be incarnate

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It is held to be incarnate in each climate, culture and race.

From Time Magazine Archive

But who will not feel the force of the position that, granted God was to be incarnate, the story of Christ's incarnation is the noblest and most probable?

From The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers by Goodsell, Daniel A.

Gods are held to be incarnate in animals and trees, but there are also great gods divorced to some extent from phenomena.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

The most renowned was the Hapi or Apis bull of Memphis, in whom Ptah was said to be incarnate, and who was Osirified and became the Osir-hapi.

From The Religion of Ancient Egypt by Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir

This was the name of a village god, and was supposed to be incarnate in the cockle.

From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George