In the teeming temples of the mother goddesses Vindya Vashini, Kali Koh and Ashtapuja we again saw corbels carved like human women with wings. |
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A mythological trinity of ancient Greek goddesses, another triangulation, provides a clue to the meaning of the three parts of the work. |
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It shimmers with characters, sayings, spirits, gods and goddesses from a pantheon of faiths. |
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Or rather, whereas gods and goddesses might freely penetrate the human world, mortal men and women could not become gods. |
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Some scholars believe it is possible to trace the region's devotion to the Virgin Mary to the mother goddesses of pre-Christian religions. |
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I took turns at child-care with my wife so that we both could take our time sketching the mother goddesses in the citadel museum. |
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The other film goddesses were narcissistic, neurotic, concerned about no one except themselves. |
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There are more gods than people here, so the saying goes, with Buddhas and bodhisattvas, tantric gods and mother goddesses at every turn. |
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In ancient Greek mythology, Muses were goddesses of science and art who inspired creative endeavors. |
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Zeno built a tall wall with about 20 niches for statues of gods and goddesses behind the stage. |
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I hope to all the goddesses I'm dreaming, because an ogre is currently jumping up on my head and then splatting down as hard as it can. |
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Hindus are truly monotheist but worship many gods and goddesses and see the same God in them. |
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Because Wiccans seem to worship nature and nature goddesses and gods, they can be called pantheists. |
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It is directed to a pantheon of deities, gods and goddesses, each of whom are housed in their own shrine. |
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That Olympian goddesses could be brought down to such a base level is just the kind of thing that Eris might find amusing. |
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He certainly was the kind of figure who would have questioned a great deal of the myths concerning the gods and goddesses and heroes of the past. |
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When Kalliope had no interesting news from the city, Kyros told us war stories and about heroes, heroines, gods and goddesses. |
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Gods, goddesses and animals made in rosewood are examples of chiselled beauty. |
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Soon after the offering is made, Oedipus dies peacefully, his sins of incest and patricide forgiven by these benevolent goddesses. |
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She is the patroness of unmarried girls, who on marriage pass out of her domain into the tutelage of other, less farouche, goddesses. |
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Set to chamber music by Debussy, it evokes a realm of nature in which myriad gods and goddesses are immanent. |
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The storics of heroism from the epics involved the use of supernatural or divine powers by the avtats or incarnations of gods and goddesses. |
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He held the fine-spun silk of a tunic which seemed to have been inspired by the ethereal togas of the goddesses in Greek art. |
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The neoterics had written poems to their mistresses as if they were goddesses. |
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Qualities such as these make goddesses a perfect foil to counter new forms of cultural colonisation. |
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Immediately after this, the avenging goddesses called Furies torment Orestes to the point of insanity. |
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We assume that we are all goddesses, all priestesses, and all teachers in that we all have our lessons to teach. |
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They adopted a synergetic approach, assimilating native deities with gods or goddesses from their own pantheon. |
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The Celtic religion features many female deities such as a mother goddesses and war goddesses. |
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Sadly, the result could be a kitchen so demandingly hi-tech it provokes even domestic goddesses to kick holes in stained glass windows. |
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Since the Big Island is the original Hawaiian homeland, it's where many of the gods, goddesses, and demigods live and are revered even today. |
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The glow of colours in the paintings depicting the pharaohs, demigods and goddesses in vivid yellow ochre, blue and orange was breathtaking. |
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So some of the gods whom we know from the pantheon, goddesses like Hera and Poseidon, were gods who were native to Greece as we know it. |
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We worship the gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon, and use the Greek format of ritual. |
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The songs and verses he composed in the praise of various gods and goddesses are most wonderful in quality and quantity. |
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They will not set up any idols, gods, goddesses or statues for worship nor shall they worship any human being. |
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The eight lotus petals are the four mothers and four goddesses and the vase represents the vase containing the nectar of accomplishment. |
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All rites, rituals, and worship of god and goddesses have been dispensed with. |
