Meanings of local deities in English

Baal's: belonging to the local deities of the ancient Semitic race.

Besides these great divinities, there were numerous lesser and local deities.

The earlier worship is of local deities, who are afterwards united in a Pantheon.

The day of independent states being over, the importance of merely local deities had ceased.

SOCRATES: Should we not offer up a prayer first of all to the local deities?

Here the "scholars" stepped in, turning the local deities into human beings and "emperors".

They have their local deities.

Many of the old rural and local deities, and many of those with quite minor provinces, were left vague and unrealised.

There have been plenty of other little nations which have trusted in their local deities, and what has become of them?

The ancient sacred places of the Canaanites, on every high hill and beneath every conspicuous tree, again smoked with incense to half-forgotten local deities.

Of course, when the evil had "passed over," there were equally idiotic ceremonies of hysterical thanksgiving, propitiating whatever local deities there might be...

'Should we not, before going, offer up a prayer to these local deities?'