The carvings on the totem pole represent four figures from North American First Nations legend: at the top sits Raven, the trickster and creator deity ; he sits on the head of Sunman, who has outstretched arms representing the rays of the sun and who wears a copper ( a type of ceremonial skirt ); Sunman stands on the fearsome witch-spirit Dzunukwa ; at the base is the two-headed warrior sea-serpent, Sisiutl, who has upstretched wings.

Guy oddly wears a complete or substantially complete horse's skin with the top, tail and mane included so he may stand in for a horse deity.

The design on this lintel includes warriors mounted on three-headed nāga s, horsemen, and a deity mounted on a Kāla ( time ) | kala.

The most notable examples are the nāga ナーガ or 龍 " Nāga ; rain deity ; protector of Buddhism " and the nāgarāja ナーガラージャ or 龍王 ” Nāgaraja ; snake king ; dragon king ".

As he undressed and removed the adornments of his body, each item that he dropped to the ground formed a deity.

* The Court of Light, realm of the naga deity Shekinester

The kings of the North, desiring more zealously to worship his deity, embounded his likeness in a golden image ; and this statue, which betokened their homage, they transmitted with much show of worship to Byzantium, fettering even the effigied arms with a serried mass of bracelets.

Other artifacts include bronze reliefs depicting a sea deity, fishermen and tritons, nine stone or bronze statues of dogs, one of which has a human face, and some of which are similar to Irish Wolfhounds, a bronze plaque of a woman, a bronze arm, an oculist's stamp ( used by physicians to mark their cakes of eye ointment ), about 320 pins, nearly 300 bracelets, and over 8, 000 coins.

* Ochumare-rainbow deity, divinity of movement and activity, guardian of children and associated with the umbilical cord

The earth deity had power over the ghostly world, and it is believed that she was the deity behind the oracle.

For example, the name Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo carried Cretans over the sea in the shape of a dolphin () to make them his priests.

The theology of the period described in particular detail Amun's presence in and rule over all things, so that he, more than any other deity, embodied the all-encompassing power of the divine.

He forced leading members of Rome's government to participate in religious rites celebrating this deity, over which he personally presided.

Originally shamanistic practices that have over time may once have been monotheistic later once since deification of an Earth Mother to the Sky father as a Duality, also including ancestor worship and an addition for a " sun deity ", polytheizing the religion and more deities were incorporated after-wards.

In Lapp mythology, Bieka-Galles ( or Biega -, Biegga-Galles, depending on dialect ; " The Old Man of the Winds ") is a deity who rules over rain and wind, and is the subject of boat and wooden shovel ( or, rather, oar ) offerings.

Repeated themes include participation in processions of the dead or large feasts, often presided over by a horned male deity or a female divinity who teaches magic and gives prophecies ; and participation in battles against evil spirits, " vampires ", or " witches " to win fertility and prosperity for the community.

A culture with a diminished lineage system, deteriorating over a long period from the ninth or eighth century onward, less embedded in traditional family patrimonies, might be more predisposed both to hold the individual accountable for his behavior, and to see an individual deity accountable for the cosmos.

Jews ceased to pronounce the name in the intertestamental period, replacing it with the common noun Elohim, “ the God ”, to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israel's deity over all others.

When the Argo was driven ashore in the Gulf of Syrtes Minor, the crew carried the vessel to the " Tritonian Lake ", Lake Tritonis, whence Triton, the local deity euhemeristically rationalized by Diodorus Siculus as " then ruler over Libya ", welcomed them with a guest-gift of a clod of earth and guided them through the lake's marshy outlet back to the Mediterranean.

More exotic are rinse-water used in bathing a deity and ink-water which has passed over the fresh calligraphy of appropriate scriptural verses — thus tinged with ink.

However, over time it began to be considered separately, becoming a lunar deity in its own right, and was said to have been another son of Ra.

Lord is a deferential appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others ; a master, chief, or ruler .< ref > Definition expands on: " lord.

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

Selene is mainly known for being the Titaness of the moon, though she is also known as a deity presiding over the night, sight, magic, childbirth, dew, lunacy, nursing and the months.

This was perhaps originally meant in a literal sense: the position of bridge-builder was indeed an important one in Rome, where the major bridges were over the Tiber, the sacred river ( and a deity ): only prestigious authorities with sacral functions could be allowed to " disturb " it with mechanical additions.

Nergal was also the deity who presides over the netherworld, and who stands at the head of the special pantheon assigned to the government of the dead ( supposed to be gathered in a large subterranean cave known as Aralu or Irkalla ).

In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl ( pronounced ' Meek-teka-see-wahdl ' or ' Meek-teka-kee-wadl ') is Queen of Mictlan, the underworld, ruling over the afterlife with Mictlantecuhtli, another deity who is designated as her husband.

