What is "nourisher"

Usage examples of "nourisher".

Then came the various Sun-Gods, Adityas or Solar Attributes, Surya the Heavenly, Savitri the Progenitor, Pashan the Nourisher, Bagha the Felicitous, and Mitra the Friend.

They claimed to be descended directly from Audhumla, the Nourisher, who had been formed in the primeval mists of the vast and seemingly empty Ginnungagap.

Syr greets you in the name of she who is daughter of Audhumla, and in the name of all the Vanir, Children of the Nourisher, Siblings of the Vettir.

How dared he question the ways of the Children of the Nourisher, the Elder Race?

It went on to relate how the Nourisher, attracted by the taste of salt, began to lick everything, implanting parts of her own spirit in trees and bushes and rocks and animals, giving birth to the Vettir, the gods that dwelled at the heart of every object.

IX A figure of black rock by sunbeams crowned Through stormclouds, where the volumed shades enfold An earth in awe before the claps resound And woods and dwellings are as billows rolled, The barren Nourisher unmelted shed Death from the looks that wandered with the dead Out of the realms of gold, In famine for her lost, her lost unfound.

Untouched, unassailable, undefiled, that mighty world-force, that nourisher of nations, wrapped in Nirvanic calm, indifferent to the human swarm, gigantic, resistless, moved onward in its appointed grooves.