By no true title do the divinities call thee Prometheus; for thou thyself hast need of a Prometheus, by means of which you will slip out of this fate.
Charybdis was an avaricious woman, who, stealing from Hercules, was slain by him, and became one of the divinities of the sea.
She was indeed the only one of all the divinities whose authority, and consequence, were equal to those of Jupiter.
The councils of the divinities were held beneath the branches of an ancient oak, whose roots spread below over a fountain of water, remarkable for the number of serpents which it harboured.
The Lares were the household divinitieswho presided over the interests of private families.
Surrounding the throne of their sovereign, the other divinities quaff nectar, from a cup presented them by the young and beautiful Hebe.
They were the divinities of the woods and fields, and were represented as having the legs, feet, and ears of goats; the remainder of the body being human; the lamb and kid were offered to them by the peasants with great solemnity.
There were great divinities like Jupiter and Mars, and there were numberless private divinities of individual households.
Capitol was, to the principal divinities of the official hierarchy.
The people no longer believed in the supposeddivinities Jupiter and Apollo.
The old star-worship and fetichism were losing their force, just as in more classic lands the divinities of Olympus had lost their meaning, some half dozen centuries earlier.
Later, with advancing capacity for generalization, these "instantaneous" divinities would be condensed into more consistent gods.
Among the peoples who have incarnated their divinities in no statue, in no human or animal form, we find the Germans and the Celts.
As early Rome was essentially an agricultural community, most of its divinities and festivals had to do with the various phases of agricultural life.
There ensued also a rapid neglect of the minor Latin divinities whose place was taken by those of Greek origin.
However, the worship of the divinities of Graeco-Roman theology by no means died out during the first three centuries of the Christian era.
But, in addition, the state religion included the worship of certain divinities whose personalities and powers were conceived with greater distinctness.
Their circle of native gods was enlarged by the addition of Hellenic and Italian divinities and their mythology was greatly influenced by that of Greece.
Among the divinities whose cult was thus quickened into life were the Lares, the guardian deities of the crossways, whose worship was especially practiced by the common folk.
This was in part due to the influence of Greek mythology which changed the current conceptions of the Roman divinities and to Greek philosophy with its varying doctrines as to the nature and powers of the gods.
Hence there came about a ready identification between Greek and Roman divinities to whom similar powers were ascribed and the wholesale adoption of Greek mythological lore.
Rome a group of twelve greaterdivinities who were identical with the twelve Olympic gods of Greece.
These Scandinavian gods are the divinities of river and wood and mountain, and Wagner made full use of them.
While picking the leg of a chicken, and washing it down with the water of the {565}Nile, I sat with my back against a column whereon was sculptured the figure of a king offering a tribute to one of the divinities of his time.
As you sit in the parquette, or in a comfortable box, you are carried back four thousand years to the days when Isis and Osiris were the divinitiesof the land.
It is true that the leading Babylonian divinities were acknowledged in Assyria by the side of Assur.
The fact that the sun and moon, as well as the evening and morning stars, were already worshipped as divinities doubtless led the way to this system of astro-theology.
Among Assyrian and Babylonian officials we meet with many who bear foreign names, and among the gods whose statues found a place in the national temples of Assyria were Khaldis of Armenia, and the divinities of the Bedâwin.
The Cretans themselves claimed for their island to be the birthplace of Zeus, as well as the parent of all the other divinities usually worshipped in Greece as the Olympian deities.
A special form of this "baetylic" cult in Minoan Crete was the representation of the two principal divinities in their fetish form by double axes.
The discovery that the great Minoan foundation at Cnossus was at once a palace and a sanctuary of the Double Axe and its associated divinities has now supplied a striking and it may well be thought an overwhelming confirmation of this view.
Some of your verses have found a place in my pages, pastoral songs in which two shepherds lying under the spreading oak sing in honor of your heroine to whom the divinities bring gifts.
Would that we knew this heroine upon whom he represents the divinities as bestowing gifts!
There are innocent superstitions; you dance on festival days, in honor of Diana or Pomona, or some one of the secular divinities of which your calendar is full; be it so.
One of these little divinities is the goddess of bosoms, another that of posteriors.
These three divinities appear as the reflection of the gods of the superior world, which we have already mentioned, but to which we have been unable to ascribe names.
The dagger appears to have been carried by all, both in time of peace and war; even the priests and divinities are represented with them.
This all-powerful God does not seem to be accessible to human beings; secondary divinities revolve about him and seem, like him, to be pure spirits.
Others are formed to meet the needs of religion, and tell us, by the day, the feasts consecrated to divinities invoked or honoured by special ceremonies.
The evident connection between the divinities and sacred emblems worshipped in various parts of Asia Minor, and those of Assyria will be hereafter particularly pointed out.
The Babylonian divinities have their temples and serve as types for various localisations.
At Babylon the divinities are the same, but the hierarchy is different; Bel seems to have replaced Ilu (Ana), and Marduk takes the place of Asshur.
But in Egypt we also find the worship of Syrian divinities spreading more and more--at the same time Set-Sutekh, the powerful patron god of the stranger who gave the enemy victory, was greatly respected.
A series of divinities seems especially given over to the superintendence of the planets: Adar over Saturn, Marduk over Jupiter, Nergal over Mars, Ishtar over Venus, Nabu over Mercury.
In ancient Rome, besides the divinities who were connected with generation, the embryo, etc.
From the golden age of childhood, with its divinities and its demons, we may now pass to the consideration of more special topics concerning the young of the races of men.
The three divinities of the Trimúrti govern the phenomena of the universe and influence all nature.
This is the number of the Vedic divinities mentioned in the Rig-veda.
The real God of India is by himself without power; real efficacious power is attributed only to three divinities who exist externally to him.
He may find in it a hint to decipher those names of divinities so common in Peruvian legends, Contici and Illatici.
He then invoked the god of death to deliver him, which attempt to evade a just punishment so enraged the divinities that they immersed the world in water.
They persuaded the chief priest to consult the divinities as to when the relief would arrive.
The notion that demons or lesser divinities are the sons of gods is not to be regarded as ironical or sceptical.
I suppose you mean, as I infer from your indictment, that I teach them not to acknowledge the gods which the state acknowledges, but some other new divinities or spiritual agencies in their stead.
But the Christians, worshippers of the living God, scorned the pettydivinities of antiquity.
Each has his rôle in the world, performing his determined functions, ordinarily with the aid of secondary divinities who obey him.
The Roman gods bore but a slight resemblance to the Greek gods, even in name; yet in the majority of the divinities of Rome the Greeks recognized or believed they recognized their own.
The idea of the unity of God is now mangled and cut up into the "gods many" and the "lords many," into the thirty thousand divinities of the pagan pantheon.
The skeptical Lucretius tells us that the divinities are the creatures of man's fears, and would make us believe that all religion has its ground in fright.
The divinities are household and dynastic divinitieshaving an ancestral character and an ancestral reputation to maintain.
Here, as often in European folk-custom, the divinities of vegetation are represented in duplicate, by plants and by puppets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divinities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
