The phrase
"various deities" refers to different gods or goddesses from different belief systems or religions. It means there are multiple divine beings that people worship and believe in.
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Synonyms for individual words can be found below.
«various»
«deity»
Sentences with «various deities»
- There does seem to be a strong correlation between lack of education and belief in various deities. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
- All to often throughout human history bigotry is justified by believing that various deities back up the same bigotry. (nakedpastor.com)
- But they were trapped in the morass of polytheism; one of the reasons for this was that the traditional associations of various deities with particular phenomena — the sun, the moon, the stars, storms, vegetation, the sea, and so on — meant that the obvious multiplicity of nature kept getting in the way of their struggles to apprehend the unity of the divine. (religion-online.org)
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