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One of the great screen goddesses of 1940s and 1950s Hollywood, Bacall is still strikingly handsome. |
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Will the all female group of domestic goddesses sweep the board or will they be kicked in to touch by the football supporters? |
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She might seem bulletproof on screen, but even domestic goddesses need a little downtime. |
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It takes its inspiration from early screen goddesses, but in those days it took much more bravery to face the chemicals. |
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Rather than peerless screen goddesses, we see the vulnerable essences of the two stars. |
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Back in the middle 1930s the stars of the silver screen were goddesses, such as Greta Garbo. |
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It was always my favorite, to read about Cyclopes, gorgons, heroes, and goddesses. |
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The gods and goddesses are overlarge for the spaces they occupy and rest somewhat uncertainly on plinths made up of diaper pattern. |
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The walls are heavily decorated with paintings of Egyptian gods and goddesses, solar discs, blood-red emulsion and gold acrylic paint. |
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You both are goddesses and enchantresses, and the three powers you share are thought speak, telekenisis and time travel. |
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I think that it goes back even further, to the Ennead, the pantheon of nine gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt. |
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Whatever the outcome, it's going to be a tough challenge to turn these struggling housewives into faultless domestic goddesses. |
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Yes, she has a black cat, a wand, a sword, altars with candies, and statues of gods, goddesses, and saints. |
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It seems to me like women have to grin and bear a lot, and still feel pressure to act like saintly selfless birth goddesses. |
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Secondly, unlike some cultures with powerful goddesses in their pantheons, Wiccans espouse norms of gender equality. |
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I am sharing food and drink with gods, goddesses, and wights of the land, other spirits, and my spiritual and religious community. |
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There is more than a little feeling of two elemental goddesses competing to work their will on nature. |
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The original inhabitants of Oman were pantheists, worshiping various goddesses and gods. |
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Five full-grown male bulls were killed and sacrificed to the gods and goddesses. |
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Often they were named after pre-Hispanic goddesses venerated by indigenous Cuban peoples like the Taino and Ciboney. |
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But Echo was a chatterbox and teller of tales, and many of her stories were lies about the other nymphs and the gods and goddesses. |
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Worshippers repeat the names of their favourite gods and goddesses, and repeat mantras. |
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It combined mythical warrior gods and goddesses of Teutonic times with real stories of court life in the Middle Ages. |
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For others, Vietnam's pantheon of goddesses represents particularly telling evidence of the nation's ancient roots in a matrifocal culture. |
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Big-breasted Paleolithic figurines had, at one time, represented fertility or nursing goddesses. |
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By the end of the novel he is spiritually shipwrecked on the Gold Coast, having visions of ancient goddesses. |
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In Jainism, there is no worship of gods, goddesses or spirits. |
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Prominent items include bell metal and wrought iron figurines, statues, lamps and other artifacts depicting the traditional gods, goddesses and animal figurines. |
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At Zeus' command Paris had been the judge at a beauty contest and had to choose which of the goddesses Hera, Athene, or Aphrodite was the fairest. |
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They're figures of Greek mythology, three goddesses who control the destinies of man, likened to skeins of thread that they spin, measure out and finally cut. |
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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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In pre-Islamic Arabia, Mecca was a major city on the trade routes, a pilgrimage site, and a site of worship of numerous pre-Islamic gods and goddesses. |
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As opera matured over the next 150 years, the dramatic duties that at first had been assigned to mere Shades and Furies were taken over by full-fledged gods and goddesses. |
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Chetty's subjects are symbolic tarotlike goddesses and heroines beautifully executed in silk with elegantly visible stitching, which hang on the wall like paintings. |
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In ever-more-abstracted form and diverse media, these elemental shapes, such as spirals, labyrinths, lozenges, and goddesses, recurred in her work. |
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Far more common are the direct iconographic or poetic references to the classical goddesses Diana, Cynthia and Astraea or to Petrarch's chaste maidens, Laura and Tuccia. |
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Their gods and goddesses were different from those of the Vedic pantheon. |
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The word music derives from the name of the Muses, the daughters of Zeus who were patron goddesses of the arts. |
