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Sentence Examples For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess. The busiest is Kuan Yin Ten Temple, near St George's Church, which is dedicated to the goddess of mercy. All preparations of the pooja are ready with the deity of goddess Durga decorated. Take a big does of Venus, goddess of beauty and love, and use her energy to foster a healthy self-esteem and noble sense of self-worth. The garland and the flowers that this figure holds are a good indication that it is the goddess Flora who was supposed to be represented. In the context of hunting, young girls are the appropriate instrument for the propitiation of the goddess and the securing of her favour. The goddess Hathor was the protectress of an important wine-producing area, and myths linked her to wine and drunkenness. There may be a Cupid like figure as well, but there is always a love goddess except in monotheisms. Venus afterwards was called the Assyrian goddess or Astarte, the queen of heaven. At the end of the small room there was a deity figure of the goddess Nova the Water Goddess. The Sun is depicted as a male deity, being embraced by the female moon goddess during an eclipse. The French screen goddess may turn out to be the only major star attending. However, Between Strangers needs more than a screen goddess to liven up the material. Who hasn't gloated over candid snaps that show up a former screen goddess in a less than flattering light? By the end of the year, she had finally supplanted Liz Hurley as the British newspapers' screen goddess of choice. The son of a prosperous Hindu trader, Bhai Pheru, Guru Angad was an ardent devotee of the Hindu goddess Durga. She transformed herself from catwalk goddess to grey-haired granny as she celebrated Halloween. Top with a light coating of lemon and olive oil or a creamy dressing like green goddess or dill. But Grace looked like a goddess for Judy's engagement dinner on Friday night. The tale of the Sickness of the Men of Ulster features the gynandrous horse goddess Macha who is associated with shape shifting. Show More Sentences Every year at Beltane the High Priestess evoked the goddess and all prayed to her for prosperous times in the coming harvest. They were treated as dogs, they were hungry, and the goddess of justice refused to review their plight. Okay, so my career as a domestic goddess didn't get off to such an auspicious start. Nigella's self-confessed trick, after all, is based not upon actually being a domestic goddess but on faking the image of one. And since Nigella Lawson made it fashionable, anything that pushes up your stakes in the domestic goddess department is A Good Thing. It was a wonderful, wonderful soup, and I truly felt like a domestic goddess when I served it up. It taps, enters, and perches doomily, prophetically, on the bust of Pallas, goddess of wisdom. The ritual known as Feis Temrach, where the King was mated with the tutelary goddess of Ireland, confirmed the monarch's sovereignty. Are you some sort of water nymph, or mermaid, some seducing goddess, leading men into waters, and manipulating them at your will? Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. She'd been fighting off the holiday depression pretty well but while our domestic goddess Inez was here the weepiness started. The piano concerto Towards Asavari honours the eponymous Indian goddess through the inspiration of Indian classical ragas, poems and paintings. Simply buff the formula onto your face with the accompanying kabuki brush for a bronze goddess finish. Here the goddess wears her high-crested helmet, and a himation replaces her aegis over the peplos. I get the impression that Wicca has been a source of empowerment, the idea of a strong goddess is very attractive. The warrior goddess, riding upon a lion and wielding a weapon in each of her 10 arms. But the goddess Isis, Osiris's wife, gathered the pieces together and made them whole by the recitation of spells. In India, the most colourful and elaborate celebrations take part in Bengal, where huge idols of the goddess are worshipped. Each village has its own goddess or Gramadevata, often in the form of an idol worshipped under a sacred tree. I questioned how the goddess symbolism might constitute a cultural resource for religious women wanting to reimagine gender relations. Show More Sentences Two swinging lanterns lit the interior with a yellow-orange cast that made Rebecca stand out in sharp relief like some golden goddess. I did have the dream that I might become some sort of alt-rock goddess in the States. Her hair, which normally hung lankly over her shoulders, was all fluffed out and piled up on top of her head like that of some Greek goddess. Expect her to win countless industry awards over the coming months and to accept them with the benevolent grace of a laureled goddess. Is it a path made by the goddess Iris between Earth and Heaven, or a leprechaun's secret hiding place for his pot of gold? With a troubled face, Flora, goddess of