Meanings of tutelar deity in English

Osiris became after that the tutelar deity of the Egyptians.

In most Japanese temples little pictures of the tutelar deity are sold to pilgrims, cheap prints on thin paper.

In A.D. 26 eleven cities contended for the privilege of making Tiberius their tutelar deity, but he declined this honor.

Temples were erected to him as the tutelar deity of vineyards and gardens, to defend them from thieves and from birds.

In the middle of this hall in the hill was incarcerated the stone image of one Demi, the tutelar deity of Willamina.

The worship of the tutelar deity is maintained by the whole body of parishioners, the Ujiko, or children of the tutelar god.

Afterwards, the relatives retire, and the corpse is carried to the burning-ground by men who have the same tutelar deity as the deceased.

The tutelar deities of the priest are all present, together with all their relatives and friends of the unseen world.

Particular ancestors of families engaged in hereditary occupations may develop into tutelar deities presiding over those occupations-patrongods of crafts and guilds.