pantheon

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The pantheon is treated, on the basis of the historical texts, in four sections: (1) the old Babylonian period, (2) the middle period, or the pantheon in the days of Hammurabi, (3) the Assyrian pantheon, and

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  1. noun A circular temple in Rome, completed in 27 B.C. and dedicated to all the gods.
  2. noun A temple dedicated to all gods.
  3. noun All the gods of a people considered as a group: Jupiter is head of the Roman pantheon.
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  • What of the gods Tiye had found herself suddenly mindful of the Hebrew maid with her brawling pantheon, and as if reading her mind the stranger had said, From whence comes the light that you may carve these other gods? —  F ;SF - vol 100 issue 04 - April 2001
  • Joining Hammett and Chandler in the P.I. pantheon, and believed by iconic critic Anthony Boucher the greatest of the three, Ross Macdonald came on the scene after the great days of the pulps had passed. —  EQMM,January2008
  • I had learned some little of the Skaldic pantheon, and reckoned this goddess the closest in nature to Naamah. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • In this way god after god would be removed from their pedestals in the world's pantheon, and would be relegated to the regions occupied by the great enemy of all that is pure, noble, and good in mankind. —  Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
  • The familiarity of this species and its mournful quavering cry uttered at night have no doubt led to its association with death and mystery as with owls in other parts of the world This Moan bird has an important place in the Maya pantheon, as it is the representative in many places of god A, the Death god. —  Animal Figures in the Maya Codices
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  1. Middle English Panteon, Pantheon, from Latin Panthēum, Panthēon, from Greek Pantheion, shrine of all the gods, from neuter sing. of pantheios, of all the gods : pan-, pan- + theos, god; see dhēs- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. Panthéon = Spanish panteón = pg. pantheon, from Latin pantheon, from Greek πάνθειον,a temple consecrated to all gods, neuter of πάνθειος, common to all gods, from πᾶς (παν-), all, + θεῖος, divine, from θεός,a god.
 

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