Sentence examples for local gods from inspiring English sources

Archaeologists interpret these as symbolic offerings to local gods.

Civic loyalty, however, included participation in public worship of the local gods.

Thus, his converts had to give up public worship of the local gods.

Mean moralistic and local gods' knowledge and punishment scales by site.

Kent, Eliza F. Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism in South India.

Before embarking on a big walk I pay my respects to the local gods.

In this fashion, whatever vengeful local gods were ired by millennial hubris may, possibly, be gratified.

He also had the capacity for infinite self-multiplication, and some of his offspring became local gods.

Proportion of sample listing moral and virtue items for moralistic and local gods' dislikes and likes by site.

During the Kamakura period, Buddhism continued and strengthened systematic efforts to incorporate the indigenous religion, Shintō, by identifying local gods and numinous presences as manifestations of Buddhist deities.

In areas of Greek and Phoenician colonization, local gods were readily identified with Roman ones, the most-striking example being the cult of Hercules/Melqart at Gades.