It is frequently found among the tutelary deities of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
Lanka, another tutelary deity, is consoled by Alaka. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
In Sumatra the elephant is regarded as a tutelary spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
Perhaps a tutelary genius, invisible to us, inhabits the house. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
They are said to become possessed by their tutelary war spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Of sharp misused power of mind, too, she is the tutelary goddess. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
The Fairy, tutelary or persecuting, of the chivalrous metrical romance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Tyrian tutelary deity Melkart, who is identified with Baal by many writers. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Oh, Apollo, my tutelary! oh! ye favourable gods! what has overtaken this man?. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
The idea of guardian angels and tutelary deities arose naturally and inevitably. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
In Easter Island a form of the house-god is the lizard; it is also a tutelary deity in. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
His master-piece was the picture of Ialysus, the tutelary hero of Rhodes, where he lived. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
At Porto Novo, in French West Africa, twins have tutelary spirits in the shape of small monkeys. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
The Fairy, tutelary or persecuting, now giving and now turning destinies, of the fairy tale proper. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
The country round Agra and Delhi is their home, and the shrine of the tutelary goddess of some of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The goddess Devi is the tutelary deity of the caste, as of all those who ply a disreputable profession. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
There is nothing that does not partake of that of which the missionary, or the tutelary, is the special. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
He thought himself to be restrained from entering upon what was inexpedient or wrong by a tutelary spirit. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
One of the tutelary deities of the Banjaras is Banjari Devi, whose shrine is usually located in the forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Thereupon, forty stripes were ordered for each of us, that the tutelary genius of the ship might be propitiated. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
Dasahra, and every third year their tutelary goddess Vindhyabasini is carried in procession from village to village. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
One Bahram of Nachangaon near Pulgaon is the tutelary deity of the Wardha Dhangars and the protector of their flocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
If a son is born to her she must go to Mahaur, a village near Delhi where the tutelary goddess of the caste has her shrine. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
So Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, and patroness of all the liberal arts and sciences, became the tutelary deity of Athens. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
I found the popular tutelary temples in Peking and other places, and the path up Mount T'ai in Shan-lung similarly frequented. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
And hence it has arisen that some people have understood by Levana the tutelary power that controls the education of the nursery. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Or that, despite modern reasoning upon this subject, there was once something that was super-parental or tutelary to early orientals. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Binjhwar is derived from the Vindhya hills, and the tribe still worship the goddess Vindhyabasini of these hills as their tutelary deity. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
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