Sentence examples for By deity from inspiring English sources

The exhibition first proceeds by deity.

In 1405 he completed his Great Exposition of Tantra (sNgags rim chen mo), a companion volume to his Great Exposition, where, in harmony with his philosophy, he argued that tantra is defined neither by special insight (Sk. vipaśyana) or Mahāyāna altruism (Sk. bodhicitta), but solely by deity yoga (Tib. lha'i rnal 'byor) (Hopkins 1980).

From the bag of winds gifted to Aeolus to the Biblical drought visited on Jerusalem, meteorological phenomena first appear in the narrative record as tools used by deities to battle one another and to help or hinder humans.

A green five-piece place setting, freezer-, microwave oven- and dishwasher-safe, costs about $28 and is available in a traditional, stylized, incised pattern of flowers and leaves in a sunburst, surrounded by deities and mythological figures.

It too is inhabited by deities, some hostile and some beneficial to the other gods and their orderly world.

A bench inside the structure, removed by Maudslay in the nineteenth century and now in the British Museum's collection, once depicted the king's accession to the throne, overseen by deities and ancestors.

Both these types of intervention were eventually represented by deities: Shed, who emerged in the New Kingdom to represent divine rescue from harm, and Petbe, an apotropaic god from the late eras of Egyptian history who was believed to avenge wrongdoing.

They believe that a collection of stories written by humans was authored by the deity.

The end (and meaning) of the world is thus not determined by the primordial matter but by the deity who created the world.

The four deities granted her their left-overs as prasad, food made sacred by having been first consumed by the deity.

While the monotheistic religions believe that the world is ruled by one deity, my Nepalese friends assume that the world is ruled by a cabinet with many rulers through a hierarchical system.