"earth divinity" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: earth divinities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|earth divinities}} earth divinity (plural earth divinities)
  1. A god or goddess of the Earth, as opposed to the sky.
    Sense id: en-earth_divinity-en-noun-TPe0rkBr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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[.]",
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