Their sect's heresy was dualism, a belief in both a beneficent God and an equivalent evil deity.
It is sacred, the Piaroas say, the stump of the tree of life, cut down by an evil deity.
Containing 11 mēmrē, or general sections of commentary, the work includes apologetic texts disputing non-Christian religions, particularly Islām and Manichaeism, an Oriental dualistic sect positing an evil deity responsible for the origins of the material world.
It also foregrounds the hope Kleist expressed twice in letters in 1806 that, despite the evidence, the world is not in thrall to an evil deity, only a misunderstood one.
It was viewed as being: the result of the conscious or unconscious emanation from the transcendent realm; the result of the fall of a deity from the Beyond; the creation of a hostile, ignorant, or evil deity; or a joke or mistake.
According to literary critic Hughes Davies, the President "represents political corruption but his presentation as an evil deity who is worshiped in terms that mockingly echo religious ritual elevates him to a mythical plane" and he is "an inverted image of both the Christian and Mayan deities since he is the source only of death".
The Beast's name in Chinese, Huoyun Xieshen (火雲邪神; Evil Deity of the Fiery Cloud), and the fight with the Landlady and her husband are also references to the Palm of Ru Lai, in which a mortally wounded master strikes the patterns of his art's final techniques into a bell so that his apprentice can learn from it.
If you can´t think of anything, some villain generator, for instance Evil Deity Generator from Seventh Sanctum, may help to get a good start.
It's one thing for the evil pagan deities like Moloch and Peor to be forced in to hell by the newly born Christ.
