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  • noun a god of fertility and vegetation.

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  • noun a god of fertility and vegetation
  • noun a god of fertility and vegetation

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Examples

  • 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

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