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A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess.
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The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.]
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A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man.
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The study of religion or religions.
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A type of confectionery made with egg whites, corn syrup, and white sugar.
Examples of deities in a Sentence
There have been nine deities to serve in this position.
The two deities were bristling.
Deities are way older and more powerful.
Wynn watched their exchange, fascinated by the idea of seeing two bloodthirsty deities try to outwit one another.
The other deities can't even do that.
She rolled her eyes at him and marched into the shadow world, fed up with all the deities in her life.
The mating bond of the Immortals and deities and the blood bond of the demons were the two oldest bonds, unbreakable under the Immortal Code and from the laws older than the Code.
Gabriel hated it when one of the deities made sense.
He shared some of his power or whatever your deities do.
Deities view the world differently?
He was nothing like the deities who didn't mind sacrificing a few humans to get what they wanted.
All souls – even those of deities – came to Death eventually.
The Code is not an absolute for deities but a relationship.
Probably he believed in the existence of other gods, though he does not express himself clearly on this point; in any case he held that the worship of other deities was destructive to Israel.
Hell has a library, and the librarian has been teaching me about the deities through these little video tutorial things.
Deidre shook her head and spun away, fed up with deities for the day.
His own interactions with deities left him more than willing to shun them, if at all possible.
Deities ate for pleasure, not out of need.
Deities did things differently, but he wasn't about to do what his predecessor would have and demand a favor of someone like Andre.
She hadn't outsmarted generations of deities and Immortals while laden with emotions, but she had still done it.
How many deities are there?
Deities don't need instincts. We simply know. But even I cannot know all.
His strongest denunciation is directed against the religious practices of the time in Judea - the worship of the Canaanite local deities (the Baals), the Phoenician Tammuz, and the sun and other Babylonian and Assyrian gods (vi., viii., xvi., xxiii.); he maintained vigorously the prophetic struggle for the sole worship of Yahweh.
The seven powers which create and rule the world are without doubt the seven planetary deities of the later Babylonian religion.
As in the Parthenon, there is a sculptured zophoros above the exterior of the cella walls; this, however, extends over the east and west fronts only and the east ends of the sides; the eastern zophoros represents a battle-scene with seated deities on either hand, the western a centauromachia.
There have been two deities in the position of the Dark One, rendering him one of the oldest.
They are when dealing with deities.
Suspecting it had belonged to the goddess who was Death, Wynn still wasn't expecting anyone in their right mind to revive the most dreaded of the deities.
You were supposed to place it in with the souls of the other deities.
The human senses that made her gasp at the colors of spring flowers were also ill-made to defend them against Immortals and deities.
He prayed to all the deities he never, ever grew aloof and callous towards the humans.
Andre's gaze was beyond the two deities.
Was it possible to make a private deal, outside the visibility of the other deities?
We are destined to become the mates of deities.
Only the long-dead Oracle possessing the book and the deities could see the Past, Present, and Future.
These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself.
The Epidaurians had been accustomed to make annual offerings to the Athenian deities Athena and Erechtheus in payment for the Athenian olive-wood of which the statues were made.
Some of the Kassite deities were introduced into the Babylonian pantheon, and the Kassite tribe of Khabira seems to have settled in the Babylonian plain.
Being intended for the Hotri's use, both these works treat exclusively of the hymns and verses recited by that priest and his assistants, either in the form of connected litanies or in detached verses invoking the deities to whom oblations are made, or uttered in response to the.
Indian Vedic henotheism (otherwise called kathenotheism); 3 Semitic monolatry, so important as the probable starting-point of religious development in Israel; the Greek use of " Zeus " almost as we say " God " - even the attempt to arrange deities in a monarchical pantheon, all show the tendency, though it so seldom attains a real victory.
It may be supposed that these crude fancies embody a dim recognition of the physical forces and objects personified under the forms of deities, and a rude attempt to account for their genesis as a natural process.
The epidemic nature of wheat-rust was known to Aristotle about 350 B.C., and the Greeks and Romans knew these epidemics well, their philosophers having shrewd speculations as to causes, while the people held characteristic superstitions regarding them, which found vent in the dedication of special festivals and deities to the pests.
A list of the Elamite deities is given by Assur-bani-pal; at the head of them was In-Susinak, "the lord of the Susians," - a title which went back to the age of Babylonian suzerainty, - whose image and oracle were hidden from the eyes of the profane.
But when Greek deities were introduced into Rome on the advice of the Sibylline books (in 495 B.C., on the occasion of a severe drought), Demeter, the Greek goddess of seed and harvest, whose worship was already common in Sicily and Lower Italy, usurped the place of Ceres in Rome, or rather, to Ceres were added the religious rites which the Greeks paid to Demeter, and the mythological incidents which originated with her.
To appease these, offerings are made to them either direct or through the mediation of the Devas (domestic or agrarian deities); and if these avail not, the Menyepi or Great Sacrifice is resorted to.
These temples belong to the Jains, and contain two massive statues of their deities, the one black, the other white.
Though the moralization of gods has only proceeded pari passu with the moralization of mankind, the deities of the more advanced nations are perhaps felt by them to be more terrible and more difficult of access than the divinities of lower races; herein lies one explanation of the power of the priesthood.
Both Moab and Ammon, as well as Edom, had their separate tribal deities.
The sacredness of the number seven is based on the seven planetary deities to whom each day of the week was respectively dedicated, i.e.
A remarkable Babylonian tablet discovered by Dr Pinches represents Marduk, the god of light, as identified in his person with all the chief deities of Babylonia, who are evidently regarded as his varying manifestations.'