Sentence examples for several deities from inspiring English sources

Fertility is represented by several deities, but with explicit reference more often to agriculture there are lots of corncobs than to procreation.

Ms. Washington's main subject is the essence of life, which she seems to see as personified by several deities of the Nigerian religion, Ife.

One of several deities associated with the sun, the god Re was usually represented with a human body and the head of a hawk.

Belief in several deities, one of whom is deemed supreme, is replaced by the sacrificial pantheism of Prajapati ("Lord of Creatures"), who is the All.

The religion reflected in the Rigveda exhibits belief in several deities and the propitiation of divinities associated with the sky and the atmosphere.

Fertility is represented by several deities, but with explicit reference more often to agriculture — there are lots of corncobs — than to procreation.

Swaminarayan ordered the construction of several Hindu temples and installed the images of various deities such as Nara-Narayana, Laxminarayan, Radha Krishna, Radha Ramana and Revati-Baldevji.

This is in reverence to various deities.

Ra was connected with the local deity Sobek to form Sobek-Ra; with his fellow ruling god, Amun, to form Amun-Ra; with the solar form of Horus to form Ra-Horakhty; and with several solar deities as Horemakhet-Khepri-Ra-Atum. On rare occasion, even deities of different sexes were joined in this way, producing combinations like Osiris-Neith and Mut-Min.

Several other deities were associated with death e.g., Ek Chuah, a war god and god of merchants and cacao growers, and Ixtab, patron goddess of the suicides.

In the Mahayana tradition several female deities became major figures.