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Pandemonium architecture is a theory in cognitive science that describes how visual images are processed by the brain. It has applications in artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. The theory was developed by the artificial intelligence pioneer Oliver Selfridge in 1959. It describes the process of object recognition as a hierarchical ...
The game is the third title set in the series' Ubisoft continuity, and acts as a prequel to Heroes of Might and Magic V, taking place in the fictional world of Ashan prior to the events of the game (producers Erwan Le Breton and Romain de Waubert have noted it as 40 years before the cycle of Heroes V and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, [10] averaging at 946 YSD in the timeline).
Mainstream Christianity typically acknowledges a belief in the existence (or ontological existence) of demons, fallen angels, the Devil and Satan. [4] In Christian evangelism, doctrines of demonology are influenced by interpretations of the New Testament, namely interpretations of the Gospels, in that dealing with spirits became a customary activity of Jesus' ministry.
A succubus ( pl.: succubi) is a female-looking demon or supernatural entity in folklores who appears in dreams to seduce men, usually through sexual activity. According to religious tradition, a succubus needs semen to survive; repeated sexual activity with a succubus will result in a bond being formed between the succubus and the person ; and ...
Archon (Gnosticism) Arunasura (Hindu mythology) Asag (Sumerian demonology) Asakku (Babylonian mythology) Asb'el (Jewish mythology) Asmodai/Asmodeus (Jewish folklore, Christian mythology, Islamic folklore) Aswang (Philippine folklore) Astaroth (Christian demonology) Asura (Hindu mythology, Buddhism, Shinto)
Dhampir. In Balkan folklore, a dhampir ( Albanian pronunciation: [ðamˈpir]) is a mythical creature that is the result of a union between a vampire and a human. This union was usually between male vampires and female humans, with stories of female vampires mating with male humans being rare. [ 1]
Valak as depicted in the Dictionnaire Infernal. Valac is a demon described in the goetic grimoires The Lesser Key of Solomon (in some versions as Ualac or Valak [1] and in Thomas Rudd's variant as Valu), [2] Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (as Volac), [3] the Liber Officiorum Spirituum (as Coolor or Doolas), [4] [5] and in the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic (as Volach) [6] [7] [8] as ...
Daemonologie—in full Dæmonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mightie Prince, James &c.—was first published in 1597 [1] by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic.