These three sacred rivers form a kind of Tri-murti, or triad, often personified as goddesses, and called 'Mothers.
The Greek Hephaestus personified the brightness of flame, and took shape as a god of ripe age, of muscular form, of serious countenance, but lame.
What are thesepersonified forces but little gods who are supposed to be invading the sacred domain of the ruler Zeus?
Such is eminently the case with the phrases in which the forces of nature are personified and described as something else than manifestations of omnipresent Deity.
All the forces of outward nature, so far as they came into visible contact with his life, he personified as great beings which were to be contended with or placated.
With all its pretensions to superiority and display of ethical sentiment, the Dutch Government can scarcely be said to differ much from Baron Sookmool, the personified East India Company of more than three centuries ago.
The vernal resurrection and Autumnal Crucifixion, representing the alternate triumph of the personified principles of Good and Evil, as manifested in the diversity of the seasons; we find appropriately expressed in two religious pictures.
In the ancient solar fables the several divisions of time werepersonified and made to pay homage to the Triune Deity, supposed to be enthroned above the firmament.
The stars could persuade her that she was standing beside him in the centre of the map of Spain; and of an early morning the dewy cobwebs, the hazy sparkle and promise of the day down in the garden, were Jon personified to her.
To this hard old woman, who personified the world?
The ancients not only worshipped the different Virtues, but the abstract idea of virtue itself was personified as a goddess.
He was the personified spirit of the place--crafty, designing, relentless.
Romance for her was personified in Tante, and her husband was a creature of mere kindly domesticity.
It is worth noting that when the ancient Greeks came to name the soul, they personified it in Psyche, a beautiful female, and that the word for "soul" is feminine in many European languages.
In our English nursery-lore the frost is personified as a mischievous boy, "Jack Frost," to whose pranks its vagaries are due.
Tradition represented him as going immediately after the battle by the sacred road to Tempe; which the boy, who personified Apollo, afterwards took as leader of the religious procession.
The serpent, as usual, represents an earthly being, by which is personified the rough and shapeless offspring of nature.
Already on the Sunday when he had seen her on the balcony he had been seized with terror at the thought that she personified the revenge of the world and the flesh amidst all the mystical exaltation of immaculate Lourdes.
Was not the whole of humanity, pitiable humanity, saved by love, personified by that poor childish man who suddenly became sublime because he found his daughter resuscitated?
But no prayer was addressed to them, and I noticed no visible representations of the personified Law or Sa[.
Thought personified by the Goddess Neith, a divinity of Light, 254-u.
Evil personified by error continued by the worship of abstractions, 694-u.
Spirit personified by the Goddess of Neith, conceived by Power, the Divine Intelligence, 254-m.
Primitive people personifiedthe Sun as Osiris, 447-l.
Darkness, personified by Typhon or Ahriman, was his natural enemy.
Word said to be a personified object of prayer, revealed and manifested, 613-l.
The Heavens and the Earth were personified as Deities, even among the Aryan Ancestors of the European nations of the Hindus, Zends, Bactrians, and Persians; and the Rig Veda Sanhita contains hymns addressed to them as gods.
Mercury, personified as Hermanubis in Egypt, given a dog's head, 779-l.
Good and Evil contests personified by the course of the Sun, 594-m.
Heavens and the Earth personifiedas Deities even among the Aryans, 850-l.
This Wisdom is the LOGOS that creates, mistaken and personified by Simon Magus and the succeeding Gnostics.
The myth characters personifiedin this rite are termed Yébĭchai, Grandfather or Paternal Gods.
In the centre is the cornstalk, a life-giving symbol, and partially encircling the whole is the personified light-giving rainbow, a female personage.
A priest who personified the jackal-headed god Anubis then advanced, performed certain symbolical ceremonies on the head of the mummy, and laid certain bandages upon it.
The definite path of Ra across the sky had been planned at the time of creation by the goddess Maat, who personified justice and order.
So that from first to last she personifiedthe forces which make for growth and nourishment.
Just as the monarch of Peru personified the sun on earth, and acted as his regent in the terrestrial sphere, so the Egyptian monarchs styled themselves 'sons of the sun.
Kerh and Kerhet also appear to have personified Night or Chaos.
He personifies the images, ideas, and conceptions, by transforming them into living subjects, just as he had originally personified cosmic objects and phenomena.
Tall and attractive, with large, expressive features, Miss Dunn is hospitality personified as she talks about her life and career over a glass of wine.
In all other respects, the Toltecan peculiarities of the entire nation are either clearly and faithfully depicted in their hero, as in a personified ideal, or else the original attributes of the nature deity are recognizable.
The Greeks even personified the sun as a divine charioteer driving his fiery steeds over the steep of heaven, until he bathed them at evening in the western waves.
The darkness of night is personified by the wolf in the folk-lore of the Teutonic nations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personified" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
