How To Use Deity In A Sentence

He marries the infamous Jezebel, and built a Temple to the Canaanite deity Baal, popularizing this form of idolatry among the Jewish people.
This also suggests that this deity was first adopted by the tradition of the monastery of Sa-gya, [26] a hypothesis further confirmed by the reference in the founding myth to his being taken over by the holder of the Sa-gya throne So-nam-rin-chen (bsod nams rin chen). The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)
The Deity has emeralds embedded in its eyes and diamonds on its forehead and navel.
Otherwise, why else would the Deity feel the need to impose laws that repress human nature?
In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali.

When someone died, the kahuna aumakau (priest of the appropriate ancestral deity) of the dead person came and ritually sacrificed a pig or a chicken to ensure that the soul would live with its ancestors.
The fact is that our founders did not give us a nation frightened by the apparition of the Deity lurking about in our most central places.
Shiva, for instance, was a Dravidian tribal god, very much a folk deity, until theologised and worked into the larger Hindu pantheon.
Catholic Church over which Cæcilianus presides, who give their services to this holy religion, and who are commonly called clergymen, be entirely exempted from all public duties, that by any error or sacrilegious negligence they may not be drawn away from the service due to the Deity, but may devote themselves without any hindrance to their own law. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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.
This week's pompous, poncey, high-handed antics could pique the infamous Tauran temper, impelling you to channel that feisty, fiery Hawaiian volcano deity Pele, who loves to erupt in Vesuvian pyrotechnics.
Many from the metaphysical church described a mystical and often immanent deity.
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.
a procession of women bearing small phallic images and singing hymns in honor of a deity whom he calls Dionysos -- probably Khem or Osiris or Bes; such images are mentioned by Plutarch, [721] supposed by him to represent Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
No wonder he was mistaken for a deity, especially by those who had never heard the black American bluesmen whose music was his model.
_, (1) That the Deity created the substance of these shapes and forms from _Nothing_; or else (2) that he created them out of _his own substance_ -- out of Himself, in fact. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga
Their chief was called Silenus, a minor deity associated like Hermes and Priapus with fertility. Pan and Satyrs
To help uncover the complexities of India's uneven rise, The Shiva Rules uses as a loose reporting metaphor Shiva, the popular Hindu deity of destruction and rebirth.
In an undesigned world, plague, pestilence, famine, diphtheria, cancer, tuberculosis, and other natural ills no longer had to be reconciled with the sovereignty of an omnipotent and benevolent deity.
The Deity is coeternal with Time and Space, and has all his attributes infinite.
Besides these, they have a certain mysterious deity, whom they call Amida; and say, this god has built a paradise of such distance from the earth, that the souls cannot reach it under a voyage of three years. The Works of John Dryden
Scholars have been aware for a long time of a certain “disconnect” between the version of God preached by Judaism and Christianity—an all-knowing, omnipresent, and all-powerful deity—and the way in which God is depicted in, especially, some of the earliest parts of the Hebrew Bible. In the Valley of the Shadow
Therefore he appears as the Deity to accept the worship and obeisances of His devotees.
While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy.
Also tiresome is the occasional foreboding advice dispensed by an astral deity called the Moon Lady. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Book Review: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
Still his doctrine seems to have been a heathen Gnosticism, in which he proclaimed himself as the Standing One, the principal emanation of the Deity and the Redeemer.
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.
Each archetype/aspect of Deity is a vehicle to spiritual growth and development.
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.
The poem depicts the workings of an imminent deity that has the power to reanimate himself in every ‘face’ and take on the form of any human being, even the ‘dark skins His Father wrought.’
According to Hellenic myth, general deity? Zeus has a grandiose temple on Olympus.
You gave me the tools to practice Hinduism: I learned how to do puja, how to worship in a temple, how to feel the darshan of a Deity, how to participate in the great festivals.
All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul. Little Dorrit
The deity was a lingam, the abstract phallic symbol which is the most common representation of Shiva.
Often a Deity will find you, and that's when things start to get interesting.
