Sentence examples for high god from inspiring English sources

"We shall build a city and a temple to the Most High God in this place," Young told his followers.

Among North American Indians and Central and South Africans, thunder is thought to be the voice of the High God.

In recent times the figure of the High God has been revived among some African messianic groups.

Lagash was endowed with many temples, including the Eninnu, "House of the Fifty," a seat of the high god Enlil.

Though the pattern varies from people to people, the High God usually is conceived as masculine or sexless.

Traditional Kamba religion resembled the Kikuyu's, with belief in a high god, Ngai, and in ancestral spirits; the ancestral cult was particularly well developed.

Christian missionaries, naturally having a monotheistic bias, tended to overemphasize high gods.

In groves of deciduous trees the high gods were worshiped, whereas the lower spirits lived in the fir groves.

This was normally one of the Indian high gods, Shiva (represented perhaps by a phallic emblem, the linga) or Vishnu.

In ancient Egypt the sun god Re was the dominant figure among the high gods and retained this position from early in that civilization's history.

The high gods are usually encountered in connection with a rite; they are distant, invisible, and do not make surprise visits.