Deity
<p >A <b>deity</b> (<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/En-uk-deity1.ogg" title="Listen" ><img src="/af581791-93c3-537f-aeb1-dee36f64e9d7.png"/></a><sup class="noexcerpt" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-uk-deity1.ogg" title="File:En-uk-deity1.ogg" >i</a></sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English" >/</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English" >ˈdiː.ɨti</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English" >/</a> or <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-uk-deity2.ogg" title="Listen" ><img src="/d6a44ee6-7d69-5e1c-859d-f17a8bec35a0.png"/></a><sup class="noexcerpt" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-uk-deity2.ogg" title="File:En-uk-deity2.ogg" >i</a></sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English" >/</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English" >ˈdeɪ.ɨti</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English" >/</a>) is a speculative being, whether <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural" title="Natural" class="mw-redirect" >natural</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural" >supernatural</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preternatural" title="Preternatural" >preternatural</a>, having superhuman powers or qualities, who may be thought of as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy" title="Holy" class="mw-redirect" >holy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity" title="Divinity" >divine</a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred" title="Sacred" >sacred</a>, whose <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology" title="Mythology" >myths</a> are held to be true, and who can speak to and communuicate with his believers.</p>
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Deities are depicted in a variety of forms, but are also frequently expressed as having human form. Some faiths and traditions consider it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemous" title="Blasphemous" class="mw-redirect" >blasphemous</a> to imagine or depict the deity as having any concrete form. They are usually depicted as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality" title="Immortality" >immortal</a>, and are commonly assumed to have personalities and to possess consciousness, intellects, desires, and emotions similar to those of humans. Such natural phenomena as lightning, floods, storms, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle" title="Miracle" >miracles</a> are sometimes attributed to them, and they may be thought to be the authorities or controllers of various aspects of human life (such as birth or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterlife" title="Afterlife" >afterlife</a>). Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" title="Earth" >Earth</a> or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe" title="Universe" >universe</a>.</p>