supreme god

According to Eudorus, the Pythagoreans posited a single supreme principle, known as the one and the supreme god, which is the cause of all things.

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

The origin myths of the Lahu involve dyad male-female pairs: the creator and supreme god Xeul Sha (made up of the male and female twins Xeul Yad and Sha Yad — equal in all abilities and virtually indistinguishable, acting as one entity), the Senior Daughter and Son of the supreme god, and the first human couple.

Gender 2009

To the god Tiamat, he demands to take over as a supreme god

truth in religions 2007

But it shows that the royal position in the social and political order is sanctioned by the supreme god, and this sanction suggests that it will continue to be as it is for all time.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968

In fact, both themis and dikē are often treated as divine persons, and both are in many passages related to the supreme god, Zeus.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968

After him they placed certain spiritual substances created by the supreme god.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Some worship such men as have been eminent in former times for virtue or glory, not only as ordinary deities, but as the supreme god.

Utopia Thomas More

In the dualism of the Gnostic theories, on the other hand, the world is shut off from the supreme god, Bythos, who has nothing directly to do with human affairs before or after the incarnation.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The old gods or spirits, associates of the supreme god, became embodiments of moral conceptions, and a ritual of physical and moral purity was worked out.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

It is the Sineru of the Buddhist, on the summit of which is Tawrutisa, the habitation of Sekrá, the supreme god, from which proceed the four sacred streams, running in as many contrary directions.

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866