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In Hinduism and Buddhism there are hundreds of Named male Gods and several dozen major, widely known, Named Goddesses. In Judaism there is only one male God; but there are seven female Named prophets.

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Dionysus was a god the Greeks most happily imitated. Called Bacchus by the Romans, he was the privileged son of Zeus himself ...

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