Sentence examples for primary god from inspiring English sources

A single temple required multiple images of its primary god, like Shiva as Lord of Dance, Destroyer of Three Cities and Seductive Mendicant.

Subsidiary chapels, dedicated to deities associated with the primary god, lay to the sides of the main one.

The city's primary god was envisioned as its lord, employing many of the residents as servants in the divine household that the temple represented.

He was the primary god of hunter gatherer people from the mountainous region of Southern Tamil Nadu, very much like the Veddas of Sri Lanka.

The temple's inner chambers centered on the sanctuary of the temple's primary god, which typically lay along the axis near the back of the temple building, and in pyramid temples directly against the pyramid base.

There was no seating within the arcs, which precludes a theatre, and the best guess of the archaeologists was that the twelve alcoves may have contained images of the gods, with the temple being dedicated to the twelve primary gods of the Roman pantheon.

In Love I, Herbert deplores the way in which human beings have "parcel'd out thy glorious name... / While mortal love doth all the title gain!" The word and concept "love" has been emptied of its primary meaning – God – and is commonly applied only to human attractions such as "beauty" and "wit".

Oneness is primary in God's knowledge, "manyness" and "otherness" characterize our conceptual domain.

The primary problem God had with Job's friends who consoled him with "right theology" is just that: they offered theology.

Through worship, prayer, and actions, faith communities are affirming children as the primary blessing God has given us and committing together to working to end child poverty.

Shiva's role as the primary deity of Shaivism is reflected in his epithets ("Great god"; "Great" and deva "god"), ("Great Lord"; "great" and "lord"), and ("Supreme Lord").