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    Perspectives on Pilgrimage to Folk Deities by Rajshree Dhali

    Published 2020-01-01
    “…The title ‘Perspectives on Pilgrimage to folk deities’ has been chosen to underline the pattern of the alternative religious spaces and their transformation over the centuries which is not yet explored much. …”
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    Ganesha - A deity in India culture by Nguyễn Thị Tâm Anh

    Published 2012-11-01
    “…Among them, Ganesha, is easily recognizable and cherished in deity Hindu system. Ganesa is a Hindu deity revered popular in many areas, there are many anecdotes about the origins of this all-powerful deity. …”
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    Pilgrimage to the Abode of a Folk Deity by Rajshree Dhali

    Subjects: “…folk deity…”
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    Naming the Deity, Naming the City: Rama and Ayodhya by Deepak Mehta

    Subjects: “…legal personality of the deity…”
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    THE ANIMAL IN THE DEITY: VISAYAN GODS AND GODDESSES AND THEIR ANIMALS by Michael Angelo Mahinay, Fely Bukiron Latras

    Published 2019-11-01
    “…The psychoanalytical frameworks of totemism and the collective unconscious drew connections that delineated the cultural symbolism of the animal to its respective deity and linked it further to the values and spheres each deity imparts on the communities that worship it. …”
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    THE DEITY BꝪPEF(Y) IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION by Mohammed Mohammed Elsayed

    Published 2022-06-01
    “…[En] This paper collects the available information concerning the deity Bapef (y) to determine the character of this minor deity who is rarely attested in texts and scenes. …”
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    A Nature Deity? The Ṛgvedic Savitṛ Revisited by Dominik A. Haas

    Published 2020-10-01
    “…The problematic identity of the deity Savitṛ in early Vedic religion has sparked more than a century of discussion. …”
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    Dazhbog: The Ancient Slavic Pagan Deity of the Shining Sky by Oleg Vladislavovich Kutarev

    Published 2021-10-01
    “…The paper is concerned with a detailed consideration of one of the most well-known and frequently mentioned Slavic pagan deities: Dazhbog (or Daž(d)bog). Historiographic stereotypes full of contradictions and problems have been fixed in research concerned with the deity, for example, defining Dazhbog as the deity of the sun; its proximity to another solar deity (Chors) and vagueness, why are there two solar deities; Dazhbog’s relation to the deity Svarog/Svarozhich; Dazhbog’s belonging only to the East Slavic area; the etymology of his name as a “giving deity”. …”
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    Live Streaming and Digital Stages for the Hungry Ghosts and Deities by Alvin Eng Hui Lim

    Published 2020-07-01
    “…Many Chinese temples in Singapore provide live streaming of <i>getai</i> (English: a stage for songs) during the Hungry Ghost Month as well as deities’ birthday celebrations and spirit possessions—a recent phenomenon. …”
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    The Significance of the Deities Touching the King's Elbow in Ancient Egypt by Nashat Alzohary

    Published 2021-01-01
    “…It is clear that the depiction of the King with the deity expresses a religious ritual, so the moment where the King meets the deity in these scenes expresses the idea of the King’s son-ship of the deity. …”
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    Qohelet's concept of deity: A comparative-philosophical perspective by Jacobus W. Gericke

    Published 2013-02-01
    “…<p><span>This article discusses the concept of deity in the book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) from the perspective of issues of interest in analytic philosophy of religion. …”
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    From magic to deity, matter to persona: the exaltation of Māyā by Sarkar, B

    Published 2018
    “…Focusing on Mahāmāyā, this chapter turns from myth to classical Indian philosophy to probe her origin and to trace her further development and exaltation from a metaphysical concept into a deity of worship. It assesses the notion of māyā as magic, illusion and the principle of active material causation in metaphysics preceding the Devīmāhātmya, from which Mahāmāyā as a religious icon drew her varied signification It is particularly within the cosmogonic speculations of Sadyojyotiḥ and Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha, early writers of the Śaiva Siddhānta, that Māyā is turned into a central figure in the understanding of how reality is formed.…”
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    The Study of the Relationship between Fereydun and the Water Deity in Elam Civilization by Khadijeh Naghipourfar, Naser Jadidi

    Published 2019-03-01
    “…Therefore, Elam had abundant Mesopotamian deities who, of course, were accepted by their special function in Elam. …”
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    Disease, Demon, and the Deity: Case of Corona Mātā and Coronāsur in India by Megha Yadav

    Published 2022-10-01
    “…This paper will analyse the location of Corona <i>Mātā</i> in the ever-evolving pantheon of Hindu deities in the context of a 21st-century pandemic.…”
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