The godlings are local; those which are worshipped in one country district are not sometimes known in another.
After a successful harvest or to avert an epidemic from the village a ceremonial dance (gammadu) for which the peasantry subscribe takes place for seven days in honour of the gods, godlings and divine mothers.
Their insignia together with a few peacock feathers are sometimes kept in small detached buildings called kovil with representations of the godlings rudely drawn on the walls.
There I found Triton winding his silver shell instead of a horn, and also Glaucus, Proteus, Nereus, and a thousand other godlings and sea monsters.
The Kharwars believe that disease is due to the Baiga not having paid proper attention to Raja Chandol and the other tutelary godlings of the village.
Some of these godlings are, like Shashthi, protectors of children from infantile disorders.
With him we reach a class of godlings quite distinct from nearly all those whom we have been considering.
Even the thieving and nomadic tribes have as their godlings deified bandits.
Next to these deities which have been classed as the godlings of nature, come those which have a special local worship of their own.
The business of selecting a site for a new village or hamlet is one which needs infinite care and attention to the local godlings of the place.
The speciality of this class of godlings is that they frequent only particular places.
The first and greatest of the "pure" godlings is Surya or Suraj Narayan, the Sun godling.
From these generally benevolent village godlings we pass on to a very obscure form of local worship, that of the Great Mothers.
The special diseases which are attributed to the displeasure of these godlings are fever, diarrhoea and cough.
Most of these saints and godlingswhom we have been considering, are comparatively harmless, and even benevolent.
There is, however, a darker side to the worship of Sitala and the other disease godlings than this mild household service.
These gods are, however, scarcely expected to interest themselves in the happenings of a Korku's daily life, and the localgodlings who are believed to regulate these are therefore propitiated with greater fervour.
These latter, however, also revere all the village godlings of Chhattisgarh.
In the worship of those village godlings whom the Brahmans disdain to recognise and whom the Gosain is not permitted to honour the Mali is sometimes employed to present the offering.
Minor godlings "But in the concerns of this world, to obtain good crops and freedom from sickness, a host of minor deities have to be propitiated.
That he could see no little godlings like--like me.
Since without her where would the little godlings be?
In the higher ranks of the Lamaist pantheon all the figures seem to be imported, but some indigenous godlings have retained a place in the lower classes.
Even to the present day in some of their more secret worship of the village godlings of disease, fire is produced for the fire sacrifice by this primitive method.
Next come the Sinhas, or snake godlings of the Panjab and the western parts of the North-Western Provinces.
In the Hills there are various benevolent ghosts or godlings who protect cattle.
Before the spring sowing, a general offering of five cocks is made to the village godlings by the Baiga, who consumes the sacrifice himself.
We know that among the Dravidian races and many of the menial tribes of Hindustan the pig is the favourite offering to the local godlings and to the deities of disease.
This can hardly be anything but a survival of an actual sacrifice to appease the field godlings at sowing time.
The Nimba or Nim (Azidirachta Indica) is sacred in connection with the worship of the godlings of disease, who are supposed to reside in it.
They are superseded by the ever-increasing crowd of godlings whose influence is personal and special, as shown by Mr. Crooke in his instructive Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India.
They had less influence on the Roman's life than the crowd of native godlings who were thinly disguised fetiches, and who controlled every action of the day.
Like the donkey, his low caste makes him suitable for association with disease godlings and demons.
So a feast was made to the leather-dressers, and their godlings were propitiated by offerings; both sides going through an elaborate semi-religious farce with perfect gravity.
The Bhils worship the ordinary Hindu deities and the village godlingsof the locality.
Hence the tendency of later comers to employ these latter in the capacity of priests of the godlings of the earth, corn, forests and hills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "godlings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