Spring and licentious revels, stealthily hands the flowers on to Venus. A head with a ringed neck probably refers to the well-known fertility goddess. The second, the marvelously round apple-cheeked woman, was the cook, the housekeeper, the domestic Hestia, goddess of the Hearth. The great Argive goddess was Hera, worshipped at the Heraeum some 10 km north of Argos. We mark that this day was sacred to the goddess Venus, to whom the Phoenicians consecrated the fish. Then there is the Dakshinkhali Temple, where goats and chickens are sacrificed to a hungry goddess. Iphigenia was sacrificed to the goddess Artemis by Agamemnon so that the Greek fleet could sail away to Troy. On paper, it does sound like sacrilege for this screen goddess to wear a silly hat, get drunk, and make a public scene. He equipped the main sanctuary of the shrine dedicated to the sun goddess with solar panels. The birthday of Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, falls between late March and late April and is observed by visiting Taoist temples. In a free society, why should anyone stand in the way of another person's transformation from tatterdemalion to goddess? I fall to my knees, arms raised in ecstasy, as a sensibly-dressed goddess manifests before me. It is specifically meant to be a sort of thanksgiving for goddess Lakshmi after the harvest. The legend goes that Karni Mata, a mystic matriarch from the 14th century, was an incarnation of Durga, the goddess of power and victory. The new Woolworths just off Glengariff road in Sea Point was in view as we noticed a Brazilian goddess walking over the road. Show More Sentences The goddess who is beautiful but who also has an enhanced beauty because of the beneficent role she plays. Clearly she presides over this field or crop, as she walks through it like a beneficent goddess. The goddess is now depicted as a blind power, and hence as completely careless and indiscriminate in the bestowal of her gifts. Her surviving hymn to the goddess, arranged by La Motte, serves as the sung text underlying the sacred ritual of the minuet. The hunter is doomed to being transformed by the vain goddess of hunting into a stag, to be pursued and torn to shreds by his own hounds. Ceres is the symbol of authority and it is significant also that she is goddess of the harvest and fecundity. So, Mormonism teaches that we all pre-existed in the spirit realm having been produced from the union of god and his goddess wife. The festival is dedicated to Durga, the mother goddess who also represents power. What she found amazing in their culture was the cult of the mother goddess as the pillar of the family. The prime attraction in the museum is the terracotta structure of the mother goddess, Indira Mata or the locally known deity of Laja Gouri. Cybele was worshipped in Rome and was called the great queen mother goddess. Called Gaia, she is the first mother goddess of the world, from which all other gods came. The Ganges is worshiped as a mother goddess, Gangadevi, and her celestial water is believed to possess supernatural power. Perhaps he was talking of a Hindu song, reflecting a Hindu ethos in which the country is equated with the mother goddess. The likes of Cybele, Kali, and Gaia are examples of this type of mother goddess. The carved head that is on the handle of the sistrum, is Hathor, the goddess of music. For example, Artemis and Diana is the same goddess but are of two mythologies. From glamorous beach goddess to surf chic and neon brights there are sure to be styles and colours to suit everyone. Terms like goddess, Kali and destroyer mingle freely in reinforcing this cult of vengeful violence. He was too angry and full of spite towards the goddess for them not to be true. Show More Sentences Also, the worshippers would cast their votive offerings for the goddess into the spring associated with the temple. On the obverse, it is a picture of a quadriga and the reverse is a picture of the goddess Artemis-Arethusa with four dolphins around. While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy. The Romans, intuitively, seemed to know better, for they named it after the goddess they feared for her vengefulness, capriciousness and cruelty. All too often, however, she sounds less like a domestic goddess and more like a Stepford wife. Oh, and needless to say, Ronnie Spector is a complete goddess whose voice can make the hairs on the back of one's neck stand on end. On the summit of the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in London, 195 feet above the ground stands the goddess Justitia upon a golden orb. Since alcohol and blood sacrifice were associated with the worship of the goddess, at times it contained an orgiastic element. In China, the goddess Guanyin is also a heroine who dies and returns from the Underworld where she demonstrates her powers. Serious enthusiasts call themselves cereologists, after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture. If she spoke rustic Greek instead of bad English, and wore a cestus in place of an ill-fitting