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Sentence Examples It seems to me that this presents a very wimpy view of what is supposed to be an omnipotent, all-powerful deity. A mantra is the name of a sacred deity or a sacred phrase that you repeat silently or aloud. They believe that God exists, but do not have a specific belief about the nature of that deity. Every city-state had temples to its patron deity and shrines and altars to many others. According to Malek, the cat was regarded strictly as a manifestation of a deity, not a deity itself. In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali. If anyone asked me right now, I'd be more than happy to nominate Adele for deity status. This account is also interesting because it too contains the concept of a law-giving deity. At each shrine you pause, and you say some prayers and you greet each deity. Alcohol, libation to the deity and old social lubricant, also greases the slide to skid row. Generally, men and women dance in a circular formation around the deity, in clockwise and anticlockwise directions. His status as a living, walking deity was even a fundamental part of the state religion, Shinto, of which he was the head. She realized they were dancing a ritual dance, a dance to an unknown deity. The deity was a lingam, the abstract phallic symbol which is the most common representation of Shiva. Of special interest to us here is the myth that the creativity deity Obatala molded the archetypal human image from divine clay. It accommodates the Arian teaching that Christ was a lesser deity created by God. As in spirit-possession, as we have seen, an actor speaks on behalf of the loa or deity. When we have a good destiny, filled with joy and happiness, wealth and prosperity, we rejoice and praise the deity we worship. Upon his death in 1377, the emperor decided to honor him posthumously by bestowing on him the status of deity in charge of protecting the land. With an almost Zen calm, she stretches in a feline manner and prepares to bag up global deity status. Show More Sentences Most festivals are held on astrologically auspicious times for a particular deity in the same zodiac sign of the Sun each year. Among the expressions of this religion are fire walking, animal sacrifices, and rituals of possession by a deity or ancestor. Probably the initial development of henotheism is in the idea of a patron deity for a city or country. The temple is said to be of Mephitis, a female deity worshipped by the Samnites, a mysterious ancient people who preceded the Romans in Pompeii. These are typical of the deep belief of both Celts and Romans that every place had its own deity. You'll be a bronze deity by comparison, no matter how pale you may feel at home. According to Chief Obadio, the high priest of Oduduwa in Ife, human sacrifice was offered to the deity in the past. For the devout Hindus who pray at tiny ponds and puddles, the Saraswati is both a real river and a deity. Illinois men and women interacted with the supreme deity by way of personal spirits called manitous. At Golden Star, Chef Hemji Maharaj, who is the presiding deity of the kitchen, manages to pack in quite a bit of food in one thali. Certainly such a deity would not be the infinite creator God of orthodox theism. Shiva, for instance, was a Dravidian tribal god, very much a folk deity, until theologised and worked into the larger Hindu pantheon. At the end of the small room there was a deity figure of the goddess Nova the Water Goddess. Seat your deity on the velvet thrones garnished with the traditional karigari. This ancient deity, we are told, could look both back on past events and forward to the future. It has been argued that paganism focuses more on the female aspect of deity rather than the male. On his way out, he came back to the guard, who was now bellowing at those before the deity to move on even as he blocked the queue. The favorite deity of ancient Dravidians, Manasa, was a snake Goddess who sat on a lotus throne wearing a tiara of seven cobras. People who pray tend to beseech their deity for some kind of enrichment or advancement. The craftsman and his family enjoy the privilege of being the first to be allowed to worship the deity after the poojas are performed. Show More Sentences We are not really giving these to the deity, because Mahakala doesn't eat meat and drink booze. At the time of leaving the body, many of these Bhaktas actually had visions of their chosen deity. I think it was at that point, having grown in wisdom and stature and favor with God and men, he had full cognizance of his deity and his mission. Many from the metaphysical church described a mystical and often immanent deity. According to her, the radical