They, as great gods of such a nature, would naturally absorb lesser phallicistic figures; but they were specialized in other directions, and Priapos remained as the distinctest embodiment of phallicistic conceptions.
In India various peaks in the Himalayas, inaccessible to men, were assigned to groups of deities, and the mythical world-mountain Meru was the special abode of great gods, who there lived lives of delight.
Doubtless, did we possess the rest of the tablet, we should read how the other "great gods" were sprung from them.
Babylonian religion came to distinguish between a limited number of "great gods" and the inferior deities who formed their court.
Anu's place among the "Great Gods" of Assyria is not so well marked as that of many other divinities.
Great Gods, my lords Anu and Vul, and these shrines should become old and fall into decay, may the Prince who comes after me repair the ruins!
He acknowledges that, with few exceptions, great gods have a place as well as smaller gods in every non-civilised system of religion.
There is no fetish worship which is not accompanied by traces of an early belief in great gods; there is no belief in great gods which is not accompanied by a belief in lower spirits.
At the same time he gives to this Belit the title of 'mother of great gods,' which of right belongs to the consort of the Babylonian Bel.
These 'great gods' could not be expunged from the pantheon without a complete severance of the ties that bound the Assyrians to their past.
The "great gods" were afraid of them, and were obliged to protect themselves by the use of spells and magical names, and words of power, which were composed and written down by Thoth.
At all events the "Great Gods" determined to investigate the matter.
Great gods, what a horrible and accurst book which, forsooth, thou hast sent to thy Catullus that he might die of boredom the livelong day in the Saturnalia, choicest of days!
I laughed at I know not whom in the crowded court who, when with admirable art Vatinius' crimes my Calvus had set forth, with hands uplifted and admiring mien thus quoth "Great Gods, the fluent little Larydoodle!
The most ancient and sacred of all the gods of ancient Chaldea, Ea, the god of the great waters, the local divinity of Eridu, was not to be ignored, and was thus placed in the trinity of great gods.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great gods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
