Let us advert to the value and functions of Constantinople as the tutelary genius of western or dawning Christianity.
You cannot beneficially, you cannot rationally, worship a tutelary Roman deity, unless in the character of a Roman; and a Roman you may become, legally and politically.
Standing on the counter is generally a roll of joss-sticks wound spirally around a wire frame, and always burning to the tutelary idol of the shop, for the sake of good luck.
A little more of this alleged fickleness—or easy escape from past associations and impressibility to actual circumstances—would have been at the present juncture a tutelary quality to Athens.
Performing the functions of a constitutional opposition, it afforded the only chance of that tutelary exposure whereby blunders and shortcomings might be arrested in time.
This town contains the most ancient images and sacred things of the tutelary deities of Rome, and is the origin of the Roman people, being the first town founded by Aeneas.
Every people however long acknowledged, with national pride, beings as fabulous, in those tutelary heroes who bore their own names.
In the poem of Virgil the living Caesar occupies the place of a tutelary deity-- In medio mihi Caesar erit, templumque tenebit.
On each side of the doorway are three gigantic tutelary demons.
The tutelary of Sens Cathedral is St. Stephen, the first martyr.
Those early Christians were thetutelary saints of Tours Cathedral up to the XIV century.
The tutelaryof this fortress-church is the gentle patroness of music.
When, however, the fetish is regarded as a tutelary divinity, it loses its lower character and takes its place among the gods.
But, though they are in many cases regarded as tutelary beings, it is doubtful whether they ever develop into anthropomorphic deities.
The worship of a tutelary spirit has sometimes coalesced with that of an ancestor, but this is doubtless due to the collocation of two distinct cults; at a certain stage an ancestor is naturally regarded as friend and protector.
Such tutelary spirits or deities are found in Polynesia and Africa.
In Samoa a tutelary spirit is sometimes chosen for the infant;[346] during childhood the child bears the name of a god, who seems to be regarded as its protector.
For according unto the tradition of Magitians, the tutelary Spirits will not remove at common appellations, but at the proper names of things whereunto they are Protectors.
In Arragon thetutelary authority of the justiza was created, who was armed against license with all the power of a dictator.
The greatest evil of the feudal system was that it destroyed all protective power, all tutelary legislation, which could watch over the order and safety of society.
This support was abandoned as soon as another tutelary power arose.
The Dioscuri, tutelary Deities of Navigation, with Venus, were invoked in the Mysteries of Samothrace.
And though they offered sacrifices to divers tutelary angels, yet they honored them infinitely less than XAM-TI or CHANG-TI, the Sovereign Lord of the World.
The discords of earth were accompanied by a warfare in the sky; and no people underwent the visitation of the Almighty, without a corresponding chastisement being inflicted on its tutelary angel.
They wage incessant war against the pure Intelligences of the other worlds, who, like the Amshaspands, Izeds, and Ferouers of the Persians are the tutelary guardians of man.
In Egypt, a Sun supported by two asps was the emblem of Horhat the good genius; and the serpent with the winged globe was placed over the doors and windows of the Temples as a tutelary God.
They are their tutelary genii, from the fall to the complete regeneration.
A tutelary village god is to be found as a rule in every Hindu village.
In the Maratha Districts, Hanuman or Mahabir, the monkey god, is the tutelarydeity of the village.
They seem to have looked on the land as a god, and often their own tutelary deity and protector.
The principal ceremony of the religion of the city was also a public feast; it had to be partaken of communally by all the citizens in honour of the tutelary deities.
The concealment of the name of the tutelarydeity of Rome, for divulging which Valerius Soranus is said to have paid the penalty of death, is a case in point.
The Gondhalis are the village priests of Devi, the earth-goddess, who is also frequently the tutelary goddess of the village.
Viswakarma is regarded as thetutelary deity of the caste, and is worshipped twice a year with offerings of flowers, rice and sugar.
I can see that she already regards him as her tutelary patron, and when we get back to Syria, she will be begging me to join her in a pilgrimage to his shrine!
The total number of the Spokesmen, the oldest of earth's inhabitants, was twelve, and the remainder of the Earth not under the tutelary rule of Dalis was divided up among the other eleven Spokesmen.
In short, each individual will make you behold his phantasm or his tutelary or domestic gods with respect.
These dispositions enable us to account for the formation of tutelary gods, of lares, of larvae, which every man makes to himself in savage and unpolished nations.
