God, a hand perhaps skyward? (5)
I believe the answer is:
atlas
'god' is the definition.
(Atlas is an example)
'a hand perhaps skyward?' is the wordplay.
'hand perhaps' becomes 'salt' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'skyward?' says the letters should be written in reverse (I've seen 'skyward' mean this (in a down clue, letters go up)).
'salt' back-to-front is 'tlas'.
'a'+'tlas'='ATLAS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for atlas that I've seen before include "used for maps" , "travel book" , "One hugely burdened" , "Titan who held up the sky" , "A geog. book; N. African range" .)