personal God

I thanked my personal gods that esper training had also given me the ability to dissemble.

As with other deities, the personal gods changed over time and little is known about early practice as they are rarely named or described.

The Boandas were very careful to worship their personal gods at home, making the proper sacrifices of food and doing everything in order.

Thus, Polydeists believe that there are several personal Gods.

They would yell and scream at their personal gods: 'Who worships you like I do!

Kiln gods have been based on many things like animals or the artists personal gods and beliefs, but they can be anything.

They are their personal gods.

So we'd all just laid low and listened, ground our teeth, and maybe thanked our personal gods it wasn't us.

There were local gods, cosmic gods and personal gods.

Blavatsky are probably sufficient for many students to dispose of all concepts of localized, personal gods.

State gods were worshipped freely alongside personal gods without any conflict between national and local modes of religious expression.

Within Hinduism a large number of personal gods (Ishvaras) are worshipped as murtis.

In an internal shrine set up to worship my own personal gods, there is a niche allocated to the television documentary producer, Roger Graef.

These national gods stood alongside the personal gods, that is, the patron gods who took a special interest in an individual's personal well-being.

This act is also called maha-samadhi ("great samadhi") and claimed that they could see their personal gods, even though they had no knowledge of Astanga Yoga.

We pagani (Latin for nonmilitary personnel, by the way) have been cooperating and breeding unstoppably, together with our personal gods and succubi like personal computers!

Magic rites, animal worship, and belief in demons, combined with the worship of more or less personal gods or with mysticism, asceticism, and sacrifice.

Émile Benveniste states that "there is no common [IE] term to designate religion itself, or cult, or the priest, not even one of the personal gods".

Each of its four denominations shares rituals, beliefs, traditions and personal gods with one another, but each sect has a unique philosophy on how to achieve life's ultimate goal (moksa, liberation).

We are also introduced to Komunyakaa's personal gods, which include the Goddess of Quotas, the God of Broken Things, Slime Molds, Polecat and Maggot.

This is contrasted with other guardian figures such as family gods responsible for the well-being of individual clans or professions, or personal gods who are responsible for the well-being of individuals.

In the second millennium BCE, personal gods began to function more on behalf of the common man, with whom he had a close, personal relationship, maintained through prayer and maintenance of his god's statue.

When they realize their applications of these laws don't work, they give up their belief in natural law, in favor of a belief in personal gods controlling nature thus giving rise to religious myths.

For example, according to the theory of mythopoeic thought, the ancients tended to view things as persons, not as mere objects; thus, they described natural events as acts of personal gods, thus giving rise to myths.

Through Mr. Wrights eyes we see three people driven by their vision that they come close to crossing the line between science and metaphysics, inventing theories so all-encompassing that they serve as the scientists' own personal gods.