Sentence examples for subordinate deity from inspiring English sources
Archon, in Gnosticism, any of a number of world-governing powers that were created with the material world by a subordinate deity called the Demiurge (Creator).
The Ophites regarded the Jehovah of the Old Testament as merely a demiurge, or subordinate deity who had created the material world.
Archon, in gnosticism, any of a number of world-governing powers that were created with the material world by a subordinate deity called the Demiurge (Creator).
The "Nakar" used the cobra totem known as "Nakam" in the Tamil language, which is still part of the Hindu Tamil tradition in Sri Lanka today as a subordinate deity.
In Hindu temples, Ganesha is depicted in various ways: as an acolyte or subordinate deity ; as a deity related to the principal deity ; or as the principal deity of the temple, treated similarly to the highest gods of the Hindu pantheon.
From their perspective, however, genuine theists are guilty of atheism, since they deny the existence of the "subordinate deities" that polytheists worship (NHR, 4.10n27).
Though each pitha is primarily dedicated to a Matrika, the other Matrikas are also worshipped as subordinate deities.
The worship of subordinate deities such as yaksa and yaksi, earlier considered as mere attendants of the tirthankars was seen from the 7th century to the 12th century.
a subordinate of the deity who is being worshipped goes into a trance and answers the queries and prayers of the devotees.
In order to refute the tolerant and politically convenient polytheism of Celsus, which harmonized the notion of a supreme but distant Deity known under many names with belief in numerous subordinate local deities, Origen drew on arguments that had already been developed in Hellenistic Judaism in favour of monotheism.
In other words, the ritual was designed to allow the mountain deity to actually take the life of the victim with the Inca religious attendants serving as subordinate facilitators in the sacrificial ritual.
