How To Use Goddess In A Sentence
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Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses.
Caesars’ Wives
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Bed doth a goddess inarm; smooth ivory glossy from Indies,
Poems and Fragments
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One of the stars of the collection is the Diana and Minerva commode of 1773, so called for the inlaid roundels representing the goddesses of the hunt and the arts, respectively.
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The goddess Anahita, first mentioned in an inscription of Artaxerxes II, and described only in the late Fifth Yasht, appears to have been originally
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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Raquel Welch was at the height of her popularity as a sex goddess.
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Now go and Google "Durga" - a primarily Hindu "great goddess" figure - and maybe you will learn something about the intercultural aspects of Islam while you are at it.
Propeller Most Popular Stories
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Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Scholars have suggested that the purpose of statues such as the Peplos Kore and other korai (the plural form of the word) was to serve as votive offerings, perhaps in this case to the goddess Athena.
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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.
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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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The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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In her current incarnation she is a demigoddess, the daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta.
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Here the goddess wears her high-crested helmet, and a himation replaces her aegis over the peplos.
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It may derive, distantly, from8 the ancient Greek practice of offering to Artemis, goddess of the hunt and of the moon, a round honey cake into which a candle was stuck.
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Her rotund torso and delicately etched facial features evince the monumental simplicity of an ancient fertility goddess.
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Some have suggested she was holding a spear and shield proudly aloft, others that the goddess of beauty held a mirror - to admire her own reflection.
Times, Sunday Times
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The one clue comes from frescoes and vases that depict griffins protecting a seated 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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They adopted a synergetic approach, assimilating native deities with gods or goddesses from their own pantheon.
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On the island of Malta, where great colossal statues of Goddesses still stand, is the underground hypogeum.
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Having said which, the goddesses Thetis, Athena, Hera and indeed the Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache (and to an extent Helen) are all interesting characters in their own rights; as are most of the men, several of whom (this is hardly a spoiler) get horribly killed off during the conflict.
March Books 17) The Iliad, by Homer
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On the other hand, liking her a lot after spending an evening alternating between trying to save her life, kill her, and turn her mind over to an evil demigoddess, is Prince Tarvek, descendant of the fabled Storm King.
Archive 2009-01-01
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As a woman keeping company with a goddess, one becomes aware of an unmistakable power of self-renewal.
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This singular passion did not long remain concealed from the Goddess of Passionate Love.
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I tend toward omnitheism, the belief in every God and Goddess that ever was and ever will be.
Meow! A "Gods Are Bored" Interview!
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The people of Namoris were, supposedly, descendants of the Lunarians, immortal beings, the subjects of the moon goddess Celhyst, banished to the Earth and subjected to mortality for some misdeed against their queen.
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However, she's a patron of the hunt and, insomuch as she fills that roll, she's kind of outmatched by an existing goddess.
Deity of Your City
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In this form, goddess Māri is very similar to Sitala Devi2, her counterpart in North India and the orisha Babalu Aye of the Yoruba tradition.
Archive 2009-05-01
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There was no pony, no grass, no flowers, no bright-birded forest -- but the cottage of the wise woman -- and before her, on the hearth of it, the goddess-child, the only thing unchanged.
A Double Story
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Rather, the goddess gives the kouros the tools to acquire that knowledge himself:
Presocratic Philosophy
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The prime mover of all generation is said to be the goddess Necessity, who occupies the centre of the universe.
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Throughout her life, Oprah rejected her mesomorph shaped body and revered the gods and goddesses of thinness, committing herself to battle with her hunger and her body.
The Dieting Dilemma: Oprah Finally Gets It
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In fact, the wheel, which the goddess Fortuna spins to determine the fate of those she looks upon, is an ancient concept of either Greek or Roman origin, depending on which academic you talk to.
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There may be a Cupid like figure as well, but there is always a love goddess except in monotheisms.
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And yet, the idea of a Goddess, a wholly divine being, actually being born struck them as bizarre.
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Down comes the Goddess Isis, and she says, ‘Little God Anubis, I don't want to see you picking up the field mice and bopping them on the head.’
