At such a moment people who saw the handiwork of divine beings in all the operations of nature might well trace the swelling of the sacred stream to the tears shed by the goddess at the death of the beneficent corn-god her husband.
Consciousness of sin, of imperfection in the sight of divine beings, has been developed (as it has even in Australia) and is often confessed.
He was the parent of trees and birds, but some trees are original and divine beings.
The second book deals with calendars and festivals, and in this he supplements in some degree the information regarding the divine beings treated of in the first book.
It deals, in the first place, with the adventures of the mythical king Gylfi and the giantess Gelfion, the manner of creation of the island of Zealand, and the invasion of Sweden by the AEsir or divine beings, captained by Odin.
But after man fell through sin, all access to it was denied him, in order that he might not stretch out his hand for it and thereby attain that immortality which was vouchsafed only to divine beings.
Consequently, every mention of divine beings (Elohim or B'ne Elohim) in either the Bible or post-Biblical literature refers to subordinate beings only.
It was certainly not easy for prophet, lawgiver, or sage to dispel the popular belief in divine beings or powers, which primitive Judaism shared with other ancient faiths.
The cult of spirits is considered below in connection with the description of divine beings.
The inverse process, the reduction of divine beings to simple human proportions, has gone on in early cults and in early attempts at historical construction to a not inconsiderable degree.
O ye divine beings of the Thigh], do ye away with his sorrow, and his suffering, and his pain, and may the sorrow of the Osiris Nu be altogether put away.
Anaxagoras briefly replied, that the mind which did not believe in divine beings, must be cold and dark indeed.
I never said I approved the worship of the gods because I wished to have my own works adored; for I should have deemed it irreverent thus to speak of divine beings.
But disbelief in divine beings, and the eternal nature of truth, cannot long be concealed by pouring the usual libations, or maintaining a cautious reserve.
Elysium is mainly drawn, but which imply a remote antiquity for the materials and ideas of the tales, the síd-world is still the world of divine beings, though these are beginning to assume the traits of fairies.
Thus every spring, every woodland brook, every river in glen or valley, the roaring cataract, and the lake were haunted by divine beings, mainly thought of as beautiful females with whom the Matres were undoubtedly associated.
Again, if the Gauls, like the Irish, had myths telling of the rebirth of gods or semi-divine beings, these may have been misinterpreted by those writers and regarded as eschatological.
A Trinity of Divine Beings, One as God, Three as manifested Powers.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divine beings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
