And what part did the cripple play who had sat like a malignant spirit guarding a make-shift bridge over an unimportant stream?

A prominent presence is the winged bull, a protective spirit guarding Assyrian palaces and cities.

The five spirits guarding the winds will dictate the path accordingly.

They may be spirits guarding the foot and center of the ladder going up the skyworld, seeing to it that mortals do not ascend this ladder.

"They are lesser demonic spirits guarding the gates to the capital of Hell," Manya insisted.

And so they had rapidly become the modern manifestation of the spirits guarding their country, with the F-i5Js as the strong arms that gave power to the will of those spirits.

The house loomed white in the early dark, a benevolent spirit guarding the ridge.

They argued that none who had ever dared to climb the sacred mountain had returned and that the spirits guarding its slopes were of the most powerful sort.