Sleep, however, at length got the better of all resistance; and now as if he had already been a deity, as the antients imagined, and an offended one too, he seemed to enjoy his dear-bought conquest. — The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
I say mythical because when synced with the narrative voice over, the illustrations spring to life as though spoken by an omnipotent deity.
They are believed to represent the deity Xolotl, in his role as guider of souls in the underworld and also provide some symbolic food for the departed on his or her journey. Did You Know? Mexico is home to oldest indigenous American domesticated dog breed.
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 one who is centred in Deity is the one who not only outrides every storm, but who through the faith, and so, the conscious power that is in him, faces storm with the same calmness and serenity that he faces fair weather; for he knows well beforehand what the outcome will be. In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty
A certain mystique attached to the word as a result of analogies often drawn between the creative activity of the artist and the creation of the world by the deity or by a Platonic demiurge in accordance with Ideas or prototypes.
But its spiritual dynamos are plenipotent in power, and its strength lay deep in the bosom and nature of Deity. Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
We are not really giving these to the deity, because Mahakala doesn't eat meat and drink booze.
Ganesh is the "le dieu" (the God) with "la tête d'éléphant" (the elephant's head) and is the deity of knowledge and wisdom (of "le Savoir" and "la Sagesse"). Cuisine
Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests. James Russell Lowell
Instead of hecatombs of fat oxen sacrificed by the tribes of a wealthy city to their tutelar deity the emperor complains that he found only a single goose, provided at the expense of a priest, the pale and solitary in habitant of this decayed temple. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
She offered it as obeisance to the Lord Brihadeeswara, presiding deity of the temple.
Exilius, for Shame die, let Despair kill thee, thou deservest no less Punishment, for harbouring a Thought so arrogant, or rather impious, in daring to love one who ought only to be belov'd by a King or a Deity. Exilius
In the numerous cases in which some person or some object was to be consecrated to the deity a sacrifice was necessary in order to secure his good will; the ordination of temple-ministers, or the initiation of the young into the tribe, demanded some _consecrative_ sacrifice. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
A section of ruralites, with a sense of absolute fulfilment, offers ‘prasadam’ to the passers-by after having a darshan of the deity.
An omnipotent deity who devours worlds according to Bevinne folklore.
At the time of leaving the body, many of these Bhaktas actually had visions of their chosen deity.
We begin with the argument that the evidence for a Deity might be so strong as to undermine faith.
In the weeks ahead there will also be invocations to the deity.
The Deity is coeternal with Time and Space, and has all his attributes infinite.
From the existence of the Deity to the effect of a blister on a windgall, through the whole range of stable-thought and horse-talk, there was no subject, speaking generally, on which that mongrel population agreed, except, of course, on one thing -- the universal desirability of whiskey. Bred In The Bone 1908
According to Malek, the cat was regarded strictly as a manifestation of a deity, not a deity itself.
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.
In fact, he's the most unhuman person I've ever met: he had the presence of a deity descended from a cloud.
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatized from them. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
The Sun is depicted as a male deity, being embraced by the female moon goddess during an eclipse.
He felt God-like, a deity with the power and life and death and unchallengeable invulnerability.
Nebo, a secondary deity in Assyria to Palestine and Phœnicia, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A study of the seven-fold occurrence of ‘I am’ in John's Gospel will underline the deity of our blessed Lord.
Is the situation different if one shifts to a deity who is not omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect?
Visitors to the temple used to worship the deity in the morning and the crowd for the evening ceremony would be meagre.
Illinois men and women interacted with the supreme deity by way of personal spirits called manitous.
Their deity, Goddess Vankul Mata ji, rides on a camel and specifically bequeathed the animal to them.
There are also ritual lamps, and a charming gilded swing with push-rods to lull the deity into a kindly tolerance of human failings.
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.
The temple authorities said that the entire temple premises would be cleaned either on Friday night or Saturday morning and special poojas would be conducted for the presiding deity.
A deity'dev' was also named and installed here and thus the name tad-dev. Archive 2006-09-01
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.
