Deity | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-17

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deity


00:03:02 1 Etymology
00:05:55 2 Definitions
00:10:29 3 Prehistoric
00:12:24 4 Regional cultures
00:12:34 4.1 Sub-Saharan African
00:15:15 4.2 Ancient Near Eastern
00:15:24 4.2.1 Egyptian
00:18:17 4.2.2 Levantine
00:20:00 4.2.3 Mesopotamian
00:22:48 4.3 Indo-European
00:22:57 4.3.1 Greek
00:26:36 4.3.2 Germanic
00:28:35 4.3.3 Roman
00:31:49 4.4 Native American
00:31:59 4.4.1 Inca
00:33:54 4.4.2 Maya and Aztec
00:36:01 4.5 Polynesian
00:37:48 5 Religions
00:37:57 5.1 Abrahamic religions
00:38:07 5.1.1 Christianity
00:40:34 5.1.2 Islam
00:41:43 5.1.3 Judaism
00:43:31 5.2 Eastern religions
00:43:41 5.2.1 Buddhism
00:45:28 5.2.2 Hinduism
00:47:13 5.2.3 Jainism
00:48:55 5.2.4 Zoroastrianism
00:50:30 6 Rational interpretations



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A deity ( (listen),  (listen)) is a supernatural being considered divine or sacred. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines deity as "a god or goddess (in a polytheistic religion)", or anything revered as divine. C. Scott Littleton defines a deity as "a being with powers greater than those of ordinary humans, but who interacts with humans, positively or negatively, in ways that carry humans to new levels of consciousness, beyond the grounded preoccupations of ordinary life". In the English language, a male deity is referred to as a god, while a female deity is referred to as a goddess.
Religions can be categorized by how many deities they worship. Monotheistic religions accept only one deity (predominantly referred to as God), polytheistic religions accept multiple deities. Henotheistic religions accept one supreme deity without denying other deities, considering them as aspects of the same divine principle; and nontheistic religions deny any supreme eternal creator deity but accept a pantheon of deities which live, die and may be reborn like any other being.Although most monotheistic religions traditionally envision their God as omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, and eternal, none of these qualities are essential to the definition of a "deity" and various cultures conceptualized their deities differently. Monotheistic religions typically refer to God in masculine terms, while other religions refer to their deities in a variety of ways – masculine, feminine, androgynous and without gender.Historically, many ancient cultures – including the ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Norsemen– personified natural phenomena, variously as either deliberate causes or effects. Some Avestan and Vedic deities were viewed as ethical concepts. In Indian religions, deities were envisioned as manifesting within the temple of every living being's body, as sensory organs and mind. Deities were envisioned as a form of existence (Saṃsāra) after rebirth, for human beings who gain merit through an ethical life, where they become guardian deities and live blissfully in heaven, but are also subject to death when their merit is lost.