feminists worship an immanent deity in the form of a goddess or some other human construct. Nor, for that matter, COULD they regulate anyone's private petitions to their own deity! The innate goodness of an improvable humanity, like the oversight of a benign deity, eroded along with faith in democratic institutions. I assume that the deity of Christ is denied within this Church, which causes me great concern and is clearly unscriptural. Most gods were common to all Greeks but each city-state also had their own patron deity. Gorakhnath, being an incarnation of Shiva, is worshipped as a deity by the Jogis, and has a number of temples dedicated to him. The leader claims to be the incarnation of a deity, angel, or special messenger. Nearly all of the world's religions include a God of some form, often more than one incarnation of the same deity. In the early 1980s he started calling himself after Rama, the last incarnation of the Hindu deity Vishnu. But through Ramakrishna it had acquired a new and human face, for many saw him as an incarnation of the deity. Roman, Egyptian, and Indian are just a few cultures that also sculpted monumentally to commemorate a ruler or deity. With this comes the revelation that it is deity, not an individual, who initiates you. In one painting, the deity is depicted in a blissfully radiant, gloriously energetic dance. He threw himself upon a heap of straw that lay on the floor, and soon forgot his desperate situation in the arms of the somnific deity. Listen to our President invoking a deity or prayer in every one of his speeches, and maybe an answer will occur to you. It becomes, in one, his mistress, a deity to be invoked, and the source of poetic madness. Show More Sentences The novel, meanwhile, posits God as the ultimate conspirator, less a deity than a puppetmaster whose intentions are never clear. People pray to these deities because they have an adoration for the deity and have a feeling of awe about it. Writing before the council of Nicaea, he speaks of Christ as a secondary deity. The bathing is followed by spiritual purification and a ceremony which secures the blessings of the deity. The prime attraction in the museum is the terracotta structure of the mother goddess, Indira Mata or the locally known deity of Laja Gouri. All preparations of the pooja are ready with the deity of goddess Durga decorated. His duty to the deity over, he and Miri carved up and roasted the remaining parts of the doe on a spit over the fire. The idea in puja or prayer is to praise the deity, along with Namaskar, so that the deity becomes happy and grants what the prayer wants. Surya is the deity upholding Rita, truth, while Dharma is the god of righteousness. I think of some of the people around the table who have been elevated to almost deity status. I surely sense their energy within every particle of it, but for me to say that deity is not separate from nature is to make a crucial mistake. You can merge this meditation technique with any faith tradition and focus on any sacred object or deity. Various complex stages of production were followed to give form to this beautifully sculpted deity, crafted in 92.5 sterling silver. But the Aug. 23 communique contains references to him and his role as college football deity. She offered it as obeisance to the Lord Brihadeeswara, presiding deity of the temple. While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy. Only when the deity smells the odour of sacrifice rightly made does he respond. In India, Sachin Tendulkar is the brightest of stars, a hero whose epic deeds have stirred a nation and whose status is close to deity. The presiding deity is taken out on a caparisoned elephant accompanied by other pachyderms in full paraphernalia. He felt God-like, a deity with the power and life and death and unchallengeable invulnerability. Show More Sentences The Sun is depicted as a male deity, being embraced by the female moon goddess during an eclipse. A shrine can be anything from a room, a small altar or simply pictures or statues of the deity. The red and distant deity was reserved for sacred festivals held every morning to the east. There are also ritual lamps, and a charming gilded swing with push-rods to lull the deity into a kindly tolerance of human failings. Is the situation different if one shifts to a deity who is not omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect? No wonder he was mistaken for a deity, especially by those who had never heard the black American bluesmen whose music was his model. But then, the further I go in this direction, the more it comes to resemble deity worship and my existing practices. Visitors to the temple used to worship the deity in the morning and the