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The sister and wife of Zeus the principal goddess of the Pantheon the pantroness primarily of marriage and the well-being of women the mother of Ares Hephaestus and Hebe.
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In the curious ceremony of the fixing of the Nones (the first quarter of the month), held on the Calends in the _curia Calabra_, she seems to appear as a moon-goddess: the _rex sacrorum_, after a report from a _pontifex_ as to the appearance of the new moon, announces the result in the formula:
The Religion of Ancient Rome
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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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The domestic goddess was no match this year for the cuddly Englishman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed the expense and the nature of the gifts - unyoked animals for unmarried goddesses, for example - help to colour in those personalities, their status and importance.
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Two swinging lanterns lit the interior with a yellow-orange cast that made Rebecca stand out in sharp relief like some golden goddess.
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Su Ai-chih, a 67-year-old retiree and spiritual medium, says a woman who was drowned by Chinese soldiers and turned into a goddess has even asked believers for help in reconnecting with her family on the mainland.
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Using wire and polyurethane, her works may take the form of a shadow box, such as ‘Permeance’, or as a figural sculpture, such as ‘Goodbye Goddess’.
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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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Those blessed battlements (which had been of so much help to him ever since he had dashed from the wall across the grounds) were, now that he came to think of it, one of the recognized symbols in art of Sphigx, the lion-goddess of war; and Lion had been the name of Mucor's horned cat-of the animal she called her lynx, which had not harmed him.
Nightside The Long Sun
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The prime mover of all generation is said to be the goddess Necessity, who occupies the centre of the universe.
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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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In addition, female figures were prominent in the Irish Catholic hagiolatry of the area, harking back to the powerful position of goddesses and female druids in the pagan Celtic belief system, a status that carried over into early Celtic Christianity.
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Above float an airborne cast of Gods and Goddesses, heavenly nymphs and tree spirits, and snake-hooded nagas and naginis.
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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.
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The new series acquisitions feature some of the best characters that the manga world has to offer, including fighting maids, a temperamental rain goddess, and — in a unique twist — cute, talking bacteria.
28 « September « 2008 « The Manga Curmudgeon
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And it was on to Kilauea — the dream so near its ending; and of course we tossed into the pit of sea-surging lava our offerings to the Fire-Goddess of maile leis and of fish and hard poi wrapped moist in the ti leaves.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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Thus the gods and goddesses involved with water and corn were vital among the hagiarchy and the tribute to them was a lively and colorful celebration of the music, dance and products of the people.
Guelaguetza
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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.
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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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The one clue comes from frescoes and vases that depict griffins protecting a seated Goddess.
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Once Frigga filled my hands with spindle and wool, and my mind with these Thirteen Goddesses, I've found life too full for heartbreak and illness.
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We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it.
Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
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While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy.
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Venus Erycina -- to enrich, that is, the worship of that goddess, who had a favorite temple under Mount Eryx.
Life of Cicero Volume One
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At the sight they forgot the goddess and turned in pursuit of the beautiful creature.
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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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In Greek myth, love is personified by the goddess Aphrodite.
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Durga Puja [Worship of Durga´], also referred as Durgotsab [Festival of Durga] is an annual Hindu festival that celebrates worship of Hindu goddess Durga.
American Chronicle
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In very truth, thought Grainier, it is a salamandera nymphtis a goddessa bacchante of Mount Mæ nalus!
III. Besos Para Golpes. Book II
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The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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David Loh/Reuters A Chinese opera singer played on his cellphone as he waited to perform for Goddess of Mercy's birthday celebration in George Town, Malaysia.
Asia in Pictures
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This year, the firm has found another work by the artist - a depiction of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and patroness the arts.
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In ancient Greek mythology, Muses were goddesses of science and art who inspired creative endeavors.
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She was his foam-born Goddess of those leaping waters; differently hued, crescented, a different influence.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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In a couple of days I may go ahead and explain how the snowflake is a dangerous icon of a nature goddess and brainwashes children.
Making Trouble in the Holiday Season
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His plan to offer up the goddess Freia to the giants who built Valhalla is untenable from the start, as it would mean forcing the Gods to give up their eternal youth (her golden apples do a lot more than just keep the doctor away -- and remember, there was no Botox in 19th century Germany).
