Sentence examples for deity through from inspiring English sources
For centuries afterward, the Romans sought to appease the deity through annual sacrifices of dogs and cows unlucky enough to have rust-colored fur.
Ritual magic has also been used in those religions that require their devotees to be initiated by ceremonies of rebirth (e.g., baptism in water in Christianity, in bull's blood in rites of Cybele) and by symbolic communion with a deity through a ritual meal in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Mithraism, and Christianity (Eucharist).
Seven years earlier, Dahlia had conducted a ritual that impregnated Alessa with the cult's deity through immolation; Alessa survived because her status as the deity's "vessel" rendered her immortal.
Professor Sax will discuss the pre-colonial society of the Western Himalayas, which consisted of small territories ruled by local devatas (Hindu deities) through their oracles.
Like the seminomadic Navajo themselves, their gods are in constant motion, and their rituals and myths are hectic with the passage of deities through underground realms before their emergence into this, the White or Glittering World.
Whether offering soaked raw chickpeas to Shiva's agent Bhairuji in Rajasthan, for example, or offering a goat to the Goddess in Bengal, Hindus approach deities through similarly structured actions.
Actors from the theater were helping to prepare a feast for the 500 guests who would eat with the monks after watching them perform a sacred spectacle that invokes a variety of Buddhist deities through music, spoken chants and masking.
The Egyptians also interacted with deities through the donation of offerings, ranging from simple bits of jewelry to large and finely carved statues and stelae.
He dismissed religious institutions and the divinity of Jesus as failures in man's attempt to encounter deity directly through the moral principle or through an intuited sentiment of virtue.
The ecstatic prophet is regarded as being filled with the divine spirit, and in that state the deity speaks through him.
The concept of a finite deity developing through time was also proposed (e.g., by Charles Hartshorne) to meet objections to some of these concepts: If God is immutable, how can God be aware of successive events in time?
