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Definition of Deities
1. deity [n] - See also: deity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deities
Literary usage of Deities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"There can be no doubt of two facts: first, the Sumerians had a decided favoritism
for female deities; second, Semitic female deities were, with the single ..."
2. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"Higher deities of Polytheism—Human characteristics applied to Deity— Lords of
Spiritual Hierarchy—Polytheism : its course of development in lower and higher ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Besides the other Greek deities who were in one way or another adopted into the
Etruscan system, such as Apollo, Helios, Ares, Poseidon, Heracles, ..."
4. The history of Rome by Theodor Mommsen, Joseph Anton F. Wilhelm Ihne, William Purdie Dickson (1871)
"... national deities increased. The polytheistic religions of antiquity were not
adverse to the reception of strange gods. The protecting deity of a ..."
5. The History of Ancient Art by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Giles Henry Lodge (1873)
"The chapter, therefore, is divided into two parts; namely, one on the images of
the deities and heroes, and the other a notice of the principal works. 1. ..."
6. Primitive Athens As Described by Thucydides by Jane Ellen Harrison (1906)
"There are sanctuaries in the citadel itself, those of other deities as well (as
The Goddess). Needless difficulties have been raised about this sentence, ..."
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