The myth regarding the father who was superseded by his son may account for the existence in Babylonian city pantheons of elder and younger gods who symbolized the passive and active forces of nature.
Pantheons not only varied in detail, but were presided over by different supreme gods.
In consequence independent Pantheons came into existence in the various city States in the Tigro-Euphrates valley.
Here lies the scientific explanation of the "Fall of Lucifer," portrayed in some form in the pantheons and mythologies of every philosophy and religion known to man.
Zeus, Jove, or Jupiter, as he is variously called, was the greatest of the sons of gods and held the highest place in the pantheons of Greece and Rome.
The most interesting pantheons of the gods were those of India, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
The most prominent deities in the pantheonsof the gods were solar deities.
The other deities of the Babylonian and Assyrian pantheons seem not to be connected by their names with natural phenomena.
It will be seen that besides the identifications of the deities of all the local pantheons with each other, each divinity had almost as many names as attributes and titles, hence their exceeding multiplicity.
It was the adding together of all these small pantheons which ultimately made that of Babylonia as a whole so exceedingly extensive.
The animal-headed gods of Egypt, the bovine deities of Assyria, the animal gods of many pantheons are, very many of them, totemic in origin.
LUNAR GODS The deity who presides over the moon is in most pantheonsfull of mythological interest.
The fortunes of kingdoms or royal races, migration and conquest, the contact of race with race through trade and travel, the adoption of foreign deities, all served to modify and expand the pantheons of the ancient world.
None of the Babylonian or Assyrian deities were adopted into the pantheons of so many alien races.
When all those pantheons were added together, as was the case in later days, they afforded the spectacle of perhaps the largest assembly of gods known to any religion.
One guesses there may be a place in the Pantheons or in Valhalla of the heroes for this poor not untawdry not unheroic Seneca.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pantheons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
