Sentence examples for mountain deities from inspiring English sources
To stave off disaster, the miners propitiate the mountain deities with tiny liquor bottles.
But for now, when the price of gold is high, individuals flock to the town to try their luck digging gold from the mountain's quartz veins, and stave off disaster by offering gifts to the mountain deities.
Both are believed to have been built in the 15th century and consist of imposing stone buildings arranged around a central plaza, situated among steep mountain ridges that overlook twisting whitewater rivers, with views of skyscraping peaks -- known as apus, or mountain deities, to both the Incas and their Quechua-speaking Andean descendants -- in several directions.
As a time of transition from winter to spring in the regional agricultural calendar, August is the period when the earth and mountain deities are said to be especially hungry, according to scholars who study the culture of the Aymara, the indigenous group that makes up a majority of El Alto's population of about 800,000.
If you are in the mountains, you speak of the mountain deities, for example.
Inside this temple, Lord Guan and local mountain deity Ami Nianqin of Southern Gansu are worshipped in the same hall, and there are Tibetan thangkas and statues.
They included the temple of Tohil, a jaguar god who was patron of the city, the temple of Awilix, the patron goddess of one of the noble houses, the temple of Jakawitz, a mountain deity who was also a noble patron and the temple of Q'uq'umatz, the Feathered Serpent, the patron of the royal house.
Dorjestemo is particularly important in this respect; as the principal mountain deity it holds sovereignty over the communal territory.
The monkey was believed a guardian that could cure disease in horses and secure good crops as mediator between the Mountain Deity and humans.
In other words, the ritual was designed to allow the mountain deity to actually take the life of the victim with the Inca religious attendants serving as subordinate facilitators in the sacrificial ritual.
