Sentence examples for supreme gods from inspiring English sources

Pity and terror were the prevailing emotional responses in plays that sought to understand, however imperfectly, the will of the supreme gods.

The lake is traditionally said to have been created in the 6th century by the goddess Shakambari, a form of Durga, who was the consort of Shiva (one of the three supreme gods of Hinduism).

The tendency toward pantheism increased in Puranic Hinduism and led to a kind of theism that exalted several supreme gods who were not prominently represented in the Vedic corpus, while many of the Vedic gods disappeared or were greatly diminished in stature.

Any random change of the order, content, or approach of enunciation will be punished by gods.8 In fact, the source of Daba's knowledge—"dhu" and "sé"—are both the supreme gods of the Na people.

One of the most important Hindu deities, the elephant-headed Ganesha, is ranked equal with the supreme gods Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma.

I mean, Thom Yorke is "the supreme God of music," right?

They believe in a supreme god who creates children, and they practice ancestor worship.

Shiva, the supreme god, descends and asks what she wants because her stillness is unbalancing.

This pattern was reversed in Iran, where ahura came to mean the supreme god and the daevas became demons.

For discussion of perspectives on the existence or role within human life of a supreme God or gods, see agnosticism; atheism; humanism; monotheism; pantheism; polytheism; theism.

There is no supreme god in Buddhist cosmology who could tell humans what to do or believe.