They went first to the Vatican, that palace of sculpture, where the human form shines deified by paganism, as are the virtues by Christianity.
The arts, at this period, were already on the wane, and thefts from the past deified new achievements.
The patriarchal religion deifiedthe family, the race, the people.
State religions deified the sovereigns and the State.
We willingly concede to Mr. Spencer that ancestor worship has played its part in the genesis of human beliefs; heroes have been deified not only after their death, but even in their lifetime.
Yea, the deified father of the Emperor would look down with sorrow from the starry citadel to see the intolerance of that day's proceedings.
The mob, who had formerly almostdeified the renegade, were now enraged at this insult to the Catholic faith, and wanted to tear him to pieces; but he was withdrawn for a few days.
The deified images of those who were now but dust still gazed on the passers-by with empty eyes; the inscriptions still spoke, proclaiming names and titles.
He was yet more impressed by the ensemble, by the innumerable quantities of Venuses, Bacchuses, and deified emperors and empresses, by the whole superb growth of beautiful or August flesh celebrating the immortality of life.
It was my fall[59:3] that deified Thy name, and seal'd thy story.
The story goes that some Komatis asked them to delay for three and half hours the march of Vishnuvardhana Raja, who was advancing with a view to marrying the daughter of one of them, named Vasavakanya (now deified into Kanyakamma).
They are especially noted for their power of curing snake-bites by means of mystical incantations, and the original inventor of this mode of treatment has been deified under the name Pambalamman.
Experience seems to show, in effect, that the deified soul acts on the constitution and brings incurable troubles.
An Egyptian king, deified after death, as the husband of Isis.
A son of Zeus, deified after death, and given authority in Hades.
If they wished to have Jesus deified according to the notions of the Greeks, there was no need of establishing the belief of his having rose from the dead.
This was not the case with those who among the Greeks were deified after their death.
Megasthenes, which indicate that Krishna was deified and worshipped some centuries before the beginning of our era.
Ucchishta (the remnant of the sacrifice) is deified as the Supreme Being; except for its metrical form it belongs to the Brahmana type of literature.
The great bulk of the Rigvedic poems comprises invocations of gods or deified objects as described in the foregoing pages.
A very small number, hardly more than thirty altogether, of the hymns of the Rigveda are not addressed to the gods or deified objects.
The pagan vulgar worshipped all sorts of deified mortals, and each had his favourite, to whom he prayed ten times for once to the Omnipotent.
To return to the epic: The recital of Ut-Napishtim served its primary purpose in the narrative by proving to Gilgamesh that his case was not that of his deified ancestor.
The hero had meanwhile contracted a grievous illness, so that he was unable to leave the boat; but he addressed his queries concerning perpetual life to the deified Ut-Napishtim, who stood on the shore.
There are two snakes deified by the Brahman mythology: the one which surrounds the neck of Shiva on his idols is called Vasuki; the other, Ananta, forms the couch of Vishnu.
Defn: The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.
A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard.
She felt beloved and deified without bounds; she felt that that unbending and dangerous man belonged to her now, soul and body, like a slave; and that feeling of his submission and her own power filled her with happiness.
Indeed, thou didst not hesitate to rank him above that best of rulers, the deified Augustus.
No one now speaks of the deified Augustus, nor of the early years of Emperor Tiberius; no one seeks an exemplar beyond you, for it is you they wish to imitate.
Why, Sir, those animals were recumbent there, in deified transfiguration, before ever Pict or Scot had planted a profane foot within their neighbourhood.
I not to explain that the Budhists treated with a sort ofdeified reverence the tribe of elephants, which now bewailed their extermination as above described.
It is exactly suited to the image of a deified king, sitting as eternal guardian of the temple which his workmen had hewn out in the bowels of the mountain.
As he became deified upon death, so his statue in his character of a divinity was placed in an apartment specially prepared for it.
Budge goes so far as to suggest that I-em-hetep was the deified form of a distinguished physician who was attached to the priesthood of Ra, and who flourished before the end of the rule of the kings of the Third Dynasty.
Seleucus, Ptolemaeus, Antigonus, Demetrius, all in different degrees and different styles are deified by the acclamations of adoring subjects.
The rationalists Hecataeus and Euhemerus, before going on to their deified men, always start with the heavenly bodies.
Thus they had deified Vespasian, and after him his son and successor Titus.
Egypt had deified the Pharaohs, Rome deified the Cæsars.
The physical powers which work externally and internally in the creation and destruction of nature that they deified could not be represented in beautiful forms in art, like the ethical powers of the human heart with the Greeks.
