culture god

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culture god (plural culture gods)

  1. A god that is believed to have brought culture (arts, literature, technology, etc.) to a people.
    • 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page viii. 178:
      That Hu was a culture-god symbolized by the bull [...] is therefore clear enough.