deity造句

In the works of Confucius, afterlife, ghost and deity were seldom mentioned.

Interestingly, unlike most ancient sanctuaries, the Israelite sanctuary did not contain a statue of the deity.

Sanctuaries in the ancient world were understood to be the dwelling place of the deity.

The Israelites certainly hoped to secure the perpetual aid and blessing and protection of a well-disposed deity.

They put the special abilities together and created the dragon whose power were beyond all other animals. They made dragon a deity and worshiped it thereafter.

The very popular Wong Tai Sin Temple in north-eastern Kowloon is dedicated to a Taoist deity and is built in traditional Chinese architectural style.

They made pilgrimages to special “dream temples, ” where, after offeringsacrifices and bathing in sacred waters, a healing deity would appearto them in sleep, curing whatever troubled them.

Religion sometimes revolted him and his fellow men seemed to him "more like the image of a brute beast than of that omnipotent deity".

Human sacrifice is the act of killing a human being for the purposes of making an offering to a deity or other, normally supernatural, power.

Over the years I played with Ouija boards, contacted 'spirit guides' (not realising they were demons), read tarot cards and participated in pagan rituals in devotion to a false deity (the goddess).

The other pullers were going to see the new Hoyka temple that the Member of Parliament had opened, just for Hoykas, with their own Hoyka deity and Hoyka priests.

A small statue of Balaji, a deity worshiped in southern India, sat snugly on the counter. And the food was rich with the crepe-like dosas for which the region is known.

Much closer to the deity of modern monotheism was the Egyptian sun god Aten, which the Pharaoh Amenophis IV forced on his polytheistic people as "the only god, beside whom there is no other."