Over the next several months, my certainty of a sentient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity faded steadily.
Nearby, the Shiva temple is decorated with pillars carved with images of the deity.
Yes, there was evidence for the worship of a female deity by the ancient Israelites.
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Her signature "serpent cuffs" resemble reptile scales, referring to a deity from southeastern Native American spirituality.
In modern Italy, one feminine deity is venerated above the rest: Mary, the mother of Jesus.
This proliferation of intimate spaces is called for by Jain theology, which has no single deity.
Japanese folk faith holds that, in times of change, a deity visits our world to bring blessings.
And in time, I came to see that I did not believe in a deity that choreographs crashes.
The Ionians also met annually on the island of Delos, the legendary birthplace of Apollo, their patron deity.
Last year another department store had to apologise for selling toilet seats with images of a Hindu deity.
Milton also manifestly does acknowledge that there are other sources of value than obedience to an all-knowing deity.
Because the deity is said to have poor eyesight, the host describes the meal as he serves it.
Warren Buffett has been mistakenly promoted into deity status in this buy-and-hold temple.
Hermes was always considered the deity that watched over both merchants and thieves.
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Now Silver is, of course, not some sort of strange numbers deity at whose altar we all must bow.
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This one, called Camulka, is designed around a pivotal square center, a raised platform with quadruple images of the deity.
But in the game of playing God, Dr Bodenschatz is bidding fair to achieve the status of a minor deity.
But gradually, as we move down the church, the old insistence on a solitary deity is replaced by the Christian Trinity.
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Whether you blame George Osborne, the eurozone or a vengeful deity, the fact is that many Tory backbenchers are getting twitchy.
The implication is that methods and models are neither deity nor demon, but are useful metaphorical accounts of how people can change.
All this pedestal rattling made it easier to go after a figure who by this time had become a virtual secular deity--William Shakespeare.
She has, on occasion, worn saris to work, and she keeps an image of Ganesh, the elephant-headed deity of good fortune, in her office.
All this pedestal rattling made it easier to go after a figure who by this time had become a virtual secular deity: William Shakespeare.
The local young men's group, which plays a key role at festivals by carrying the mikoshi (portable Shinto deity's house), has all but disappeared.
They presented the hymnwriter as a fragile and precarious being, often poised on the brink of desolation and desperate for the deity's comforting hand.
The police were attacked near the shrine to the traditional deity of the Eggon people, in the village of Alakyo, near the state capital, Lafia.
The bookmaker did, however, list odds on finding the deity itself.
One report talks of 450 golden pots, 2, 000 rubies and jewel-studded crowns, 400 gold chairs and the statue of a deity studded with 1, 000 diamonds.
Car horns mingle with temple bells and villagers dressed in their finest clothes queue up outside the famous Ram Raja Temple to offer flowers to the reigning deity.
Surya (the sun) and Soma (the moon) reported the incident to the great deity Vishnu, who promptly sought out the impudent Rahu and lopped off his head.
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