Ninurta was linked to the later deity Marduk, who was said to have slain the ocean goddess Tiamat with a great bow, and worshipped as the principal deity in Babylon.
Later the deity was given a Semitic character, but, under Achaemenid rule (6th 4th century bc), he was identified with the Persian god Ahura Mazdā, thus becoming a god of the universe.
These three deities later introduced the teachings of the Dongzhen (Perfect Grotto), the Dongxuan (Mysterious Grotto), and of the Dongshen (Divine Grotto).
Because the victim is identified with the deity, later expiatory sacrifices also become intelligible: sin is an offense against the moral order established at the beginning of human history; the killing of the victim is an intensified act restoring that order.
Initially exaulted by an incarnation of Shiva, Mailara was denouned by Basava, the founder of the Shiva-worshipping Lingayat sect - who would later promote the deity.
But the new concepts of world unity and of God as a universal deity that later arose in Israel during the 8th century bc conflicted with this, since God as the deity of Israel alone was obviously contradictory to the new conception of him as the creator of the universe and the God of all humanity.
From the start of her career, she admired Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier because they were her generation's deities, and later had no trouble recognizing the more baroque talents of Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Santiago Calatrava.
Earlier figurines from the Archaic and Classical periods typically represent deities, but later statuettes usually depict scenes from daily life.
Because many deities in later times were strongly tied to particular towns and regions, many scholars have suggested that the pantheon formed as disparate communities coalesced into larger states, spreading and intermingling the worship of the old local deities.
The Staff God is a major deity of later Andean cultures, and Winifred Creamer suggests the find points to worship of common symbols of gods.
According to this theory, showing Ganesha as master of the rat demonstrates his function as Vigneshvara (Lord of Obstacles) and gives evidence of his possible role as a folk grāma-devatā (village deity) who later rose to greater prominence.
