Eilberg-Schwartz differentiates between images of male deities and images of father deities, contending that the maleness of God may have different implications than the fatherliness of God.
Chamberlain, who was sixty-nine, had never flown before, and Madge and Harrisson subjected the hero worship surrounding him to a mockery inflected by anthropology: "The combination of his age and his sky-journey made him a father-deity.
What ultimately drew him in, he said, was a family story about the father-deity Odin and the rivalry between his children, Thor and Loki, the trickster god, told at a cosmic level.
His "Yo, Jonah!," with music and lyrics by Clay Zambo, plays on the idea of God the Father and God the father: the all-knowing deity and the ultimate parent.
This is not your father's cinematic deity.
In the original poem, Daphne, a water nymph, resolves to stay a virgin; she runs from the lustful god, he chases, he grabs and clasps; she pleads to her father, a river deity, for help.
Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed Vanir sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated with sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility.
Tony Curran plays Bor, Odin's father, based on the deity of the same name.
This means viewing God as a Heavenly Father and not as an impersonal deity.
And we feel it in the ardor of his Rastafarianism, which provided, in Haile Selassie, a father figure — indeed, a living deity.
On the contrary: he took an inexhaustible delight in the natural world, seeing in it the hand of a God who differed greatly from the grim deity of his father.
