divinity

• You must have been prepared by a special education, by a development of the inmost forces of your personality for the work of kindling and releasing what a divinity is able to kindle and release in you. —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
• The sign of the attribute brought the idea of the power of the god in that special direction; the full idea of his divinity was the integral of all these special ideas. —  Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245
• In this hero who is sometimes as bombastical as ancient Pistol, and sometimes as ridiculous as a buffoon, the author attempts to be droll, and Aims at wit--but levell'd in the dark The random arrow never hits the mark A London critic remarking with just severity upon the strange way in which the divinity is addressed in this piece, says, "This blot defaces almost all the modern things called dramas or plays. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
• The olive-tree thus called into existence was preserved in the temple of Erectheus, on the Acropolis, and is said to have possessed such marvellous vitality, that when the Persians burned it after sacking the town it immediately burst forth into new shoots The principal festival held in honour of this divinity was the Panathenća The owl, cock, and serpent were the animals sacred to her, and her sacrifices were rams, bulls, and cows Illustration MINERVA The Minerva of the Romans was identified with the Pallas-Athene of the Greeks. —  Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
• In ancient times, human sacrifices, more especially prisoners of war, were offered to him; but, at a later period, this cruel practice was discontinued The attributes of this divinity are the helmet, shield, and spear. —  Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

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