Sentence examples for independent deities from inspiring English sources
Horus could be a powerful sky god or a vulnerable child, and these forms were sometimes counted as independent deities.
Along with his countrymen Coleridge and Wordsworth, Carlyle embraced a "natural supernaturalism," the view that nature, including human beings, has the power and authority traditionally attributed to an independent deity.
Later on, Kangiten emerged as besson, an independent deity.
The 13th century statue pictured is typical of Ganesha statuary from 900 1200, after Ganesha had been well-established as an independent deity with his own sect.
In other accounts, it is Shu who searches for Tefnut, who in this case represents the Eye rather than an independent deity.
Simek adds that it is unclear as to who Fulla actually is; Simek says that she may be an independent deity or simply identical with the goddess Freyja or with Frigg.
These imply a return not to the bad old days of the centralized autocratic state, but to a more distant past, when the nine hundred inhabited islands that now make up Indonesia were beads in a necklace of independent Sultanates, governed by people whose right to rule was granted by an unaccountable deity to a bloodline.
As a Generation X tyro who began listening to classical records in the late nineteen-seventies, I always thought of Toscanini, along with Eugene Ormandy and Jascha Heifetz, as the big legacy deities pushed by the record label RCA, which at the time was on its last legs as an independent company.
Although it ceased to exist in 1947, when India became independent, the maharajas have continued to preside over the temple, both as spiritual leaders and as custodians of the deity's wealth.
