earth-god
IPA: ˈɝθgɑd
noun
- a god of fertility and vegetation
earth god
IPA: ˈɝθgɑd
Root Word: Earth god
noun
- An Earth god is a deification of the Earth associated with a male figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes.
Examples of "earth-god" in Sentences
- Osiris was the offspring of an intrigue between the earth-god Seb
- As earth-god he was a manifestation of the world-soul and controlled nature's powers.
- This superb example of deductive reasoning delivered in the imperious manner of a self-appointed earth-god could only be The Pope.
- _ Thus the account given in JRAS. 1842, p. 172, says 'male earth-god as ancestor,' but most modern writers describe the divinity as a female.
- Osiris was the offspring of an intrigue between the earth-god Seb (Keb or Geb, as the name is sometimes transliterated) and the sky-goddess Nut.
- Harsiesis was originally an earth-god who had avenged the assassination of his father and the banishment of his mother by Sit; that is, he had restored fulness to the
- Perhaps the most interesting of the cosmogonic myths was that which conceived that Nuit, the goddess of night, had been torn from the arms of her husband, Sibû the earth-god, and elevated to the sky despite her protests and
- And then the wheel would reappear, and Wolf Larsen's broad shoulders, his hands gripping the spokes and holding the schooner to the course of his will, himself an earth-god, dominating the storm, flinging its descending waters from him and riding it to his own ends.