Sentence examples for Chief god from inspiring English sources

The chief god of Kalakh was Ninurta, god of war and the hunt.

Ahura Mazdā ("Wise Lord") was probably the chief god of the pre-Zoroastrian pantheon.

Makemake was the chief god among people who settled the island.

It was designed to connect Marduk [the chief god of Babylon] to Earth and man".

The chief god of the city of ancient times was Horus of the Winged Disk, called the Behdetite.

Balder, Old Norse Baldr, in Norse mythology, the son of the chief god Odin and his wife Frigg.

Some of the chief gods, for example, have no clear Indo-European or Indo-Iranian counterparts.

In the Vedic religion the chief gods were Indra, the king of the gods; Agni, the fire god; and Soma, the god associated with the hallucinogenic soma plant.

He reappears in the Kingdom of Urartu as Tesheba, one of the chief gods, and in Urartian art he is depicted standing on a bull.

The common categories into which the omens of Enūma Anu Enlil were considered to fall were four, named after the chief gods involved in the ominous communication: Sin, Shamash, Adad, and Ishtar.

The existence of rulers known only from king lists may sometimes be confirmed by the discovery of their seals, and in some cases rulers are known only from their seals, which, because they often mention the names of their fathers, the cities that they ruled, and the chief gods that they served, form a valuable historical source.