Deity
- This article is on deities or deuses of a perspective not . It sees for information of the monoteísta point of view.
The concept of deity it assumed, to the long one of the centuries, some conceptions, evolving since the forms most primitive proceeding from the tribes of the antiquity until the dogmáticas definitions of the religions .
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Concept
DEITY it is the characteristic, unifying and coordinating quality of Deity.
Deity it is intelligible, for the creature, as truth, beauty e goodness. It finds its correspondence in the personality as love, mercy e ministração. E it is disclosed, in the impersonal levels, as justice, to be able e sovereignty.
In one another direction, an entity with carcateristica divine or oneDeity it is a extra-natural being, usually with being able significant, cultuado, had as , or , and/or respected by beings human beings. Normally Deities are considered superior to the human beings.
Deities assume a variety of forms, but they are frequently antropomorfas or zoomorfas. A deity can be masculine, feminine, neutral hermaphrodite or, being usually .
Many times, the deities are identified with elements or human phenomena of the nature, virtues or vices or still inherent activities to the human beings.
It is assumed that a deity has personality and conscience, intellect, desires and emotions, in a sufficiently human direction of these terms. Moreover, it is usual that one determined deity presides over on aspects of the daily one of the man, as , , , etc. To some deities the function is attributed to give to the humanity civil and moral laws, as well as being the juízes of the value and human behavior.
It is tabém common to attribute to the deities, or the interactions between them, the creation of the universe and its future destruction.
Historical vision
Historicamente, is not possible to define which was the first tribe to create the deity concept. However, the writings oldest until today found mention the conceptions to it happened of , Vedaic e , which had appeared for return of 3600 aC.
In intention to create explanations for the existence of the elements and the beings of the nature, as well as, to know the direction of the natural phenomena (the storm, the wind, the day and the night, the stations, etc.), the peoples and tribes of the antiquity had conceived diverse deities that, in more of the times, had started to have feelings and identical emotions to the ones of the human beings. From there they had derived the rituals, ceremonies and sacrifices, that had as objective to thank benesses sent by these deities or to aplacar its anger, that the humanity with some calamity punished.
Vision Contemporary
Currently, many intellectuals question and speculate on the proper concept of Deity, as also diverse historical inquiries and archaeological they try to unmask the events and circumstances where the primitive men had created the first religious concepts.
Examples
- in
- - god of the Sky;
- - goddess of the Love and the Magic;
- - god of the Death;
- - god of the Evil;
- - god of the Sun;
- - creative god of the universe;
- in :
- in :
- , leader god of ;
- , god of the thunder;
- , god of justice;
- , goddess of the love and the beauty;
- , goddess of the land;
- , god of the wisdom and the poetry;
- , god dodger;
- , goddess of the sea;
- in the religion of :
- , god of all deuses;
- , goddess of the seas;
- , goddess of the rivers;
- Iansã, goddess of the winds and storms;
- , god of the war;
- , god of justice;
- in the religion :
- , god of the creation and the destruction;
- , god guard of the cosmic order;
- , god of the justice and of disciplines;
- Lakshimi, goddess of the prosperity and the generosity;
- , deity of the fire;
- , principle of all the things and all deuses.
The Eastern Vision
In East from centuries VII and VI aC., philosophical systems had appeared (, taoismo, ) that Gods (or deuses) for não-teísticos concepts substituíam, which had arrived at our days, with hundreds of millions of adepts spread for some countries of the world.
In the extreme east (China, Japan and India) complex não-teísticos philosophical concepts had been developed, which, to the long one of the time, if have mesclado with the traditions of primitive politeístas religions, that had always existed there and that deeply they were taken root in the spirit of the people.
- - It is a native religion of Japan. It involves the worship of , that they represent deuses, or the espíritos of the nature, or still, simply a presence spiritual. The main and more important subject in the Xintoísta religion is a great love and reverence for the nature. Thus, the Moon, a Waterfall or a Rock can be observed as a Kami. The Kamis is not transcendentes deities, but yes beings the holy ghosts that are next we, who the same inhabit world that we, the same errors commit that we, and have similar feelings and thoughts to ours. A person who dies can automatically be transformed into Kami, not importing the type of life that it has led. The Kamis can be good or bad. The Xintoísmo is a collection of rituals and methods that regulate the relations between the human beings and the deities (Kami). The life after the death is not a primary concern for the xintoístas, therefore a bigger emphasis is placed in finding the happiness in the life in this world.
- - It is a não-teística philosophy created by Lao-Tsé, that displayed its thoughts in the book: . The concept God, as is known in the tradition occidental person, does not exist in this philosophy. Everything what exists is , that it means "the Way". Tao is a concept that exceeds the dimensions space-time and, therefore, cannot be understood by the limited mind human being. Constitue the essence of the universe, the last and indefinível reality, and is through the Tao - term and perpetual way of the evolution - that the things pass all. Everything is cyclical, therefore Tao is the energy that flows through all the life. Of Tao drift Yin and Yang - number two, that it represents the dual nature of all the things (good-bad, life-death, day-night, clearly-dark, happiness-sadness, health-illness). Of Yin and Yang the three (Sky, Land and Humanity) e is born implicitly, finally, for extension, if it produces the totality of the world in the form as we see it and we know.
- - Created by , the Buddha or the Illuminated one, generally is seen as a não-teística religion, even so nails the existence of deuses - you must - that they are creatures who enjoy of great happiness in its celestial worlds. However, these beings, are not perpetual and are citizens to the death and the eventual renaissances as inferior beings, moored to one determined aspect of the nature, in which will have that unconditionally to work. The existence of the man is cyclical passenger and - (joint of the cycles of birth and death). The man will only be free of this "Cycle of Renaissances" when to reach a perfect wisdom, or either, when to become Illuminated. To leave of this moment, it will be lead for . The Illuminated being is confused then with the Universal Mind. Diverse Buddhist declares on this Illuminated Being: "I am the Nucleus of all the things that exist. I am the Seed of all the things that exist. I am the Cause of all the things that exist. I am the Root of the Existence ".
- - philosophical, religious and ethical System developed from the teachings of . The main objective of this philosophy consists - not in overwheling the people to a Superior Being (God) - but yes, through Rites, to work in the interior of them, in order to mold its behavior and to give self-control on its desires. In this direction, all will ahead recognize its relative position of its fellow creatures, identifying at every moment who is the youngest e who is wisest, who is the visitor and who is the owner of the house, and thus for ahead; e will reach the knowledge on its obligation between the others and what to wait of them. It has specific obligations prescribed for all the participants in all the ramifications of the human relationship. "it does not make to the others, what voce does not want that they make you", it is the known Chinese principle as Gold Rule of the Confucionismo. Solidarity and the education are the great ideals searched for this philosophy, and in is the biggest example of these virtues.
Other concepts
Beyond the teística vision (politeísmo or monoteísmo), the deity can still be visualized under the optics of the following philosophical-religious concepts:
- - Opposing it the vision of the teísmo, the ateísmo denies the existence of God or deuses. For some atheists, the concept God left as sequela for the humanity a myriad amount of traditions and customs, kept in its name, that had lead the human being to as a plain one, fact this that it made to turn the wheel of history against he himself, overwheling it it the will of this intangible concept, and limiting its life and its creativity for generations and generations.
- - Inside of the agnóstica vision, is not possible to prove the existence of God rationally, as also it is equally impossible to prove its inexistence. The politeísmo and the monoteísmo are fit inside of a vision gnóstica of god, that is, Gods or deuses are beings whose attributes perfectly are defined or disclosed in its sacred books. For a agnóstico, however, God can until existing, however its characteristics are incompressible for the reason human being.
- - the panteísta vision supports that the entire Universe is the proper God. Thus: "God is the Universe, and the Universe is God". In the panteísmo emphasis to the imanentes deities is given, while that in (vision where the Universe entirely is contained in God, however This is some bigger thing that the Universe) gives emphasis to the transcendentais characteristics of God.
- - Belief in which if attributes to all the elements of the cosmos (Sun, Moon, stars), to all the elements of the nature (river, ocean, mountain, forest, rock), to all the beings livings creature (animal, trees, plants) and to all the natural phenomena (rain, wind, day, night) a vital and personal principle, that is, a Soul. Consequentemente, all these elements are passíveis to possuirem: feelings, emotions, wills or desires, and even though intelligence. Resumidamente, the animistic cults allege that: "All the things are Vivas", "All the things are Conscientes", or "All the things have a Soul". Currently, one argues which had been historicamente the first cults that had given to origin to all the religions and all deuses. Some historians and scientists defend the thesis of that they had been the politeístas myths, while others affirm that they had been the animistic cults.
Speculative variants
- Some people speculate that Gods or deuses are extra-terrestrial beings. Many of these theories support that intelligent beings proceeding from other planets had visited the Land in the past and had influenced in the development of the religions. Some books propoem that as much the prophets as the messias had been also sent to our world with the exclusive objective to teach moral concepts and to encourage the development of the civilization.
- Which also speculates on itself that all the religiosidade of the man will create in the future a called entity God, will emerge of an artificial intelligence. , a writer of scientific fiction, said in an interview that: "It can be that our destination in this planet is not to adore the God, but yes criá-Lo".
- Others speculate that the religions and myths are derived from the fear. Fear of the death, fear of the illnesses, fear of the calamities, fear of the predators, fear of the stranger. With passing of the time, these religions had been overwhelmd under the guardianship of the dominant authorities, which if they had transformed into governing the holy ghosts or sent by deuses. Of this form, the religion is simply a way to dominate the mass. Napoleão Bonaparte it said that: "the people does not need god, but he needs religion", what he wants to say that the mass needs a doctrine that disciplines it and it estabeleça a route, being that god is a mere secondary detail.
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