destroy - to smash, chop and heat the image of the gods, which for thousands of years prayed east Slavs, as well as the places of them worship - the Kapiek. From this, the violent Christianization of Russia began. The pagan gods themselves - Veles, Dazhibogog, Horse, Perun and even the ancient God did not be (or did not want) to protect themselves! Christ in communicating with them did not enter, but with the help of his new adherents - converts of Christians, he just destroyed them. And at the same time the whole Old Russian culture was destroyed.

And when the Spanish conquistadors conquered the Mayan and Aztec states, the latter learned that in addition to their gods there is a powerful God Jesus Christ. Apparently, it was during this period that the Gods of the Indians learned about the existence of a powerful Christian God. Christian God, following the example of his father, Yakhwe-Savaof did not want to be friends with the Indian gods and with the help of his followers and faithful servants began to destroy not only these gods, but also people who believed in them.

It is interesting to note that the Gods claiming to the Uniopharan, Christ, and Allah do not want to recognize the presence of not only the pagan gods, but also gods, like they, who consider themselves the only. For example, Allah, which requires the daily five-time confessions from his adherents, that he is the only one: "There is no God, except for Allah and Magomet's prophet." Does not want to recognize other gods and the Jewish god Yahweh (Savaof), who demands that honor it, i.e. His slaves were not worshiped, and therefore did not create images of other gods: "Do not coordinate the idol!". The same demanded (though earlier, today he no longer requires) and the Christian God of Christ. However, the position of Christ is extremely complex. Of course, he wants to be considered the only God. But at the same time, he is part of the Trinity of the Gods, in which there is another only God - Yahweh (Savaof), he is God-Father. This is stated in the Nikeo-Tsoregrad Symbol of Faith, adopted in 325. It should be noted that paradoxical conclusion follows from this stubborn and extremely impolite statements in relation to other gods. The denying existence of other gods, as well as demanding that people they do not have turned, they act as the most real femills and even atheists.

It turns out that the very first atheist in the world is the Jewish God Yahweh. True, atheist he is inconsistent - he and his adherents denies the existence of other gods, stating that they are unreal, because This God is only one! It is no secret that the most powerful gods, as a rule, does not happen - they are all divided into male and female gods. At the same time, God existed in ancient Greece, who had signs of both sexes - male and female - hermaphrod. And at the African tribe of Bombara, many of the gods could even freely change their gender, speaking in male, then in
Women's hypostasis. For example, the God of Odeoda in some myths was a male deity, and in others - the female (goddess of the earth).

Most of the gods were and continuing to remain the gods of a male race. But the gods of the female kind are also enough. Supporters of equality of floors can satisfy the fact that goddess
occupied the gods in society very important posts. Although most of the Male Sun Gods, there are female sun deities. So, at Hettites in the XVII-XII centuries BC The sun was the goddess that was called Metzulla. And she was not only the goddess of the sun, but also the main deity of this nation. The Divine of the Sun of the Japanese and today is the goddess Amateras. The ancient Egyptians had the gods of the fertility Waal (Baal), Min, Ptah, Sepa, Serapis, Khnum and Banejger and the Goddess of Fertility - Anuk, Renenut, Taurte and Hecks. By the water of the Egyptians, the God of Water Sebec and the later goddess of the water Severted appeared. The exception was only the first sake of the sperm gods, which were male.

It is interesting to note that feminism is not only in humans, but also the gods. Many peoples of the goddess have not inferior to the gods and occupied such purely male positions as those responsible for war and hunting. So, in the ancient Egyptians, the Goddess of Astarta (it is Anat). One part-time was responsible for fighting chariots. And in another Ipostasi Anat performed and the duties of the deity of hunting. The Greek goddess of Wisdom Athena simultaneously was responsible for justice when conducting hostilities. One of its names is Promakhos - the "advanced fighter", "would make the honor of any male war deity.

In general, as in humans, the gods prevailed Patriarchate. The wives even the supreme gods could not be equal to their role and importance with their husbands. In Ugaric myths, the Higher God was the father of the gods of Al. He had a wife El, called the mother of the gods. The creators of the world in the ancient Maya were the top of the gods - the gods of Cukumats and Khurakan and the goddess of the heat. The ancient Greek goddess Hera is Zeus's wife - often objected him and even argued with him on the Board of the gods. It was believed by the fact that the angry thumb threatened to her by punishments and then she was silent. She remembered well, as he once subjected her to the beat, as the gold chains fastened and hung between heaven and earth, tieding two heavy anvil to her feet. To make a pretty thought about who in the house is the main and how to behave a sample wife.

As a rule, the gods are very rich, which is not surprising, as they have great power. Already in ancient Sumer (Mesopotamia, the III Millennium BC), all arable land belonged to God, while the tsar-priest was only the manager, the "farmer-tenant", as he title himself. But this land had to be cultivated, so thousands of people worked on God. For a very scarce reward. The priests of this God were inspired by believers that work on the fields belonging to God is the fulfillment of the religious duties by God by God. Therefore, it is not crowded. True, for some reason, they did not understand that this work is for them much joy. Apparently, they were then not very conscious. God himself once
It was clarified to people.

Not much poorer of this god Sumer was the God of another Sumerian city city - Hooray, the God of the Moon Nanna. He received not only the tenth of the whole crop (which here comes from Christians from Church), but also rent. Today, the richest God is the God of Muslim Allah - he owns the whole world. And so that all orders do not forget about it, the Arabs of the Middle East over entrance door His house is usually knocked out on a stone slab inscription in Arabic: "God's property." Interestingly, other only perhaps gods are not disputed. In accordance with the concepts of good and evil, there are good and evil gods. Good, for example, include Indian Ashwines - the Ushas Brothers. They dispose of honey, nectar of life, as well as soma (intoxicating drink). They give me a honey of the bees, treat their gods and people. They love to help: save the victims of the shipwreck, return to women the lost ability to childbear, look for the husbands of old devices. And also help newlyweds to enter the house of her husband. The division in good and evil gods is also from Japanese ains.

