Make the deity's temperament clear from their actions or attitudes (although it's nice to complicate things and show a little of good and evil in your deities, depending on the context).
He sometimes reclines on the serpent Ananta ("Without End," suggesting the deity's mastery over infinite time).
A circumambulation of the deity's altar is another physical mode of engagement with divine power.
THE deity's demands are best explained by the medley of oysters and caviar.
The Devil gets to fill in God's back story, revealing the Deity's own vulnerability and, yes, fundamental, throbbing humanity.
A deity's four faces may illustrate the concept of God's fourfoldness, typifying his strength, knowledge, lordship, and potency.
They go weekly for darshan (divine vision of a deity's image) to Puvali's Dev Narayan, as it is convenient.
The Egyptian cult of Amun was modified to suggest Nubia's "holy mountain," Gebel Barkal, as that deity's birthplace.
They believe that these offerings will satisfy the deity's appetites and thus bring them good fortune and an abundant harvest.
Once or twice a year the deity's figure was carried through the city streets on a tour of inspection.
What all these have in common is contact with the deity's power in the process of worship and service.
