The carvings at Yazılıkaya, for instance, suggest that the official pantheon of the Hittite Empire was thoroughly Hurrianized; Hittite queens had Hurrian names; and Hurrian mythology appears in Hittite epic poems.
There's Asma Anwar, the Bangladeshi woman whose husband was killed in the attacks, yet who doesn't quite belong in the official pantheon of Grieving Family Members because she is, as her husband was, an illegal alien.
But alongside the official pantheon occasionally incarnated in lists offered up by institutions like the American Film Institute and The New York Times, every film lover carries around a more subjective canon, an ever-shifting, impressionistic personal cinematheque.
The Indonesian media have been filled with heated debate since it emerged this month that Mr. Suharto's name had made it onto a Social Affairs Ministry annual shortlist of candidates to be added to Indonesia's official pantheon of 138 national heroes.
The Beijing house, which says it prints some 1,300 books a year, including more than 100 bought abroad, had a verbal agreement to secure the Chinese rights from Pantheon Books in New York, a division of Random House, for a negligible advance of $800, said Pantheon officials and Mr. Jin, who is a professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta.
Yes, a committee in the Utah House of Representatives voted 9 to 2 this week to approve a bill that would add the Browning pistol to the pantheon of official state things, along with the bird (seagull), rock (coal) and dance (square).
In his pitch to officials to open a Pantheon as soon as possible, Bekhterev stressed that the genius body count had been rising: "In this fiery period of building the USSR," he said, "people burn out quickly".
But isn't this why we elevate Treasury appointees to such a high position in the pantheon of our officials, because they are supposed to be able to sort out complex issues?
While yesterday's torture settlements stand as yet another silent admission by the city, it continues to funnel additional millions in taxpayer money to defend Burge, his confederates, and a pantheon of city officials in several torture cases that remain unsettled.
Like many religions, it encompasses a broad swath of practice, from Laotzu's high philosophy to a riotous pantheon of deities: emperors, officials, thunder gods, wealth gods and terrifying demons that punish the wicked in ways that make Dante seem unimaginative.
Recently they've given large amounts to Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, George Allen, Orrin Hatch, Jim DeMint, and even Michelle Bachmann -- a who's who in the pantheon of anti-gay officials.