The ancient Egyptians had a deity Hu Personifier the will of God, his creative word. And the African tribe of Yoruba has recently recently been the God of Elegby, which represented ... Anger of another Fa. The gods of the ancient Iran possessed "hvary", which can be understood as "charisma," some sacred essence, the possession of which gives goodness, the power, the ability to master the minds of tremendous masses of people and
Manage them. Hvary possessed, in particular, the God of Ahuramazd and the Savior of the world Soshjant. All the power and power of the Indian god Shiva lies not so much in him as much as in its "shakti" - spiritual energy appearing and manifested only under certain circumstances. First, this energy accumulates in it during the periods of ascetic women and contemplation. Secondly, Shakti's energy is closely wetted with his male life-giving force. It is believed that the moment of connecting Shiva from his female half of parvati is the moment of multiple enhancement of its energy.

Of particular interest are the so-called live gods. The living God, who accepted the human appearance (Bogochlovek), was Jesus Christ. But Christ is not the only living God. In Nepal (the state between India and China) and today lives the live goddess Kumari. This goddess from flesh and blood is presented in the form of a little girl and is also, in essence, the Godhead. It represents the hyposta of the goddess Shakti, but only innocent, young, which made the hypostasis of female deities. The girl intended for the role of the goddess is selected by the priests extremely strictly and picky. Three-year-old Kroch must have the addition of the goddess and not have the slightest flaw. If at least one of eighty external signs Not responds with a firmly established standard, the candidate is not suitable. The girl applying to the title of live goddess, in the shortest term is obliged to learn how to own themselves and under any circumstances do not lose the presence of the Spirit. Otherwise, you can expect a great misfortune. She must shove out of capping goats, spend the night in a dark basement, filled with skeletons and dismembered corpses. If the girl is frightened or somehow broke the etiquette, it can calculate the sinister sign.

The point here is that Kumari, who is considered the patroness of Nepal, is given although the nominal, but very noticeable role in the life of the country. It is for her that the King of Nepal is sent to the annual worship, in order to ask her blessings to manage the country for the next year. The duties of the goddess are not too burdensome. In half the seventh in the morning, she awakens from sleep and immediately enters the caring hands of priests. After laid, always alone and the same breathing exercises and ritual ablution, proceed to the daily procedure "Clarification of the Divine Eye". To do this, a wide sign in the form of ritual secacy, handle facing for the nose, is applied to Lobysca Carmins. Then they drive it along the contour of yellow paint and carefully poured in the middle a very realistic expanded eye and lengthen the corner of the eye of these nature. Further, consistent with the instructions of astrologers, the priests decide what color the robe will choose Kumari today. It is decorated with a precious crown that resembles an ancient Russian kokoshnik, silver monistas, severe handicraft hrying, rings and bracelets. Most often, Kumari "prefers" to wear a scarlet dress, symbolizing the unearthful power of femininity, the female energy that manages all the universe.

The goddess prepared in this way sit down in a special chair with a round foot and endure in the reception. Here, sitting at the northern wall, as if the bronze statue, she takes sacrificial flowers and Slavs, impassively hesitates the sounds of entertaining her music, without looking watching the pleasant figures of dance, which is especially for her dancers. So quietly goes day after day. When the sun comes, the priests begin to cook the goddess to sleep. It is filled with incenses, silver virgines take off, wash away the makeup.

Only once a year in a small goddess holiday - the eight-day Celebrations of the Indrajatra, in which Buddhists, together with the Hindus, are accepted. On this day, she is taken to noisy filled with enthusiastic crowds of the city. During this holiday, the goddess shows herself to the people. For three days, she, together with God, Ganesh makes a detour of the city guard. And all these days continue to bring to the rapidness, the electrified crowd of dance. The king himself goes to the square so that in front of the people to be bowed to the mysterious power of a little girl, whose eye drawn with the priests is scary as a curse. At this point, the celebration reaches climax.

A whole year will remember the lonely, who has learned to laugh and cry a girl about the sweet moments of his celebration. Deprived of society of peers not knowing the games, she will wait patiently
next holiday. But one day everything will be sown unexpectedly. Upon reaching the twelfth age when, according to priests, femininity awakens in it, she, having fallen in the goddess, wake up an ordinary girl. She quietly and imperceptibly leaves the temple to return to the family to try learn to live in human appearance. Log in a new role for it is very difficult. Despite the significant dowry, which she receives goodbye, such girls are extremely reluctant to be in his wife. And who want to marry the goddess, accustomed only to command. Therefore, frequent lot is lonely stagnation, filled with feces and memories of the former greatness ...

In addition to the live goddess in the capital of Nepal Kathmandu, there are also at least two live goddesses. One lives in Patale, and the other - in Bhaktapur. In addition to them, in the Valley of Kathmandu there are still live goddesses of local importance. No wonder this valley is often called the "valley of the gods".

Where do the gods live?

According to one ideas, the first gods lived on Earth. So, the Sumerian gods, when they realized that the Earth was good, wanted to stay on it. They appealed to God Enlil asking him to make a place where they could live together. And here in the center of the earth disk (on the submission of the Sumerians, the Earth was flat) Enlyl built the city of Nippur, settling his brothers and sisters there. But herself, her beloved, he did not forget, having built a high platform in the center of the city and eluding a beautiful palace from Lazurit on him. The place where they settled, the Sumerian gods called "Blessed Earth" - "En-Eden." Ancient Jews, borrowing from the Sumerians (and without referring to them) The myth of the creation of the world, only slightly redid the name of this place, turning it into a familiar Eden, i.e. paradise. The ancient Egyptian god of RA, completing the primary arrangement of the world of gods and people, settled on the holy hill Ben-Ben in Heliopole (who were in Egypt). At the same time, he spent in the flower of Lotus, who left at dawn and then steam all day over the day.

