Meaning of supergod | Babel Free

Definitions

A particularly powerful or great, usually male, god.

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“We traveled a great deal during the last ten years of the Doctor's life. Usually I went with him, and usually our voyages were to Europe, where we revisited the old haunts or made acquaintance with regions we had not known before. Germany continued her upward progress. Politically, industrially, economically, the Doctor saw his grandmother country change from the poverty, simplicity, and humility which were formerly her distinguishing features to a position of wealth, importance, and pride, disputing the hegemony with Albion herself. In his heart of hearts he attributed the leadership she was winning to her devotion to, her preeminence in science. He gloried in this triumph of his religion. Science to him included all possibilities. It had the true idea of eternity because it proclaimed the constant flow and interaction of living forces — evolution. It set up no truth, no revelation from man-made supergod to demigod or superman, no creed that in its very arresting of development contained the germ of death, but taught a gradual unfolding of life forces which, even in destroying, build up and make for growth.”

“Thrones have fallen, idols have tarnished and crumbled, and nameless rites and ceremonies whereby the devotees of other days sought to placate the spirit of the Untoward have perished from the minds of men, but the kingdom of the Yellow God has increased with the passing centuries. Wide is his rule, and popular; and as for the power wielded by the Yellow God, how shall we, with limited words, define its vast reaches? In comparison with his imperial power the influence and prerogatives of presidents, prime ministers, and kings of states, are limited and trivial. The great ones of the earth rise and fall, and their days pass as a tale that is told; but the Yellow God reigns on, unmindful of human woe, unmoved by the solemn flight of time. Of the lesser gods he is supergod; and he is yellow through and through!”

“Yet through this texture of a material, commonsense, comfort-loving folk, ran a curious alien thread. They were intensely superstitious. Their religion, even more than that of the Greeks and Romans, is a vast intricate framework of sacrifices and propitiations to a complex hierarchy of deities—the Dii Consentes corresponding to Jupiter and the rest, and the Dii Involuti—supergods to whom even Jove bowed, and myriad godlets, such as Lares and Penates and Manes, among whom the spirits of the dead took their places. Everything swarmed with divine presences, big or small; above all, everything might be significant of divine expression.”

“It is this interaction and in minor cases ensuing conflict of wills which is the origin of all the evil in the world — not only among men but among the beings strung all along the rungs of the ascending Ladder of Cosmic Life, from the supergods downwards through all intermediate stages to men; and the evil or disharmony which is apparent among the beasts and in less degree in the plants and minerals is due to exactly the same cause. There would be no evil or disharmony on Earth, so far as human beings are concerned, if it were not for this conflict of human wills, which is another way of saying the wrong exercise or use of that divine faculty — a god-like power working within us — dur relatively free will.”

“Angelino sees rocks and mountains as personalities with differing degrees of power, often with blood relations. Mount Kapia is the most powerful entity in the broad region of Yunguyo, Incahuási the most imposing local deity. Thus Kapia belongs to a category of supergods called tius or tíos (uncles), while Incahuási pertains to the smaller mountain spirits. Still, Angelino sees Kapia and Incahuási as complementary. “Kapia is the man, and Incahuási is the woman,” he said. “Kapia doesn’t have any fertile valleys or fruit trees. But Incahuási has all these crops nearby.””

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