crowd for the evening ceremony would be meagre. I say mythical because when synced with the narrative voice over, the illustrations spring to life as though spoken by an omnipotent deity. In short, on the frontier Americans imagined themselves to be on an imperial mission from an aggressive, easily offended, intolerant deity. He is the God of Coke and Pepsi, the all-embracing deity of McDonalds and Wal-Mart. Some Hindus in Nepal even worship him as a reincarnation of the deity Vishnu. I do not think there are any good evidential or other reasons for belief in a supreme deity, much less a benign and all-powerful one. In the shrine of Lord Chandramouleeswarar, the tutelary deity of the Marathas, the priests intone the mantras as the lingam is bathed in milk, sandalwood paste and water. What deity draws his bow for such a cowardice of curs as run your streets? These creeds settled basic issues such as the Trinity and deity of Christ. In the background, outside, is Papa Legba, who is a Loa, the word for a voodoo deity. While this may not appear to be a problem to us, the separation of Christ's manhood from his deity is actually a grave heresy called Nestorianism. Creatures are dust and ashes that rightly should tremble before the Judgement Throne of a just, benevolent and fearful deity who metes out punishment and reward. The significance of this unique sculpture is uncertain but a heraldic device of the ruling elite or an aniconic symbol of a protecting deity are possibilities. Show More Sentences If it is the carvings in their pristine charm that captivates the heart of an art lover, certainly it is the power of the deity that pulls the believer. If the deity is omnipotent, can It produce a truly indestructible object? With the emphatic repetition of this line at the end of the book, the image of the omnipotent deity has been exorcized from Vallejo's poetic imagery. An omnipotent deity who devours worlds according to Bevinne folklore. Bottero's concise explanation of henotheism clarifies how a pantheon, with its bewildering myriad of gods, becomes personalised through personal preference for a single deity. My magic primarily involves relationships with deity and practical hoodoo. The merging of local deities into a larger national deity and the incorporation of foreign deities into a specific pantheon were not limited to Egypt. Iwan referred to the deity as beyond male or female, but understood the drives of both, as well as any conceivable in-betweens or genderless beings. The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity. But in the common variety, they're ordinary people who believe it's their calling to help people worship a particular incorporeal deity instead of rocks. Finally, based on our relation with the master and the wisdom deity, we also invoke the assistance of the dharma protectors, who embody action principles of awareness. In Bombay, Indian police arrest four men suspected of being members of Harakat al-Ansar, a Kashmiri separatist group that also invokes the deity in its works. In the weeks ahead there will also be invocations to the deity. Notable are three heads, finely carved and preserving traces of their original polychromy, found in the great sanctuary of Serapis, the dynastic patron deity, at Memphis. We can believe in the resurrection as a fact because eleven out of the twelve disciples died as martyrs testifying to the resurrection and deity of Christ. Saturn as a god has links to the earth quite separate from his astrological links, and is a major figure in early Roman religion as a farming deity. Pioneers to this region must have been astounded to find massive tree falls that had literally been turned to stone, as if it were an eccentric display of some fabled deity. For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place. These temples would have housed the cult statue of the deity, for example the head of Minerva found at Bath, and were not used for congregational worship. The chosen deity in the Tantras may be a form the Goddess Mother. Show More Sentences Such thoughts can take people of high status from deity to human. Note that if you do choose to evoke the deity, you will enter a Gnostic trance and you may therefore forget what happened while you were under the trance. He loomed like a god above us, as much a presence as any deity, and God knows he was accepted as such. He is one of the biggest-selling literary novelists in the world, and practically a deity in Japan. The Chupao Temple is dedicated to a life-saving deity known as Paosheng. Destruction was not an act of religious fanaticism but an act to show that the ruler was unable to protect the temple of his own deity and so lost all legitimacy to rule. All