The Wicca see the cauldron as a symbol of the Goddess, the manifested essence of femininity and fertility. |
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Chaos is a calm Goddess, who loves to work with Existence to create things and let them run amok on their own. |
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Here we have a main character, played by Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah, wearing Hindu clothing and worshiping the Goddess Kali. |
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The Goddess also figures prominently in alchemy in its concern with primal matter, the primal matrix from which all else may be transmuted. |
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Shakta devotionalists use puja rites, especially to the Shri Chakra yantra, to establish intimacy with the Goddess. |
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The Shakta yogis seek to awaken the sleeping Goddess Kundalini and unite her with Lord Shiva in the Sahasrara Chakra. |
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Ever since, the victory over the asura is celebrated with customary obeisance to the Goddess Durga. |
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A larger clam or cowry shell and an auger shell can stand in for Goddess and God images in a pinch, particularly on a small altar. |
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It's an awesome place and the Celts associated it with their Goddess of Waters, Sul, sanctifying it into a shrine. |
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In the trident we find the magickal number three appearing with its association to the Goddess and the moon. |
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The majuscule letter V symbolizes a daughter of the Mother Goddess or the Mother Goddess as a virgin. |
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Tch, tch, O Holy One, how else can you do the bidding of the Goddess unless you are yourself the Queen of Heaven. |
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She was the Goddess of Wisdom, and the daughter of the Titaness who basically personified it. |
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Nanda Devi is the patron Goddess of Gharwal and Kumaon and has been a towering influence on the culture of these twin mountain regions. |
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I think I've chosen the name Thena for her, short for Athena, Greek Goddess of War. |
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The triplicity of the Goddess in these texts is one of the most recurrent themes. |
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It seems that it is enough to bless the Goddess or the God, or to bring wine and cakes to the Sabbat, or to give up some of one's time. |
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The hotel chef named the dressing for English actor George Arliss, who stayed there while performing in the play called The Green Goddess. |
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In the center of the altar, to the back, was a lovely image of the Goddess, carved from soapstone. |
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Dames's approach to the Avebury monuments resonates well with many Pagans, especially Goddess worshippers and Druids. |
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She could feel the presence of Ishtar welling within her and knew that the Goddess was speaking through her. |
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I even spent an afternoon studying a book devoted to drawings of various Goddess symbols and glyphs found on ancient artifacts. |
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Even the Sundanese of West Java, who consider themselves Muslims, believe rice is the personification of the rice Goddess Dewi Sri. |
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First known inhabitants of this sunshine state were Chumash people who tell of ancestors springing from seeds provided by Earth Goddess. |
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In the 1970s, the government stepped in to conduct the procession with the idol of the Goddess placed on the golden howdah. |
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The central symbol of much of the ancient pagan cult in biblical Canaan was the Ashera tree, symbol of the Goddess Ashera incarnate. |
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She took in one final breath of the scent of the jasmine incense, the scent of the Goddess, one Angharad had adopted for herself. |
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And the sort of Goddess which the Fates held out to me was contained in the Old Religion. |
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Those whom the Goddess rejected as unworthy died in the initiation, accursed and doomed. |
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In the fervent chant of prayers, this energy rises to join with the prayers of thousands of other voices invoking the Goddess Liberty. |
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But when the Goddess was invoked by the priestess, I felt what I had always experienced as the Holy Spirit come down. |
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There was a brief flare of white light, and the Goddess vanished, leaving only a smattering of loose tinsel behind. |
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At least one underground temple catacomb has been associated with the cult of a Mother Goddess. |
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He started to attack the Goddess, but she then asked for the Lady's permission to put a curse on him. |
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Mexico exports Damiana Liquor, which is quite scrumptious and packaged in a bottle shaped like a curvaceous Goddess. |
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Since the age of 11, he has been holding programmes where he sings songs praising the Goddess. |
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Of course, senility will come soon, and I praise the Goddess it has held off until now. |
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Nor can it be gainsaid that Goddess worship was an aspect of pre-Christian religion. |
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Some of the men had prostrated themselves flat on their faces, arms outstretched towards the Goddess. |
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Many times I offered cakes and fruit, especially to my patron Goddess Artemis, protectress of children. |
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She is, above all, the Goddess of the City, the protectress of civilized life, of artesian activities, and of agriculture. |
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The favorite deity of ancient Dravidians, Manasa, was a snake Goddess who sat on a lotus throne wearing a tiara of seven cobras. |
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At the end of the small room there was a deity figure of the goddess Nova the Water Goddess. |
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Though she is fierce, terrifying and destructive, the Goddess is said to be quick to come to the aid of her devotees. |
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Pagan philosophies appealed to many eco-activists, who also saw Nature as sacred and recognised the Great Goddess as Mother Nature. |
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As Kannon in Japan, the Goddess is often shown holding a two-edged sword and riding a dragon. |
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Then I went to Dream Goddess and let my cares and worries float away. |
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As the embodiment of Goddess the hierodule conjoined in the sacred marriage with the king or priest, and this ritual became intertwined with the fecundity of nature. |
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True poets derive their gifts from the Muse, the primitive, matriarchal Moon Goddess, once dominant but now disastrously dispossessed by male values of reason and logic. |
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The chosen deity in the Tantras may be a form the Goddess Mother. |
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The mother and child is also a symbol of the procreative, regenerative power of the Goddess, the earth mother, the fecundity of primal matter and again darkness. |
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From the courtyard one is faced with two flights of stairs one leading to the Shilla Mata Temple complex that enshrines the image of Goddess of Power, Kali. |
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Elinor Gadon, the author of that excellent collation of art materials and texts called The Once and Future Goddess, was speaking at the launch of the project. |
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I have thought of blotting these words out with sand and starting again, but the Goddess speaks powerfully in me, and makes me bow my head to Her will. |
