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At Armageddon, so the Bible's Book of Revelation predicts, there will be a battle
between the forces of good and evil in the presentday state of Israel. In Hindu
cosmology, cycles of creation and destruction alternate in an almost endless
stream ...
At Armageddon, so the Bible's Book of Revelation predicts, there will be a battle
between the forces of good and evil in the presentday state of Israel. In Hindu
cosmology, cycles of creation and destruction alternate in an almost endless
stream ...
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SEE ALSO EA, KINGU eInCon S The demons of mythology are personifications
of the forces of evil, possibly with the power to punish wrongdoers. Demons may
take a “human" form or be represented as animals or as monsters. Kali's demonic
...
SEE ALSO EA, KINGU eInCon S The demons of mythology are personifications
of the forces of evil, possibly with the power to punish wrongdoers. Demons may
take a “human" form or be represented as animals or as monsters. Kali's demonic
...
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SATAN f In the Old Testament, the word Satan originally meant adversary.
However, from the third century BC onward, the Devil was developed as a
separate entity in apocryphal literature. In Christianity he became the very
embodiment of evil ...
SATAN f In the Old Testament, the word Satan originally meant adversary.
However, from the third century BC onward, the Devil was developed as a
separate entity in apocryphal literature. In Christianity he became the very
embodiment of evil ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths & Legends |
| Author | Arthur Cotterell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0025801813, 9780025801813 |
| Length | 260 pages |
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