"nature" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She is the lover of Papa Bois, a nature deity.
- The richness of nature deities or their epithets (ahtu) brings about the beneficial result of life/food.
- Dionysus was a nature deity like the old Chthonic goddesses of the earth.
- The Finnish pagans were also animists, worshipping local nature deities at site-specific shrines to that particular deity.
- "Such deities are very much overshadowed by the divine figures defined through poetry and cult," Walter Burkert remarked of Greek nature deities.
- Like several other nature deities who appear in both the singular and the plural (such as Faunus/fauni), she has both a unified and a multiple aspect.
- In Roman mythology, Pilumnus ("staker") was a nature deity, brother of Picumnus.
- A vegetation deity is a nature deity whose disappearance and reappearance, or life, death and rebirth, embodies the growth cycle of plants.
- We were nature deities originally, before human need turned some of us more civilized.
- A nature deity can be in charge of nature, the biosphere, the cosmos or the universe.
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