libations denote a sacrifice to the deity, but the one in the meal-context denotes a sharing with the god as all partake of the same drinking of wine. With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity. And what could be more honorable than rounding up your besties to pay homage to a hallowed pop deity? When the nayika has decided on dedicating her life to Tyagesa, the squares and circles are too elaborate and she seeks a diagonal route straight to the deity in the sanctum. For this reason, it has been identified with the notion of deity in numerous cultures and finds symbolic expression in such universal configurations as the mandala. In Hinduism you have many deities with various temperaments and nature, so you have the luxury of choosing and bonding with the deity which suits your nature. Is this the action of a merciful and compassionate loving deity? I could propitiate a particular deity who is associated with books. The presiding deity of British pirate radio at the time was a fast-talking expat American who called himself, with standard transatlantic hyperbole, Emperor Rosko. The practice of ishta devata in Hinduism allows a person to worship a particular chosen deity without necessarily denying that other gods exist. Waters links Nodens with the Seven Bore and the association of the Celtic deity with the river is explored at length by Rogers. It may also be that the name at least partly derives from the Roman name for the River Ribble and its eponymous Celtic deity, Belisama. He constructed at least two temples in honour of Jupiter, the supreme deity in Roman religion. Thus, Jupiter was perceived to be the same deity as Zeus, Mars became associated with Ares, and Neptune with Poseidon. Show More Sentences Unitarians believe that Jesus was inspired by God in his moral teachings and is a savior but a human being rather than a deity. These denominations differ primarily in the central deity worshipped, the traditions and the soteriological outlook. These are traditionally believed to be a characteristic of the deity Brahma and the heavenly abode he resides in. The meditation deity is in the centre, sometimes surrounded by protective gods and goddesses. The Edict of Milan was written in such a way as to implore the blessings of the deity. The ancient Axumite Kingdom produced coins and stelae associated with the disc and crescent symbols of the deity Ashtar. In Vergil's epic poem the Aeneid, limitless empire is said to be granted to the Romans by their supreme deity Jupiter. He drowned but was transfigured as the marine deity Palaemon, while his mother became Leucothea. In Hindu mythology the Ganges River Dolphin is associated with Ganga, the deity of the Ganges river. These two temples each contain a wrathful deity who threatens the guests who ride through in World War II troop transports. While optimalism does not exclude the possibility of a deity, it also doesn't require one, and is compatible with atheism. In Ancient Egypt, the deity Bennu was depicted as a heron in New Kingdom artwork. In Ancient Egypt, the bird deity Bennu, associated with the sun, creation, and rebirth, was depicted as a heron in New Kingdom artwork. Supplicants burn paper money and joss sticks, and pray for good fortune to the temple deity, Tua Pek Kong. Creation myths in many religions involve the creation of Earth by a supernatural deity or deities. The prominent deity Eshmun of Sidon developed from a chthonic nature for agriculture into a god of health and healing. The city's legendary founder, Elissa or Dido, was the widow of Acharbas the high priest of Tyre in service to its principal deity Melqart. Yet this deity was recipient of the very troubling practice of child sacrifice. There is usually a piece of metal that forms the back of the lamp, which has a picture of a Hindu deity embossed on it. I believe that the soul is immortal but that nevertheless it has no part in deity. Show More Sentences Usually oaths have referred to a deity significant in the cultural sphere in question. Polytheists do not always worship all the gods equally, but they can be henotheists, specializing in the worship of one particular deity. Some of the proposed deity names are more readily accepted among scholars than others. These include multiple afterlife realms, several of which are controlled by a particular deity. He was pronounced son of the deity Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert. He appears to have believed himself a deity, or at least sought to deify himself. Hindu puja, for example, appear to have no other purpose than to please the deity. Rituals often have a close connection with reverence, thus a ritual in many cases expresses reverence for a deity or idealized state