be incarnate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Aitu langi was the name of a village god in another place, and supposed to be incarnate in the owl.

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

And after the same manner the Nature is also said to be incarnate, not that it is changed to flesh, but that it assumed the nature of flesh.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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 same god was also supposed to be incarnate in the octopus, and also in the land crab.

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