Meaning of earth divinity | Babel Free

Definitions

A god or goddess of the Earth, as opposed to the sky.

Examples

“Anyhow we seem to perceive that from the early beginnings (in the Stone Age) of self-consciousness in Man there has been a gradual development - from crass superstition, senseless and accidental, to rudimentary observation, and so to belief in Magic; thence to Animism and personification of nature-powers in more or less human form, as earth-divinities or sky-gods or embodiments of the tribe[.]”

“As such they were at first the natural places for rites intended to compel the earth; later they became definite sanctuaries of earth divinities.”

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