7 sentences with 'deity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word deity and other words derived from it.
• « Each Mesopotamian city was believed to be 'owned' by a patron god, a deity who watched over it and answered prayers if they were made correctly and accompanied by rituals and sacrifices. »
• « As noted above, each city had its own specific patron deity who "owned" and took special interest in the affairs of that city. »
• « This is, as far as historians know, the first instance in world history in which the idea of a single all-powerful deity emerged among any people, anywhere (although some scholars consider Akhenaten's attempted religious revolution in Egypt to be quasi-monotheism). »
• « Alexander the Great made a point of visiting the major Egyptian temples and paying his respects to the Egyptian gods (he identified the main Egyptian deity, Amun-Ra, with Zeus, father of the Greek gods), which undoubtedly facilitated his acceptance by the Egyptians. »
• « The saints had served as intermediaries to an all-powerful and remote deity in the Middle Ages, but high Church officials sought to promote the veneration of Christ and Mary as equally universal but less overwhelmingly divine figures. Mary in particular represented a positive image of womanhood that had never before existed in Christianity. »
• « Not to mention, how was a Christian to understand the stern and vengeful God described in the Old Testament and the deity of peace and forgiveness represented by Christ? »
• « The lack of heads on the figures suggests that they were women because they would not have represented a headless deity; perhaps they were girls performing a dance or a rite for the gods. »