The openside flanker is rugby's deity in the 21st century. Times, Sunday Times
These theorists reject divine timelessness and immutability, along with infallible foreknowledge, arguing that not only should foreknowledge be rejected because of its fatalist consequences, the view of a God who takes risks is more faithful to Scripture than the classical notion of an essentially omniscient and foreknowing deity. Foreknowledge and Free Will
Of special interest to us here is the myth that the creativity deity Obatala molded the archetypal human image (ere eniyan) from divine clay.
All preparations of the pooja are ready with the deity of goddess Durga decorated.
Such thoughts can take people of high status from deity to human.
They are separated by nice questions of doctrine, especially as to the nature of prapatti, resignation or self-surrender to the deity, a sentiment slightly different from bhakti which is active faith or devotion. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
This situation applies to much of Europe, in particular in Central and Northern Europe, where no more than half of the residents in those lands profess belief in a transcendent, personal and monotheistically-conceived deity. "Postchristianity" and the Future of Unitarian Universalism in North America
For a lot of people, positing a deity is a pretty straightforward form of inference to the best explanation — and for a lot of our history, given the dizzying complexity of the natural world, it was scarcely an unreasonable hypothesis. When Faith Isn’t
Totally abstract, and indeterminate, purged of all anthropomorphic and mythological qualities, God becomes the ominously ambiguous and threatening deity who evokes nothing but dread and terror.
In the Yoruba religion, Yemayá is the orisha deity of oceans. All praise is due to the Supreme
Thus the postulation of the Deity is not only permissible, it is unavoidable.
But the distinguishing feature of the doctrine of the magi is the fact that it deified the evil principle, set it up as a rival to the supreme deity, and taught that both had to be worshiped. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
Originally religion constituted an abiding relationship not only with deity, but even more with place.
At festivals we decorate and honor her, but we do not worship her in the sense that we worship the Deity.
Writing before the council of Nicaea, he speaks of Christ as a secondary deity.
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.
Following the instructions, devotees recovered the Deity and returned it to the temple.
More abstract forms of deity meditation can be used as the skill of the practitioner increases, such as yantras, which serve as the body of the deity in the Tantric system, and with mantra, which serves as the mind of the deity.
In this treatise he shows that the cabalistic works, ‘which are palmed upon ancient authorities, are pseudonymous; that the doctrines themselves are mischievous; and that the followers of this system are inflated with proud notions, pretending to know the nature of God better than any one else, and to possess the nearest and best way of approaching the Deity.’
The figure is standing on a basket called a neb, which in ancient Egyptian iconography signifies a ruler or deity. National Geographic News
The council of Nice and the decision to make Christ a deity is historical fact. Think Progress » Malkin On Detainee Suicides: ‘Boo-Freakin-Hoo’
We tried speaking in Cryptopsyisms, saying things like "he was the least unvirile keeper of something like a light-house whom she had ever laid her eyes upon, unlike the aura of a not unforeskinned deity. Meli Diary Entry
Woe is thee! what grievous outrage hath been wreaked on thee! fearful penalty for thy foul deed hath the deity imposed, whoe'er he is whose hand is heavy upon thee. Hecuba
In general it appears that the animal aspects of the Egyptian deities were intended to reflect something about the nature of the deity, and that the associated animals became sacred to them by proxy.
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.
Probably the initial development of henotheism is in the idea of a patron deity for a city or country.
For although I cannot sing odes to a patriarchally imagined deity, as it says in the Torah Deuteronomy 4:16: â€˜Do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure â€ the likeness of male or femaleâ€™, the tradition of my parents is carved in my heart in immutable letters.â€ The Atheist Siddur | Jewschool
What a worse than moloch deity is that, which expects an offering of reason, duty, and discretion, to be made to its shrine! Clarissa Harlowe
Since it is the nature of God to create, humanity's closest affinity to the Deity lies in its creativity.
We submit that even those who impeach the Deity for opening the door to sin would on second thoughts confess that morally free -- and therefore peccable -- beings stand on a higher level than marionettes, however faultlessly contrived to perform certain evolutions. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
Deity of the ruined temple! The broken strings of Vina sing no more your praise. The bells in the evening proclaim not your time of worship.
