Sentences with phrase «god of fertility of»

In July 2008 it was officially named Makemake after the creator of humanity and god of fertility of the native people of Easter Island.

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Sumerian life at the time was built as most polytheistic cultures are — pet gods, responsible for things like the health of a harvest, the phases of the moon or fertility.

The Amalekites as you recall offered live sacrifice of infants and children into the red hot bronze arms of their fertility god while they danced and had orgies.

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

Instead of focusing on «birth control,» the Pope turns to the first of the cardinal virtues, practical wisdom (prudentia, phronesis), and speaks of the excellence of prudence in deciding, in God's presence, how many children to have» how to «regulate» fertility.

These were not nice people they worshiped a fertility God by placing children into red hot bronze arms of their god and cheered as the children would die in those arGod by placing children into red hot bronze arms of their god and cheered as the children would die in those argod and cheered as the children would die in those arms.

-- «and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment» sun god, river god, fertility god, etc etc etc..

It becomes idolatry when we look to just one aspect of God: we worship a god who always promises success in war; a god who always promises success in agriculture; a god who always promises success in fertility; a god who always promises success with monGod: we worship a god who always promises success in war; a god who always promises success in agriculture; a god who always promises success in fertility; a god who always promises success with mongod who always promises success in war; a god who always promises success in agriculture; a god who always promises success in fertility; a god who always promises success with mongod who always promises success in agriculture; a god who always promises success in fertility; a god who always promises success with mongod who always promises success in fertility; a god who always promises success with mongod who always promises success with money.

Ashtoreth was the god of fertility: it was important for the Israelites that they be fertile and have children.

whether we do not worship other gods or not, we use the same symbolisms, like the egg and the bunny, pagan symbols of fertility.

And the finality of Jesus Christ, in whom true God is active for the wholeness of men, consists in his endless fertility; as a modern saint has put it, «He is adequate,» and his adequacy is not for us alone but for all men everywhere and at every time.

... and so Christ had been redefined into a celebration after man's own desires... food, drink, god of fertility... the freedom to worship any god.

Yes, Easter is the ex-pagan celebration of spring, fertility and the ancient worship of Astarte that has been adopted by Christians to represent the death and resurection of their unkillable eternal God.

Fertility is an ordinary function of health and human flourishing and an extraordinary participation in God's creative love.

Tom Tom The Amalekites worshipers of Baal thought they were doing right by offering infants into the red hot brass arms of their fertility God as they gyrated in mass orgy.

It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.

This attitude is at complete variance to that behind Natural Family Planning (NFP), wherein a couple who have reason to space their children accept the gift of sexuality exactly as it is stamped in the human person by God and do not treat their fertility as a problem to be expunged by technology.

The narrative of Elijah on Mount Carmel in I Kings 18 tells of the supersession of the god (s) of fertility by the God of historical interventigod (s) of fertility by the God of historical interventiGod of historical intervention.

The first name of God was Jupiter equal to Marduk, Zeus or ALLESHIO.That is why ALLEXANDER is ISHKANDAR or ABD ALLA.A country named after ALLE is ALLEMAND or Germany.Germany was settled by Assyrian tribes which took Goddess ISHTAR and called her ESTHER and celebrate the ceremony of the fertility Goddess with Easter eggs.

At an early date it was a favourite of those who expected the imminent coming of God's reign on earth; Papias (early second century) made use of it and supplied other traditions about future miraculous fertility from what (he said) had come from John the Lord's disciple.

The biblical dream grows as lush as a fertility religion in its description of the flowering of nature in the reconciled kingdom of God's Shalom.

To the Mother of Gods, Teotenantzin, a divinity much adored by the Aztecs long before the coming of the Europeans, obviously a goddess of fertility who dwelt of old on the precise hill where the Virgin of Guadalupe later appeared to Juan Diego, is addressed the following hymn:

In ancient culture the peak times of the agricultural and solar years, such as spring planting, fall harvest, winter solstice, and spring equinox, threatened to seduce the people of God to the worship of fertility and sun gods and goddesses connected with these peak times.

The second remark is that the deity represented, the visible Baal, is a god of power, possession, and domination (and fertility).

To the concept of the king as a being, in his religious significance, apart from and above his people, we have numerous allusions: Jeremiah refers to public lamentations at the death of a king such as clearly relate them to the ritual of the fertility - god (Jer.

