Meanings of inferior deities in English

The general division of the gods was twofold,-thesuperior and inferior deities.

Besides the Ujigami, there are myriads of superior and of inferior deities.

They have almost as many inferior deities as the Hindus.

There is one God, the supreme spirit, who created the universe including the inferior deities.

Zemes, inferior deities of the Haytiens.

He has left his creatures in the hands of inferior deities, at whose mercy they pass a miserable existence.

Separate mention is also made of offerings to inferior deities, as if these were honored at his own special instance.

The monarch claimed to be a sort of bye-blow of Tararroa, the Saturn of the Polynesian mythology, and cousin-german to inferior deities.

Apart from the Virgin Mary, there is a whole hierarchy of inferior deities, saints, and angels, subordinate to the One Supreme Being.

You ought to be like one of the blessed gods of Elysium, and let the inferior deities do battle with the infernal powers.

The lstia was a round altar; the eschara, one employed apparently for sacrifice to inferior deities or heroes (but lschara Toibou, Aesch.

A Paka-yajna is a minor sacrifice, such as the propitiation of a planet foreboding evil, or worship offered to the inferior deities called Viswadevas.

Nicholas has given us, on the authority of his friend Duaterra, the most particular account that has appeared of the inferior deities of New Zealand.