All 11 Uses of
deity
in
Lord of Light
- Under his breath, he called upon the more notable of the current fertility deities, invoking them in terms of their most prominent Attributes.†
Part 1 *
- Several dozen people stood in a shifting line before the Temple of Varuna, most stern and august of all the deities.†
Part 2
- It also housed numerous small shrines dedicated to the lesser deities.†
Part 3
- The inner courtyard, though, with its massive shrines dedicated to the major deities, was a focal point of religious intensity.†
Part 3
- People chanted or shouted prayers, mumbled verses from the Vedas, or stood, or knelt, or lay prostrate before huge stone images, which often were so heavily garlanded with flowers, smeared with red kumkum paste and surrounded by heaps of offerings that it was impossible to tell which deity was so immersed in tangible adoration.†
Part 3
- It had been decided, logically enough, by the priests and architects, that he was best suited of all the deities to spend every minute of the day facing her, matching his unfaltering death-gaze against her own, returning her half smile with his twisted one.†
Part 3
- Give me a forgiving deity any day.†
Part 3
- And in the cases of both deities have I often sought justification for atheism.†
Part 3
- "You fertility deities are worse than Marxists," he said.†
Part 5
- Or some minor deity out to become a major one.†
Part 6
- This is generally a requirement for renegade fertility deities.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(deity) god or goddess