This is particularly true in the case of Vision in God, which bears a striking resemblance to Augustine's theory of divine illumination, but which is also informed by Cartesian views about the role of ideas in cognition and the intellectual character of sensory perception.
Stela 3 from El Zapote in Guatemala is a small monument dating from the Early Classic period, the front of the stela bears a portrait of the rain god Yaxhal Chaak, "Clear Water Chaak".
The various modes of being within the entire hierarchy of being as well as the three kinds of beings subordinate to the first being all bear a likeness to God; indeed, intellect, the very apex of the universe, is an image of God.
In the Beatitudes (Matthew 5 1 12), the blessings Jesus offered in the Sermon on the Mount, he declared that the qualities and powers of the impending Kingdom of God were available among his followers in such a way that they would bear a distinctive witness to God before the world (Matthew 5 14 16).
At any rate, can you imagine what went through this young woman's mind when an angel appeared to her saying that she was going to bear a son fathered by God!
All creatures, from rocks to angels, are signs in the sense of shadows and traces of God, for they all bear a relation of causal dependency upon God as their source; but only rational creatures can have the divine as an object of their activities and, for that reason, can conform themselves to the divine will and become likenesses of God.
This involved the public sticking of a giant bear, considered a god whose spirit could return to heaven only through prolonged taunting and death.
The Ainu people of Japan worship the bear as a god of the mountains and as an ancestor of some mountain-dwelling Ainu.
I hope I'm not cursed, but after the second successive miserable August, it does seem as if our weather gods bear a grudge against these late summer butterflies.
From his bed in a medical tent, Pemba recounted his long ordeal as an Israeli paramedic held his thin left arm, which bore a tattoo of the Hindu god Shiva.
