Sentence examples for sacred powers from inspiring English sources

Jews also keep their eyes on the elements, recognizing the great, sacred powers that are present in the world.

The believers venerate the Shintō sun goddess Amaterasu as the supreme god and creator of the universe and consider the other traditional 8,000,000 Shintō kami (gods, or sacred powers) to be her manifestations.

Thus, it has been considered necessary in times of crisis, individual or communal, to offer sacrifices to propitiate sacred powers and to wipe out offenses (or at least neutralize their effects) and restore the relationship.

In preliterate society everyday events have been given sacramental interpretations by being invested with supernatural meanings in relation to their ultimate sources in the unseen divine or sacred powers.

After death the pharaoh became divine, identified with Osiris, the father of Horus and god of the dead, and passed on his sacred powers and position to the new pharaoh, his son.

Osiris, the god of the afterlife (the world of the dead) was believed to be embodied in the recently deceased pharaoh, who passed on his sacred powers and position to the new pharaoh, his son.

It is, however, an increase of sacred power that is ultimately beneficial to the sacrificer.

In this same context, natural objects can be imbued with sacred power.

The yamabushi served as guides for pilgrims visiting Yoshino and Kumano, sacred mountains inhabited by Shintō kami (sacred power or gods).

Communion in the sense of a bond between the worshipper and the sacred power is fundamental to all sacrifice.

In this process, they generally survive only in a formal sense and thus henceforth are devoid of any sacred power.