Shinto is the oldest known Japanese religion, yet it has no founder, no sacred scriptures like the Sutras or the Bible, and no single deity to be worshipped and revered.
The mystic triform Deity is in him of the jewel and lotos (Sangha). The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
I think this is what you call accusing your enemies of your own worst sins. an unconcerned deity Tom and Lorenzo/Project Rungay - The #1 Project Runway Blog
The anti-abortion holy rollers should be reminded that their deity is the greatest single abortionist in history, having “caused” countless miscarriages through the millenia, all for some “divine purpose.” Think Progress » McCain Denies That He Is ‘Running Away From The Maverick Title’: ‘I Prefer Great American Myself’
Briefly stated, this essential Islam is none other than the first part of the shahadah which every Muslim proclaims numerous times during the course of his or her day: La ilaha il'Llah, there is no deity other than Allah.
OK, you might say, this guy with his "Obama's Burning Taxpayer-Funded Incense To Whatever Pagan, Foreign Deity He's Worshiping" nonsense is just another attention-seeking rightwing rent-a-ranter. Clay Farris Naff: Jesus Concerned About The Poor? You Must Be Joking, Says The Christian Right
We now invoke a deity when we recite our Pledge of Allegiance, and our currency clearly proclaims the basis of our laws; can compulsory adherence to Christianity be far behind?
However, the deity's heuristic role in prompting scientific thought should not be confused with its validation.
Divinely Morphic: Nerull and any other entity of lesser deity power or greater can alter Carceri.
Mrs. Witherington was, in conferring her maternal bounty, naturally led to employ the agency of Hartley, the companion of her son, and to whom, since the recovery of her younger children, she almost looked up as to a tutelar deity. The Surgeon's Daughter
Without doubt the term deity was deliberately chosen, for it does not exclude a heathen interpretation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
It is a statuette, apparently of gold, or, more probably, of bronze-gilt -- a figure of Mercury, obviously, its head being surmounted with the petasus or winged hat, the usual accessory of that deity. A Changed Man; and other tales
W: What was their name for that deity, and how was he differentiated from other all-powerful gods such as Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrians? The Common Origin of and Split Between Arabs and Jews - An Interview with Professor George E. Mendenhall
I could propitiate a particular deity who is associated with books (for example Thoth, or Ganesha).
And, with the help of the booty won from Palmyra, he attempted to establish the worship of Sol Invictus - with himself as this deity's chosen vicegerent - at the centre of Roman state religion.
This ancient deity, we are told, could look both back on past events and forward to the future.
Since this single, all-powerful Deity was now the final arbiter in all things, what was the point of scrutinizing the usual clues about the future? In the Valley of the Shadow
But the main point is, if you are right, if God really is the petty, narrow-minded, bigoted, capricious, cruel deity that you portray, then eternity with such a monstrous creature would be worse than any "Hell" your terror-thralled brain can imagine. Dallas Methodist bishop to local pastor: Gay is not exactly OK | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
The Raja of Manimajra then appointed pujari as 'khidmatuzar' of this temple whose duty was to worship the deity of the temple. WN.com - Articles related to Hindus in ritual tongue-piercing in east India
Then he was shooting even more randomly, missing, bouncing his way up the back lanes towards Boot, through the grey-rocked splendour of the Esk valley, Bow Fell looming like mountain deity. Derrick Bird: dangerous thoughts about the trigger inside that will forever haunt Cumbria
This is a comic book nerdgasm of a movie — a super hero dream team pitched against a fallen deity. Times, Sunday Times
The Gospel of John reveals this divine aspect of Christ's ministry - His deity.
the ineffable name of the Deity
Invoked by ordained priests through daily puja rituals, the Gods and angelic beings, or devas, in the inner, spiritual worlds are able to bless us through the Deity's image in the temple.
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.
So, here's my question: If you don't have to believe in a deity to be a religion, what, if anything, do you have to believe in?
Gorakhnath, being an incarnation of Shiva, is worshipped as a deity by the Jogis, and has a number of temples dedicated to him.
