Pithy sayings about presiding deity's memorials (9)

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monuments

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'memorials' is the definition.
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'pithy sayings about presiding deity's' is the wordplay.
'pithy sayings' becomes 'mots' (I've seen this in another clue).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'presiding deity's' becomes 'numen' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'mots' enclosing 'numen' is 'MONUMENTS'.

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