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Her gods and goddesses sat on a yellow pitambar which covered a raised platform. |
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The goddess Frijja seems to have split into the two different, clearly related goddesses Frigg and Freyja. |
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As a result, the gods and goddesses meet and hold a thing to discuss and debate the matter. |
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Old Norse religion was polytheistic, entailing a belief in various gods and goddesses. |
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Gods marry giantesses but giants' attempts to couple with goddesses are repulsed. |
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Gods and goddesses were depicted through figurines, pendants, fibulas, and as images on weapons. |
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Both ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian mythology suggest the usage of incense by goddesses and nymphs. |
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Especially, headmistresses of several schools consider themselves as goddesses. |
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As with the Sumerians, the cultural forms, the goddesses, art-motifs, weapons and scripts of the Elamites point back to a Nile Valley origin. |
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Cybele is rooted in Anatolian culture while much of Aphrodite's iconography may spring from Semitic goddesses. |
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The four-handed human form of gods and goddesses is the second stage of evolution in idolatry according to the need of devotees. |
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These two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness, the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass. |
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Another major change in religious practice was the use of stone monuments to represent gods and goddesses. |
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The meditation deity is in the centre, sometimes surrounded by protective gods and goddesses. |
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A more strictly polytheistic approach holds the various goddesses and gods to be separate and distinct entities in their own right. |
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Some Heathens interact with these entities and provide offerings to them more often than they do with the gods and goddesses. |
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They had many gods and goddesses, which generally have parallels in the pantheons of other European nations. |
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Sources describe Atlas as the father, by different goddesses, of numerous children, mostly daughters. |
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The ancient Greeks personified the forces of nature as gods and goddesses. |
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The emotions between the goddesses often translate to actions they take in the mortal world. |
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Those bemedalled early prove only that we're desperate for bronzed gods and goddesses. |
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As these 16 goddesses trace the phases of the moon from new to full, they tell a story of literal and metaphorical sexual union. |
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She also had two sisters named Brighid who were collectively the goddesses of poetry, healing and smithcraft. |
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These traditions were originally presented in combination with mythical gods and goddesses, but they were demythologized in Genesis. |
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They sent him the fire goddesses Te Pupu and Te Hoata, who travelled underwater. |
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Old Norse religion was polytheistic, with many anthropomorphic gods and goddesses, who express human emotions and in some cases are married and have children. |
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Their system of gods and goddesses was loose, there being certain deities which virtually every Gallic person worshipped, as well as clan and household gods. |
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In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples that inhabited Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses. |
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Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses. |
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Other gods and goddesses such as Vesta and Minerva were honoured. |
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If your heart flutters for yesteryear's Hollywood goddesses, spritz, gargle, and straighten your dinner jacket for a visit to this shrine to silver-screen glamour. |
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In consequence, images of chromolithographed and oleographed goddesses were disseminated and found their way into the private and public spheres of India. |
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Pieter Jansz Saenredam, whose father Jan Saenredam engraved sensuous nude Mannerist goddesses, painted unpeopled views of now whitewashed Gothic city churches. |
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In the face of the devastation of smallpox, various smallpox gods and goddesses have been worshipped throughout parts of the Old World, for example in China and in India. |
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The eight dynamic goddesses are framed by contrasting pointed mandorlas, the broad flaming edges of which are either naturalistically rendered or ornamental. |
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The important Roman deities were eventually identified with the more anthropomorphic Greek gods and goddesses, and assumed many of their attributes and myths. |
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While triple goddesses can be found in many cultures, the classification of the triplicity into a maiden-mother-crone format is distinctly modern. |
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