- Hymn of praise - An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity,
and, later, a song addressed to other deities. - Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. - See Paeon.
- Chief god among Romans - Divine leader from outer space? - Gas giant - Largest planet - Planet - The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be
the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus. - One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and
the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It
revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028
from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity.
- The mystic number four, which was often symbolized
to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among
some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus,
etc.
- Knowing; wise; shrewd. - Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the
Gnostic heresy. - One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of
Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the
Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek
philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all
natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the
Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.