G. R. Driver comments, «As thus interpreted, the poem depicts the introduction of the youthful Baal as a god of fertility into the Ugaritic pantheon and the establishment of his supremacy, under El's suzerainty, over all the other gods, exercising power over earth as god of rain; for rain is the ultimate source of the life - giving water which is essential to the whole of nature, however it may be distributed.»

But Indra also comes to be thought of at times as more than just a fertility and war god.

In reality the highest concepts of her neighbors are so fully carried over that one could easily confuse the situation and regard Yahweh as a God of mountain and earthquake and storm and fertility in just the same sense as for the others.

There was the downright idolatry of trying to seek favors from Baal, the pagan god of fertility.

Only with the division of the sexes, and only in the case of the Virgin Birth, when there is not a human father, is there space for God to directly determine Mary's fertility and unite this un-personified human nature immediately to the second person of the Trinity, the Logos.

Santeria is a complex mix of Christianity and African religions in which the Blessed Virgin and other saints have their counterparts in the gods and goddesses of rivers, fertility, iron, and the such.

Rather, Mary's fertility is determined by the creative will of God.

In a striking way these promises connect fertility in the field with obedience to the commandments of God.

Where Freud in the hands of an Emersonian like Richard Rorty becomes a fertility god, democratizing genius and with it the good life, Rieff — whom Rorty cites on the democratization of genius — shows how the rise of Nietzschean «actor's faith» in democratic ages is dreadfully inimical to the good life.

This population still worshipped gods in high places and shrines; the gods were the baalim, who were responsible for the fertility of the rich land which they inhabited but were also the gods concerned with human fertility.

They worshiped Baal, a Canaanite god of fertility, caring more for their crops and the yield of their fields than for righteousness and the service of God (1 Kings 16:29 - 22:3god of fertility, caring more for their crops and the yield of their fields than for righteousness and the service of God (1 Kings 16:29 - 22:3God (1 Kings 16:29 - 22:38).

NFP is founded on an attitude of humility in the face of the mystery of fertility, whereby human beings cooperate with God in the creation of an immortal being destined for heaven; contraception is the result of a Baconian - Cartesian «mastery of nature» mentality that puts man in God's place.

God's firm promise of personal fertility in the marriage covenant became clear after their night on the threshing floor; the six measures of barley that Boaz poured into Ruth's mantle for her to carry home symbolized Boaz» own seed.

In converting (certainly long after entrance into Canaan) an agricultural festival of unleavened bread celebrating the fertility of nature and a nature - deity into a rite memorializing the action of Yahweh and his Word - to - Moses in history, Israel underscores her faith in the purposive, effective reign of God in time and history.

One of a king's most important duties was to ensure fertility and prosperity by his obedience to the gods and by his observance of the yearly rituals.

The impatient people, to whom the reality of Moses and of God has become only a memory, remember the widespread pagan representation of deity in the form of a calf (probably a young bull, denoting primarily the strength of reproductive power and fertility, natural and human).

The individual blessings recognized the magnitude of the gift by elaborating its variety: the fruit of the vine, the fruit of the tree, the different kinds of seeds, the herbs — each focused on the origin of the table's bounty in a way that praised God for the earth's glorious fertility.

In Canaan, the Israelites were surrounded by the nature and fertility worship of Baal and other gods.

Mary is the object of God's gracious predestination, and this divine choice is the source of both her blessedness and her fertility.

I see the futility of making any assumptions about fertility, about wishing for any more than God has given, and I can shake my head in wonder at the audacity of the prayers of that first - time mother.

The love of a marriage has a special fertility, which is the capacity to cooperate with God to bring into the world another person, which is the greatest thing one can do in this world.

Osiris was the god of the underworld and the dead, but also the god of resurrection and fertility.

But when it was me feeling that way, it suddenly felt like some sort of huge betrayal to the fertility gods.

In essence, Rouse said, the entire worm's body has evolved as a tool for mating, «and that's why we named it Osedax «priapus,» the mythological god of fertility,» said Rouse.

Rapa Nui also has been known as the god of fertility and the chief god of the Tangata manu bird - man cult (who was worshipped in the form of sea birds that were his incarnation and carved in petroglyphs on Easter island as a man with a bird's head).