Sarah MacLean

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.

American Author

Victor Hugo

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

French Author

Greg Graffin

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

American Musician

Mel Gibson

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Actor

Alan Guth

We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.

American Physicist

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

American President

D. H. Lawrence

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

English Writer

Shankar Mahadevan

I have always been fascinated by Krishna, the Indian deity.

Indian Musician

Honore de Balzac

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

French Novelist

Helena Blavatsky

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

Russian Author

Deity refers to beings from stories beyond real world like myths or legends.

Mythical Beings

Deity names often have cultural significance and different attributes.

Cultural Specificity

When discussing deities, be respectful as they hold religious importance.

Religious Respect

In some faiths, the term deity refers to a single all-powerful being.

Monotheistic Focus

This definition of deity emphasizes a creator existing beyond the physical universe.

Universal Creator

The supreme deity may have various names across different religions.

Different Names

Historically, some rulers or symbols were regarded as deities.

Personified Power

The term can be metaphorical, symbolizing something with utmost importance.

Metaphorical Usage

Understanding the context of past civilizations helps grasp their view on deities.

Historical Context

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 of gods how do you choose usually it's the family the family each family has got one family deity and that is passed on to the next generation or sometimes in the times of distress one goes to a God and say or goddess that peace take

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 and it was wrong to bring strangers into your house when the deity was in the house. No incentive to report smallpox. It wasn't just India that had smallpox deities; smallpox deities were prevalent all over the world.

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 This image is incredible and it's complex. It shows the deceased king rising from the jaws of the underworld to be reborn as a deity. In the center is a stylized world tree that extends from the underworld

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 Each city was dedicated to a patron deity, considered the city’s founder. The largest and most important building in the city was this patron god’s the ziggurat, a temple designed as a stepped pyramid.

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 before the household shrine with its protective deities, as he places his bulla, a protective amulet, in the shrine with a prayer of thanks. The bulla had worked. It had protected him.