In between lies a host of variations in which planets behave like deities (Solaris), gods walk the Earth in the guise of dodgy mortals (Neil Gaiman's American Gods), gods turn out to be "not what they seem" (a large number of Star Trek plots), or in which gods are simply as numerous as beetles (swathes of epic fantasy).
Colorful murals on the facade — a Hindu-like deity with a monkey's tail; winged angels at the Annunciation — testified to vodun's absorption of other faiths.
Its central image, emerging from darkness, is a Gauguin-like deity, with long blue-black hair, who seems to be eating, or perhaps disgorging, a stream of radiant yellow blossoms.
This hybrid film — part mythic fiction, part music documentary — tells the story of the band by folding performances of their swirling, transcendent rhythms into a poetic enactment of the legend of Boujeloud, a Pan-like deity said to have met the musicians' ancestor.
One of them finally raises his hand and, with the stentorian gravitas of Zeus-like deity, proclaims that each candidate made some interesting points, but he still doesn't know who to vote for.
(You mean, he had good eyesight and that is why he liked deities?) Most of all, we do not need a reference to Brest street life being cleaned up in the 1840's to be followed by the sentence: "Such queasy righteousness, the ruling spirit of the age, was calling out for a new Aristophanes, a new Rabelais, a new Voltaire.
LIKE a deity, radio spectrum is invisible, omnipresent and commands awesome power.
I mean, they were like deities.
Shocking how actors get treated like deities.
Dancers marched in procession, circled ritualistically, stood like deities and honored forces of nature.
