It is missing a subject and a verb.
It could potentially be used as a prepositional phrase in a sentence, such as: "The villagers often spoke of a mysterious deity about whom many legends were told." In this example, "deity about" is functioning as a prepositional phrase modifying the noun "legend." It is indicating that the legends were about the deity. This usage would be appropriate in written English.
But while some of these rulers thought of themselves as gods, they knew there were other deities about, not to mention ominous natural forces that could still mess them up.
After all, the first amendment of the constitution explicitly states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" and you don't have to be a legal scholar to realize that forcing all of the country's laws to pass the merit of a 2,000 year old religious deity is about as directly opposite from that statement as possible.
In northern India, Skanda was an important martial deity from about 500 BCE to about 600 CE, after which worship of him declined significantly.
Researchers who ran an experiment with a total of 591 people in eight different small-scale societies around the world found that people who believed their deity of choice knew about their misdeeds and would punish them were more likely to play fairly in a game where money was on the line.
And then there's a song about deity rescuing a monarch.
True to his distinction between existence and actuality, Hartshorne maintains that the arguments concern that which is most abstract about deity, its existence and character.
I think my leap-in-faith landed somewhere good though: Spurz's Urban Deity EP is about R&D departments, main branch architecture, and formal interior design all rendered through club constructions that, while obviously owing a lot to the Night Slugs proto-genre, isn't another eyeroll-inducing subpar clone of Jam City's Classical Curves.
I think my leap-in-faith landed somewhere good though: Spurz's Urban Deity EP is about R&D departments, main branch architecture, and formal interior design all rendered through club constructions that, while obviously owing a lot to the Night Slugs proto-genre, isn't another eyeroll-inducing subpar clone of Jam City's Classical Curves.
The German poet Mahlmann used the form "Allah" as the title of a poem about the ultimate deity, though it is unclear how much Islamic thought he intended to convey.
We believed in an edible deity, and that was about the extent of our spiritual life".
