all-father
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3VERB + ALL-FATHER
coexist
ALL-FATHER + NOUN
fatherhood
PREP.
with
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name
The chief god of a pantheon.
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noun
A supreme being; a god who rules over all others.
Our first lesson is that God is a Father ; the second, that He is an All-Father ; that His Fatherhood is a fact in which others, without any limit perceptible to us, have an equal share with ourselves.
At a primitive stage this is sometimes (e.g. with the Australians) scarcely regarded as communion with a specific divinity or divinities, yet the All-Fathers and the mythical beings fill an important rôle in these rites, while at a more developed stage the rites have a close connexion with chthonic or heavenly powers.
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3Our first lesson is that God is a Father ; the second, that He is an All-Father ; that His Fatherhood is a fact in which others, without any limit perceptible to us, have an equal share with ourselves
WiktionaryAt a primitive stage this is sometimes (e.g. with the Australians) scarcely regarded as communion with a specific divinity or divinities, yet the All-Fathers and the mythical beings fill an important
WiktionaryThe Arunta totemic system could not coexist with an All-Father.
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