Sentence:  We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a <WSD>deification</WSD> of legitimate political authority. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A deified embodiment.