Albert Imperato: My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold
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The stories 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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What sort of strapless and/or little black, possibly drapey, goddess-cut dress with a slit is she wearing now?
Jennifer Aniston Keeps It Classy In Valentino At U.K. 'Horrible Bosses' Premiere (PHOTOS, POLL)
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The statue of the goddess in the sanctum was small and was heavily garlanded with bells and gold borders - offerings made to the goddess for boons granted.
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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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For over 1500 years, before Akhenaton, ancient Egypt had worshipped a multitude of Gods and Goddesses each with their own particular properties and associated priests and temples.
Legends of the Sun
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643 One of the halls of the empyrean, which is here personified as a goddess.
Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
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Following a brief sacrifice to the Dragon Fertility Goddess (don't tell Dave!), we will enjoy a traditional breakfast of potatoes and mate de coca, which is basically boiled cocaine and which I'm told puts Starbucks to shame.
Larry Doyle: Share Our Joy
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She was the goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth, nature, and the harvest.
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The new "kumari" or living goddess, was carried from her parents 'home to an ancient palatial temple in the heart of the Nepali capital, Katmandu, where she will live until she reaches puberty and loses her divine status.
Digital Point Forums
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This planet was essentially divided into separate realms, each ruled by a demigod or goddess, and the world existed in relative peace.
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My mother was a domestic goddess in every household art except culinary.
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At the Metropolitan she awes nobody as the goddess of War.
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Interestingly enough, it seems that the starry look of old-style screen goddesses has been replaced today by popular music divas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her inner goddess does a samba dance.
The Sun
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Looks like I am gravitating towards the relative calm, uncommercialised sanity of the new-age-goddess-wisdom-crone corner of the interwebby for a breather.
Archive 2009-03-01
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On the same jar, a drawing of a stylized tree with two grazing ibexes probably represents the goddess.
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It was always my favorite, to read about Cyclopes, gorgons, heroes, and goddesses.
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Since alcohol and blood sacrifice were associated with the worship of the goddess, at times it contained an orgiastic element.
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“Barn Goddess?” he asked as he clipped a crosstie to one side of Magnus™s halter in a wash stall while I did the other side.
Ms Longshot
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There were no signs of the muddled, half-finished goddess statements and in their place was a niftier line in tailoring.
Times, Sunday Times
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The goddess is now depicted as a blind power, and hence as completely careless and indiscriminate in the bestowal of her gifts.
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Castle. now my Goddess shall be Common Sense — she has no mysteries & her creed is a comprehensible one.
Letter 159
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I think those who dance round the moon to Wiccan goddesses have tapped a profound and liberating tradition.
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The French screen goddess may turn out to be the only major star attending.
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Octavia is a blonde goddess whom I have fancied for quite a while, so I do my best to satisfy Saki's orders - and end up with quite a large lovebite on my breast.
Evening Standard - Home
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A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment.
Caesars’ Wives
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Frodo is a priestess of the Goddess and both a Dianic Wiccan and Ecofeminist Christian.
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Olive Schreiner was not an aristocrat, and her perception of the Africa where she was born is a different perception than, for instance, the perception of someone like Karen Blixen, who, for all her remarkable empathy, brought her aristocratic assumptions to the continent and conceived herself as a benevolent goddess on a farm that existed because of the land-grabbing and punitive tax policies of the colonists.
The Story of an African Farm
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For Riley, Three Tall Women lends itself to the archetypes of the maiden, the mother and the crone, what she refers to as the tri-goddess.
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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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Aside from not rolling trippingly off the tongue, I found that many women took issue with the word goddess.
Dr. Ali Binazir: What Real Life Goddesses Have in Common
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Sadly, you can't see my sparkly deely-bobbers (actually, I suspect I'm wearing stripy tiger-ears in that photo) or my purple fishnet stockings or my big gold lame frou-frou skirt worn in homage to the goddess Belinda Carlisle or my darling spike-heeled yellow patent leather Mary Janes or my waist-cinching wide-elastic belt or my red lace push-up cleavage-inducing nipples-revealing bra, but take it from me – they were there; they were there with bells on.