The Chinese god Juan-di lived on Earth. Protecting and approved in the fight against other gods their power, he erected his majestic and beautiful palace on Mount Kunlun. In this palace, he spent his free time and entertained. The palace surrounded the Yashmovaya Fender. On each side it was nine columns and nine gates, and inside the palace was surrounded by five walls and twelve towers. The Palace Roses Risovy Kolos in five coverages. In the West, two trees grew up - pearl and jade. To the east of the spoal, the tree was grew by a tree and tree Langan. On the Fuchany tree, which next to the tree Langan, was sitting by the three-headed spirit, three heads of whom took over and woke up. Huang-Dee had another palace on Mount Tsynyashoan. To the northeast of this palace were famous hanging gardensLocated so highly that they seemed to hang in the clouds. African gods live on Earth. So, the chief god of nations kikuyu
And Kamba Ngai lives on the mountains, which he himself built: Mount Kenya, "Mount of Big Rain" (in the East), "Mount of Clear Sky" (in the south), "Sleep Mount or Secret Asylum" (in the West).

On the top of the Crystal Mountain, the God of Shiva lives. But the dwelling of the ancient German gods Asgard was on the top of the tree. Interestingly, this housing is erected by a certain Giant, who helped ... Horse. World trees chose their own rain god from Maya Indians. Some gods prefer to live underground. Under the ground was the Great Mountain, and in it - the hell, which was ruled by the goddess Ereshkigal and her husband nerg.

Though on earth and good, but still it is better to live in heaven more interesting. Therefore, most of the gods lived and lives exactly there. Even at the dawn of human civilization, in Mesopotamia, the gods of the city-state hurray were settled in heaven (about 2.330 years BC). Greek gods - Zeus and subordinates of him the deities, too, did not live on Earth, but high above her - on the bright Olympus. Three beautiful orses guarded the entrance to the high Olympus and raised the closing gate a thick cloud when the gods went to Earth or raised into the light draws of Zeus. Highly above Olympus spread out the blue sky, from which the golden light was pulled. In the kingdom of Zeus there was no rain, nor snow; There was always a bright, joyful summer. The gods were poured in the golden panels built by the son of Zeus Hephaest. Zeus himself was sitting on a high gold throne.

His throne was located the goddess of the world Aireren and a permanent satellite Zeus winged goddess of Victory Niche. In addition to the palaces located above the earth, the Greek and Roman gods at times lived in special, specially built believing houses - temples. Believers came there to appeal to them with prayers and thank the services they provided. But the palace of the great brother Zeus oscillators of the Earth of God of Poseidon was deep in the bunch of the sea. His beautiful amphitrite spouse lived with him. IN heavenly kingdom Also live the gods of India. India has its a thousand-year-old city of Amaravati, full gold and precious stones. There are always the gardens and neither cold nor thirst in the inhabitants of Heavenly Grad. They do not know old age, no ailments or fear. The looks of them are delighted by the beautiful dancers - Ansara. In addition, they have a dwelling on the top of Himavat (Himalayas). On the highest heavens, the gods of Aztecs omekutli and Ombicoatl - the Divine Couple, which gave birth to gods and people.

Some Gods are choosing not just heaven, but clouds. In the clouds, the God of the African tribe of Yoruba Shango lives in a huge shining copper palace. The gods of an ancient Sumer, who lived constantly in heaven, sometimes provided people mercy and descended from the sky into their earthly temples.

Especially they loved the "high" temples on platforms called zikcrats. At the same time, they lived in the "lower" temples in the image of their statues. Indian God Krishna, on the one hand, always stays in his abode, on the other - he is omnipresent (Bhagavad-Gita 8:22). And since he is omnipresent, he dwells in the heart of every believer (Bhagavad-gita 18:61). Like people, the ancient gods lived as well in houses (palaces). After defeating his father, Indian God Indra rebuilt the whole world. He gave this world like a house: it stands on four pillars, and top covers the roof of the sky. There are two doors in the house. In the morning through the door eastern, widely opened, the sun enters. In the evening, the thoughtful Indra on the moment opens the door to Western to release the sun outgoing overnight. During the day it makes a big job and is very tired, and therefore wants to sleep.

Judging by the Old Testament, God Yakhwe-Savaof initially did not have a certain residence at all until he had a wonderful idea to create our material world. Why it was he needed - no one knows. Maybe he himself does not know. In any case, the Bible says nothing about it. Judging by the description of this creation, the wise and all-knowing Yahwe did not even suspect that this world would be so good ("And God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:10). And when he created the light, he was surprised even more and even delighted. It turned out that it was better to live with the light ("And God saw the light that he was good" Genesis 1: 4). It is a thought that billions of years poor Yahweh lived ... Without light, in full, even a pitch darkness. And neither the lady nor the flashlight he had. He did not even guess, what will be better with the light. We only have to be wondering how such God the Jews call the all-knowing and unmore? ...

Though the world of Yahweh created, but to determine his location in it (and, it means, it is not in a hurry to arrange. No matter how much it continued - it is unknown, but here the curious and smart Jews who gave him permanent accommodation in His life, who provided him with permanent accommodation in the "Ark of the Covenant", kept during their nomadic life in a special tent, which was set in various safe places (so that which "Little animals did not disturb the peace of the all-powerful and almighty God, the Creator of the whole world). Later, the Jewish Tsar Solomon in 953 BC. Built his luxurious temple. However, in view of the fact that Yegg was accustomed to nomadic life, he did not flatten this temple and did not choose him his place of his permanent stay. At the same time, that the Jews are not offended by him, Jegg announced that in this temple is ... His name (3 kings 8:16).

