Sentence examples for infant deity from inspiring English sources

He is not some infant deity who by earnest striving slowly acquired these perfections and, like us, can diminish his goodness by intentionally acting badly.

Given this, we may also conjecture that this world was created by "some infant Deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance" or it is "the production of old age and dotage in some superannuated Deity", and so on (D, 5.12/169).

He goes on to joke that far from being the perfect creation of a perfect designer, this universe may be "only the first rude essay of some infant deity... the object of derision to his superiors".

The coins contained the images of various gods including Balakrishna (infant Krishna), Venkateshwara (the presiding deity of the temple at Tirupati), goddesses such as Bhudevi and Sridevi, divine couples, animals such as bulls and elephants and birds.

Much as she resembles a Roman goddess of good fortune, the three clinging children she juggles mark her as the Buddhist deity Hariti, an infant-gobbling demon, who, after a little enlightenment, changed her ways.

For 500 years, the state did not interfere with this process; instead, monks used divine lotteries and symbols from the heavens to find infant reincarnations of recently departed deities.

Shashthi, in Hinduism, a deity who is the goddess of vegetation, reproduction, and infant welfare.

The Mahabharata, finalised around the 4th century CE, describes a relationship between the infant Skanda and the Matrikas ("Mothers"), a group of female deities who embody the perils that afflict children until the age of sixteen.

These brutal facts are as nothing to the Pope: in his view the blight of too many pregnancies, too many children, infant mortality, starvation, disease, poverty and immiseration is all part of the deity's plan.

The central theme of the Olmec religion was a pantheon of deities each of which usually was a hybrid between jaguar and human infant, often crying or snarling with open mouth.

It belongs to the deity".