Sentence examples for chief deities from inspiring English sources

Ilmarinen, one of the chief deities in Finno-Ugric religion, functioning both as creator deity and as weather god.

But also included were some of the chief deities connected with the fertility cult, and the mother goddesses played an important role.

In addition to a palace built at Karnak and a memorial temple in western Thebes, both now largely vanished, the chief extant monument of Tutankhamun is the Colonnade of the Temple of Luxor, which he decorated with reliefs depicting the Opet festival, an annual rite of renewal involving the king, the three chief deities of Karnak (Amon, Mut, and Khons), and the local form of Amon at Luxor.

Its chief deity is Yamuna, the Hindu river goddess.

Murugan, chief deity of the ancient Tamils of South India, son of the warrior goddess Korravai.

Their chief deity was the Egyptian storm and desert god, Seth, whom they identified with a Syrian storm god, Hadad.

Zeus, in ancient Greek religion, chief deity of the pantheon, a sky and weather god who was identical with the Roman god Jupiter.

Elagabalus saw this as an opportunity to install Elagabal as the chief deity of the Roman pantheon.

Eshmun's cult enjoyed a particular importance at Sidon as he was the chief deity after 500 BCE.

Aravan is known as Kuttantavar in the cult which bears his name, and in which he is the chief deity.

According to a legend, Chamunda was enshrined as chief deity "Rudra Chamunda", in the battle between the demon Jalandhara and Shiva.