Sentence examples for small deity from inspiring English sources

In the same way, the sun and moon were created: the gods, assembled in the darkness at Teotihuacán, built a huge fire; two of them, Nanahuatzin, a small deity covered with ulcers, and Tecciztécatl, a richly bejeweled god, threw themselves into the flames, from which the former emerged as the sun and the latter as the moon.

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There is also Sgrub khang pa's meditation hut, a small protector deity chapel, a Dharma enclosure (chos rwa), a ruined kitchen and various smaller huts, which are used mostly for storage today.

The religiosity of the Romans encouraged the production of decorated altars, small representations of deities for the household shrine or votive offerings, and other pieces for dedicating at temples.

As a lucky charm, they fashion a kiln deity, a small clay figure that sits on the roof and presides over the firing.

Mrs. Shekhar, more traditional in her tastes, has bought a plain white Whirlpool refrigerator and put it in the bedroom, next to a small shrine to Hindu deities.

The titular Small Gods are those deities who do not have sufficient followers to manifest in any significant way.

Small replicas of these deities immediately became a "psychedelic hit" worn by many hippies on strings around their necks.

Their images moved from the sanctums to corners of temple complexes and now they are as guardian deities in small village shrines.

Given that the deity is benevolent, small-scale pain must be part of some universal balance, or, as Pope puts it in his "Essay on Man," "All discord harmony not understood; / All partial evil, universal good".

A small statue of Balaji, a deity worshiped in southern India, sat snugly on the counter.