In Haitian Vodou, Diable Tonnere is a loa ( deity ) who presides over thunder.

There is disagreement over the meaning of the name of the deity.

The Ennead faced competition by other groupings: At Memphis, the priests of Ptah identified their deity with the primeval mound, the place on which Atum arose first, giving him precedence over the Ennead.

He has a wide range of responsibilities: the protector of travelers, deity of roads, particularly crossroads, the deity with the power over fortune and misfortune, and the personification of death, a psychopomp.

It is to be worn on the chest, over the seat of the indwelling deity within the heart.

A shrine ( " case or chest for books or papers "; Old French: escrin " box or case ") is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are venerated or worshipped.

1 February & 10 November: Sun rays fall directly on the chest of the deity.

The deity has shangu and chakra in the hands and Goddess Mahalakshmi in his chest ( ThiruVazhMarbhan ).

She is thought to bear the name of the deity who was derived from Libya, where known as Neith, the same source sometimes identified as the parallel for Athene.

Jonah's passive character then is contrasted with the other main character: Yahweh ( sometimes explained as " I shall be what I shall be ", considered the Explicit Name and according to modern scholarly criticism a name of a local deity ).

Although the word is sometimes translated as " god " or " deity ", some Shinto scholars argue that such a translation can cause a misunderstanding of the term.

In Tolkien's pantheon of Middle-earth, Aulë is a knowledge deity, sometimes worshipped as a god by men, representing skill and craftsmanship, who is also thematically associated with Earth, stone, metal and the dwarves.

Clotho was worshiped in many places in Greece as one of the Three Fates and is sometimes associated with the Keres and Erinyes, which are other deity groups in Greek mythology.

He was sometimes identified with the deity Virtus.

Nergal actually seems to be in part a solar deity, sometimes identified with Shamash, but only a representative of a certain phase of the sun.

Being a deity of the desert, god of fire, which is one of negative aspects of the sun, god of the underworld, and also being a god of one of the religions which rivaled Christianity and Judaism, Nergal was sometimes called a demon and even identified with Satan.

Later on when the deity had evolved into the Greek Charon, or Caronte in Italian, Terpening notes that Charun's hammer or mallet is sometimes replaced with an oar, although it does not fit with his duties.

Images of Belenus sometimes show him to be accompanied by a female, thought to be the Gaulish deity Belisama.

Ogmios is also sometimes compared to Hermes, a Greek deity.

The reasons for such unclarity are that sometimes authenticity of certain " mothers ” is questioned, there may be differences between regions in what deities are worshiped and also many of these are synonymous titles of a single deity.

The deity was sometimes represented by a snail or conch shell and was associated with a flute made from bones.

Tezcatlipoca ( The vowel transliterated here as may in fact have been long or followed by a glottal stop which is sometimes written as an < h ></ ref >) was a central deity in Aztec religion, and his main festival was the Toxcatl ceremony celebrated in the month of May.

In particular, the Florentine Codex identifies Huehueteotl as an alternative epithet for Xiutecuhtli, and consequently that deity is sometimes referred to as Xiutecuhtli-Huehueteotl.

He was also named Cuezaltzin (" flame ") and Ixcozauhqui, and is sometimes considered to be the same as Huehueteotl (" Old God "), although Xiuhtecuhtli is usually shown as a young deity.

The early colonial sources variously connect, and sometimes identify, Itzamna with Hunab Ku ( an invisible high god ), Kinich Ahau ( the sun deity ), and Yaxcocahmut ( a bird of omen ).

Its head sometimes resembles that of a rain deity ; at other times, it is more like that of a bird of prey, perhaps the laughing falcon believed to be a harbinger of rain.

Ancestral Maya kings assimilated to the sun deity were sometimes depicted while vertically descending from the zenith ( as on Takalik Abaj stela 2 and Tikal stela 31 ).

The Numakulla are sometimes described as a dual-aspect deity rather than two separate deities.

Atum, sometimes rendered as Atem or Tem, is an important deity in Egyptian mythology.

Sekhmet also is a solar deity, sometimes called the daughter of the sun god Ra and often associated with the goddesses Hathor and Bast.

When identified as the protector of Ra, who was also a sun deity associated with heat and fire, she was sometimes said to be able to send fire onto those who might attack, just as the cobra spits poison into the eyes of its enemies.

Thus later she was sometimes said to be paired with Shai, who became a god of destiny after the deity evolved out of an abstract concept.

In Hinduism the Marutas (), also known as the Marutagana and sometimes identified with Rudras, are storm deities and sons of Rudra and Prisni and attendants of Indra, an ancient Vedic deity who later came to be identified with Shiva.