Exempel på deity

• For the Deity, who embraces all true being, and a knowledge of whom alone makes salvation possible, is only known in proportion as he reveals himself. 

• Now, this is brought before us in the text in this one fact, that man has been made a habitation of the Deity—"I dwell with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit." 

• Peace on Earth, the Deity's Good Will! 

• That the Deity, who himself must be supposed to feel love and affection for the beings he has called into existence, should delegate a portion of those powers, I for one cannot conceive altogether so wrong a conjecture. 

• So, if it can be the case that a deity's activity cannot account for worlds' moral differences, (7a) is false.

• An aedicule was originally the architecture of the small shrine, a miniature temple that celebrated the statue of the deity within.

• In it, twelve dancers, dressed as twelve princes, danced in imitation of the deities, accompanied by songs in their praise.

• Then we reference recent research dealing with cloth as costume that signifies ethnic and gender identity, and ideological associations with female deities.

• They have malevolent and predatory deities as well as more benevolent and protective ones.

• I was initially puzzled to discover that songs to highland swidden deities had been incorporated into a regular lowland domestic rite.

• This ambiguity comes over even more clearly when we consider the specialists' and critics' views on deities.

• The connections to deities enhanced supernatural ties and ideological power.

• It evoked the most powerful agrarian symbols such as maize and rain deities to represent central authority through ritual reenactments.

• But ethnographic reports indicate that malevolent and predatory deities are as culturally widespread, historically ancient, and socially supreme as benevolent deities.

• A third method was rhetorically to use epithets that were appropriate to a deity, thus associating with the divine being.

• It is replete with deities, but is not a place of worship where the faithful enact a fixed set of rituals.

• Even heroes who are raised within an existing religious tradition and know its teachings well are still surprised by their deities.

• I have shown, for instance, that there are examples of one deity substituting for another, and others in which two figures may be conflated.

• The lowest image is a usually a deity representing earth; in this case, a long-nosed tapir is portrayed.