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One night, as Charumathi slept, Goddess Mahalakshmi appeared in her dreams and asked her to perform a puja to Varalakshmi, the goddess who granted boons. |
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The mahout bowed to the Goddess, hands arched in the gesture of namaskar, then began circling the shrine followed by the cymbal-clashers and the trumpet blowers. |
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Of all the religious practices and beliefs concerned with feminine divinities it is Shaktism which gives the Goddess a place of supreme importance. |
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The beautiful finish in the idols of Ram, Lakshman, Sita and Hanuman and Lord Siva and Goddess Parvathi made of gunmetal draws the attention of connoisseurs. |
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Some fingers may point at the kittenish Nigella Lawson, whose book How to be a Domestic Goddess introduced a new generation to the old-fashioned joys of baking. |
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Bromhall's next foray into the borderlands of science concerns the infamous Mother Goddess myth that all societies were supposedly female-fixated in prehistory. |
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The temple at Madurai is one of the few temples in India containing both male and female deities where the Goddess is always worshipped before the Gods. |
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The Mother Goddess is worshipped as Durga, but also assumes the form of local ammans, or goddesses, such as Mariamman, who protects against disease. |
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Those who were born with or took upon themselves the burden of necromancy were often looked upon favorably by all four Goddesses, except, of course, the Goddess of Light. |
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Perhaps she was a Goddess, maybe she was Venus herself reincarnated. |
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I remember Martin loaning me a copy of The White Goddess, that first edition with the version of the dedicatory poem which I really liked extraordinarily. |
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I developed a liking for devotional songs of the Goddess from childhood. |
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Ancient and intricate runes were carved all over it, and the statues of the Goddess Aurora lining the walls all seemed to be gazing at it in appreciation. |
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It was the Holy number, sacred to the Great Goddess Favirnia. |
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For Goddess pilgrims, as for orthodox religious pilgrims, the sacred place is a place of power which can work upon the pilgrim at various levels of their being. |
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The pine tree represented the God Attis, sleeping during the long winter nights and woken up by the Goddess Cybele in spring, for the celebration of springtide. |
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The performance was an attempt at reviving the legendary playing of music prior to the celestial wedding of Goddess Meenakshi with Lord Sundareswarar. |
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Like all religious pilgrimages, the Goddess pilgrimage is made for the purpose of devotion, but it is also at some level a feminist liberatory project and protest. |
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He mentioned also Schopenhauer, Robert Graves's book The White Goddess and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. |
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God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased. |
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Goddess and God flow throughout all of nature, through each and every man and woman, becoming fully present in the world. |
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The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess. |
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But if the Goddess chose to help you by giving Miss Hoover the Hershey squirts, such is her divine wisdom. |
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The Lord and the Lady Actually, when I say that Wicca is a Goddess tradition, I'm really only telling half of the story. |
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It is generally a duotheistic religion which worships the Horned God and Moon Goddess. |
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The purpose of this is to present the infant to the God and Goddess for protection. |
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These are traditionally viewed as the Moon Goddess and the Horned God, respectively. |
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In the classic Heian period, the court would travel to Ise to visit the shrine to the Sun Goddess and imperial progenitrix Amaterasu. |
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The Mother Goddess has been associated with life, fertility, and the springtime, and has been described as an ideal role model for women. |
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Other Wiccan conceptualisations have portrayed her as a Moon Goddess and as a Menstruating Goddess. |
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An altar is usually present in the circle, on which ritual tools are placed and representations of the God and the Goddess may be displayed. |
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Madam Mo is one of the three to have attempted the trip, along with Greek Goddess and Burnt Sienna, but she did so riderless. |
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Here, she liked the Lottie in Guilded Goddess, passing on Raven Black, Bigtime Red, and Spotlight White. |
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In 1992 Hughes published Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, a monumental work inspired by Graves's The White Goddess. |
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Her head is the sun, an illusion to the tree birth of the sun, and she is accompanied by two doves, the typical bird of the Great Goddess. |
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Robert Graves used Frazer's work in The Greek Myths and made it one of the foundations of his own personal mythology in The White Goddess. |
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After a ritual has finished, the God, Goddess and Guardians are thanked, the directions are dismissed and the circle is closed. |
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As in other forms of Wicca, some Goddess monotheists have expressed the view that the Goddess is not an entity with a literal existence, but rather a Jungian archetype. |
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Also in the Book are examples of poetry largely composed by Gardner and his High Priestess Doreen Valiente, the most notable of which is the Charge of the Goddess. |
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The epilogue consists of a series of lyrics spoken by the restored priest in praise of a nature goddess, inspired by Robert Graves's White Goddess. |
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It is believed that during the Navratri, Goddess Durga descends on earth to rid it of the demons and blesses her devotees with happiness and prosperity. |
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The best known example of Minoan sculpture is the Snake Goddess figurine. |
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The two inscriptions honored and commemorated the Goddess Tianfei. |
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Oh my Goddess, I cannot believe that just crawled out of the sink! |
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Legend has it that Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvathi helped the Devendra Kulam community plough their fields and grow their crops to feed the people. |
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But rather than admit that, we hopped on to Google and discovered the Easter Bunny originates from Eostre, the pagan Goddess of Easter, who changed a bird into a hare. |
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His next act of manslaughter will be met with the wrath of the Earth Goddess, suggesting a domineering matriarchate embedded within the surface patriarchate. |
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In Hinduism, an owl is the vahana, mount, of the Goddess Lakshmi. |
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Wicca is typically duotheistic, worshipping a Goddess and a God. |
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While duotheism or bitheism is traditional in Wicca, broader Wiccan beliefs range from polytheism to pantheism or monism, even to Goddess monotheism. |
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