We often invoked his name like that of a fierce god.
Calvin is often imagined, if he is imagined at all, as the implacable snoop who enforced a prudish morality on the citizens of Geneva, a steely spinner of harsh theological doctrines about a depraved humanity and a fierce God predestining people to heaven or hell.
Stella Kramrisch notes a different etymology connected with the adjectival form raudra, which means "wild, of rudra nature", and translates the name Rudra as "the wild one" or "the fierce god".
She is currently helping her 101-year-old grandmother, another example of a wise, fierce, God-filled woman, document the story of her escape during World War II from Stalin's regime.
Aztec religion centred around the fierce sun god Huitzilopochtli.
He is finishing his first book exploring the Chinese responses to transgressive tantric practices in the cult of Ucchuṣma, a fierce tantric god, as seen through a Dunhuang manuscript during the Tang Dynasty.
"We are not here today to bow before the representation of a fierce and warlike god, filled with wrath and vengeance, but we joyously contemplate instead our own deity keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America, and greater than all that have been celebrated in ancient song.
To the evening's loudest applause, he sang "When the President Talks to God," a fierce synthesis of accusation and repetition which recalled Dylan's early protest songs: "When the President talks to God, does he ever think maybe he's not, that the voice is just inside his head?
Of course, the sculptures themselves are remarkably photogenic, including such arresting objects as a shiny ovoid mask (now owned by the Metropolitan) with pointed chin and sharply stylized features from the Dan people of Liberia and a slim, full-length figure of a fierce looking Fon war god from Benin, holding a weapon in each hand.
Lady Gaga appeared on the screen in a silver sequined outfit with matching combat boots, looking fierce as fuck, belting God Bless America.
Does the Muslim God issue fierce, unbending laws and demand submission, whereas the Christian God stands for love, equal dignity and the right of every individual to be different?
