War in mythology

legendary war in Greek mythology

thumb|The north portal of the 12th-century Urnes stave church has been interpreted as containing depictions of snakes and dragons that represent .

thumb|300px|Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, [[The Fall of the Titans, 1596–1598.]]

The Nephilim (; ) are mysterious beings or humans mentioned in the Bible, traditionally understood as being of great size and strength, or alternatively as beings of great power and authority. The origins of the Nephilim remain unclear. Some writers, including the author of the Book of Enoch, view them as the offspring of rebellious angels and humans. Others view them as descendants of Seth and Cain.

war described in the Indian epic Mahabharata

thumb|upright=1.25|Illustration from an 1878 German edition of the Batrachomyomachia.

in Norse mythology, the first war in the world between the Æsir and Vanir

thumb|4th century AD Amazonomachy mosaic from Daphne, a suburb of Antioch on the Orontes (modern [[Antakya, Turkey); Louvre, Denon Wing]] thumb|Relief now in Vienna

legendary battle in mid-8th century

supernatural war described in the Book of Revelation

either of two texts in the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology

battle

apocryphal Jewish book expanding a narrative in the Hebrew Bible, discovered at Qumran

battle

thirty-first chapter of Numbers in the Hebrew and Christian Bible

A theomachy (Ancient Greek: Θεομαχία) is a battle among gods in Greek mythology. An early example is the Titanomachy (War of the Titans), in which the elder Olympian Gods fought against the preceding generation, the Titans. The war lasted ten years and resulted in the victory of the Olympians and their dominion over the world. Another case is the Gigantomachy, the battle fought between the Giants - the children of Gaia - and all the Olympian gods for supremacy of the cosmos.

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