In 586 BC. Upon instep of the Jewish God, this wonderful temple was destroyed by alien (apparently, Yeggov at that time was engaged in its own very important things or stayed in other worlds),
But the Jews restored it. When in 70, AD. The temple was destroyed again (this time by the Romans), Jews did not restore it. And although after this destruction has passed almost 2 thousand years, and for almost 60 years, Jews live in their own state, he has not yet been restored. As a result, Jews have to pray to their God in buildings, which to some extent replace the temple - synagogues (Synagogue - Greek. - "House of Assembly"). And the patient Yahwe is waiting for everything, when the Jews are caught and restored, finally, the temple him. The case in religions, of course, is unique and paradoxical: the God of the Jewish people, who created the whole world according to the teachings of Judaism and chose this people from all the people of the world as an object of his love, for two thousand years has not yet has their homes (temple). How should he love his people, which still was not offended and did not punish him for such inattention and disrespect for himself! Another God would brutally dismiss your people for such a disregard for yourself!

Instead of restoring His temple, Jews are waiting for the messenger of His God - the Messiah (not that, according to the teachings, Christians will come to the ground and whom they call Jesus Christ, but the real Messiah!), Which, as they think and will restore them Temple. Like, Yahweh made the destruction of the temple, let him himself or with his messenger restores him.

However, judging by the fact that none of the great and small gods themselves were built their temples themselves and did not disappear (!), Jews are in vain pulling time and do not restore the temple that was destroyed by their own fault (the temple was destroyed by the Romans, since Jews turned him into the fortress and the center of the uprising). Today, for the restoration of the temple, Jews have everything - the money of the richest people of the planet, the most modern construction equipment, architects, engineers and labor. And to restore the temple on the temple mountain, where he used to be and where today there are two Muslim mosques - "Kubbat AS-Sahra" ("Casual Dome") and Masdzhid Al-Aksa ("Far Mosque"), there is no need. Places in Yerusalem itself for the construction of the temple is quite enough. For Yahweh, the main thing is that he again had his temple, and in what place Jerusalem he will stand - not so important. After all, by the teachings of the Jews, their God is not only the Creator, but also the owner of the whole earth!

Believers can communicate with their gods (God) and on fresh air - In the forest, on the mountain, in the field. The ancient arias for a meeting with the gods chose an exalted place on which the sacrificial straw was spread. It was invited to sit the gods. In the ancient Slavs, most of the sacred cults were temporary - for one holiday, for one season, for one year. It was connected not so much with a nomadic or half-in-room lifestyle, as with faith in a one-time visit to this place by God. Then began to build the Kapic (from the Old Slavonic "Caps" - idol; "Copy" - to gather) and the tribadic ("Treba" - the victim and sacrifice). Initially, the ancient gods met with their believing in the open sky. But later they realized that they were worthy of more comfortable conditions and told the buildings to themselves - first the towers, and then the special homes-temples that were their dwellings. But relatively new gods (Christ and Allah) in their homes do not constantly live, and settle temporarily or attend them only sometimes. The gods are very loved when they have their own house in each city, the village and the village, where they can look and even stop for a while - to rest a little and bother.

If the old gods had only a few of their homes, and even one alone, then modern gods, for example, Jesus Christ have such houses-temples hundreds of thousands scattered in many countries and continents and having a wide variety of forms. What does he live in?

The question is very complicated: if it settles in one of them, the priests and believers of other temples will be offended. And if it will move from the temple into the temple, then the schedule of his stay in different churches should be drawn up. But there is no such graph! The way out of this complex position is that God is present in all of them immediately. In the time of John of Zlatoust, it was also believed: "God himself is insensimibly present in the temple." This agreed with this and very revered in the RPC preacher John Kronstadsky: "B than in the temple, remember that you are in the lively presence of the Lord God, stand in front of his face, before the eyes of him, in a living presence God's Mother" From these words, who should believe every Orthodox Christian, it follows that Christ is present at the same time in all churches. How he manages it doesn't know anyone, because This is a great mystery. Naturally, God.

It is on the authority of these people and the belief is resting that in every temple they can talk with their God. After all, the word "church" (in Greek "Curioka") means "the house of the Lord", i.e. The house in which God lives. But even if it is not even there (I was left, for example, somewhere in my God's deeds), he will still hear all prayers addressed to him. So they say the priests. And although they cannot know this for exactly (after all, God himself does not communicate with them), they can't say at the same time and say that God is not in this temple. Otherwise, people will not come there and buy candles and demands, and therefore the priest will not have money to keep this temple, and it will not live for what!

Of course, you can, like Protestants, to say that Christ is present in all temples at the same time because it stays everywhere in space and in time. But if you get up to the point of view of the main part of Christians - Catholics and Orthodox, then such a look is heretical. At the same time, they do not have their explanation, how do God still have time to be at the same time in all churches. If you take the point of view of Protestants that God is everywhere at the same time in time and space, then it means that you can communicate anywhere.

Hence, it is very unpleasant for Catholics and Orthodox conclusion that there is no need to build special homes-temples to God. And if the Protestants are consistent, it turns out that the buildings where they are going, they should be called not temples and churches, not by prayer houses, but just the halls of assembly or how they are called Jegan's Witnesses - "Kingdom's Halls". It turns out that the construction of churches and churches are needed only to sacred and churrents ...

Islamic God Allah also does not live in a mosque. Mosque (in Arabic "Masdzhid") is "the place where earthly bows are given", i.e. This is the place where God pray. And although there is no Allah to the mosque, all the prayers addressed to him, mysteriously reach it.

