At the same time he was a believer in all sorts of myths and mysteries, and a devout worshipper of divinities both Greek and Oriental. |
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He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk. |
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As such, they are prominent among the popular divinities represented in the works of art of the classical period. |
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Along the coast of south India, Hindus tend to worship local deities, most of them female and far down the Hindu hierarchy of divinities. |
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One of the aims of this paper is to discuss the argument that in the Mycenaean pantheon theriomorphic divinities might have existed. |
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There is ongoing interdependence between the living, the living-dead, spirits and divinities, and the Supreme Being. |
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The Vajrayana sect took this a step further and introduced female divinities to Buddhist worship akin to Hinduism. |
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In ancient China mountains were seen as divinities who had the power to send needed rain. |
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Thus in 1495 Pico della Mirandola dismissed divinatory astrology as a confusion of real physical planets with stellar divinities. |
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The rivers are female divinities, food and life bestowing mothers. |
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They recognize a wide range of supernatural beings, including demons, ancestral spirits, and divinities such as the sun god Surya and the rice goddess Dewi Sri. |
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The temple construction begins with the Vastupurusha mandala, which is a yantra, mostly divided into 64 or 81 squares, which are the seats of 45 divinities. |
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It acknowledges a variety of divinities that function at various levels and for various reasons. |
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And it is not because they shut a place of worship that people stopped believing and praying to those divinities. |
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The temple had another group of divinities that included Iunet, Hathor, and Atum, whose statues were discovered in a hidden storage pit. |
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The Pharaoh used to dance for divinities such as Amon Ra in order to ensure the divine existence of the sun. |
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He has imitated the rotation of stars, the moon, and the sun and has transformed into divinities what he feared the most and was dependent on. |
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On the north-western side of the ziggurat a group of temples were dedicated to the minor divinities, Ishnikarab and Kiririsha. |
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The siddha and the other ascetics constitute the pañca-parameá¹£á¹hin, the five chief divinities of the Jainas. |
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In periods of ignorance and superstition, men have regarded them as beneficent divinities. |
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Such are the strophes exchanged between America's intellectual divinities. |
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If we consider divinities and humans just as perceivers, there is no automatic reason to prefer divine perceptions, and hence no absurdity. |
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In antiquity, people offered the divinities animal sacrifices or the first fruits of the earth. |
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Most roles are performed by women, and the stories are based on ancient Malay folk tales peopled with royal characters, divinities and clowns. |
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Of all the religious practices and beliefs concerned with feminine divinities it is Shaktism which gives the Goddess a place of supreme importance. |
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And it is achieved truly, right at the time of the rising Church, where we can see how with the blood of the martyrs comes the weakening of the divinities, starting with the divine emperor, from all these divinities. |
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In ancient Greek religion, places were under the care of female divinities, parallel to guardian angels. |
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In medieval times it was believed that in the dark and under ground, subterranean divinities or demons hid, that with their strength could leave a mark on the productive cycle. |
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While other nations might have chosen wisdom, beauty, saintliness, military glory, bravery or asceticism as their popular divinities, the United States chose the civilization of gain. |
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The religion reflected in the Rigveda exhibits belief in several deities and the propitiation of divinities associated with the sky and the atmosphere. |
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Dedicated to the divinities, performances could only take place on specific occasions three or four times a year, such as the Khmer New Year, the King's birthday or the veneration of famous people. |
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Some features of the festivity, such as the dances or certain Andean divinities, have found their way into the carnival, which takes place before Lent each year. |
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Closely linked to daily life and the cycle of the seasons, their belief systems form a mystical world where the gongs produce a privileged language between men, divinities and the supernatural world. |
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The past surged into the present and the present harked back to the past through an incantation the roots of which were buried in an earthless earth rocked by the breath of the divinities who had regained their birthright. |
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Greek imagery is peopled with strange figures: major and minor divinities, personifications, terrifying monsters combining two or more species of animal. |
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When a tribe was subdued and its lands added to the imperial realm, Rome would appropriate the subject-people's gods and add them to an ever-growing pantheon of exotic divinities. |
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It meant he risked being an outcast when he returned to Japan, simply because he had not made the supreme sacrifice and added his name to the divinities honoured at the Yasukuni shrine. |
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Honour and Virtue were very probably also depicted in the scene, positioned on either side of the goddess, in the form of two young masculine divinities. |
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It is really because of this theme of divine judgment in Israel's favour against her enemies and their cosmic divinities that our song finds its place here in this context. |
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Tunisian brides adorned with their traditional costume recall ancient divinities through the richness of their jewellery, where the brilliance of the embroidery rivals with the sparkle of the jewellery. |
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The Thought Adjuster is the cosmic window through which the finite creature may faith-glimpse the certainties and divinities of limitless Deity, the Universal Father. |
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It is a sharp distinction between the true God who refuses any human appellation, and the different other divinities whom man named, even though they are illusory. |
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Several interpretations have been proposed concerning the identification of these little characters, before the discovery of a pedestal sculpted with this type of divinities allowed them to be characterised. |
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In Babylon, similarly, the exiles are surrounded with pagan divinities. |
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Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn. |
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Chapter 17 and 18 focuses on the divinities the Gauls believed in and Dis, the god which they claim they were descended from. |
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Diodorus Siculus asserts that a sacrifice acceptable to the Celtic gods had to be attended by a druid, for they were the intermediaries between the people and the divinities. |
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