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Lord Guan is the patron of military personnel and police, while Mazu is the patron of fishermen and sailors. Tudigong (Earth Deity) is the tutelary deity of a locality, and each individual locality has its own Earth Deity. Chenghuangshen (City God) is the guardian deity of individual city, worshipped by local officials and locals since imperial ...
A basic classification of the types of gods as based on the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, by Stith Thompson: [1]. A0 Creator; A100—A199. The gods in general A101. Supreme God
The deity is usually depicted with one head and two arms, though a few portrayals show him with multiple heads, arms or legs. [58] In Japan, a depiction of Acala with four arms is employed in subjugation rituals and earth-placating rituals (安鎮法, anchin-hō ); this four-armed form is identified in one text as "the lord of the various ...
Nabu was the patron god of scribes, literacy, and wisdom. [7] He was also the inventor of writing, a divine scribe, the patron god of the rational arts, and a god of vegetation. [8]: 33–34 [9] As the god of writing, Nabu inscribed the fates assigned to men and he was equated with the scribe god Ninurta.
A creator-destroyer deity, the brother of the death god Kisin (or possibly another earthquake god also known as Kisin). He is the sworn enemy of the world serpent Hapikern and it is said that, in the end of days, he will destroy Hapikern by wrapping him around himself to smother him. In some versions, this will destroy life on Earth.
Just as one can understand the abstract concept of a color only after one has seen a concrete form, one can only realize the deity through a form of murti. In contrast, the Dvaita schools believe the Supreme Being to possess a divine form, and offer worship to their Ishta-Deva as either a representation or direct expansion of the Supreme Person.
Ptah (/ t ɑː / TAH; [1] Ancient Egyptian: ptḥ, reconstructed; Ancient Greek: Φθά, romanized: Phthá; Coptic: ⲡⲧⲁϩ, romanized: Ptah; Phoenician: 𐤐𐤕𐤇, romanized: ptḥ) [2] [3] [note 1] is an ancient Egyptian deity, a creator god [4] and patron deity of craftsmen and architects.
Mut was the consort of Amun, the patron deity of pharaohs during the Middle Kingdom (c. 2055–1650 BC) and New Kingdom (c. 1550–1070 BC). Amaunet and Wosret may have been Amun's consorts early in Egyptian history, but Mut, who did not appear in texts or art until the late Middle Kingdom, displaced them.