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Her countervailing responsibility for birth was taken away, and the creation of life was lad to the credit of the Father-god, whose priests claimed he could remove the curse of death. ...
Tomb of Eve? Jan 2008
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Her countervailing responsibility for birth was taken away, and the creation of life was lad to the credit of the Father-god, whose priests claimed he could remove the curse of death. ...
Archive 2008-09-01 Jan 2008
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In your presence, men of Athens, I invoke all the gods and goddesses to whom the Attic territory belongs, and Pythian Apollo the Father-god of our state; and I implore them all!
III. On the Crown 1906
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Father-god, makes Rudra kill 'the sin'; but the original shows that it is the Father-god who was shot by this god, who chose as his reward the lordship over kine; and such exaltation is not improbable (moreover, it is historical!).
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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In the Br [= a] hmanas different names are given to the chief god, but he is most often called the Father-god (Praj [= a] pati, 'lord of creatures,' or the Father, _pit [= a] _).
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Father-god, theology is at bottom not much altered, and the eschatological conceptions remain about as they were, despite a preliminary sign of the doctrine of metempsychosis.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Br [= a] hmanas taught a Father-god above the gods; the Upanishads taught
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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The sects could never get rid of a god whose being was rooted alike in the preceding philosophy and in the popular conception of a Father-god.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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The hunting of the Father-god by Rudra is pictured in the stars (Orion), Ait.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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The Father-god, Praj [= a] pati, or Brahm [= a] (personal equivalent of _brahma_) is not only the father of gods, men, and devils, but he is the All. This Father-god of universal sovereignty, Brahm [= a], remains to the end the personal creator.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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