be incarnate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Jiji was supposed to be incarnate in the dark-coloured heron, and Fainga'a in the light-coloured heron.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, 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

This was the name of a village god in Savaii supposed to be incarnate in a man who walked about but was never visible to the people of the place.

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

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