of humanity. Such a deity might be one of the patron gods of the city, or a deified ancestor. These towers were adorned with deity masks, and were built to impress the viewer, rather than serve any practical function. The importance of a deity, its characteristics, and its associations varied according to the movement of celestial bodies. Each deity had four manifestations, associated with the cardinal directions, each identified with a different colour. Many had officially recognized cults large enough so that the deity was represented in the central temple precinct of the capital Tenochtitlan. In Mazatec legends, the astrologer deity Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, who is also represented by Venus, bears a close relationship with Quetzalcoatl. A feathered serpent deity has been worshiped by many different ethnopolitical groups in Mesoamerican history. He was a creator deity having contributed essentially to the creation of Mankind. The sacrifice involved the killing of a young man who had been impersonating the god Toxcatl deity for a full year. The Inca deity Urcuchillay was depicted in the form of a multicolored llama. She begged some nameless deity for just one sight of his blunt, black, printlike script. The idea of good and evil is related to the deity, Qamata, among the Xhosa. Show More Sentences This stands in contrast to theocracy, government with deity as its highest authority. The Roman historian Livy explains that Poeninus was actually a corruption of Penninus, the name of a deity worshipped by a local tribe. Nevertheless, throughout this period, in some outlying regions of Egypt Set was still regarded as the heroic chief deity. Set has also been classed as a Trickster deity who, as a god of disorder, resorts to deception to achieve bad ends. For years, she has been wrapping the traditional Rajasthani headgear, the saafa or pagdi, for the local deity Ghanghor. Usually the deity seems to be zoomorphically rather than anthropomorphically conceived. Below Amitabha is the horse-headed Hayagriva, the principal wrathful deity of Amitabha's lotus family. Jagannath due to its unique colour pattern which resembles Hindu deity Lord Jagannath's face. Gargoyle-like snake heads of Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent deity of the Aztec, encircle and punctuate the second basin. Then the Anunnaki gods slaughter a minor deity and the goddess Belet-ili mixes the clay with the flesh and blood of the sacrificed god. The triumphant Apollo had Marsyas, a follower of the revelrous Achaean deity Dionysus, flayed for his presumption. The singer's name, Nehmes Bastet, means she was believed to be protected by the feline deity Bastet. But have you ever heard of a deity being appeased with cigarettes, beedis and country liquor? These were followed by a series of hollowed out shikhara forms, with the symbolic deity sitting at the base. Quetzalcoatl had been the patron deity of the great city-state Teotihuacan, predecessor to the Toltecs. The disagreement came over how to reconcile the primacy of Christ with the transcendence of an unbegotten deity. For them there could be no consubstantiality between the deity and the created order. The Samiti and the Nyas, formed by the VHP, represents the deity, Ram Lala. Ker is considered the guardian deity of Vastu Devata is of the state of Tripura from the Royal Period. Members of the church revere cannabis as both a sacrament and a deity, identifying it with the Zoroastrian haoma and the Vedic soma. Show More Sentences The henotheistic belief supports the possibility of worshiping one deity without denying the worship of other deities as central to Hinduism. The study of the major Marathi bhakti tradition and its main deity, Vitthal, has long been hampered by a dearth of critical historical research. Pata'na was a Roman goddess who appears with greatly varied names, sometimes as a derivation from Ceres or a Cerean deity, and sometimes as Ceres herself. Bonfim, an iconic location of Afro-Catholic practice, is syncretized with the supreme Candomble deity, Oxala, a trope for the Judeo-Christian God. West himself to indie rockers Shitake Monkey to neo soul deity Bilal. She is considered by many as an incarnation of the powerful deity Kali and is revered until she menstruates, after which she must return to the family and a new one is chosen. These semitrance states involve the identification with a cult god, deity, or archetype, which leads to a transformation in feeling that produces a sense of power and renewal. Chris Hemsworth as Thor gives his action deity an impressive hunky turn once again but Tom Hiddleston's Loki robs all thunder from the entire cast. In the various cults that later became Vaisnavism, Balarama was portrayed as a form of the minor deity Sesa, the divine snake born on earth as a human being. In the Jehovistic version of the creation a feature of the myth of the expulsion is the apparent conflict between the thirst for knowledge and the will of the deity. Fromm said he hopes his fellow students don't confuse his atheism, or lack of belief in a deity, with antitheism, or direct opposition to belief in a deity. An ancient Iranian deity who was identified with Artemis by the Greeks, Anahit was held by Armenians to be the daughter of Aramazd, the Iranian Ahura Mazda. I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity. He is known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. A steel engraving from the 1850s, which depicts the creative activities of Prajapati, a Vedic deity who presides over procreation and protection of life. Other sources connect its name with an obscure deity named Gontia. This orientation is aligned with the summer solstice, and it may relate to the worship of a solar deity related to the Mixtec 7 Flower, or Aztec Tonacatecuhtli. In cultures that did not recognize a smallpox deity, there was often nonetheless a belief in smallpox demons, who were accordingly blamed for the disease. Bahrain was also the site of worship of an ox deity called Awal. One common motif is incense as a form of sacrificial offering to a deity. Show More Sentences Ibn Battuta also mentions locals who worship the Solar deity. I believe that this word was made flesh and by its suffering the world was redeemed, and I believe that humanity, not deity, was subject to the suffering. Another important deity was Bendis, goddess of the moon and the hunt. Their chief priest held a prominent position as the representative of the supreme deity, Zalmoxis, who is called also Gebeleizis by some among them. Oil lamps are lit at traditional Chinese shrines before either an image of a deity or a plaque with Classical Chinese characters giving the name of the deity. Later, another newly arisen deity arose to eventually reign supreme at Carthage, a goddess of agriculture and generation who manifested a regal majesty, Tanit. Dolphins are common in Greek mythology, and many coins from ancient Greece have been found which feature a man, a boy or a deity riding on the back of a dolphin. Some Heathen groups hold festivals dedicated to a specific deity. Heathen groups assemble for rituals in order to mark rites of passage, seasonal observances, oath takings, rites devoted to a specific deity, and for rites of need. These two deities are sometimes viewed as facets of a greater pantheistic divinity, which is regarded as an impersonal force or process rather than a personal deity. Throughout history, many of them believed in a supreme deity. The Samvara tantra texts adopted the pitha list from the Saiva text Tantrasadbhava, introducing a copying error where a deity was mistaken for a place. Dawkins is a prominent critic of creationism, a religious belief that humanity, life, and the universe were created by a deity without recourse to evolution. As the Severn becomes tidal the associated deity changed to Nodens, who was represented mounted on a seahorse, riding on the crest of the Severn bore. We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity. A common sight in India is a crowd of people gathered in the courtyard of a temple or at the doorway of a streetside shrine for the darshan of the deity. In fact, he isn't strictly speaking the Buddha at all but a Chinese deity called Budai, Hotei in Japanese, who represents contentment and good fortune. Examples from Classical Literature Ramman or Rimmon, identified with HAdad or Adad, is a deity of later type and introduction. I have used the neuter It and not He, the Egyptian idea of the highest deity was, that it was androgenic not masculine. If man is a microcosm then kosmos is a megalanthrope and that is how we come to anthropomorphise the deity. Apparently, however, the deity has an astronomic significance and seems to symbolize a star. The reciprocal help of the deity and the king is Avestan, and inconsistent with monotheism. Originally she was an independent deity, dwelling at bto in the midst of the ponds of Adh. As chronos simply personifies antiquity itself, this only means that Saturn was the most ancient deity. Then we pray to the holy deity, Pallas of the clangorous arms, the first to welcome our cheers. It is not clear, then, how they can 'deify' classes of things, if they have no notion of deity. Lakshmi, as we have just noticed, is the Sakti or consort of Vishnu, the preservative power of the deity. This feature was very strikingly exemplified in the god Sarapis, a deity equally reverenced by the Greeks