Sentences with phrase «many local deities»

The general pattern in Arabian Empire conquests, was, as long as 1 local deity was identified, to say «well you worship Allah by another name, so * carry on *», (as long as monotheism was embraced).

’44 Before their conversion to Christianity the Pulayas only worwhipped the regional and local deities as distinct from other deities which were accessible only to higher castes.

They worshipped local deities whose dwelling - places were on hills, at springs, in oases, and other «holy» places: they were plainly polytheists.

If we look at the history of Christianity, the early church was also faced with a vast amount of plural voices as well — the various cults of the barbarians, local deities, and mystery religions.

We, as a species... we humanity learned most of what we learned throughout human history only AFTER refusing to accept the old - time explanation «because [insert name of local deity or other spirit, etc.] decreed it should be so.»

You could say, «Gee, I threw so many times and didn't get a winner, but then I prayed to my local deity and got a seven.

And when you're driving along like a nun, you'll be praying to your local deity for some steering feel — electric power steering has sacrificed it in the name of saving dinosaur juice.

A colorful local shrine stands at one end of the market with a statue of the local deity.

Not exact matches

You can see God evolving from this local tribal deity who IS a bully to a parental figure and eventually to a Spirit of Love.

It may be that the preference stems from resistance to local fertility religions that identified the deity too closely with the «maternal» nourishing soil.

Local sanctuaries abounded enshrining the male deity, Ba'al, and often his consort, «Asherah (later and elsewhere.

Have you been also warned about false deities, unbelievable stories about GODs coming to earth and screwing the local inhabitants, then destroy the earth and of course done with evil angels.

«high places,» where these ancient deities were worshiped, still have their lineal descendants in Palestine, often doubtless identically situated, in the local shrines of Mohammedan and Christian saints.

Dravidian Gods in Modern Hinduism: A Study of the Local and Village Deities of Southern India (Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1925), p. 25.

Theodore Wilber Elmore in his «Dravidian Gods in Modern Hinduism: A Study of the Local and Village Deities of Southern India» identifies some of such ceremonies.

Is it because of the mistaken belief that Ghanaians are spiritually inclined and dumb enough to buy into anything attributed to the Supreme Deity or their local gods?

There is an overwhelming mass of noise from certain quarters easily betraying their political allegiance as they invoke the name of the Supreme Deity (God) and their local «gods» (conceived and characterized in diverse senses and guises) to sustain the NPP's Akufo - Addo that he is divinely destined to defeat President Mahama at Election 2016.

La Corona's local rulers associated themselves closely with those deities.

Important families and a council of elders ruled, as in the south, and offered sacrifices to local and regional deities.

«This one however appears to represent a local Romano - Celtic god of the type frequently found in the frontier regions of the Empire and probably representing the conflation of a classical deity with its local equivalent.

The similarity with the head of Antenociticus is notable, but this could be a deity local to Binchester.»

For example, when they've helped out at Porsche, the Germans have fearfully reverted to belief in local pagan deities.

Their goal was to convert the locals, but the cofradias were reformatted to fit the personalities and schedules of important Mayan deities.