Bluemeany Diary Entry
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But the whole point about her, and the one that can be obscured by the focus on the artworks and the leftover wine in her freezer, is that being a domestic goddess has become her job.
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In a bustling and minutely imagined fabular landscape, crammed with allegorical figures and places, Luka moves swiftly between the mythological and the contemporary; one minute he is meeting all manner of gods and goddesses, the other he's subject to the laws of the videogame, keeping a close eye on the number of "lives" he has left and trying to save his progress through various levels.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
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The children enjoyed the stories about the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman myth.
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The tale of the Sickness of the Men of Ulster features the gynandrous horse goddess Macha who is associated with shape shifting.
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The son of a prosperous Hindu trader, Bhai Pheru, Guru Angad was an ardent devotee of the Hindu goddess Durga.
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Although what the goddess tells the kouros has divine sanction (hers), that is not why he should accept it.
Presocratic Philosophy
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Here the goddess wears her high-crested helmet, and a himation replaces her aegis over the peplos.
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She said that her mother was a domestic goddess who always said it was easier to do housework herself.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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I beckon the one I want," said the Goddess, pushing through the creeper in the archway.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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Hat tips to adgrunt Alex and queen ad-bee Caffeinegoddess.
Adland
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Her surviving hymn to the goddess, arranged by La Motte, serves as the sung text underlying the sacred ritual of the minuet.
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The hippopotamus is the familiar of Hapi, the goddess of the Nile.
River God
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Experts in Roman religion believe that the Yorkshire cleric belonged to the officially sanctioned and important religious cult of a mother goddess called Cybele, who originated in Anatolia, present-day Turkey.
Blast from the Past: Priest of Cybele Gravesite Found
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The _pujari_ who represents the goddess is painted like a leopard
The Evolution of the Dragon
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Parmenides gives us a poem in Homeric hexameters, narrating the journey of a young man (a kouros, in Greek) who is taken to meet a goddess who promises to teach him “all things”
Presocratic Philosophy
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Religion: the name assumed by the Hindu goddess Devi.
15,000 Baby Names
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Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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The Sun is depicted as a male deity, being embraced by the female moon goddess during an eclipse.
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It was not the complexion of a domestic goddess.
Times, Sunday Times
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Think a rough-hewn, Teutonic White Goddess, about a Romantic masterpiece rather than a Welsh riddle-poem, and you'll have the flavor of this weird knurl of taffy.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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Even Homer felt this need, and did not scruple to introduce not only second sight, but gods and goddesses, and to bring their supernatural agency to bear directly on the personages of his chant, and that far more freely than any Norse sagaman.
Eric Brighteyes
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For example, Artemis and Diana is the same goddess but are of two mythologies.
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Each village has its own goddess or Gramadevata, often in the form of an idol worshipped under a sacred tree.
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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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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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Five full-grown male bulls were killed and sacrificed to the gods and goddesses.
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Accomplishment of Singing, under the auspicious smile of the goddess, take possession, sundrily, of her children; and the two great arts of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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Lien, as he gave way to demonstrativeness; “what do I care about any other goddess!”
Hung Lou Meng
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She had no illusions that she could best an enraged Alshandra, if the raven should bring her `goddess" back with her from the astral plane.
A TIME OF WAR
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The Australian actress has recently been mythified to the iconic status of the screen goddesses of the 1950s.
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The Goddess tells Ari to ignore those things and concentrate on the pleasure.
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To the onlookers below, it seemed as if a second sun lurched drunkenly through the sky, from which blazing goddesses descended and ascended while thunderbolts flashed and pealed.
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According to legend, the Trojan War had its genesis in a dispute between three Greek goddesses.
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The tresses of Helen, that goddess of Greece have hanked round your heart like a doll of desire
Sile Ni Ghrada (Sheila Nee Iyer)
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Their arms were the bow, spear, and axe, a crescent-shaped shield, called pelta, and (in early art) a helmet - the original model in the Greek mind apparently being the goddess Athena.
