They'd been named after trade heroes or patron deities, and this turned them into a family, of a sort.

This god was also the patron deity of tobacco and merchants.

In return she asks that he find a new patron deity for prostitutes.

He is also regarded as the patron deity of acting and theatre.

There are many clergy, each concerned with the affairs of his or her patron deity.

They are the patron deities of gardens and fruit orchards.

Even servants of the same element have little in common other than sharing a patron deity.

Members are encouraged to set up home altars to their patron Deities.

What does one say to one's patron deity?

The political influence of a city could affect the importance of its patron deity.

The poetic division of the landscape into five regions also associated each region with its own patron deity.

But the humans in the tale believe in the reality of their patron deities.

The various states also worshipped their respective founders as local patron deities.

Each quarter contains one of the twenty day signs, its patron deity, and associated symbols.

In it, the god Ninurta is invoked as patron deity of boundaries.

Clerics are often devoted to the entire pantheon instead of a specific patron deity.

She was more or less the patron deity of the area, as much as there was one.

Many Hindu families have their own family patron deity or the Kuladaivat.

In the Shinto faith, boys were taken to the shrine of their patron deity at approximately 14 years old.

Kagutsuchi was the patron deity of blacksmiths and ceramic workers.

She is also considered patron deity of Kutch.

In this same interval, the incoming patron deity of the year was installed and the outgoing one removed.

Siri is the patron deity of the Bunt people.

He is the arch enemy of kobolds and their patron deity Kurtulmak.

The Nameless One is the patron deity of the diarmadh'im.