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I don't have sufficient context to write an accurate overview based solely on "the male form of God." This phrase is too vague and could refer to different concepts across various religious traditions. To provide an accurate, neutral explanation of "deva," I would need more specific contextual information about which tradition or belief system is being referenced.
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- Devas (Buddhism)
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- div (mythology)
- enemy
- asura
- worshipped by
- Hinduism
- facet of
- Hindu cosmology
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提婆（梵語：देव，羅馬化：Deva，IPA：/dévə/），在梵語中本意是天，在印度教神话体系中转指居住在天界的男性神明，故亦可译为天、天人，女性天人称提毗。有趣的是，在瑣羅亞斯德教中，德弗（Daēva）反而是惡魔的統稱，與善神阿胡拉（Ahura）對立。
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