Sentence examples for collection of deities from inspiring English sources

But as in pursuit of explanatory unity and coherence belief in many Gods tends historically to give way to belief in single deity, while it would be technically possible to identify the universe with a collection of deities, in practice monism tends to win out, and it has been characteristic of pantheists to stress heavily the unity of nature.

Probably, to begin with, the Muses were one of those vague collections of deities, undifferentiated within the group, which are characteristic of certain, probably early, strata of Greek religion.

While Lovecraft had his Cthulhu Mythos, a collection of places and deities that have been reimagined by writers from Robert E. Howard to Stephen King, there is no "Ligottian mythos," nor does Ligotti explicitly play in Lovecraft's world.

For Dr. Unschuld, that has included amassing a collection of statues of medical deities that is planned to be a centerpiece of Berlin's Humboldt Forum, a new museum under construction that will showcase non-European cultures.

The afternoon sale features two Tibetan tankas — silk-embroidered Buddhist paintings of deities — from an Italian collection.

During the four months that a hospice chaplain has visited Dr. Bertram Schaffner, a 95-year-old psychiatrist, at his Central Park South apartment, the word "god" has come up only when discussing the doctor's collection of Hindu figurines of household deities.

The Rigveda, a collection of more than 1,000 hymns to various deities, can be dated to a period from approximately 1300 to 900 bce.

His successor had only types of deities.

As he bathed, a number of deities came into being.

A number of deities are associated with musubi.

Celia Cruz has sung of deities like Chango.