Here and there the human-deity relationship is expressed in hand gestures.
The objects took shape in the forest twilight: vessels with carved rims; thrones decorated with the heads of half-animal, half-human deities; bowls; and effigies.
Among the essential factors in an overall picture of Native American dance are the diverse types of dance, the organization of the dances in terms of participation, and the relations of human and deity expressed in the dances.
He is a profoundly — almost grotesquely — human-looking deity, very much the sort of being in whose image vulgar humankind could realistically come forth.
In Too Human the deities known as the Aesir have been rendered as cybernetically enhanced godlings with the charge of protecting the human race from a plague of insectile robots.
It's important to look back and see our ancestors as human, not deities who were perfect.
The netsuke depict animals, humans and deities, and collectors sometimes vie for the creepier forms.
Scholars describe Hindu worship as a preeminently transactional event; through worship, humans approach deities by respectful interactions with their powers.
Humans and deities are classified as "rational", and all other nouns (animals, objects, abstract nouns) are classified as irrational.
The chroniclers report that children were selected to serve as messengers to the gods because their "purity" made them the most fitting mediators between humans and deities ([ 61]: 233; [ 37]).
