We were nature deities originally, before human need turned some of us more civilized.

He is an enemy of the vile nature deity Karaan.

She is the lover of Papa Bois, a nature deity.

Dionysus was a nature deity like the old Chthonic goddesses of the earth.

A nature deity can be in charge of nature, the biosphere, the cosmos or the universe.

The richness of nature deities or their epithets (ahtu) brings about the beneficial result of life/food.

The inscription has been interpreted as a list of local or nature deities to whom transhumant shepherds should make propitiary offers.

In Roman mythology, Pilumnus ("staker") was a nature deity, brother of Picumnus.

The Finnish pagans were also animists, worshipping local nature deities at site-specific shrines to that particular deity.

A vegetation deity is a nature deity whose disappearance and reappearance, or life, death and rebirth, embodies the growth cycle of plants.

The first part, Eastern and Little Nature Deity, is drawn by Nemu Matsukura.

They have Nature Deities and the Spirits, both divided into broad categories of Benevolent and Malevolent.

Thus a second version of Touhou Sangetsusei is published, titled Strange and Bright Nature Deity.

Like several other nature deities who appear in both the singular and the plural (such as Faunus/fauni), she has both a unified and a multiple aspect.

"Such deities are very much overshadowed by the divine figures defined through poetry and cult," Walter Burkert remarked of Greek nature deities.

It is possible that many local nature deities of the Celts were grouped under the name of Silvanus to the Romans, as is the case with Vinotonus.

There are also images of Vishnu, Vedic nature deities of Indra, Surya and Yama in the rectangular niches running around the base of the porch.

Rothbart, a sinister courtier in Act III, is suddenly replaced by another dancer, the near-naked nature deity with ram's horns who opens the ballet in the prologue.

Cave shrines in China probably served two purposes: originally, before Buddhism came to China, they may have been used as local shrines to worship one's ancestors or various nature deities.

According to Roger Lancelyn Green, the satyrs probably began as minor nature deities, while their designated leader Silenus originated as a water spirit, a maker of springs and fountains.

Some scholars believe that Dionysus is a syncretism of a local Greek nature deity and a more powerful god from Thrace or Phrygia such as Sabazios or Zalmoxis.

Like similar nature deities, Silvanus himself is found sometimes conceived of as plural (Silvani), and Silvani/Silvanae form a male-female complement characteristic of the Roman conception of deity.

In January 2009, Strange and Bright Nature Deity ended and was replaced by the third part, titled Oriental Sacred Place in May 2009, still drawn by Makoto Hirasaka.

Phyton was once like most other nature deities, but now represents man's dominance over nature, which pits him and his followers against druids, other nature gods, and others who would protect the wild from mankind's depredations.

Shenism describes Chinese mythology and includes the worship of shen (spirit, god, awareness, consciousness) which can be nature deities, Taizu or clan deities, city gods, national deities, culture heroes and demigods, dragons and ancestors.