and the Egyptians. But in this type of deity the genius of Semitic religion is already expressed. Among the Germans, Valleda, a Druidess, was for ages worshipped as a deity. Ninib being a solar deity, his festival in Elul was evidently of a solar character. A belief lingers that the pious are en rapport with the deity, who converses with them and even inspires them. I was specially interested in the designs representing the story of the favourite Hindu deity Ganpati or Ganesha. The Lukian Apollo was the deity of the defeated side, as Athene of the gis was the deity of the victors. In this twentieth century, certain enlightened men are teaching the absurdity and harmfulness of a belief in a deity. The deity was summoned by the rites already described and the object of the performer was to obtain magical powers or siddhi. Aphrodite exhibits more clearly than any other deity the process or the direction of the hellenization of a foreign god. Show More Sentences This notion of a hermaphrodite deity is not monstrous, as it has been called. He was the patron deity of blacksmiths, and as the smelter or softener of metal bears also the name of Mulciber. The actual work of creation was done by a male deity, Izanagi, and a female deity, Izanami. This idea, reinforced by the national significance of the deity, is fundamental in the jahve cult of the Israelites. A syllabary describes the god as a 'raging' deity, a description that suggests solar functions. What witch, what magician, with his thessalian incantations, what deity can free you? This is generally occupied by some lower-class deity, who is just beginning to be considered respectable. In Tlaxcala also they had a deity, called Camaxtli, who was similar to this Huitzilopochtli. Khandoba is the deity of the Marathi country and is popularly believed to be an avator, or incarnation of Shiva. The outward and visible sign or incarnation of Te ua's deity was a ruru, or owl. But though the monotheist believed only in one god, that did not prevent others from believing in an entirely different deity. The prologue commences with a prayer or benediction invoking the national deity in favour of the audience. Sin-gashid of the dynasty of Uruk makes mention of this deity at the beginning of one of his inscriptions. As an atmospheric deity, he conquers various powers of evil, particularly Vritra, the demon of drought. He is, however, in part an otiose deity and can hardly be said to rule over this otherworldly realm. This fatal urn encloses a dead majesty, but yestreen a reverenced deity, now a mere heap of earth. There is not a word of proof of the view that the placation of the deity was due to his assimilation of kindred flesh and blood. He is remunerated with some of the cooked food, after it has been offered to the deity. But she made no motion of revering or any offer of saluting her late deity. Indeed, the only deity in whom injurious features are at all prominent is Rudra. Show More Sentences Like her brothers, the Dioscuri, she was a patron deity of sailors. Khonsu was a lunar deity, and as such was often identified with Thoth. Here is the famous temple of the great deity Omasius Gorgut, or gorbelly. Varuna, the all-embracing sky, is also in many hymns a solar deity. The ALU, a storm deity, was also a spirit which caused nightmare. They fed the infant deity with the milk of the goat Amalthea. All the Andean people worshiped some object as an ancestral deity. Tlaloc was their second, and Tezcallipuca their third deity. This is only another form of the anthropomorphic conceptions of deity. And so may the temple fall with its deity of falsehood and servitude! Adam evidently only knew the deity as the Creator of all things. Attend carefully then to this necessary deity, and renounce the other. From the mythological side, Gilgamesh appears to be a solar deity. Was it well that a deity should be sullied by a mortal's wound? There is no theogony, no regular subordination of one deity to another. Crouching, Matthew takes off his bandanna and shakes out a fulvous mane of dreadlocked hair, like some minor Rastafarian deity. In Violence and the Sacred, Rene Girard explores the relation between the sacrificer, his victim, and deity. The latter was both an Etruscan and a Roman deity, the goddess of memory. But Mammon was never the name of an idol or other form of false deity. The apotheosis of these powers led to the conception of the first deity. Show More Sentences He was a Toltec deity, and was venerated as the god of the air. But the real companion deity to Ops was not Saturnus, but Consus. Everything earthly in the light-world of Ormazd had its protecting deity. Find more words! 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