10 sentences with 'gods'
Example sentences and phrases with the word gods and other words derived from it.
• « Then comes the Experience of Reality, when you meet a series of gods on the way to the other world: they are shrouded in brightly coloured lights. Attraction to them facilitates rebirth. If opportunities are missed in these two stages, one experiences the sensation of a body that is not composed of matter, but endowed with free movement and the ability to pass through solid objects. »
• « This period of history was called the Hellenistic Age. The people who were part of this era were Europeans, Middle Easterners and North Africans, people who worshipped both the Greek gods and the gods of their own regions, spoke all sorts of different languages and lived as part of a hybrid culture. »
• « Uruk priests predicted the future and explained the present in terms of the will of the gods, and claimed to be able to influence the gods through their rituals. »
• « The Mesopotamian priesthood supported the idea that the gods had chosen the kings to rule, a belief that quickly bled into the idea that the kings were at least partly divine. »
• « As noted in the last chapter, the Mesopotamians regarded the gods as cruel and arbitrary and thought that human existence was not a very pleasant experience. »
• « After death, the soul would be brought before a judge of the gods, who would weigh the heart on a scale against the ideals of harmony and order. »
• « While the Egyptians had always regarded themselves as the favoured people of the gods, dwelling in the home of spiritual harmony in the universe, it was really during the New Kingdom that they actively campaigned to seize foreign lands. »
• « Their pantheon of gods grew each time they conquered a new city-state or tribe, and they translated various tales and legends into their own language. »
• « and the legend of the flood (described in the first book of the Bible, Genesis) is taken directly from the Epic of Gilgamesh, although the motivation of the Mesopotamian gods versus Yahweh in those two stories is very different: the Mesopotamian gods are cruel and capricious, while Yahweh's flood is sent as punishment for the sins of mankind. »