Deity example sentences

Once in five years, the local deity is honoured and priests from 20 neighbouring villages come for this five-day event.Rathnam argued that given that not a single Dalit had ever entered the temple, how could the deity be angry with them? The powerful castes decided to teach Rathnam a lesson.To date, the local tribal people make the wooden image of the deity, which suggests that the deity was originally a local god, who was later identified with ishnu.Subsequently, in 1230, king Anangabhima I dedicated his kingdom to the deity and proclaimed himself as the “deputy” of the god.One of the major developments was the emergence of the idea of bhakti — of a loving, personal deity that devotees could reach without the aid of priests or elaborate rituals.Temples were the hub of cultural activities and devadasis (temple dancers) performed before the deity, royalty and masses in the many-pillared halls in the irupaksha (a form of Shiva) temple.Dharma Thakur is a popular regional deity, often worshipped in the form of a stone or a piece of wood.If the dominant castes decided to not call them, then what would they earn? How would they survive? They also declared that the wrath of the local deity would strike them if they refused to give in.