Sentence examples for principal gods from inspiring English sources

Odin, also called Wodan, Woden, or Wotan, one of the principal gods in Norse mythology.

The sanctuaries are dedicated to the pharaoh and the principal gods of Egypt.

This is true, for example, of the two principal gods of Puranic Hinduism, Vishnu and Rudra-Shiva.

The movement was that of bhakti, or intense personal devotion to the two principal gods of Hinduism, Śiva and Vishnu.

Despite the rise of the god Amon of Thebes, Ptah remained one of the principal gods of the pantheon.

Nonetheless, the main audience for the most important festivals of the principal gods of state held in capital cities may have been the ruling elite rather than the people as a whole.

Ashur was a name applied to the city, to the country, and to the principal god of the ancient Assyrians.

The principal god was El, but the jurisdiction over rainfall and fertility was delegated to Baal, or Hadad.

Later literary sources, however, indicate that at the end of the pre-Christian period Odin was the principal god in Scandinavia.

At Thebes, by the late 11th dynasty (c. 1980 bce), Re was associated with Amon as Amon-Re, who was for more than a millennium the principal god of the pantheon, the "king of the gods," and the patron of kings.

Sometimes Balarama is considered one of the 10 avatars (incarnations) of the god Vishnu, particularly among those members of Vaishnava sects who elevate Krishna to the rank of a principal god.