Darshan of God in the outer temple is generally dualistic; we are perceiving the Deity as separate from us.
Visitors to the temple used to worship the deity in the morning.
Some Hindus in Nepal even worship him as a reincarnation of the deity Vishnu.
Hermes is here a rustic _doublure_ of Apollo, as he was, in fact, mainly a rural deity, though he became the Messenger of the The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
The rare statues represent a deity known as the preserver of the universe and were selected from five state-run museums after an agreement between the French Embassy and the government's cultural affairs ministry. Vishnu��s Terracotta statues stolen
Among the expressions of this religion are fire walking, animal sacrifices, and rituals of possession by a deity or ancestor.
At festivals we decorate and honor her, but we do not worship her in the sense that we worship the Deity.
But through Ramakrishna it had acquired a new and human face, for many saw him as an incarnation of the deity.
The name of this deity was used in theophoric personal names in a number of Canaanite cities and continues in use in Israel today.
The chosen deity in the Tantras may be a form the Goddess Mother.
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.
When the term divine Principle is used to signify Deity it may seem distant or cold, until better apprehended. No and Yes
And he has been set thereby in relationship to a deity, apart from himself, who also enjoys free will.
But though it be easy to defme the term blessed, when applied to the Deity, jet it is not so easy to form clear and just conceptions of the blessed - ness, or happiness of a being, who is all mind, or a pure immaterial spirit. Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice
This "deity" is popular among the drug using and selling people. Superstition
If anyone asked me right now, I'd be more than happy to nominate Adele for deity status.
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.
Dante has also beautifully described this circumfused light of Deity: -- The Symbolism of Freemasonry
What's more, there are only two mentions that I've found in Isaiah of Asherim often translated as "sacred poles", and neither passage seems to polemicize against the objects themselves or the deity they may have represented. Of Absent and Jilted Husbands in the Bible
Through the seven planetary spheres, represented by the Mystic Ladder of the Mithriac Initiations, and it by that which Jacob saw in his dream (not with _three_, but with _seven_ steps), the Souls, emanating from the Deity, descended, to be united to their human bodies; and through those seven spheres they must re-ascend, to return to their origin and home in the bosom of the Deity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
To help uncover the complexities of India's uneven rise, The Shiva Rules uses as a loose reporting metaphor Shiva, the popular Hindu deity of destruction and rebirth.
One day, while walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately stains the local neko-jizō-sama (guardian deity of cats). Anime Preview: Fall 2009 « Undercover
Another Buddhist deity, Shukongoshin, is also an interesting case of transmission of the image of the famous Greek god Herakles to the Far-East along the Silk Road.
The Deity of the Forest wouldn't destroy the Great Spirit, would she?
This word ‘theriomorphic’ is used here to specifically evoke the representation of a deity in the shape of a beast.
These might represent the deity, the donor, or neither.
“Guardian.” his Sermon on the Deity is characterized as equalling, “in acuteness of judgment, ornaments of speech, and true sublimity, the choicest writings of the fathers.” Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I.
It accommodates the Arian teaching that Christ was a lesser deity created by God.
The bathing is followed by spiritual purification and a ceremony which secures the blessings of the deity.
Wherefore, my lord and master, receive this deity, whoe'er he be, within the city; for, great as he is in all else, I have likewise heard men say, 'twas he that gave the vine to man, sorrow's antidote. The Bacchantes
He is not a matey deity who shines a flashlight into some dark corner of his recalcitrant universe on demand.
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.
A shrine can be anything from a room, a small altar or simply pictures or statues of the deity.
Nor, for that matter, COULD they regulate anyone's private petitions to their own deity!
Spinozism, the immanence of Deity in creation, -- a principle as dear to the philosophic mind as that of the extramundane Divinity is to the theologian. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
Modernists are theologically more individualistic than the religiously orthodox in that they see individuals, not a deity, as responsible for their fates and as the ultimate moral arbiters.
