deity
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The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
A god or goddess; a heathen god.
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1462 ) * May 22 Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya the mystic saint composer of the 15th century is the earliest known musician of South India to compose songs called " sankIrtanas main" in praise of Lord Venkateswara, the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala.
Accordingly that which is everywhere accepted as the supreme manifestation of deity, by whatever name it may be called, I term God.
According to the author, this short story was inspired by news reports from 1952 when the lending of a representation of the Maya rain deity to a Mexican exhibition in Europe had coincided with wet weather there.
After his death he is raised to the position of a tutelary deity of the land, for his many services to agriculture and cattle-breeding.
According to that hypothesis, the Kaaba was first consecrated to a supreme deity named Allah and then hosted the pantheon of Quraysh after their conquest of Mecca, about a century before the time of Muhammad.
According to Pasqualini it was a deity similar to Vediove, wielder of lightningbolts and chthonic, who was connected to the cult of the founders who first inhabited the Alban Mount and built the sanctuary.