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PUNE: Antique jewellery that adorned the idol of goddess Shivai at the Shivneri fort in Junnar taluka were found stolen on early Tuesday morning.
Are We Losing Our Faith in Tough Times?
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Mithra like the rest of the gods and goddess of the Iranian Pantheon was stripped of his sovereignty, and all his powers and attributes were bestowed upon Zarathustra.
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I knew, as never before, nor since, the thousand dear and delightful anguishes of love frustrated but ever resilient and beckoned on by the very goddess of love.
THE PRINCESS
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Their deity, Goddess Vankul Mata ji, rides on a camel and specifically bequeathed the animal to them.
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Hood has suggested that the statue at Knossos may have looked like the snake goddess shown in faience in the Temple Repositories.
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The word venerable originates from the name Venus, the Roman goddess of love and sexuality.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
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These goddesses stepping into a car, vulgarly called a cariole, the mortals followed, and explored alley after alley and pavilion after pavilion.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
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Although there were decidedly violent aspects to this ancient goddess. she was generally a benevolent figure who possessed most of the fortunate qualities now associated with Venus, the lesser benefic.
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The eternal, overarching divinity whom Graves' favorite goddess personified has gone by many names.
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And if, besides striking the real cause, the exorciser is fortunate enough in his enumeration of the various gods, goddesses, and spirits to call by name upon the _right_ god or spirit, the one who has the power over the demon in question, his object is achieved.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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The very conception of truth was a new one, as a goddess not to be shielded behind the shades of hierophantic mystery, but rather to be sought in the free tumult and joyous strife of many voices, there vindicating her own majesty and marking her own children.
Voltaire
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The Romans identified her with Minerva, a goddess of the household and of craftsmen.
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The expression on the goddess' face was merciful and compassionate.
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She was running the company and he was the domestic goddess.
Times, Sunday Times
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What if the goddess is immortal but suffers the pains of mortal flesh?
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Why Secret Origins are Usually Awful
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[FN#330] The litholatry of the old Arabs is undisputed: Manát the goddess-idol was a large rude stone and when the Meccans sent out colonies these carried with them stones of the Holy Land to be set up and worshipped like the Ka'abah.
Arabian nights. English
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The globe-trotting history of Titian's masterpiece "Diana and Actaeon," which goes on view Oct. 17 at Atlanta's High Museum of Art, begins with the Roman poet Ovid's tale of a goddess who transforms a man into a deer after he spies her taking a bath.
Diana's Journey From Royal Chambers to Atlanta
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They have that whisper and waving of secresy in secret scenery; they beckon to the bath; and they conjure classic visions of the pudency of the Goddess irate or unsighted.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2
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I saw in him, with a keen longing, those features characteristic of the Guermantes, of that race which had remained so individual in the midst of a world with which it was not confounded, in which it remained isolated in the glory of an ornithomorphic divinity, for it seemed to have been the issue, in the age of mythology, of the union of a goddess with a bird.
The Guermantes Way
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All preparations of the pooja are ready with the deity of goddess Durga decorated.
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Because Wiccans seem to worship nature and nature goddesses and gods, they can be called pantheists.
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A kind of goddess and her cavaliers dance balletically.
Times, Sunday Times
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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?
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How could anyone be bored in the company of the domestic goddess?
Times, Sunday Times
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He will offer the first harvest of rice to the sun goddess.
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The global media transformed Diana Spencer, a flighty but enormously photogenic English clotheshorse married to the future British king, into a virtual demi-goddess.
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An essential white grape of Bordeaux, Sémillon is a golden-berried goddess, producing some of the longest-lasting white wines ever made.
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The grenadier is pointing out the Goddess of Fame hovering overhead.
Canada at the Grave of Wolfe
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I can't do justice to the full richness of the story in this piece -- but the center message surrounds two Hindu goddesses, Kali and Parvati.
Tanene Allison: Feminism and the Powers of Destruction and Creation
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A sculptor applies finishing touches to an idol of the Hindu goddess Durga as his son looks on him in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata September 25, 2006.
