deities

In the Sundarbans, superstition about angering water deities made it hard to get people to fence their ponds.

The court on Monday granted permission for the police to seize the artworks after a complaint was filed alleging that the paintings, displayed at an art gallery and featuring two Hindu deities, "hurt religious sentiments".

In the past, gangsters would ask for protection from Afro-Brazilian deities and Catholic saints.

The predominantly male performers in Kerala and parts of neighbouring Karnataka embody deities through elaborate costumes, face paint, and trance-like dances, mime and music.

These ceremonies included visual and sonic iconographic elements of mythological deities of the Aztec underworld, which may also be symbolized in the Aztec death whistle.