Of course, the gods take prayers to them, readable and in other places (at home, in the field, on the road, etc.), but prefer them to be pronounced in these prayer houses - churches, kirch, mosques, synagogues. Gods, especially the Gods-Creators and themselves could create temples, but to do this, apparently, underwent or just laziness. Therefore, they are waiting for these temples to build believers. And believers, especially the power of it, which can spend on the construction of temples not only (and not so much) their personal, but also the money of the state, build a large number of temples to earn the mercy of God - to get to the paradise, if they even understand what they do not deserve Paradise, and hell. So, the Jewish king Solomon, popular in Jews and Christians, for the construction of the temple Yahweh for many years, by agreement with the Phoenician king, Chiram drove in Israel - about 20 tons per year, which was intended for the construction of this temple. For this he gave Hiram, as stated in the Old Testament, "20 cities in the land of the Galilean" (3 kingdoms 9:11).

Large churches (temples) in Christians (Catholics and Orthodox) are called cathedrals. Believers of each religion themselves determine the architecture and decoration of their church - from very simple, unbelief structures, almost Sarai, to luxurious palaces, accompanying thousands of parishioners. An example of the latter are temples dedicated to the Indian God Vishnu and St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. Very interesting, a huge still unfinished temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Familia) in Barcelona (Spain). Until 1990, the biggest Christian cathedral in the world was the Cathedral of St. Peter in Rome. And in 1990 he surpassed his cathedral in the city of Yamusukro - the capital of the African state of Côte d` Ivoire. It covers an area of \u200b\u200b22.067 square meters. meters, its height is 189 m, length without a portico - 186.4 m, and with a portion - 211.5 m.

Why are such big temples build? It turns out that it is not at all because to collect as many believers as possible! For example, built at the beginning of the IV century in Trier (Germany) and Geneva (Switzerland), the cathedrals occupied extensive plots of land, although they were attended by relatively few parishioners. In XI, even all the inhabitants of this city would not be filled in a huge cathedral in Schpeier. The huge sizes of the cathedrals and the pomp of their decoration testify only that the customers of their construction of the drive by no means religious feelings. Pride and vanity of the bishop or abbot, encouraged the construction of the cathedral, often encouraging force. "We will erect the cathedral so huge that at the sight of his people will consider us madmen," said one Spanish clergyman in Seville in 1402. Even today, the Cathedral in Seville is considered the second largest in the world. "Perhaps - writes Jegan's Witnesses Magazine" Wake up! " (June 8, 2001), - Cathedrals and glorify people who built them, but not God. "

The decoration of prayer houses can be both very modest and simple, as, for example, in Islamic mosques, Jewish synagogues, the Protestant halls of prayer meetings, and very rich, even luxurious, as in Catholic and orthodox churches: Walls are decorated with icons and paintings on biblical topics, and the ceiling is covered with painting. In the Orthodox churches, the altar is separated from the main part of the room with a special wall consisting of icons - iconostasis. In the Catholic and Protestant temples, believers can communicate with God sitting, but in Orthodox churches, as a rule, only standing, sometimes on the knees or spreading the NIC on the floor. On the knees they turn to Allah and Mohammedan.

That already in ancient times People built the gods big number Temples, testifying excavations in Babylon. One of the inscriptions on the clay plate reads that there were 53 temples of the Great Gods, 55 Sanctures of God Marduk, 300 Sanctures of the Earth and 600 - Heavenly Deities, 180 Altars of the Glorious Goddess Ishtar, 180 Altars Goddesses Nergal and Adai and 12 other altars! These excavations confirmed that the inhabitants of Babylon loved so much (or rather feared) their gods, which most of their life and creative forces were given to the construction of these religious buildings. Churches (temples) are small and large. An example of a small church can serve as an architectural miracle - the temple of the cover on the nerve. The biggest Christian church is the Cathedral of St. Peter in Rome, which can accommodate several tens of thousands of praying. Do not lag behind Christians and Muslims - for example, Sultan Suleiman's mosque in Istanbul accommodates up to 10 thousand people.

Typically, each God is dedicated to a separate temple. For example, the temple of Vesta or Saturn in Rome. However, there are also temples dedicated to all the gods at once. For example, built in 27 BC. Mark Agrippa Pantheon, in which the statues of many gods stood. Pantheon - the greatest antique dome facility almost unchanged reached the present day. And currently there are temples in which believers can pray at once to several gods - Christ, Allah and Yahweh. The number of temples from the gods is different - from one, as for example, in the past of God Yehgova-Yahweh, up to dozens and even hundreds of thousands of Christ and Allah. In one Russia, by the beginning of 1917, only Orthodox churches, prayer houses and chapels were about 78 thousand.

In recent decades, given that believers are not very readily attending temples, in Western countries, especially in the United States, the so-called "electronic churches" are becoming increasingly distribution. They are radio and television programs, as well as computer programs that believers can use, wherever they are - at home, at work, on vacation, while traveling. "Electronic Churches" offer believers Christian news, all kinds of Christian performances-dialogues, religious cartoons, games and puzzles of religious content. Interestingly, God himself, as before, does not seek to take advantage of new opportunities for communicating with their believers. Apparently he is not before, he is very busy ... That's just what?

Life of gods, their behavior and classes

Nothing human gods are alien to the gods - like people, they work, rest, walk, eat, drink, sleep and even see dreams. They are inherent in many human features: they fall into anger, not free from envy, can be sad and rejoice. The gods are very proud of their position and therefore very vain. So, the Sumerian God of Enki is the God of water and wisdom -
He loved to chant himself, his high position in the hierarchy of the gods, his temple Abbe and, of course, their numerous blessings. First of all, the laws managed by the world. He boasts the fact that he introduced arable agriculture and the fact that he was appointed to look after the instruments of the Pahoto of God Enkidu. He was proud to build a crust for storing grain, having transferred the supervision of the goddess Ashnan, as well as the invention of hoes and form for the manufacture of bricks. Being in everything consistent, he instructed to look after the manufacture of bricks to God Kulla's bricks. He is very proud of himself and their deeds Allah, so in the Quran he calls himself "we".

