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3 days ago · The novel’s title borrows from George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan”: “Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.”. The reading notes will break this phrase into three parts, corresponding to the three sections of the original text. The story is set on 22nd-century Earth, where humans accidentally discover an “electron ...
4 days ago · Magic in this series comes from the gods themselves. They are almighty beings with their own powers, and mortals are made in the image of their gods, which includes a fragment of their power, or powers that their gods choose to embrace.
3 days ago · In Greek and Roman mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes ( Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, singular: Γίγας, Gígas ), were a race of great strength and aggression, though not necessarily of great size. They were known for the Gigantomachy (or Gigantomachia ), their battle with the Olympian gods. [2]
3 days ago · Moses (flourished 14th–13th century bce) was a Hebrew prophet, teacher, and leader who, in the 13th century bce (before the Common Era, or bc ), delivered his people from Egyptian slavery. In the Covenant ceremony at Mt. Sinai, where the Ten Commandments were promulgated, he founded the religious community known as Israel.
- Dewey M. Beegle
3 days ago · paganism, Christian term used to designate those religions that do not worship the God of Abraham, the figure central to both Christianity and to other Abrahamic religions like Judaism and Islam.
- Ethan Doyle White
3 days ago · The gods Osiris, Anubis, and Horus in the Tomb of Horemheb in the Valley of the Kings. The Egyptians believed that the phenomena of nature were divine forces in and of themselves. These deified forces included the elements, animal characteristics, or abstract forces.
3 days ago · King James Bible Online: Authorized King James Version (KJV) of the Bible- the preserved and living Word of God. Includes 1611 KJV and 1769 Cambridge KJV.
