Sentence examples for divine statues from inspiring English sources

A large number of ordinary objects produced especially for the god have been used in the daily worship of divine statues.

The British were keen to preserve Indian relics, but after the 1857 Indian uprisings, temple doors were kicked in and divine statues destroyed or stolen, to teach believers a lesson.

Divine statues also may be adorned with jewels, diadems, tiaras, and garments consisting of gold-worked covers, a practice still observed in southern India, or with ceremonial apparel, a Christian practice observed in the veneration of saints, particularly in the Czech Republic (Prague, Polandd, and France (Brittany).

Other possible objects include crystals, flowers, and pictures or statues of divine beings, such as the Buddha.

After a quick glimpse of the statues of the divine infant Jesus at the Almacén Relicario, a few doors down, I grab a tamarindo pastry from La Puerta Falsa, the city's oldest confectionery, and begin my own pilgrimage. 1 2 3 4 5 Next Page ».

The temple's statue of his divine forebear, modeled in that traditional Roman material terracotta and based on a celebrated marble Venus Genitrix by the 5th-century Greek master Callimachus, has not survived, but a precious 2nd century A.D. copy from the Louvre is on show here.

Babylonian, Egyptian and Persian leaders created pyramids, obelisks and statues to promote their divine right to lead.

Though such representations are often depicted in the form of statues and images (icons) of divine or sacred beings, they may also be either figurative or symbolic, the meanings often being equivalent.

Men, women and children dance gracefully in a circle around statues or idols of the Divine Mother.

Talk story about Simon Verity, the 44 year old English sculptor now employed by the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, who fills the Cathedral niches with his statues Verity comes from a line of architects.

He would bathe a collection of murtis (statues that Hindus believe contain a divine essence of a deity) and expect his son to pray with him. .