Sentence examples for dying god from inspiring English sources

In every room of the presbytery, "a crucifix hung, the dying God in each case exhibiting some distinction of anguish, some greater or lesser contortion of his naked body, a musculature more or less racked.

All the rulers of the 3rd dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 c. 2004 bce) and most of the rulers of the dynasty of Isin (c. 2020 c. 1800 bce) were treated as embodiments of the dying god Damu and invoked in the ritual laments for him.

Isn't it enough I'm dying, God?

A dying god writing his will," was a reference point.

Many of these figures belong to the type of the "dying god" (a fertility deity displaying death and regeneration characteristics) but show variant traits according to whether they are powers of fertility worshipped by marsh dwellers, orchard growers, herders, or farmers.

It contained dirges for the dying gods of the fertility cults and laments for temples and cities that had been destroyed and desecrated.

In this interpretation, the bread that is Christ's body and the wine that is his blood associate him with the annually dying gods Adonis, Osiris, and Attis the divinities, inherent in the vital and vitalizing power of the crops, who die in order that people may eat and drink and live.

My father told me that if you speak Evil Gossip then when you die God hangs you by your tongue until it rips off and you die".

"I've had so many things done to my body," she began a joke, "that when I die, God won't know me".

Senator John McCain said it best: "If he would happen to die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him".

(The Ministry of the Interior later announced that Abdel Harith had died of lung failure caused by an asthma attack, and a spokesman told the press, "What do you expect the government to say? We never violate human rights. He died God's death").