be incarnate
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It is held to be incarnate in each climate, culture and race.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Whatever was most brilliant in the spirit of the Italian Benaissance seemed to be incarnate in Lorenzo.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
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
When a god was believed to be incarnate in a species of birds or animals or fish, omens were naturally drawn from the appearance and behaviour of the creatures.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
