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Dewa

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Amaterasu iyolah Dewi matoari dimano katurunannyo manikah jo Kaisar Uda.

Dewa (jantan) dan Dewi (batino) adolah makhluk hiduik biasonyo manusia nan manguasai unsua-unsua alam jo tanago dalam dianggok sati bamukjizat atau dinilai dari aspek-aspek tatontu pado kahidupan manusia. Inyo disembah, dianggok suci dan keramat, saroto dihormati dek manusia. Inyo nan bajinih kalamin jantan disabuik "Dewa", sadangkan "Dewi" iyolah sabutan untuak nan bajinih kalamin batino.

Dewa punyo bamacam-macam wujuik, ado nan bawujuik hewan biasonyo bawujuik manusia. Inyo hiduik abadi dan punyo parangai masiang-masiang. Inyo punyo emosi dan kacardasan layaknyo manusia. Babarapo fenomena alam ajak petir, hujan, banjir, badai, dan sabagainyo, tamasuak kaâjaiban dihubuangkan jo Inyo sabagai pangatur alam.[1] Inyo dapek pulo maâgiah hukuman kapado makhluk nan labiah randah darinyo. Babarapo dewa indak punyo kamahakuasaan panuah sahinggo Inyo disambah dangan sadarhano.

Agamo monoteistik atau agamo samawi hanyo manarimo ciek dewa (tarutamo disabuik sabagai "Tuhan"),[2][3] sadangkan agamo politeistik atau agamo ardi manarimo banyak dewa.[4]  

  1. Littleton, C. Scott (2005) (dalam bahaso en). Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology. New York: Marshall Cavendish. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-7614-7559-0. //books.google.com/books?id=3ufSStXPECkC&pg=PA378. Diakses pado 28 Juni 2017. 
  2. Becking, Bob; Dijkstra, Meindert; Korpel, Marjo; Vriezen, Karel (2001) (dalam bahaso en). Only One God?: Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah. London: New York. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-567-23212-0. //books.google.com/books?id=eMneBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA189. Diakses pado 28 Juni 2017. "The Christian tradition is, in imitation of Judaism, a monotheistic religion. This implies that believers accept the existence of only one God. Other deities either do not exist, are considered inferior, are seen as the product of human imagination, or are dismissed as remnants of a persistent paganism" 
  3. Korte, Anne-Marie; Haardt, Maaike De (2009) (dalam bahaso en). The Boundaries of Monotheism: Interdisciplinary Explorations Into the Foundations of Western Monotheism. Brill. p. 9. ISBN 978-90-04-17316-3. //books.google.com/books?id=-53d1iRsqDEC. Diakses pado 28 Juni 2017. 
  4. Brown, Jeannine K. (2007) (dalam bahaso en). Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics. Baker Academic. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8010-2788-8. //books.google.com/books?id=5QJjyGoxEzkC. Diakses pado 28 Juni 2017.