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  • noun A deity who exists for a specific purpose, and at a specific time at a special place. It has no existence except for such purpose, time, and place.(1)

Etymologies

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The concept comes from Hermann Usener in Gotternamen, in Bonn, 1896 in German, later translated into English.(1)

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