corset, you'd swear she was a goddess. In Greek mythology, Chaos is the goddess of emptiness and confusion who gave birth to the Universe. Please tell me if I am overreaching myself but my namesake is an ancient Celtic-Irish goddess, so I feel an affinity with her. The name Ani is thought to be derived from Anahit, the Persian water goddess, suggesting an even earlier occupation of the site. This sultry goddess of a tow-truck driver has been rescuing autos in distress for almost five years. She was always strutting around like she was a goddess or something, on more then one occasion she swatted me on the bottom with her staff. On entering the temple, the guru performs three circumambulations along with the goddess seated in a golden chariot. She was the goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth, nature, and the harvest. On the same jar, a drawing of a stylized tree with two grazing ibexes probably represents the goddess. The Romans identified her with Minerva, a goddess of the household and of craftsmen. Show More Sentences Clad in the white peplos of a Greek goddess and elegantly coiffed, she gazes unemotional and aloof at the grisly head on her platter. In his dream he looked upon the moon and saw the face of the goddess looking down upon her people. According to her, the radical feminists worship an immanent deity in the form of a goddess or some other human construct. The goddess Nature is an amoral pagan personification, her laws harsh and ineluctable. With it appears the figure of Astarte, Phoenician goddess of fertility and passion whose symbol is the twin horns of the bull. It is part of the attire of a Bosporan priestess to Demeter, goddess of fertility. The planetoid, believed to be half rock and half ice, is named after the Inuit goddess said to have created the sea creatures of the Arctic. In a centuries-old tradition some village parents pledge a young daughter to the goddess Yalluma. Doesn't anyone realise you can't turn a flat-chested woman into a pneumatic goddess by feeding her hamburgers? Domestic goddess Susan Howarth never imagined the tasty homemade dinner she served her little daughter would one day be enjoyed by babies all over the country. The fleet is becalmed at Aulis after its first abortive attempt because Agamemnon has angered the goddess Artemis by killing a stag in her sacred grove. With powerful imagery they concluded with a dance in praise of the mother goddess, a fitting finale to the performance that had the audience in silent rapture. I do not even know if my father is alive or what has happened to my brothers Antiochus and Seleucus, I pray to the mother goddess that they are safe. The bowed bottom of the anchor recalls the horns of the crescent moon, an attribute of the Egyptian goddess Isis, the queen of heaven and the virgin mother of Horus. There is no name on the medal but it has Greek goddess of victory Nike holding a laurel wreath over Phoenix rising from the flames with the Acropolis in the background. The ancient mother goddess from Harappa is placed next to contemporary folk art, highlighting that these subjects transcend the boundaries of time, space and culture. If you wish to have children, you pray to the fertility goddess. Twist the cap sleeves up for a goddess look, wrap the belt around your neck for a plunging halter neckline, or fold the whole thing down for a flowing, romantic skirt. They recognize a wide range of supernatural beings, including demons, ancestral spirits, and divinities such as the sun god Surya and the rice goddess Dewi Sri. In Wicca, the female goddess is represented by the Moon, a symbol of Mother Earth and fertility. Show More Sentences But Harry, handsome ex-Marine and feted author, is greedy for more happiness than Maddy, a WASP goddess, gives him. Perhaps the most important of the anthropomorphic Shinto deities is the sun goddess Amaterasu, the patroness and ancestor of the Japanese emperors. She sat in one of the pews and stared up at the great and silent marble statue of the mother goddess, protector of women and children and the earth. Each goddess offers the youth a bribe in return for a vote in her favor. 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. I think the exact make-up of the triune goddess depended on what city you came from and what mysteries you were initiated in, as well as period as Anna points out. Followers of the goddess Bast, the goddess of pleasure, created sanctuaries with bronze statues of cats and mummified hundreds of thousands of cats. I have no aspirations to be a domestic goddess any more than Nigella does. Titian preferred to paint the goddess Diana bathing in a curtained colonnade, with her entourage of nymphs and even an attendant slave girl and small dog. The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eastre. She earned her chops as the domestic goddess for women from Connecticut. The body of the dead cat would be taken to the city of Bubastis, home of the goddess Bastet, where it would be mummified and buried in a cat cemetery. I