godkind
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From god + -kind, modelled after mankind. Compare Old English godcund (“of the nature of god, divine, religious”).
Noun
[edit]godkind (uncountable)
- Divinity; gods collectively.
- 1996, Witness Lee, The Crystallization-Study of the Gospel of John:
- This is to become “Godkind,” God's species.
- 2002, Paul Radin, Primitive Man as Philosopher:
- I smoke with the great spirit. Let us have a blue day." The pipe is used because the smoke from the pipe, smoked in communion, has the potency of the feminine god who mediates between godkind and mankind, and propitiates the godkind.
- 2008, Kaedrich Olsen, Runes for Transformation:
- They were the primal and destructive entities that, as lore has it, were bent on the destruction of man- and godkind. Also associated with this rune is the energy of Thor. He is the protector of man- and godkind.