In Hinduism, an avatar (; ; from Sanskrit अवत ा र in the Devanagari script, meaning " descent ") is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being ( i. e., Vishnu for Vaishnavites ) and is mostly translated into English as " incarnation ," but more accurately as " appearance " or " manifestation ".

As for the name Diwata it should be noted that it was also a name of the Supreme Being in other Filipino ethnic tribes, it was also a term for deity in other Philippine languages such as the Visayan.

Oto King Zombi, a sky bound deity is the Supreme Being.

* Akshar Purushottam ( Imperishable Supreme Being ) is a specific deity and philosophy or interpretation of Swaminarayanism.

A personal god is a deity who can be related to as a person instead of as an " impersonal force ", such as the Absolute, " the All ", or the " Ground of Being ".

Being pleased with their worship, Vishnu appeared before them and blessed them with the boon that he himself will be born as their child in their four re-births in three different forms and in four different situations, with the deity.

The Presence is a name for the Supreme Being in the fictional DC Comics Universe, believed to be the supreme deity of Judeo-Christian religion.

Being near the southern end of the Namib desert, it is officially also the driest town in South Africa with an average annual rainfall of less than 2 inches ( 50 mm ).

Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well.

Being a rustic god, Pan was not worshipped in temples or other built edifices, but in natural settings, usually caves or grottoes such as the one on the north slope of the Acropolis of Athens.

Another modern religion to have adopted elements from the beliefs of ancient Mesopotamia is Anuism, devoted to the god Anu, who supposedly revealed himself as being the Supreme Being to a man named V. E. M, who before then had known nothing of ancient Mesopotamia.

" associated with Shiva "), is one of the four most widely followed sects of Hinduism, which reveres the god Shiva as the Supreme Being.

Being that Helmold's inscription comes from a very late time, the 12th century, and that it concerns only several groups of polytheist West Slavs, it would not seem likely that these two gods ( or more probable, just one god, Crnobog ,) were deities of the original Proto-Slavic pantheon.

He contends that Judaism is essentially anti-religious, stating in Our Christ that " Judaism as a spiritual doctrine is the opposite of religion and a protest against it ", and culminates his argument with his own translation of the Shema: " Hear O Israel, Being is our god, Being is one ".

Being the grandson of Lord Indra, god of mystical weapons and wars, Abhimanyu was a courageous and dashing warrior.

The primary principles of the Cult of the Supreme Being were a belief in the existence of a god and the immortality of the human soul.

Purna Purushottam Narayan parents, the god Dharma and goddess Bhakti, pacified Durvasa, who then softened his curse saying that Narayana Himself ( again, represented here as the Supreme Being ) would be born as Dharma and Bhakti's son, and His birth would relieve them all from the clutches of evil.

It has been translated as "' There is one god ', as ‘ One reality is ’, and ‘ This being is one ’" and the varying capitalization of " God ", " Reality ", or " Being " affects the meaning in English.

Historian Mircea Eliade calls this Supreme Being a deus otiosus ( an " idle god "), although this term is also used more broadly, to refer to any god who doesn't interact regularly with humans.

Being single action weapons, they needed to be cocked for each shot, so the rate of fire was also low, and while a shooter could fan his gun, this expended all his shots even faster and made him even more inaccurate than normal.

Being flammable, coal tar is sometimes used for heating or to fire boilers.

Being combustible, it also poses a fire hazard.

Being on the same radio frequency, Galland was able to warn Balthasar before he opened fire.

Being without springs, there are none to fail ; it is impossible to damage by fire, dampness, or neglect.

Being more expensive and labour-intensive to produce than thatch, their introduction has been explained by their greatly enhanced fire resistance which gave desired protection to the costly temples.

Being associated with hell and fire, imps take a particular pleasure from playing with temperatures.

Being close to the front-line, the airfield became something of a magnet for badly damaged aircraft that had suffered from ground fire, collisions, or air attack but retained a degree of airworthiness.

The Divine Majesty, then, dwelling in the east and created out of divine fire, holds the divine throne, true to its nature of representing to human eyes the Divine Being.

Being on fairly high ground and providing good spotting opportunities for artillery fire, an occupied Longueval would protect the right flank and allow the Allies to advance in the north and align their left with that of Congreve's XIII Corps on the right.

Being discarded by the Browns rekindled a fire in Alzado, and he worked out with a vengeance.

Being fire resistant in this brushy location is also an advantage.

A fire in 1750 destroyed his premises and stock, but by 1753 he was employing ten draughtsmen, and The Small British Atlas: Being a New set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales appeared.

Being a high-rise building, the complex has wet riser system and electronic fire alarm system installed.

Being close to a Parsi fire temple, many Parsis live near Metro Cinema in Kalbadevi.

Being a teacher of American literature, I remembered Whittier's `` Massachusetts To Virginia '', where he said: `` But that one dark loathsome burden ye must stagger with alone, And reap the bitter harvest which ye yourselves have sown ''.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.

Heidegger coined the term " dasein " for this property of being in his influential work Being and Time (" this entity which each of us is himself … we shall denote by the term ' dasein.

Being is quite conceivable apart from actual existence ; so much so that the very first and the most universal of all the distinctions in the realm of being is that which divides it into two classes, that of the real and that of the possible.

Being associated with the right hand side was traditionally a reference to strength and virtue ( cf sinister, which derives from the latin for left ).

::: Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: / Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Being declared a Covenant-breaker is done by the head of the Faith — which since 1963 refers to the elected nine-member Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Bahá ' ís.

He frequented the tavern there, and began work on An Essay on the Universal Plenitude of Being, which he characterized as an appendix to Reason.

* In a remarkably similar vein, science fiction artist and author Wayne Douglas Barlowe wrote Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A. D. Voyage to Darwin IV, which was a natural history study of an alien planet and its indigenous wildlife, written as though published in the year 2366.

Being a leader of fashion, she ordered the finest clothing, including furs as well as the newest distillations of perfume, which she concocted herself and sent as presents.

: Being exceedingly alarmed at the misery into which I had fallen, and much more at that which threatened me in view of eternal death, I, duty bound, made it my first business to betake myself to your way, condemning my past life, not without groans and tears.

He then wrote Being and Nothingness, The Flies, and No Exit, none of which was censored by the Germans, and also contributed to both legal and illegal literary magazines.

This indifference of " things in themselves " ( closely linked with the later notion of " being-in-itself " in his Being and Nothingness ) has the effect of highlighting all the more the freedom Roquentin has to perceive and act in the world ; everywhere he looks, he finds situations imbued with meanings which bear the stamp of his existence.

Notable stories of this type include " Painwise ", in which a space explorer has been altered to be immune to pain but finds such an existence intolerable, and " A Momentary Taste of Being ", in which the true purpose of humanity, found on a distant planet, renders individual human life entirely pointless.

Being separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electro-shock generator, which played pre-recorded sounds for each shock level.

Being in the Fourth generation of Gaming, it was the first system in the former Neo Geo family, which only lived through the 1990s.