The gods are not alien to the habits and customs of people. So, after the victory and accepted in the palace, the victory of God rebuilt his palace in accordance with his tastes. For example, the Ugritian God Baal after the victory over the god of the seas and the rivers Yam-Nahar despite the quite a decent palace (from the brick and cedar), considered that his house was worse than the rest of the gods and decided to replace him with a luxurious palace, which built out of gold, Silver and Lazarite. In honor of any success - victory over the enemy, the end of the construction of the palace, the birth of a child - the gods arranged holidays for the feasts. They always love to eat, ate with taste and a lot. Given the colossal dimensions of the stomach to feed them very hard. So, the Indian god indra had two stomach, huge, like lakes. It is also possible to imagine how much he had to be satisfied to be satisfied ... After the death of God, Baal was arranged triscuits, for which 60 bulls were killed, 60 goats and 60 roe. Like people, the gods love to celebrate the birthdays. Judging by the myths, the gods in antiquity were especially well.

The ancient Greek gods were mainly held in pirants. The daughter of Zeus, the young heba and son of King Troy Gamornadded themselves amvrosia and nectar - food and drink of the Greek gods. Beautiful Harites (Grazi) and Muses delayed them with singing and dancing. Holding hands, they drove rounds, and gods admired them with light movements and wondrous, eternally young beauty. These gods, like people, loved to eat well, drink, including good wine, dance, listen to music. People in those days have not yet invented radio, televisions and records of musical works on video tapes and compact discs. And since the gods were in no hurry to give people to the fruits of civilization, various convenient invention, they themselves (apparently from modesty) they also did not use them. Therefore, they had to listen only to "live" music, that is, concerts of musicians who opposed them. But it also had its own positive direction: under the "Phaneru" the musicians before them never performed. But on his feasts, the gods were not only having fun - they decided at the same time and all important things were determined by the fate of the world and people.

In the past, the gods loved to show their strength, to brake, participate in battles. During the hostilities, gods, like ordinary people, could capture. So, the Babylonian God Marduk stayed in Assyrian captivity 21 years - from 689 to 668 BC Although the gods were loved to have fun, work and crafts they did not have fun. So, the Ugritian God of Cotar-and-Hasis craft produced magnificent works of applied art.

The life of some gods is painted literally a minute. So, in one of the Krishnait sects in India, in the state of Rajasthan, eight ceremonies were held during the day, during which God were walked, dressed, sang about how he leads a flock of a herd of cows, then "fed", provided him Day rest, again walked, once again "fed", sang about how he drives cows home, after which they put to sleep at night. In another place of India - in the town of Fazhani (South India) the popular and very distinguished God of Tamilov Muragan also today daily (!) Away on the evening walk. It goes on the chariot - the tower, about five meters high, put on a four-wheeled platform. God himself is represented by the sculpture of the young man with a spear in his hand, squeezing on Pavlin. Drops the chariot, grabbed the ropes, about three dozen people. Over the chariot, several young men fiber is a large generator, providing electricity to the illumination arranged in honor of God.

But the routine of the day of another Indian God is a vithalo. Daily Badve (the priestly clan, sending all Withobe services) makes five mandatory ritual ceremonies - at dawn, in the morning, at noon, in the evening and night. Stone Stamp Withobe, which for most believers is only a symbol for prayer concentration, gently awakened, wash, silent, dress and decorate (while the Mirror's special priests are made by Withobe Mirror so that he can appreciate the efforts of priests), feed and laid to rest. Many times on the day Vithoba participates in prayers - letters. The purpose of Puja can be the performance of the vow, the contestantation of the deity, the acquisition of virtues or prasada - food, authorized by Divine touch. During Puja, chants are continuously sound, and the object of worship is repeatedly rinsed in five "sweet nectars" - milk, honey, sugar syrup, prostroprious and foam oil.

Some gods of antiquity were simultaneously kings on Earth. So, the god set was the king of the Upper Egypt, and the mountains - Lower Egypt. Then the mountains received in the Office of both Egyptian kingdoms. The god of Enki was a very good ruler of the city-state city. He constantly cared for his prosperity and superiority over other cities. To begin with, he filled the tiger river with fresh, sparkling and life-giving water.

To ensure proper procedure for the work of the Tiger and Efrata rivers, he appointed Enbillulu - "Channel Warders" to supervise them. He created a life-free rain, forced him to fall to the ground (because of what caring!) And I prescribed Buri Ishkara to supervise him. For the processing of the Earth, he invented a plow, a yarm and harrow and told Eneckid to look after them. He did not forget about homes and, in particular, about the bricks, of which they are built. And the main architect ("great builder") he appointed God Musdamma.

Nevertheless, the life of most gods is far from such a light and pleasant, as it may seem. They have not only friends, but also enemies. So, the Egyptian god of Ra was such an enemy was a snake apop - too, of course, God. It was a very malicious giant snake, which not only did not answer the RA during his stay on earth, but even wanted to overthrow and destroy the sunny deity. The fight against it continued all day from sunrise, and apop, although he was defeated, managed to survive and hide in the underground kingdom, where since then the RA's badly attacked.

In the infant years of God, Krishna tried to destroy the goddess of Putan's delights. But Krishna, despite the young age, as it should be the great gods, he did not give himself offense: he sucked all the contents of the breast of the killer goddess and the drained confused`a died. On this trouble, Krishna did not end. Seeing Krishna in the cradle, descended from heaven to kill the child demon chactasura. But the young God dealt with him, turning his legs in the dust. But it was not over the miscarions of hostile krishna forces, many times he had to fight the asuras who took the kind of angry animals - elephants, bulls, horses, donkeys and snakes. In Mahabhbrate 10, a long list of fights and all sorts of battles in which Krishna invariably won. Once he had to fight with a very unusual opponent - his own double who assigned his name.

