Sentence:  The dominant pottery of the century was Geometric ; political organization revolved about the basileis ; trade was just beginning to expand ; the <WSD>gods</WSD> who protected the Greek countryside were only now putting on their sharply anthropomorphic dress . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force