All are potentially of the malignant type, to be propitiated by an appeal to knowledge of the supernatural.
The purpose is to propitiate a deity and secure from it what the vrati, the performer wants.
The sun spirit, capable of rendering service or causing harm, also must be propitiated.
It propitiated a more civilized environment, in the political and social aspects.
At the present moment you have a competition between three departments, and you have to propitiate this one and that one, and see the other chap does not starve.
Those who hold the former view, when they endeavour to translate it into legislation, obviously try to propitiate their opponents either by some provision or by asserting some slogan.
Whom are they going to propitiate by this clemency and forbearance?
Appeasement may mean nothing more than an attempt to please and propitiate your opponent.
