"earth divinity" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 15",
          "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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          "ref": "1922, Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 125",
          "text": "As such they were at first the natural places for rites intended to compel the earth; later they became definite sanctuaries of earth divinities.",
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        "A god or goddess of the Earth, as opposed to the sky."
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  "word": "earth divinity"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 15",
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          "text": "As such they were at first the natural places for rites intended to compel the earth; later they became definite sanctuaries of earth divinities.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A god or goddess of the Earth, as opposed to the sky."
      ]
    }
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  "word": "earth divinity"
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