Among these principles: the Supreme Deity loves each person equally, but He did not intend them to play equal roles in society:GOD ALMIGHTY in his most holy and wise providence, hath soe disposed of the condition of mankind, as in all times some must be rich, some poore, some high and eminent in power and dignitie; others mean and in submission. 1491: excerpts part 3
But as the faith, which is not founded on revelation, must remain destitute of any firm assurance, the disciple of Plato imprudently relapsed into the habits of vulgar superstition; and the popular and philosophic notion of the Deity seems to have been confounded in the practice, the writings, and even in the mind of Julian. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It was clear to a mind so acute as Bruno's that the dogmas of the Church were correlated to a view of the world which had been superseded; and he drew the logical inference that they were at bottom but poetical and popular adumbrations of the Deity in terms concordant with erroneous physical notions. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
When they came to the valley, they found it beautiful exceedingly and passing all degree; and birds on tree sang joyously and the mocking-nightingale trilled out her melody, and the cushat filled with her moan the mansions made by the Deity, — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Strange, that the stigma of atheism should have been affixed to a system whose very starting-point is Deity and whose great characteristic is the _ignoration_ of everything but Deity, insomuch that the pure and devout Novalis pronounced the author a God-drunken man, and The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
The atmosphere of the wiharas and temples is rendered oppressive with the perfume of champac and jessamine, and the shrine of the deity, the pedestals of his image, and the steps leading to the temple are strewn thickly with blossoms of the nagaha and the lotus. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
He touched his cap at the Deity's name, and called gruffly at his son: Privy Seal His Last Venture
Dagda, an ancient Irish deity, literally translates as 'the good god'.
Some were _epithalamia_, or songs composed to celebrate marriages; others to commemorate a victory, or the accession of a prince; to return thanks to the Deity, or to celebrate his praises; to lament a general calamity, or a private affliction; and others, again, were peculiar to their festive meetings. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Only when the deity smells the odour of sacrifice rightly made does he respond.
‘We recognise avatar as an incarnation of a deity,’ laughs Jayachandran.
On the cartonage and case, in a corresponding situation above, the same emblem was also placed, to indicate the protecting influence of the Deity. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Seat your deity on the velvet thrones garnished with the traditional karigari.
The Plural Genii refers to Roman Mythology - a tutelary deity or guardian spirit of a person or place.
The Lugbara also believe in a single omnipotent deity as the ultimate creator of life and the dispenser of death.
Dancer interprets Oshun orisha, or deity of love, sensuality, and the river. CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2007
The red and distant deity was reserved for sacred festivals held every morning to the east.
The Holy Spirit is that part of the deity given us to enable us to pray.
The organismic, “what you can do for your country” implies that the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary. The Volokh Conspiracy » On Patriotism
Over the middle of the cornice is a seated deity with hands extended, the right over the Eye of Horus, and the left over a pool. Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
By officially endorsing Jesus as the Son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a deity who existed beyond the scope of the human world, an entity whose power was unchallengeable.
It cannot indeed be wondered that this new revelation, as it were, of the Deity, this profound and rational certainty of his existence, this infelt consciousness of his perpetual presence, these as yet unknown impressions of his infinity, his power, and his love, should give a higher character to this eremitical enthusiasm, and attract men of loftier and more vigorous minds within its sphere. The Hermits
The 94-year-old Austrian who has lived in Osogbo for 58 years and has become a high priestess of Osun was glad to see the natives scuttle back to their original deity. Archive 2008-09-01
Individual adherents however, may turn out to be, for all intents and purposes monotheists (i.e. choosing a specific special deity for themselves -- monolatrism). Planet Atheism
These creeds settled basic issues such as the Trinity and deity of Christ.
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.
Devanagari is a compound word with two roots: deva, meaning "deity," and nagari, meaning "city. Lightly Toasted
The deity she represents is also the patroness of all art and culture and agriculture. TROPIC OF NIGHT
Çivaism has its rites of unbridled bestialism, the worship of the linga by women is often free from impurity; it is practically worship of a deity of fertility. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
However, it should be recognized that these laws had been pursued and found at least in part because a belief in a law-giving Deity existed.
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.
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.
Dagda, an ancient Irish deity, literally translates as 'the good god'.

How To Use Deity In A Sentence

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