Sentence Examples

  • The Aeginetans at first contented themselves with sending the images of the Aeacidae, the tutelary heroes of their island.
  • The object of certain sacrifices is to provide a tutelary deity of a house, town or frontier.
  • (b) In parts of North America the nagual or manitu animal, of which the Indian dreams during the initiation fast and which is to be his tutelary spirit, is killed with certain rites.
  • If Assyria finally overthrew Israel and carried off Yahweh's shrine, Assur (Asur), the tutelary deity of Assyria, was mightier than Yahweh.
  • (g) Corresponding to the personal tutelary spirit (supra, b) we have the genii of buildings and places.
 
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