As for the classes of such great gods, like Savaof Yahweh, Allah and Jesus Christ, then there are practically nothing about them. According to the Quran, Allah is awake all the time ("... it does not master nor night, nor sleep." Sura 2, Ayat 256). But what he fills his precious time is unknown. In any case, he does not report this to his followers, and the believers themselves are not solved - scary, but suddenly he will not like it and he will become angry. Great, only perhaps gods communicated with people only in the distant past. They have not communicated with people for a long time and do not know about themselves.

As it is clear from the Bible, Savaof Yahves worked very much over the creation of the world - as many as 6 days and therefore very tired. After all, he created the world (i.e. land) and everything that inhabit it with the help of the word. How much did it have to say to him to create all the flora and fauna! Then he began to rest and, apparently, is engaged in this pleasant occupation still. In any case, he does not interfere in human affairs. Saving his God from criticism, Christian theologians and clergymen came up with his behavior a special explanation: God, they say, gave people freedom. From this freedom, God himself won most of all - from now on he does not need to take care of anyone, and in all his troubles, people themselves were to blame for their freedom: he was bad or unreasoned himself and sinned himself. And earthly, as well as the cosmic problems of the Christian God, you are interested in hardly.

Jesus Christ in his human appearance, judging by the Gospels, a lot of worked on the spread of his teaching. But after the crucifix, followed by the ascension to the sky and return to his "non-residential" state, he also does not really bother himself with the problems of people. What only the qualities and talents do not possess gods of different nations, but nirvana states can only reach Indian.

When we have Prince Vladimir in 988 on political and economic considerations, I decided to accept the religion to be alien to our people - Christianity, his squad began to destroy - to smash, chop and heat the image of the gods, which for thousands of years prayed oriental Slavs, as well as places to worship - Kapieff. From this, the violent Christianization of Russia began. The pagan gods themselves - Veles, Dazhibogog, Horse, Perun and even the ancient God did not be (or did not want) to protect themselves! Christ in communicating with them did not enter, but with the help of his new adherents - converts of Christians, he just destroyed them. And at the same time the whole Old Russian culture was destroyed.

As a rule, the gods are very rich, which is not surprising, as they have great power. Already in ancient Sumer (Mesopotamia, the III Millennium BC), all arable land belonged to God, while the tsar-priest was only the manager, the "farmer-tenant", as he title himself. But this land had to be cultivated, so thousands of people worked on God. For a very scarce reward. The priests of this God were inspired by believers that work on the fields belonging to God is the fulfillment of the religious duties by God by God. Therefore, it is not crowded. True, for some reason, they did not understand that this work for them is greater joy. Apparently, they were then not very conscious. God himself once
It was clarified to people.

Not much poorer of this god Sumer was the God of another Sumerian city city - Hooray, the God of the Moon Nanna. He received not only the tenth of the whole crop (which here comes from Christians from Church), but also rent. Today, the richest God is the God of Muslim Allah - he owns the whole world. And so that all the faithfuls do not forget about it, the Arabs of the Middle East over the entrance door of their house are usually knocked out on the stone slab inscription in Arabic: "God's property". Interestingly, other only perhaps gods are not disputed. In accordance with the concepts of good and evil, there are good and evil gods. Good, for example, include Indian Ashwines - the Ushas Brothers. They dispose of honey, nectar of life, as well as soma (intoxicating drink). They give me a honey of the bees, treat their gods and people. They love to help: save the victims of the shipwreck, return to women the lost ability to childbear, look for the husbands of old devices. And also help newlyweds to enter the house of her husband. The division in good and evil gods is also from Japanese ains.

Of particular interest are the so-called live gods. The living God, who accepted the human appearance (Bogochlovek), was Jesus Christ. But Christ is not the only living God. In Nepal (the state between India and China) and today lives the live goddess Kumari. This goddess from flesh and blood is presented in the form of a little girl and is also, in essence, the Godhead. It represents the hyposta of the goddess Shakti, but only innocent, young, which made the hypostasis of female deities. The girl intended for the role of the goddess is selected by the priests extremely strictly and picky. Three-year-old Kroch must have the addition of the goddess and not have the slightest flaw. If at least one of the eighties of external signs does not meet the firmly established standard, the candidate does not fit. The girl applying to the title of live goddess, in the shortest term is obliged to learn how to own themselves and under any circumstances do not lose the presence of the Spirit. Otherwise, you can expect a great misfortune. She must shove out of capping goats, spend the night in a dark basement, filled with skeletons and dismembered corpses. If the girl is frightened or somehow broke the etiquette, it can calculate the sinister sign.

The point here is that Kumari, who is considered the patroness of Nepal, is given although the nominal, but very noticeable role in the life of the country. It is for her that the King of Nepal is sent to the annual worship, in order to ask her blessings to manage the country for the next year. The duties of the goddess are not too burdensome. In half the seventh in the morning, she awakens from sleep and immediately enters the caring hands of priests. After the same, the same breathing exercises and ritual ablution, they begin the daily procedure of "clarifying divine eyes". To do this, a wide sign in the form of ritual secacy, handle facing for the nose, is applied to Lobysca Carmins. Then they drive it along the contour of yellow paint and carefully poured in the middle a very realistic expanded eye and lengthen the corner of the eye of these nature. Further, consistent with the instructions of astrologers, the priests decide what color the robe will choose Kumari today. It is decorated with a precious crown that resembles an ancient Russian kokoshnik, silver monistas, severe handicraft hrying, rings and bracelets. Most often, Kumari "prefers" to wear a scarlet dress, symbolizing the unearthful power of femininity, the female energy that manages all the universe.

