Sentence examples for visiting deities from inspiring English sources

No one supports the notion of celebrities barging into poor countries and expecting to be worshipped like visiting deities.

In one of Mr. Taylor's strangest effects, some of them wear strange geometrical headdresses with reflective surfaces: it makes them inhuman, Olympian, like visiting deities moving to the music of the spheres.

I'm not sure that arriving at the check-in desk of a Premier Inn declaring oneself a visiting deity will have the same effect.

It shows him in a garden with low-flying clouds conversing with a local deity, while a visiting Korean god alights on the top of a pine tree, causing one of En No Gyoja's loyal servant-demons to fall to his knees.

We work a lot all the time, so this is a way of taking some time off to visit the deity.

It is also established that Hindus have been worshipping the place in dispute as Janm Sthan, ie a birthplace as deity and visiting it as a sacred place of pilgrimage as of right since time immemorial.

Each devotee to visit the presiding deity is allocated 10 20 seconds.

Advanced spiritual beings and visiting benevolent ETs in the past have been known as deities on Earth.

The market-shrine complex encouraged surrounding tribes to put aside their conflicts periodically and to visit and worship the deities of the Kaʿbah; but such worship, as in most complex societies, could not replace either the particularistic worship of small groups or the competing religious practices of other regional centres, such as al-Ṭāʾif.

In January 1999, outgoing Navajo Nation president Milton Bluehouse ordered the zoo closed after two women from Rock Ridge claimed to have been visited by the, traditional Navajo deities, who had given them a warning, saying that the Navajo people were not living according to tradition by keeping caged animals, specifically bears, snakes, and eagles, which are considered sacred.

To the Balinese, gods are not distant and aloof but honored guests who are invited to inhabit deity statues when they visit Earth.