Sentence examples for imported gods from inspiring English sources

After the end of Egyptian rule there, the imported gods, particularly Amun, remained part of the religion of Nubia's independent Kushite Kingdom.

According to Kugel, these are probably two different deities fused into one: El may have been a god in the Canaanite pantheon, while YHWH may have been a Midianite god imported, via nomads, to the early Israelites, who made him their only god.

Two years later, he and his Beatles: An Illustrated Record co-author Roy Carr remarked of Harrison's religious beliefs: "it's difficult to see why he travelled all the way to India to import a God who, by the sound of him ('The Lord Loves the One [That] Loves the Lord') is as intractable and selfish as the petulant Jehovah of Victorian Sunday schools".

With every nation it conquered, ancient Rome imported another set of gods.

The god was later imported and assimilated with the Roman sun god known as Sol Indiges in republican times and as Sol Invictus during the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE.

In his religious reforms, Hezekiah asserted Judah's inherited Hebrew traditions and practices against imported cults of the Assyrian gods.

Statuettes of bull leapers and perhaps of gods and goddesses were made of imported ivory in several pieces cunningly joined together by pins and dowels.

Religious practices -- meat and potatoes Buddhism, originally imported from India but adapted to accommodate secularity -- focus on gods of wealth and kitchens, not spiritual enlightenment.

The Pythagorean association of mathematics with transcendence was easily imported into a Christian context, giving rise to the idea of the Judeo-Christian god as a mathematical creator.

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The only other Python imported into the proceedings is John Cleese, who is present as the petulant and condescending voice of God — a role he was born to play.