am a living breathing hormonal teenage girl though I would much rather prefer to be a living dead goddess of the underworld with no emotions at all. In India, gold is associated with the four-handed goddess of wealth. My mother was a domestic goddess in every household art except culinary. After much thought, the next creation was the Rainbow Bridge so that the wise grandmother goddess could lead Chumash people to cross over in safety. Thank God this was the day for our domestic goddess Inez to show up. I have the dimmest recollection of one night where I was having some sort of contact with a goddess, resulting in hours of intense mind blowing full bodied orgasmic bliss. Who could be sure whether or not the old man or beggar-woman who comes knocking at one's door in the dead of night is not a god or goddess in disguise? O light of my life, o most beautiful goddess, who doth hold my heart and soul, would it please thee to give this gift unto me, this most miserable servant of thine? Show More Sentences Starting tomorrow we will help to create a new world order based on women's love, the generative power of the goddess, and the importance of flowery, perfumy knick-knacks. Analyses of goddess worship argue for the typicality of such phenomena, and their status as emblematic and fundamentally sustaining of the nation. Not a goddess, or a nymph, or some divine entity, just a mortal woman. The actress, who is already a goddess in her own country, is finally getting recognition here. As the story goes, Chang'e was a Chinese goddess who lived in the realm of the moon, and acted as a guardian for the Jade Rabbit who manufactured the elixir of life. She was, to my untutored eyes, a shining goddess wearing a ball-gown. These people who, while believing in a god and goddess, follow the ancient pagan religions that revere the wonders and beauty of nature and its changing seasons. Scholars have suggested that the purpose of statues such as the Peplos Kore and other korai was to serve as votive offerings, perhaps in this case to the goddess Athena. Anyone familiar with my previous ham-fisted attempts to establish myself as a domestic goddess will find this new urge more laughable than laudable. Demeter, goddess of the Eleusinian mysteries, progenerated wheat from her womb and delegated it to her son, Triptolemus, to distribute around the world's cultures. In actuality, an encounter with a goddess of the underworld is another step in the second cycle of the monomyth. Her xoanon of Phigaleia shows how the local cult interpreted her, as goddess of nature. The goddess Frijja seems to have split into the two different, clearly related goddesses Frigg and Freyja. Vague remnants of this goddess may also be preserved in the Greek goddess Athena. There, the fleet was organized in squadrons, while the fleet's crew honored the goddess of sailors Tianfei with prayers and sacrifices. On 21 January 1409, a grand ceremony was held in the honor of the goddess Tianfei, where she received a new title. The power of the goddess, having indeed been manifested in previous times, has been abundantly revealed in the present generation. In India, the Hindu goddess of smallpox, Sitala Mata, was worshiped in temples throughout the country. If the patient did not recover, the shrine was destroyed and cursed, so as to expel the goddess from the house. India, like China, created a goddess in response to its exposure to smallpox. Show More Sentences Other important deities included the moon goddess, the maize god, and the Hero Twins. A murti, or representation, of the goddess Durga shown during the Durga Puja festival. The goddess Brig was a triple goddess of poetry, smithcraft and healing, along with her two sisters of the same name. The pop goddess performed this week at the 2013 cmt Music Awards. Then the Anunnaki gods slaughter a minor deity and the goddess Belet-ili mixes the clay with the flesh and blood of the sacrificed god. A good place to start is Sanjusangendo, a vast wooden hall filled with 1,001 statues of Kannon, the goddess of mercy. She believes it's no coincidence that the Greek goddess of health was named Hygieia, from which our word hygiene comes. Hindus worship goddess of good fortune and beauty Lakshmi, god of wisdom and auspiciousness Ganesh, and mountain Goverdhan on this day. Still later, the Izanagi boom of 1965-68 reached back to the birth of the Japanese islands as the offspring of the primeval god and goddess. The discovery of that many statues of the goddess funerary temple denotes the important role of the goddess during Amenhotep III's reign. Having just died, Andy's not pleased to find himself in the ancient Egyptian afterlife, where the goddess Bastet wants a word with him. For example, the cat was associated with a catheaded goddess called Bastet. Emerging from her bath, the goddess is surprised by a worshiper and attempts to conceal her nudity, thus to restore her pudicity or modesty. The museum is exhibiting Ganesh, the remover of obstacles, Mother Durga the supreme goddess and Saraswati