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*as of ‘16 OCTOBER 2023’*
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(pronounced “dee ah tee”)
/ˈdiː.ɪti/
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/ˈdeɪ.ɪti/
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*a deity is a ‘super-natural being’ considered ‘divine’ or ‘sacred’*
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(the “oxford dictionary of english” defines ‘deity’ as “a god or goddess (in a polytheistic religion)”, or anything revered as ‘divine’)
(“c scott littleton” defines a ‘deity’ as “a being with powers greater than those of ordinary humans, but who interacts with humans, positively or negatively, in ways that carry humans to new levels of consciousness beyond the grounded preoccupations of ordinary life”)
(a ‘male deity’ is a god, while a ‘female deity’ is a goddess)
(‘religions’ can be categorized into how many ‘deities’ they ‘worship’)
(‘monotheistic religions’ accept only 1 ‘deity’ (predominantly referred to as ‘god’), ‘polytheistic religions’ accept ‘multiple deities’, ‘henotheistic religions’ accept 1 ‘supreme deity’ without denying other ‘deities’, considering them as ‘equivalent aspects’ of the same ‘divine principle’; and ‘nontheistic religions’ deny any ‘supreme eternal creator deity’ but accept a ‘pantheon’ of ‘deities’ which ‘live’, ‘die’, and are ‘reborn’ just like any other ‘being’)
(a ‘deity’ does not need to be ‘omnipotent’, ‘omnipresent’, ‘omniscient’, ‘omnibenevolent’, or ‘eternal’, however an ‘almighty monotheistic god’ generally does have these attributes)
(‘monotheistic religions’ typically refer to the ‘incorporeal god’ in masculine terms, while other religions refer to their ‘deities’ in a variety of ways – ‘masculine’, ‘feminine’, ‘androgynous’, and ‘gender neutral’)
(historically, many ‘ancient cultures’ such as ‘ancient egyptian’, ‘ancient greece’, ‘ancient rome’, ‘nordic culture’, and ‘asian culture’ personified ‘natural phenomena’, variously as either their ‘conscious causes’ or simply their ‘effects’, respectively)
(some ‘avestan’ and ‘vedic’ deities were viewed as ‘ethical concepts’)
(in ‘indian religions’, ‘deities’ have been envisioned as manifesting within the ‘temple’ of every living being’s body, as ‘sensory organs’ and ‘mind’)
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(‘deities’ have also been envisioned as a form of ‘existence’ (‘saṃsāra’) after ‘rebirth’, for ‘human beings’ who gain merit through an ‘ethical life’, where they become ‘guardian deities’ and live blissfully in ‘heaven’, but are also subject to ‘death’ when their ‘merit’ runs out)
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