And this is what Malouf does with the divine appearances that happen so often in Homer: "The air, as in the wake of some other, less physical disturbance, shimmers with a teasing iridescence," Priam thinks.
The centuries following the return from the Babylonian Exile were marked by increasingly widespread and intense reflection on various themes: the intermediary beings between humans and God; the divine appearances, whose special place of occurrence had formerly been the most sacred part of the Jerusalem Temple; the creation of human beings; and the creation and organization of the universe.
For Pseudo-Dionysius, we do not know God directly but know Him only through his theophaniai, or divine appearances (Pseudo-Dionysius, Divine Names, ch. 7, PG III 869c-d).
Henderson's totemic character is Polyphemus, the half-divine Cyclops whose appearance in Homer's "Odyssey" is one of the poem's most harrowing episodes.
I had arrived in Lalibela, fortuitously, just before the Feast of the Transfiguration, Aug. 6, a key date in the Orthodox Christian calendar that commemorates Jesus' appearance in divine form before three of his apostles on Mount Tabor.
He describes the appearance of Divine, the hefty drag queen who was his biggest star, as a conscious cross between his favorite 50's film star, Jayne Mansfield, and Claribel, the seltzer-bottle wielding clown on "Howdy Doody".
It was a time when the Yankees and their fans did not consider a playoff appearance a divine right, a time when there were actually empty seats at Yankee Stadium and a time when Mariano Rivera was starting games in the minor leagues.
Facing such texts, DDI's friends defuse the appearance of divine change by appeal to doctrines less speculative and theoretical than DDI.
Yet there is no appearance of divine revelation or intervention.
The next step by which the transcendent God becomes self-conscious consists in the appearance in the divine nous of the divine world, the idea of the world in its individual forms as the content of the divine consciousness.