the goddess of learning. Even a bonkbuster goddess knows the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. A generation ago, sherpas characterized her as the goddess of security. Frigga being the name of the Norse goddess for whom Friday is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen. In the East Asian Buddhist tradition, Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, represents the divine response. The constellation was associated with the goddess Tiamat the ruler of the seawater who according to legend kills her offspring. Karen Lai states that she interacts with spiritual beings, similar to the way her grandmother prayed to Guan Yin, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. Show More Sentences In Mumbai, officers and LE Staff celebrated the nine-day Navratri festival for the goddess Devi by wearing the correct colors on each day. Clumpers with graceful foliage include golden goddess bamboo and Mexican weeping bamboo. Armed with their creative thoughts, they not just experimented with the marquees but also changed the typical stylisation of goddess Durga. Those frequent drive-bys are all because of the totem goddess with the flowering hibiscus-topiary 'do that stands in her well-manicured garden. This matriarchal society is governed by high priestesses who worship the goddess, Nyx and perform pagan rituals. Nothing like a damp cozzie and a strip of tie-dyed cotton for that holiday goddess look. According to tradition, the goddess lies sleeping beneath the mountain. Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love. Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn. Veritas was the goddess of truth, a daughter of Saturn, and the mother of Virtue. Wells and springs had female, divine links exemplified by the goddess Sulis worshipped at Bath. The Romans adopted the Celtic cavalry sword, the spatha, and Epona, the Celtic horse goddess. In poetry and portraiture, she was depicted as a virgin or a goddess or both, not as a normal woman. She found Kali Boori lying flat in front of the goddess. The khichiri was being distributed to the devotees. It was initially developed by the Romans around AD 78, when the settlement was known as Aquae Arnemetiae, or the spa of the goddess of the grove. A gilt bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva, which was discovered nearby in 1727, is displayed. The Maoli clan worships a goddess at a shrine which women may not approach. The right to rule of the Japanese emperor, descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu, was absolute. Designer John Pasche created the logo following a suggestion by Jagger to copy the outstuck tongue of the Hindu goddess Kali. As one of the Nine Pirate Lords, Jack is needed in order to release an ancient goddess with the power to defeat Beckett's forces. Show More Sentences In the 2nd century, Roman Britannia came to be personified as a goddess, armed with a trident and shield and wearing a Corinthian helmet. Britannia was soon personified as a goddess, looking fairly similar to the goddess Minerva. The ritual fight was part of a festival honoring the virgin goddess Athena. Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens after a competition with Poseidon. India's devadasi girls are forced by their poor families to dedicate themselves to the Hindu goddess Renuka. Even today, in the Andes of South America, the Quechuan peoples use cairns as religious shrines to the indigenous Inca goddess Pachamama. For reasons unknown, this man Sheshonq was nutzo about the cat-headed goddess. Many paintings of Venus, the Roman goddess of love and fertility, included a scallop shell in the painting to identify her. In Inuit mythology, the goddess Sedna rules over the sea and marine animals. The Paximadia islands were the birthplace of the goddess Artemis and the god Apollo. The Greek goddess of discord, Eris, became disgruntled after she was excluded from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. It takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow, which is also the name for the Greek goddess of the rainbow, Iris. According to Robert Graves's The Greek Myths, the Pelasgians believed the creator goddess Eurynome assigned Atlas and Phoebe to govern the moon. Another view, supported by recent finds, holds that Tanit originated in Phoenicia, being closely linked there to the goddess Astarte. Similarly the goddess personifications of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers are often depicted as riding crocodiles. The Deepalakshmi is another favorite design where goddess Lakshmi holds the lamp in her hands. Everywhere the goddess then deigns to visit, she is met with celebration, hospitality, and peace. When the goddess has had her fill she is returned to her temple by the priests. Tacitus adds that the goddess, the cart, and the cloth are then washed by slaves in a secluded lake. They had a special goddess of the ford called Ritona and a temple dedicated to Uorioni Deo. Show More Sentences Otherwise, a Roman god might be paired with a native goddess, as with Mercury and Rosmerta. A chariot covered with a curtain is dedicated to the goddess, and only the high priest may touch it. Drawn by cows, the chariot travels through the countryside, and wherever the goddess visits, a great feast is held. During the travel of the goddess, the Germanic tribes cease all hostilities, and do not lay their hands upon arms. The museum houses artefacts from the Roman period including objects which were thrown into the Sacred Spring, presumably as offerings to the goddess. He named it the 'Tethys Sea' after the Greek sea goddess Tethys. For example, if a citizen had his clothes stolen at the baths, he might write a curse, naming the suspects, on a tablet to be read by the goddess. Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus. The Hindu goddess Shitala was both worshipped and feared during her reign. Models, some of them wearing blindfolds in shimmering chiffon, sported pantsuits in neon organza, or asymmetrical draped goddess gowns in dusty shades of mauve and pink. Further, Davidson notes that the potentially Germanic goddess Nehalennia is sometimes depicted with apples and that parallels exist in early Irish stories. And if you have ever wondered why you kiss under the mistletoe it is believed to have been in honour of Frigga the Norse goddess of love who was associated with it. The priest is capable of seeing the goddess enter the chariot. A winning combination of Styrax, ladanum and calamus, it was a sensual, intoxicating blend most befitting a perfume originating from the island of the goddess of love. 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. In Germanic paganism, Nerthus is a goddess associated with fertility. Nevertheless, the mother goddess cult did exist in north Galatia. Among the added artefacts is a sculpture of the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, who had the power to change men into women, and the statues of Hadrian and Antinous. However, seeing that opposition was impossible, Marius decided to travel to the east in 98 BC, ostensibly to fulfil a vow he had made to the goddess Bona Dea. A high-ranking man received the title and costume of this goddess and impersonated her at important functions, such as the passing of power from one Aztec ruler to another. Show More Sentences The cross-dressing is part of traditional ritual festivities, where men decked up in women's attire attempt to please the temple goddess for their wish fulfillment. For example, Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, Ares was the god of war, Hades the ruler of the underworld, and Athena the goddess of wisdom and courage. Cross-dressing is part of the traditional festivities, where men dress in women's clothing and attempt to please the temple goddess and have their wishes fulfilled. In the underworld beneath the lid on the back of the world turtle, where the god Batara Kala and the goddess Setesuyara lived, there was perpetual darkness. The most important of these scenes shows the king leaving his palace with the goddess of writing, Seshat, in order to lay out the foundations for the temple. The name Wharfe appears to be recorded in the form Verbeiae on a Roman inscription at Ilkley, dedicated to Verbeia, thought to be the tutelary goddess of the river. It is generally assumed that the sun goddess functions in the Shapash hymn as psychopomp, transporter of the dead to and from their netherly abode. In a few cases, a female divinity mates with a mortal man, as in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, where the goddess lies with Anchises to produce Aeneas. He swears that he is not guilty of the crimes that his detractors accuse him of, and the goddess of love steps forward and assumes the role of his compurgator. Portraits of the goddess show her holding a broom in her right hand to continue to move the disease and a pot of cool water in the other hand in an attempt to soothe victims. When the priest declares that the goddess is tired of conversation with mortals, the chariot returns and is washed, together with the curtains, in a secret lake. The planetoid Sedna, named for the goddess featured prominently in the book issuing warnings about global warming, is one of the coldest bodies in the Solar System. It was believed that this goddess was both evil and kind and had the ability to inflict victims when angered, as well as calm the fevers of the already afflicted. A PAINTING by Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam, named for an African Yoruba goddess also worshipped in the Caribbean, led Sotheby's strongest Latin American evening art sale ever. It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths. For example, Poseidon is the god of the sea, Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, Ares is the god of war, and so on and so forth for many other gods. Later, another newly arisen deity arose to eventually reign supreme at Carthage, a goddess of agriculture and generation who manifested a regal majesty, Tanit. Sacrifices and prayers were offered to Tianfei, the patron goddess of sailors, hoping to ensure a successful journey and a safe passage during the voyage. Another important deity was Bendis, goddess of the moon and the hunt. The altar has four carved sides and a decorative depression at the top, used for the placement of offerings to the goddess Nemesis depicted on one side. Show More Sentences Pata'na was a Roman goddess who appears with greatly varied names, sometimes as a derivation from Ceres or a Cerean deity, and sometimes as Ceres herself. On the south side of the River Dee, in Handbridge, is Edgar's Field, another public park, which contains Minerva's Shrine, a Roman shrine to the goddess Minerva. