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Deities assume a variety of forms, but are frequently depicted as having human or animal form. Some faiths and traditions consider it  blasphemous to imagine or depict the deity as having any concrete form. They are usually immortal. They are commonly assumed to have personalities and to possess [[consciousness]], [[intellect]]s, desires, and emotions similar to those of [[human]]s. Such natural phenomena as lightning, floods, storms, other 'acts of God', and miracles are attributed to them, and they may be thought to be the authorities or controllers of every aspect of human life (such as birth or the afterlife). Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the [[universe]].

Deities assume a variety of forms, but are frequently depicted as having human or animal form. Some faiths and traditions consider it  blasphemous to imagine or depict the deity as having any concrete form. They are usually immortal. They are commonly assumed to have personalities and to possess [[consciousness]], [[intellect]]s, desires, and emotions similar to those of [[human]]s. Such natural phenomena as lightning, floods, storms, other 'acts of God', and miracles are attributed to them, and they may be thought to be the authorities or controllers of every aspect of human life (such as birth or the afterlife). Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the [[universe]].

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''[[Deity]]''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Deity '''''this link'''''].</center>

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''[[Deity]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Deity '''''this link'''''].</center>

==Etymology==

==Etymology==

The word "deity" derives from the [[Latin]] ''"dea"'', ("goddess"), and '''"deus"'', ("god"). Related are words for "sky": the Latin "''dies''" ("day") and "''divum''" ("open sky"), and the [[Sanskrit]] "''div''," "''diu''" ("sky," "day," "shine"). Also related are "divine" and "divinity," from the Latin "''divinus''," from "''divus''."  

The word "deity" derives from the [[Latin]] ''"dea"'', ("goddess"), and '''"deus"'', ("god"). Related are words for "sky": the Latin "''dies''" ("day") and "''divum''" ("open sky"), and the [[Sanskrit]] "''div''," "''diu''" ("sky," "day," "shine"). Also related are "divine" and "divinity," from the Latin "''divinus''," from "''divus''."  

DEITY is personalizable as God, is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the quality of unity—actual or potential—on all supermaterial levels of reality; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by creatures as divinity.

DEITY is personalizable as God, is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the quality of unity—actual or potential—on all supermaterial levels of reality; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by creatures as divinity.

Deity is the source of all that which is divine. Deity is characteristically and invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not necessarily Deity, though it will be co-ordinated with Deity and will tend towards some phase of unity with Deity—spiritual, mindal, or personal. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword]

Deity is the source of all that which is divine. Deity is characteristically and invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not necessarily Deity, though it will be co-ordinated with Deity and will tend towards some phase of unity with Deity—spiritual, mindal, or personal. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword]

[[Category: Religion]]

[[Category: Religion]]