The masked dances amongst the Pueblos, in which animal personifications take place and masks are worn, are called katcina dances. |
Amusingly, the personifications of both Honour and Pleasure have the faces of Raphael's future Madonnas. |
We should thus be confirmed in the idea that we are made by the Angels or Elohim who are partial personifications of the divine virtues and thoughts. |
By far the majority of personifications are feminine, products of either an idealization or demonization of woman. |
Never, she thought, had she seen such personifications of brute power as were represented by these mighty bulls. |
All of the latter may be viewed, in part, as personifications of the powers of pollution. |