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The war god Huitzilopochtli required blood as the price of Aztec victory and the rain god Tlaloc required it as the price of the harvest; if these gods remained unpropitiated, the world would end.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alone of gods he is unpropitiated by food or libation, indicating that he is not evolved out of a hungry ghost.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

Thus, the African Supreme Being is unpropitiated, while inferior spirits are constrained by magic or propitiated with food.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew

Father Sweeny received these consolations with an unpropitiated grunt.

From Mount Music by Ross, Martin

If so, why, as greatest of divine beings, 'Very Chief,' and having powerful ministers under him, is he left unpropitiated, unless it be by moral discourses at the mysteries?

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew