The God of its community has been a jealous god even when he was only a tribal and local god.

The term was one of the patriarchal names for the tribal god of the Mesopotamians.

Over time, this tribal god may have assumed all the appellations of the other gods in the eyes of the people.

Huitzilopochtli was also a tribal god and a legendary wizard of the Aztecs.

That's as good a way as any other of making a tribal god.

Worship me and my great works, not some tribal god imagined by warring pastoralists thousands of years ago.

Lincoln was his tribal god too, he vowed.

What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess.

In part, this was due to his origins as a tribal god of war.

It was the face of a tribal god, a pagan deity.