Daimon vs Deity - What's the difference?
daimon | deity |
A tutelary spirit that guides a person; a genius; a lar.
* 1891, Walter James Hoffman, The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
* 1900, , Over the Teacups
* 1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America'', in ''Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature , vol. 1, no. 1
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
*:Marcus Aurelius is persuaded that God gives every man a special daimon as his guide – a belief which reappears in the Christian guardian angel.
The state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
A divine being; a god or goddess.
As nouns the difference between daimon and deity
is that daimon is a tutelary spirit that guides a person; a genius; a lar while deity is the state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead.daimon
English
Noun
(tutelary deity) (en noun)- The object which first appears is adopted as the personal mystery, guardian spirit, or tutelary daimon of the entranced, and is never mentioned by him without first making a sacrifice.
- All at once, my daimon —that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.
- He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.
Derived terms
* daimonicReferences
* Oxford English Dictionary, second edition.Anagrams
* * ----deity
English
(wikipedia deity)Noun
(deities)- Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee .