The closest one gets to
a goddess is with Saya Woolfalk.
Not exact matches
The political turn for The Swift Life
is particularly interesting due to the fact that the pop singer herself famously avoids taking any political stance (
with some critics arguing that her neutrality
is a gambit aimed at maintaining the broadest possible appeal),
with Swift even declining to denounce racist supporters who call her an «Aryan
goddess.»
Reddit
was buzzing, and thanks to the superb strategy of my PR
goddess Amanda Coolong, my phone
was ringing off the hook
with reporters asking about the GoCoin deal
with PayPal.
«Originally eaten by the Saxons to honor their
goddess Eostre the buns
are marked
with a cross as it
is believed the bun represented the moon and the cross the moon's quarters.
They
are referring to those who claim to have moved beyond Jesus, who dabble
with goddesses, and who make up their own theology as they go along.
You must develop the ability to silence the noise of your conscious fears, and allow your mind to
be still and silent enough for your intuitive guide or our
goddess within to communicate
with you.
But whereas in Rome these virtues
were embodied in mytho - theological constructs (e.g., Veritas, the
goddess of truth), in America we associate them
with the geographic regions (e.g., the frugality of the New Englanders).
The Mormon god
was raised to his godhood and sent
with many
goddess wives to a planet near the great star, Kolob, somewhere in our present galaxy.
The obstacles Odysseus encounters in returning to Ithaca
are the result of having offended the god Poseidon, while his success comes only
with the assistance of Athena, the gray - eyed
goddess.
The word Diwali itself means «festival of lamps», because houses and public spaces
are decorated
with scores of small oil lamps in honor of the
goddess Lakshmi, to whom Hindus pray to for success and wealth.
Genesis, over against this viewpoint, affirms (1) that there
is only one God; (2) that this God
is not identified
with or contained by any region of nature; (3) that the pagan gods and
goddesses are not divinities at all but creatures, creations of the one true God; and (4) that the worship of any of these false divinities
is idolatry.
I've
been waiting for it ever since the end of Season 5 when the Ponds
were finally married, running away to the TARDIS
with the Doctor (after rebooting the universe, natch) but the Doctor answers the ringing phone
with the words «an Egyptian
goddess running loose on the Orient Express?
Some Pagans make devotion to a certain
goddess or pantheon their focal point; others
are more involved
with seeing the Earth as a manifestation of deity.
The Jews weren't real happy
with a lot of their pagan neighbors, and the priests in the Temple tended to get upset
with the Hebrew people when they would worship a
goddess.
«In the Beginning
was the Word,,,,,,,,,,, and the Word
was GOD,,,,,,,,,,,, and GOD
was with God,,,,,,,,,,,, and men became «as» gods for the Gods» whim and the Will of GOD,,,,, So Help Me All you manly gods and womanly
goddesses created by all so many Gods and Goddesses, from their manifestations bein
goddesses created by all so many Gods and
Goddesses, from their manifestations bein
Goddesses, from their manifestations
being of GOD!
Diana
was treated
with the veneration and adoration of a
goddess.
Diana
was the perfect
goddess for a religion that didn't want anything to do
with the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, but
was desperate to worship someone or something that would provide a sense of beauty and transcendence.
That visit, following the dramatic encounters
with the seven sons of Sceva and the mob scene incited by Demetrius over the
goddess Artemis, extended to three years The other Pauline letters
were provoked by something that went wrong — wrong thinking or bad behavior.
«She
's the
goddess within us all,» said the girl
with the eyebrow ring, color rising to her cheek.
Atheist do not belive in a «God», they engage in a Godless ritual
with the «
goddesses» Their Holy book
is the «Dictionary».
Commenting on this, Elmore writes, «the Dravidian
goddess, Ellamma,
is sometimes represented
with the tom - off head of a Brahmin in her hand.»
In suggesting that the
goddess Ellaiyamman symbolizes the resistive character of the Paraiyars in a historical context of the colonizing trend of the Caste communities, I
am not subscribing to a view that the religion of the Paraiyars has not continually
been interacting
with the beliefs and practices of Hinduism.
They do have their own active and creative manner of collectively representing their historicity, which I
am arguing,
is closely intertwined
with their experience
with what they take to
be the Divine Power, Ellaiyamman as the
goddess of the Paraiyars
is a pivotal symbol of the source (and the hope of protection) of this distinct physical and conceptual space: she conserves their geographic space by guarding their particularity as a community and she represents their conceptual space as self - reflective human
beings.
You
are the
goddess who guards our boundaries: You protect
with you spear; You will protect us from 4408 diseases; You will protect the Harijans from the torture of the High caste.19
In this myth the Paraiyars, firstly, presented as
being a helpful community; they
are even willing to suffer persecution in the service of protecting a refugee.28 Secondly, this remythologised version of the emergence of the
goddess reinforces the notion that the Paraiyars
are the recipients of undeserved violence; they
are caught within the various subtle conflicts of the caste community and they
are affected because of it spilling over onto the Dáevas.29 What
is most interesting in this regard
is the association of this victimization
with symbolic figures of Women.
In one of my discussions
with the youth of Malaipallaiyam they brought out the idea that the
goddess is situated at the boundary of the colony because she stands as a warning to those persons who may cast an «evil eye» on the people (particularly, the women and the children), land and property of the Paraiyars.
Whitehead recounts a similar story after which he adds, «The woman
with the Brahman head and the Pariah body
was afterwards worshipped as Mariyamman; while the woman
with the Pariah head and the Brahman body
was worshipped as the
goddess Yellamma» Henry Whitehead, The Village Gods of South India Revised Edition (New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1988), p. 116.
Esther, the name of the heroine,
is almost identical
with Ishtar, the Babylonian
goddess of love and queen of heaven referred to in the last chapter.
I myself will never adopt an understanding that the power to overcome «disease» or sin or «sickness» or whatever alcoholism
is, can
be received from, or operated
with, «something» or «somebody» or a «power greater than myself» or a «higher power» or a «group» or a light bulb, chair, bulldozer,
goddess, doorknob, radiator or any of the other «absurd names for God» (as Rev. Sam Shoemaker, our «cofounder» described them).
«the
goddess Ninti who in the Sumerian creation mythology
was a
goddess of life and the «
goddess of the rib» = Yes, the oral tradition began
with the first
beings that had capacity to unite
with God.
The story of Wonder Woman, far from
being a feminist fable,
is actually the archetypal tragedy of the
goddess who falls in love
with a mortal man who must die while she lives on immortally.
They had to convince the citizens that Paul
was preaching that gods and
goddesses made
with hands
were only idols and that those he converted despised Diana and her temple.
The Marian theology (especially Wagner's suggested conflation of the
goddess Venus
with Mary), the knight asking for absolution from the pope, the theme of «works righteousness,» the notion that Tannhäuser
is saved by Elisabeth who both sacrifices herself for him on this earth and then in the afterlife intercedes before God on his behalf, and the fact that Tannhäuser himself
is redeemed only to die» all these
are, to the conservative Protestant at least, distortions of Christianity.
Let's leave aside the differences in theology (that God
was once a man, just like you and me; that there
are millions of gods
with their own planets throughout the universe; that faithful Mormons become gods
with their own planets and multiple
goddess wives procreating together to populate their planet
with worshippers, etc.) Let's leave aside Mormons» myriad and obvious non-Christian beliefs.
There
were major ones whom he called gods and
goddesses, some
with quite wide dominion, and others
with clearly defined roles.
A good example: I've
been playing a videogame of late
with a combination Greek / fantasy pantheon in which the player - character
is a very faithful servant of a particular
goddess, knows other gods exist (because killing them / beating them up
is the main plot of the game), and winds up
with an ally who can clearly see that the gods exist but only cares about following himself — so there
's a mix there of misotheism
with a few of the gods (they
are there, but they
're evil), faithful worship (serving a good
goddess), and nay theism («You gods
are selfish jerks, I
'm going my own way!»).
in the public domain, then I
'm sure you
are o.k.
with the Muslim's putting up their *) everywhere they want, and the Jews putting up their «star of david» and the Buddhists, putting Buddha everywhere, and the Hindu's putting up all of their gods, and
goddesses, along
with all the rest of the religions of the world and their religious imagery / symbols / texts, etc...
He insisted that many of the community members
were busy
with the yearly colony festival to the local
goddess, Gangamma.
On the one hand, Christian school officials
were not willing to admit that they had anything to do officially
with the Dalit
goddess.
It may well possibly
be that the
goddesses were daughters - in - law due the ugliness factors of elemental
goddesses and yes the elemental gods themselves
were also ugly but they did vex the celestial women to gain favors
with them therefore daughters - in - law
goddesses.
Ellaiyamman
is not a
goddess who merely suffers
with her people.
Mary flees from the crucifixion before it
's over; she wields a kitchen knife against the disciples when they try to force her to agree to their version of Christ
's death and resurrection; she has no faith whatsoever in Christianity or Judaism but finds consolation in worshiping the many - breasted Greek
goddess Artemis; her vision of the afterlife
is more accurately a vision of a twenty - first - century urban farmers» market: «a city... filled
with plenty, a marketplace laden
with fish and fowl and the fruits of the earth.»
The diverse cosmic levels communicate
with each other; they
are «bound together» by the same lunar rhythm, just as human life also
is «woven together» by the moon and
is predestined by the «spinning»
goddesses.
She
was one of them, she
was clothed
with the colors of divinity, but she definitely
was not one of their
goddesses.
I don't really have any problem
with it
being a pagan
goddess.
The gods and
goddesses of subject peoples
were widely worshipped throughout the empire and often won adherents simply because they
were not closely identified
with the state.
This animus
is commonly identified
with all those cultural «enemies» conquered in the past; it
is called nature religion,
goddess worship, paganism, witchcraft, demonism and the like, For a long time, Judaism also existed in Christian consciousness as a force in this suppressed animus.
I drizzled my cucumbers
with Annie's
goddess dressing — I
am almost out!
It
's topped
with a homemade green
goddess dressing that
's made
with a Greek yogurt base!
Succulent roasted shrimp and asparagus
are served
with a tangy garlic scape green
goddess dressing for an easy, 30 - minute paleo dinner that
's also Whole30 - compliant.