Sentence examples for dominant god from inspiring English sources

After a brief interregnum, he succeeded Akhenaten, the reformer who had shaken up Egypt's society by replacing the traditional polytheistic religion with a single dominant god, Aten.

According to Assmann, this one god was especially equated with Amun, the dominant god in the late New Kingdom, whereas for the rest of Egyptian history the universal deity could be identified with many other gods.

By the end of Akhenaton's fifth regnal year, the Aton had become Egypt's dominant national god.

This goes against the dominant "narrative" (God, I hate that word) of Kagan as a remorseless apple-polisher and power-seeker.

Love and war in an exotic locale is a cinematic staple, but in Greene's novels and screenplays the dominant triangle is God, guilt and Greene.

Is the dominant religion polytheistic (many gods), monotheistic (one god), pantheistic (everything is god), or atheistic (no gods)?

And so when belief in distinct eternal attributes in God was dominant, belief in a created, pre-existent Qur'an was replaced by belief in an eternal, uncreated Qur'an, an attribute of God.

Unlike many temples in India, the female god is the dominant one here.

As can be seen from this new, more accurate, payoff matrix, there is no longer a dominant strategy to believe in God.

This new tradition acknowledged that evil was so dominant on earth that only God's cataclysmic intervention could free the world from its grip.

Julian's eventual obsession with establishing a "third kingdom" on earth — essentially a combination of the kingdom of man and the kingdom of God — becomes a dominant part of the National production, with an implicit nod to the rise of Nazism some 50 years after he wrote the play.