earth-god

This superb example of deductive reasoning delivered in the imperious manner of a self-appointed earth-god could only be The Pope.

Wild Justice Ruth M. Sprague

Osiris was the offspring of an intrigue between the earth-god Seb (Keb or Geb, as the name is sometimes transliterated) and the sky-goddess Nut.

Chapter 38. The Myth of Osiris 1922

Osiris was the offspring of an intrigue between the earth-god Seb (Keb or Geb, as the name is sometimes transliterated) and the sky-goddess Nut.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

As earth-god he was a manifestation of the world-soul and controlled nature's powers.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

And then the wheel would reappear, and Wolf Larsen's broad shoulders, his hands gripping the spokes and holding the schooner to the course of his will, himself an earth-god, dominating the storm, flinging its descending waters from him and riding it to his own ends.

Chapter 17 1904

Perhaps the most interesting of the cosmogonic myths was that which conceived that Nuit, the goddess of night, had been torn from the arms of her husband, Sibû the earth-god, and elevated to the sky despite her protests and

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904

Osiris was the offspring of an intrigue between the earth-god Seb

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

And then the wheel would reappear, and Wolf Larsen's broad shoulders, his hands gripping the spokes and holding the schooner to the course of his will, himself an earth-god, dominating the storm, flinging its descending waters from him and riding it to his own ends.

The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896

_ Thus the account given in JRAS. 1842, p. 172, says 'male earth-god as ancestor,' but most modern writers describe the divinity as a female.

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

Harsiesis was originally an earth-god who had avenged the assassination of his father and the banishment of his mother by Sit; that is, he had restored fulness to the

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881