Sentence examples for higher deities from inspiring English sources

And in the Philippines, sticky tikoy is thought to seal the kitchen gods' mouths, so they can't report the family's misdeeds to higher deities.

The attraction of these myths lay especially in their solutions to problems of theodicy (the attempt to reconcile the goodness and justice of God with the existence of evil in the world), since distinguishing a lower creator absolved the higher deity from responsibility for evil or imperfection in the cosmos.

'… there is too much order in the world to be solely down to evolution and therefore I believe that some higher deity exists, not necessarily God, but there must be something because the control in the world is so high.'.

Ganesh, the elephant-headed god, is venerated as one of the highest deities in the Hindu religion.

The Catholic atheist whose parking space is marked 'God', can foresee a day when he stops being its highest deity.

The Shaivite schools are the philosophical systems within the fold of Shaivism, a religious sect that worships Shiva as the highest deity.

The highest deity in the cosmology of Thelema is the goddess Nuit.

The highest deity was usually credited with the creation of the world and often connected with the life-giving power of the sun.

Although Vedars frequent regionally important Hindu temples and shrines associated with high Hindu deities such as Murugan, Pillaiyar and Siva, they propitiate local deities of folk Hinduism, who are sometimes unique to Veddars.

So it kind of makes you wonder whether or not what's represented in the center of the monument might actually have connections with even higher orders of deities".

Atheism is not just the lack of belief in higher powers or deities; it's often interwoven with antitheism, and many who identify as atheists have furious antitheist tendencies.