A name for the devil Māra, so called because as the personification of death he allows none to escape from his clutches.

One of the greatest of the Hindu Asuras. The asuras are usually called demons, but this is not a terribly good translation, for it denotes a sinister quality which is not always in the character of these beings. Strictly speaking, the asuras are the powerful beings who are opposed to the devas. In early Vedic times, they were originally another class of gods, but who were incorporated into the new pantheon. Such important Vedic gods as Varuna and Mitra were classified as asuras. By the end of the Vedic period, however, the asuras had attained their more demonic role. Certainly some of the asuras were quite evil, such as Vritra, but some of them were also as pious if not more so than some of the gods. They would, at times, even be more powerful than the gods, forcing them to flee in the face of their power until some way of dealing with them could be found. On the other hand, in certain instances they were known to work alongside the gods for a common goal.

A name for the devil Māra, so called because as the personification of death he allows none to escape from his clutches.

 

One of the greatest of the Hindu Asuras. The asuras are usually called demons, but this is not a terribly good translation, for it denotes a sinister quality which is not always in the character of these beings. Strictly speaking, the asuras are the powerful beings who are opposed to the devas. In early Vedic times, they were originally another class of gods, but who were incorporated into the new pantheon. Such important Vedic gods as Varuna and Mitra were classified as asuras. By the end of the Vedic period, however, the asuras had attained their more demonic role. Certainly some of the asuras were quite evil, such as Vritra, but some of them were also as pious if not more so than some of the gods. They would, at times, even be more powerful than the gods, forcing them to flee in the face of their power until some way of dealing with them could be found. On the other hand, in certain instances they were known to work alongside the gods for a common goal.

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A name for the devil Māra, so called because as the personification of death he allows none to escape from his clutches.

 

One of the greatest of the Hindu Asuras. The asuras are usually called demons, but this is not a terribly good translation, for it denotes a sinister quality which is not always in the character of these beings. Strictly speaking, the asuras are the powerful beings who are opposed to the devas. In early Vedic times, they were originally another class of gods, but who were incorporated into the new pantheon. Such important Vedic gods as Varuna and Mitra were classified as asuras. By the end of the Vedic period, however, the asuras had attained their more demonic role. Certainly some of the asuras were quite evil, such as Vritra, but some of them were also as pious if not more so than some of the gods. They would, at times, even be more powerful than the gods, forcing them to flee in the face of their power until some way of dealing with them could be found. On the other hand, in certain instances they were known to work alongside the gods for a common goal.

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Notice: "They were, at times, even be more powerful than the gods, forcing them to flee in the face of their power until some way of dealing with them could be found."  Classic Intruder vs Machines nature.

A good mission, been a while since we have had a predominantly combat crit so nice to have another one for a change. There were some missing words in Tyndall's mission info:

...we think we may have caught Halborn's (signal?) there, briefly. Seraph told us that the Oracle anticipated something like this, but we still haven't been (able) to reach her.

Yep mostly fighting off accelerated bad guys in this one because Halborn is after the Oracle! But we did run into Carlyne who is helping Zion out! He says he thinks Halborn is running away from him though :O And later we find Halborn himself! Too bad there isn't much we can do to him physically >.< Some Machines were interfering in part of this mission too!

One of the poor bluepills lost his girlfriend I think during this But at least there was another one who thought he was going to die, but after everything was done he said I'm not dead after all? Nope! We saved you! At least Halborn got frustrated and left when he couldn't find her!