Sentence examples for infant god from inspiring English sources
A flying demon makes off with an infant god.
The existence of a palace shrine on the upper terrace seems implied by discoveries of a magnificent ivory group consisting of two goddesses and an infant god with fragments of painted tripod altars and other objects.
She was customarily identified with Ino, daughter of the Phoenician Cadmus; because she cared for the infant god Dionysus, the goddess Hera drove Ino (or her husband, Athamas) mad so that she and her son, Melicertes, leaped terrified into the sea.
Two astrologers are in the process of calculating the infant god's future; a herd of exquisitely painted cows stand outside the door, as if eagerly waiting to hear the news.
He is becoming what passes for a moral conscience in this shattered world, and is perhaps evolving into a sacrificial infant-god.
In the same text, milkmaids offer a prayer for protection of the infant-god Krishna from the Matrikas.
In Hindu mythology, Putana (Sanskrit: Pūtanā, lit. "putrefaction") is a Matrika, who is killed by the infant-god Krishna.
Less convincing is the connection postulated between the concept of Maria lactans (representations of the Virgin nursing her child) and bronze and terra-cotta statues of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis suckling the infant sun god Horus or between representations of saints on horseback and some late figures of the adult Horus in an identical pose.
For Messiaen, a Roman Catholic mystic, this work was a deeply personal statement of faith: 20 "regards," meaning gazes or contemplations, of the infant Jesus from God the father, the church of love, the spirit of joy, the angels, the virgin mother.
Parents have also described actions by professionals that are inappropriate and insensitive: handing bereaved mothers routine well-baby information [ 13], suggesting infant deaths are 'God's Will' or that mothers can have another baby; and suggesting that parents should be satisfied as they have surviving infants in deaths following multiple pregnancies [ 21, 30].
The reasoning here appears to run as follows: Humankind is guilty of a grievous offense against God; infants are instances of humankind; therefore, infants are likewise guilty of a grievous offense against God.