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The monument is constructed of pure white marble and features majestic stairways, tall Corinthian columns, fountains, a huge equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel, two statues of vicotry goddesses riding on quadrigas four horse chariots, and a tomb to an unknown soldier.
Rome With A View at eternallycool.net
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He will offer the first harvest of rice to the sun goddess.
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Clearly she presides over this field or crop, as she walks through it like a beneficent goddess.
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Ingersoll traces all images of the dragon back to Tiamat, the watery, primordial goddess slain by Marduk in the Enuma Elish, a Babylonian version of the combat myth; as they appear in various myths around the world, dragons are typicallly associated with water, though in different contexts, so that some are rain gods, some are guardians of underground pools, and some are chthonic representatives of the chaotic sea.
You Go, Greydanus, or, O'Brien and the Dragon
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Furies > (In later accounts, Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto, three goddesses who guard the gates of hell; in earlier accounts, they are avenging deities, of indeterminate number, sent from hell to punish wrongdoers) aslake > assuage; cool
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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There is at the head of the Egyptian Delta, where the river Nile divides, a city and district called Sais; the city was the birthplace of King Amasis, and is under the protection of the goddess Neith or Athene.
Timaeus
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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 Romans found the local Celts already ‘taking the waters’ and paying their respects to the local goddess, Sul.
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The situation becomes even more fraught with peril for Kate Daniels, as along with homicidal demigoddess aunts with a posse of undead mage servants, she also has to deal with scheming lycanthropes, bigoted knights, and being left in her undies, holding the dinner by big headed furry boyfriends.
Archive 2010-06-01
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When you feel that urge, he suggests, picture yourself as a god or goddess, a supreme ruler, who owns the streets and stores and office space, striding alone and having your way in all situations while others defer to you.
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Du Châtelet's mirror identifies her as the goddess of truth, while Voltaire sports a poet's laurel wreath as he assiduously transcribes the words of his female muse.
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They were treated as dogs, they were hungry, and the goddess of justice refused to review their plight.
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You know all those deities -- the gods and goddesses that cause outsiders to think Hinduism is polytheistic?
Philip Goldberg: Colbert: Try Hinduism For Lent
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Gods and goddesses were a necessary part of such compositions, and a continual playing among amorini, but such deities lived not upon Olympus, nor anywhere outside
The Tapestry Book
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Goddess of those leaping waters; differently hued, crescented, a different influence.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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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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Zeus and a sea-nymph called Dione, was the goddess of Love and Beauty.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
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The pink rose also represents pain, suffering and death in Roman mythology when Apollo turns Rhodanthe into a rose after she unsuccessfully tries to unseat Diana, his sister, as the goddess of the hunt and the protectress of women.
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I swear to whichever goddess is presently in the mood to listen, if these weird dreams keep up, I'm going to have our water tested for LSD.
"This flood will swallow all you've left behind."
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He equipped the main sanctuary of the shrine dedicated to the sun goddess with solar panels.
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Nor did it seem unlikely that a city which styled itself 'the nurse of Artemis' should also claim the less audacious title of 'sacristan' to this same goddess.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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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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Why, even Hindu gods and goddesses can be abused freely!
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Emanating radiant compassion toward all of her devotees, Ammachi is understood to be a manifestation of the Great Goddess on earth - a living Avatar.
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The children enjoyed the stories about the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman myth.
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Everything is genuine and costly, as becomes the gifts of a king, though it must be admitted that certain of the royal offerings which are ranged at the foot of the shrine, such as jeweled French clocks, figurines of Sèvres and Dresden porcelain, and a large marble statue of a Roman goddess, are of doubtful appropriateness.
Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
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Le drame, l'épopée savante, l'élégie attestent aujourd'hui encore la puissance et la souplesse de ce magnifique génie; seul entre les disciples de Sarasvatî [the goddess of eloquence], il a eu le bonheur de produire un chef-d'oeuvre vraiment classique, où l'Inde s'admire et où l'humanité se reconnaît.
Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
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Gods, goddesses and animals made in rosewood are examples of chiselled beauty.
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Judith removes the Furies - three goddesses sent to avenge crime and sin - from their classical context and situates them in our current social climate.