Syncretic Santa Muerte: Holy Death and Religious Bricolage by Kate Kingsbury, R. Andrew Chesnut

“…In contrast to much of the Eurocentric scholarship on Santa Muerte, we posit that both the Skeleton Saint’s origins and contemporary devotional framework cannot be comprehended without considering the significant influence of Indigenous death deities who formed part of holistic ontologies that starkly contrasted with the dualistic absolutism of European Catholicism in which life and death were viewed as stark polarities. …”
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Monument by Tey, Warren

“…The Buddhist funerary homes are plastered with traditional calligraphic fonts and decked with motifs of deities and lotus. The Christians see a lot of blue and white, resembling the sky and heaven while the Muslims ones are usually informative because they only have a few hours to bid goodbye before the burial. …”
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The big-bellied heap of Indra: Paippalada Samhita 11.10-11 by Tucker, E

“…PS 11.14-15 consists of more conventional requests to Śunāśirā and other deities to make the crops prosper. However, a particularly interesting feature is two stanzas...…”

Study of impact of increased number of devotees on indoor environmental quality of heritage temples of goddess Mahalaxmi at Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. by Jadhav Anjali, Kulkarni Sushma, Rege Ashish

“…There is a wide variety of temples of variety of deities constructed from East to West and North to South of India. …”
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Worldview of Mongolic Peoples: Representations of the Beginnings of Human Life and Its Prospective Quality by Marina M. Sodnompilova, Eleonora A. Nemanova

“…No less important is how certain ‘sources of life’ tend to influence the quality of life of their ‘ward’. Results. Multiple deities, revered objects of the surrounding nature, patrons of animals, birds and even reptiles would act as bearers of the soul of the to-be-born child. …”
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Manichaean prayers; Number, time, content, and reciting method by Hadi Valipour, Mohammad Shokri Foumeshi

“…Praying is an example of praising the greatest god or religious deities with pre-defined recitation and deeds, specific time periods, a definite number and recurrence of the day and night among all religious groups. …”
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Buddhist Coast of the Caspian Sea by Baazr A. Bicheev

“…The ritual is a traditional tantric practice that seeks the help of Buddhist deities to remove obstacles to spiritual growth through visualization. …”
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THE INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SECOND PYLON OF RAMESSES II AT ABYDOS by Ahmed Amin Selim

“…He built this temple to sanctify the three principal deities of Abydos: Osiris, Isis, and Horus, and to deify himself in it, and to be a house of a million years in which to be worshipped with religious rituals performed for him after his death. …”
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We Drew a Swastika of Grain: Vernacular Religion in the Tibetan Songs of Nubri, Nepal by Mason Brown

“…In the song texts translated here, I will point out elements that reproduce a Buddhist worldview, such as references to deities, sacred landscape, and Buddhist values, and argue that they impart vernacular religious knowledge intergenerationally in an implicit, natural, and sonic way, ensuring that younger generations internalize community values organically.…”
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The Spirit-Writing Movement in the Chaozhou Region: Response to Modern Crises (1840–1949) by Guoping Li

“…Chaozhou spirit-writing cults discoursed on the concept of <i>jie</i> as their doctrinal foundation and endeavored to save the world by receiving moral revelations from deities. They regarded doing good deeds as a way of cultivation and urged people to perform good deeds to avert disasters. …”
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Cult Affiliation of Мidğæw Sanctuary in Village of Lisri (North Ossetia) by A. V. Darchiev

“…The problematic of the versions linking this sanctuary with the cults of the deities Uacilla and Mada Mairam is shown. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that the ethnographic and folklore materials introduced into scientific circulation for the first time made it possible to establish the time at which the annual celebration in honor of Мidğæw took place, as well as to determine the functions of this sanctuary. …”
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Potnia’s Participants: Considering the <i>Gala</i>, <i>Assinnu</i>, and <i>Kurgarrû</i> in an Aegean Context by Marie N. Pareja

“…Each of these priestly classes belonged to the adaptable and widespread cult of Inanna, one of the most powerful and popular deities in Mesopotamia.…”
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The Sistrum and the Stick Rattles Sabayi and Sachi by [陇菲], Long Fei

“…They all involve fertility, death, reincarnation, eternal life, and the function of triggering trance, in which people seem to feel connected with heaven and earth, deities or ancestors.…”
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The life cycle of the houses in the final Late Copper Age horizon at Tell Yunatsite by Velichka Mazanova, Tatiana Mishina, Stoilka Terziyska-Ignatova

“…On the other hand, inside the house the individual felt in a secure space, protected by the household deities that prevented the penetration of evil forces. …”
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The Archetype of the Feminine Principle in Sherko Bekas’ Poetry by Saghar Salmaninejad Mehrabadi, Jihad Rashid

“…According to Kurdish feminist culture and based on the presence of different female deities like Anahita and Nahid, Sherko Bekas, as a renowned Kurdish poet, is under the direct impact of the Aryan culture and employs the examples of the motherland in his poems. …”
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Chinese-Buddhist Encounter: Synthesis of Fuxi-Nüwa and the Cintamani in Early Medieval Chinese Art by Fan Zhang

“… The standard pictorial formula of Fuxi and Nüwa, a pair of indigenous Chinese deities, started to absorb new motifs from Buddhist art during the early medieval period when Buddhism became more prominent in China. …”
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Transformation of Yakut Heroic Epos (by Material of Olonkho of B. A. Alekseyev “Erbechtay Mergen”) by A. A. Kuzmina

“…The author also points out that under the influence of Russian culture there have been some changes: a lot of words are borrowed from the Russian language, the names of Russian cities, the pantheon of deities began to include Christian images, there is a mixture of the image of Baba Yaga and abaasa women, there are images of Russian girls, etc.…”
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Sacrifical sites, types and function by Örnulv Vorren

“…A question that has frequently arisen in the course of this work is with what powers or deities the different sacrificial sites were associated. …”
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The Genesis of the Concept of Land by Marius Smetona, Anželika Smetonienė

“…The land is not the sole source of livelihood for people any more and its association with pagan rituals, deities and nature has become less and less frequent. …”
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The Transnationalization of the Akan Religion: Religion and Identity among the U.S. African American Community by Pauline Guedj

“…She also offered him a set of altars, containing the spiritual forces of the deities revered in the Akonedi Shrine and asked him to import in the United States what was then labelled the Akan religion. …”
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