Where do the gods live?

The Chinese god Juan-di lived on Earth. Protecting and approved in the fight against other gods their power, he erected his majestic and beautiful palace on Mount Kunlun. In this palace, he spent his free time and entertained. The palace surrounded the Yashmovaya Fender. On each side it was nine columns and nine gates, and inside the palace was surrounded by five walls and twelve towers. The Palace Roses Risovy Kolos in five coverages. In the West, two trees grew up - pearl and jade. To the east of the spoal, the tree was grew by a tree and tree Langan. On the Fuchany tree, which next to the tree Langan, was sitting by the three-headed spirit, three heads of whom took over and woke up. Huang-Dee had another palace on Mount Tsynyashoan. To the northeast of this palace there were famous hanging gardens, located so highly that they seemed to hang in the clouds. African gods live on Earth. So, the chief god of nations kikuyu
And Kamba Ngai lives on the mountains, which he himself built: Mount Kenya, "Mount of Big Rain" (in the East), "Mount of Clear Sky" (in the south), "Sleep Mount or Secret Asylum" (in the West).

His throne was located the goddess of the world Aireren and a permanent satellite Zeus winged goddess of Victory Niche. In addition to the palaces located above the earth, the Greek and Roman gods at times lived in special, specially built believing houses - temples. Believers came there to appeal to them with prayers and thank the services they provided. But the palace of the great brother Zeus oscillators of the Earth of God of Poseidon was deep in the bunch of the sea. His beautiful amphitrite spouse lived with him. The Gods of India also live in the celestial kingdom. India has its a thousand-year-old city of Amaravati, full gold and precious stones. There are always the gardens and neither cold nor thirst in the inhabitants of Heavenly Grad. They do not know old age, no ailments or fear. The looks of them are delighted by the beautiful dancers - Ansara. In addition, they have a dwelling on the top of Himavat (Himalayas). On the highest heavens, the gods of Aztecs omekutli and Ombicoatl - the Divine Couple, which gave birth to gods and people.

Believers can communicate with their gods (God) and in the fresh air - in the forest, on the mountain, in the field. The ancient arias for a meeting with the gods chose an exalted place on which the sacrificial straw was spread. It was invited to sit the gods. In the ancient Slavs, most of the sacred cults were temporary - for one holiday, for one season, for one year. It was connected not so much with a nomadic or half-in-room lifestyle, as with faith in a one-time visit to this place by God. Then began to build the Kapic (from the Old Slavonic "Caps" - idol; "Copy" - to gather) and the tribadic ("Treba" - the victim and sacrifice). Initially, the ancient gods met with their believing in the open sky. But later they realized that they were worthy of more comfortable conditions and told the buildings to themselves - first the towers, and then the special homes-temples that were their dwellings. But relatively new gods (Christ and Allah) in their homes do not constantly live, and settle temporarily or attend them only sometimes. The gods are very loved when they have their own house in each city, the village and the village, where they can look and even stop for a while - to rest a little and bother.

The question is very complicated: if it settles in one of them, the priests and believers of other temples will be offended. And if it will move from the temple into the temple, then the schedule of his stay in different churches should be drawn up. But there is no such graph! The way out of this complex position is that God is present in all of them immediately. In the time of John of Zlatoust, it was also believed: "God himself is insensimibly present in the temple." This agreed with this and very revered in the ROC preacher John Kronstadsky: "B than in the temple, remember that you are in the lively presence of the Lord God, stand in front of his face, before the eyes of him, in the living presence of the Mother of God." From these words, who should believe every Orthodox Christian, it follows that Christ is present at the same time in all churches. How he manages it doesn't know anyone, because This is a great mystery. Naturally, God.

The decoration of prayer houses can be both very modest and simple, as, for example, in Islamic mosques, Jewish synagogues, Protestant halls of prayer meetings, and very rich, even luxurious, as in Catholic and Orthodox churches: Walls are decorated with icons and paintings on biblical topics and the ceiling is covered with painting. In the Orthodox churches, the altar is separated from the main part of the room with a special wall consisting of icons - iconostasis. In the Catholic and Protestant temples, believers can communicate with God sitting, but in Orthodox churches, as a rule, only standing, sometimes on the knees or spreading the NIC on the floor. On the knees they turn to Allah and Mohammedan.

The fact that already in the most ancient times people built the gods a large number of temples, testifying excavations in Babylon. One of the inscriptions on the clay plate reads that there were 53 temples of the Great Gods, 55 Sanctures of God Marduk, 300 Sanctures of the Earth and 600 - Heavenly Deities, 180 Altars of the Glorious Goddess Ishtar, 180 Altars Goddesses Nergal and Adai and 12 other altars! These excavations confirmed that the inhabitants of Babylon loved so much (or rather feared) their gods, which most of their life and creative forces were given to the construction of these religious buildings. Churches (temples) are small and large. An example of a small church can serve as an architectural miracle - the temple of the cover on the nerve. The biggest Christian church is the Cathedral of St. Peter in Rome, which can accommodate several tens of thousands of praying. Do not lag behind Christians and Muslims - for example, Sultan Suleiman's mosque in Istanbul accommodates up to 10 thousand people.

Life of gods, their behavior and classes

Jesus Christ in his human appearance, judging by the Gospels, a lot of worked on the spread of his teaching. But after the crucifix, followed by the ascension to the sky and return to his "non-residential" state, he also does not really bother himself with the problems of people. What only the qualities of different peoples do not have the qualities and talents, but the states of Nirvana can only reach Indian.

How many gods were. The gods of ancient Greece are the list. The gods that are not living on the top of Olympus

Titans

First generation

Second generation

Closer to people

Third generation

The rest of the Olympians

Born in foam?

How lived on great Olympus

The gods that are not living on the top of Olympus

The meaning of Greek mythology

Last

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