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Propitiation is the act of appeasing or making well-disposed a deity, thus incurring divine favor or avoiding divine retribution. It is related to the...

Malayadhvaja Pandya and his wife perform ninety-nine ashvamedha yajnas to propitiate the gods, seeking a son for the succession. However, a three-year-old...

succeed, respectively. It was extremely important in the Roman mind to propitiate the appropriate genii for the major undertakings and events of their...

Angered by this, Hiranyakashipu decided to gain a boon of invulnerability by performing tapas to propitiate Brahma. After his subjugation of the three...

also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities. Their office...

tapas to propitiate Shiva. Sanjeevini Vidhya is the knowledge of raising the dead back to life, which he used from time to time to restore life to the asuras...

related to the Buddhi) was son of Yudhishthira and Draupadi and was the eldest of the Upapandavas. He was described to be a skilled fighter, known to face...

crucial, since the priest would understand which deity required ritual propitiation, when the correct ceremonies should be performed, and what would be an...

of the association between human waste and agriculture) and have been propitiated in a wide variety of ways, including making offerings, invoking and appeasing...

conferment of Padma Bhushan on Republic Day, 1981. Section Propitiation covers the period 1981 to 1991. This section covers the scientist's journey towards...

brought fortune to those who worshipped them. Animals, objects and natural features or phenomena were also venerated as nigi-mitama or propitiated as ara-mitama...

(Field of Fulfillment). According to tradition, Agni, the Hindu God of Fire was born here. Hindu devotees propitiate at this place Vireshwara, the Lord...

clutches of death, personified as Yama. Sage Mrikanda performed penance to propitiate Shiva for several years and sought from him the boon of begetting a...

deity controlling the Vindhyachal mountain range was worshipping Shiva to propitiate himself from the sins committed. He created a sacred geometrical diagram...

touched to ash after propitiating Shiva. His boon granted, the asura decided to test the boon on Shiva himself, attempting to reduce the deity to ash as...

and in all parts of the country". Devotees believe that if Ganesha is propitiated, he grants success, prosperity and protection against adversity. Ganesha...

guardian spirit. Some are potentially of the malignant type, to be propitiated by an appeal to knowledge of the supernatural. Traditional Korean belief posits...

could force him to reveal which of the gods he had offended and how he could propitiate them and return home. Proteus emerged from the sea to sleep among...

dressed in white), who carries a sacred white calabash that contains propitiation materials meant for the goddess Osun. She is also accompanied by a committee...

Lactantius, Divine Institutes 1.11.1. Hewitt, Joseph William (1908). "The Propitiation of Zeus". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 19: 61–120. doi:10...