All 35 Uses of "deity" in "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" - Auto-generated

The protecting deities of the universe took flight, but the Future Buddha remained unmoved beneath the Tree.†

p. 26.1 *

deities = gods or goddesses

Like the deity of the Book of Job, they far transcend the scales of human value.†

p. 35.9

deity = god or goddess

O nymph, O Peneus' daughter, stay!" the deity called to her—like the frog to the princess of the fairy tale.†

p. 50.4

and (4) Tantra, texts describing techniques and rituals for the worship of deities, and for the attainment of supranormal power.†

p. 95.3

deities = gods or goddesses

The Pagans, leaving Allah, call but upon female deities.†

p. 117.5

This is the orthodox teaching of the ancient Tantras: "All of these visualized deities are but symbols representing the various things that occur on the Path"; as well as a doctrine of the contemporary psychoanalytical schools.†

p. 155.3

This miraculous energy-substance and this alone is the Imperishable; the names and forms of the deities who everywhere embody, dispense, and represent it come and go.†

p. 155.6

The meditations of the postulant have to be adjusted to his progress, so that the imagination may be defended at every step by devatas (envisioned, adequate deities) until the moment comes for the prepared spirit to step alone beyond.†

p. 175.8

Moreover, I will discuss the matter particularly with the deities of the Yellow Stream.†

p. 177.2

Then his younger sister sent in pursuit of him the eight thunder deities with a thousand and five hundred warriors of the Yellow Stream.†

p. 177.6

What pleases the Deity is virtue and sincerity, not any number of material offerings.†

p. 181.2

deity = god or goddess

Amaterasu, ancestress of the Royal House, is the chief divinity of the numerous folk pantheon, yet herself only the highest manifestation of the unseen, transcendent yet immanent, Universal God: "The Eight Hundred Myriads of Gods are but differing manifestations of one unique Deity, Kunitokotachi-no-Kami, The Eternally Standing Divine Being of the Earth, The Great Unity of All Things in the Universe, The Primordial Being of Heaven and Earth, eternally existing from the beginning to the end of the world.†

p. 181.3

What deity does Amaterasu worship in abstinence in the Plain of High Heaven?†

p. 181.4

She worships her own Self within as a Deity, endeavoring to cultivate divine virtue in her own person by means of inner purity and thus becoming one with the Deity.†

p. 181.4

She worships her own Self within as a Deity, endeavoring to cultivate divine virtue in her own person by means of inner purity and thus becoming one with the Deity.†

p. 181.5

Since the Deity is immanent in all things, all things are to be regarded as divine, from the pots and pans of the kitchen to the Emperor: this is Shinto, "The Way of the Gods."†

p. 181.5

The awe-inspiring Deity manifests Itself, even in the single leaf of a tree or a delicate blade of grass.†

p. 181.6

The function of reverence in Shinto is to honur that Deity in all things; the function of purity to sustain Its manifestation in oneself—following the august model of the divine self-worship of the goddess Amaterasu.†

p. 181.6

As a final insult, he broke a hole in the top of her weaving-hall and let fall through it a "heavenly piebald horse which he had flayed with a backward flaying," at sight of which all the ladies of the goddess, who were busily weaving the august garments of the deities, were so much alarmed that they died of fear.†

p. 181.9

deities = gods or goddesses

Evil spirits ran riot through the world; numerous portents of woe arose; and the voices of the myriad of deities were like unto the flies in the fifth moon as they swarmed.†

p. 182.1

Therefore the eight millions of gods assembled in a divine assembly in the bed of the tranquil river of heaven and bid one of their number, the deity named Thought-Includer, to devise a plan.†

p. 182.3

deity = god or goddess

Then Uzume spoke, saying: "We rejoice and are glad because there is a deity more illustrious than Thine Augustness."†

p. 182.9

The prince beholds, dumbfounded, not only his friend transformed into the living personification of the Support of the Universe, but the heroes of the two armies rushing on a wind into the deity's innumerable, terrible mouths.†

p. 200.1

I have been on the White Hill in the court of Cynvelyn,
For a day and a year in stocks and fetters,
I have suffered hunger for the Son of the Virgin,
I have been fostered in the land of the Deity,
I have been teacher to all intelligences,
I am able to instruct the whole universe.†

p. 208.9

The recognition of the secondary nature of the personality of whatever deity is worshiped is characteristic of most of the traditions of the world (see, for example, p.155 note 554).†

p. 222.1

One day when they had made their offering, the lad Krsna said to them: "Indra is no supreme deity, though he be king in heaven; he is afraid of the titans.†

p. 281.9

The Blessed One replied: Ananda, almost all the deities throughout ten worlds have come together to behold The Tathagata.†

p. 311.5

deities = gods or goddesses

For an extent, Ananda, of twelve leagues about the city Kusinara and the sal-tree grove Upavattana of the Mallas, there is not a spot of ground large enough to stick the point of a hair into, that is not pervaded by powerful deities.†

p. 311.6

And these deities, Ananda, are angered, saying, "From afar have we come to behold The Tathagata, for but seldom, and on rare occasions, does a Tathagata, a saint, and Supreme Buddha arise in the world; and now, to-night, in the last watch, will The Tathagata pass into Nirvana; but this powerful priest stands in front of The Blessed One, concealing him, and we have no chance to see The Tathagata, although his last moments are near."†

p. 311.6

Thus Ananda, are these deities angered.†

p. 311.8

What are the deities doing, Reverend Sir, whom The Blessed One perceives?†

p. 311.8

Some of the deities, Ananda, are in the air with their minds engrossed by earthly things, and they let fly their hair and cry aloud, and stretch out their arms and cry aloud, and fall headlong to the ground and roll to and fro, saying, 'All too soon will The Blessed One pass into Nirvana; all too soon will The Light of The World vanish from sight!'†

p. 311.8

Some of the deities, Ananda, are on the earth with their minds engrossed by earthly things, and they let fly their hair and cry aloud, and stretch out their arms and cry aloud, and fall headlong on the ground and roll to and fro, saying, 'All too soon will The Blessed One pass into Nirvana; all too soon will The Happy One pass into Nirvana; all too soon will The Light of The World vanish from sight.'†

p. 312.1

But those deities which are free from passion, mindful and conscious, bear it patiently, saying, 'Transitory are all things.†

p. 312.2

I shall not be dragged back by the arms, and none shall lay violent hold upon my hands.... As in the much later Buddhist image of the Bodhisattva within whose nimbus stand five hundred transformed Buddhas, each attended by five hundred Bodhisattvas, and each of these, in turn, by innumerable gods, so here, the soul comes to the fullness of its stature and power through assimilating the deities that formerly had been thought to be separate from and outside of it.†

p. 320.5

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