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Her being a goddess, or symbolizing a psychic archetype, accordingly it is difficult to assign a single nature to Tanit, or to clearly represent her to consciousness. The Elizabethan antiquarian William Camden argued that a temple to the goddess Diana had stood during Roman times on the site occupied by the medieval St Paul's Cathedral. Naturally, salads native to Southern California tend to be hearty affairs, like Cobb salad and Chinese chicken salad, and dressings like green goddess and ranch are a staple. Similar patterns are also seen with the continental Celtic horse goddess Epona and what may well be her Irish and Welsh counterparts, Macha and Rhiannon, respectively. But on the lower plane of the stele, we find the same goddess stylized with upraised arms, possibly as a tree assimilated to the Egyptian life symbol. The goddess he worshipped the most zealously, however, was Minerva. Sabrina is also the goddess of the River Severn in Celtic mythology. Archaeologists speculate, however, that they may be emblems of security and success, fertility icons, or direct representations of a mother goddess. Tentative information suggests that the sacrifices were made to the goddess of fertility, whose statue is now in the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta. Lucina, the Sabine goddess of light, was combined with the Roman Juno, and as Juno Lucina, goddess of childbirth, she brought children into the world. The goddess is viewed as the heart of the most esoteric Saiva traditions. Shaktism focuses on goddess worship of Shakti or Devi as cosmic mother, and it is particularly common in northeastern and eastern states of India such as Assam and Bengal. The first shrine at the site of the hot springs was built by Celts, and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Examples from Classical Literature For him the goddess of Chance had smiled, and he was in the most complaisant humour. The goddess of the place, who was a kind of Cybele, is pictured as wearing a crown. The transition from a single goddess, Charis, to a number or group of Charites, is marked in Homer. In the centre is Claudia Quinta about to kneel before the bust of the goddess. Knowing that she was but a weak goddess Diomedes attacked her, wounding her in the hand. That is the temple of the goddess of Sardis, Cybele or Ma, as they call her. At Teuthea in Achaea she was worshipped as the goddess of the woodland pasture, and at Cnidus as the nurturer of the hyacinth. He concluded that it was a planet, and named it Ceres, for the tutelary goddess of Sicily. Within, the people could distinguish the charred remains of their proud goddess. Venus was his favorite goddess, and among their children were Cupid, Anteros, and Harmonia. Among the ancients, the goddess Venus or Aphrodite was the symbol of beauty and love. Ib, the queen of the afterworld, the goddess of deceased mortals, whose abode is down below the pillars of the world. But Tashmitum, being feminine in gender, as an abstract noun, seemed appropriate as the designation of a goddess. In fig. 180 the statue of this goddess is shown, which he says was found by himself in 1884 at curium. The sun goddess, Amaterasu, was offended and retired to a cave, withdrawing her luminous beauty from the world. The goddess to whom he would have reared a temple would have been, not a Diana, but an Ashtoreth. Meanwhile the demons desired to combat against the gods for the possession of the beautiful goddess Lakshmi and the amrita. Diomede obeyed, and the beechen axle groaned beneath the weight of the hero and the goddess. Still it is with some such definite decision that he enters the kingdom of Ananke, the goddess of Necessity. Heseychius says that Hada was the goddess of Juno, and Adad a god and the sun. Show More Sentences It is as such, in opposition to buto the goddess of the north, that she is most often named on the monuments. We have a goddess that makes the butter to come in the churn, curdles the milk for the cheese, and helps the cow to calve. The candlesnuffer, who perhaps may have been a bad wit, crossed the stage just after wards, and likewise bowed to the goddess. As the goddess of war she carried a spear in her temples in Cyprus and Cythera. Find more words! 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