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tutelary
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For Wilson, what most vividly summed up the demise of Britain was Brown's removal of the image of Britain's tutelary deity, the trident-brandishing "Britannia", from British coins.
The Orphanage has been brought to the screen by its executive producer and tutelary deity, Guillermo del Toro, and Del Toro's own films are obviously an important influence, although on the strength of this, Bayona deserves to be considered a film-maker with real stature; his film is comparable to Alejandro Amenábar's excellent ghost story The Others, and The Orphanage is frankly at least as interesting and powerful as Del Toro's extravagantly praised Pan's Labyrinth.
In many parts of China, the tutelary deity "tours" the territory of the community he protects: in Fuzhou he often enters the ancestral halls to receive worship.
 
 
 
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