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A specific phenomenon, such as a lightning bolt, interpreted and experienced as a deity.

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momentary god

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A specific phenomenon, such as a lightning bolt, interpreted and experienced as a deity.

Japanese Meaning

特定の現象、例えば稲妻などが、神として解釈され経験される存在

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When a lightning bolt split the sky and vanished, the villagers bowed down before the momentary god.

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稲妻が空を裂いて消えると、村人たちは束の間の神にひれ伏した。

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A specific phenomenon, such as a lightning bolt, interpreted and experienced as a deity.

Concentrating his attention on the conception of lightning, Usener discovers a transition in the way lightning is conceived: initially experienced as an exclamation in response to a "momentary god"—Zeus originally meant "he who thunders"—[…]

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momentary gods

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