Sentences with phrase «goddesses were believed»
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«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.
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Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a consort, Attis, who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth.
Secular thought and FreeThought, as well as atheism, is not any more a religion than not believing in Unicorns, ghosts, ESP, Pagan gods and goddesses, and the list is endless.
Should we believe another religious nutjob who thinks myths and legends (Satan, Jesus, God, Moses, Virgin Mary) are real and can hear and help them, or should we listen to rational individuals who tell us that there is NO supernatural dimension and that ALL gods, Gods, Goddesses (Mary) are human inventions designed to enslave humanity in the supernatural?
Some believe that she was named after the Persian goddess of love, Ishtar.
Easter is originally pronounced «Ishtar», it was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called «Tammuz», who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon - goddess and the sun - god.
His whole tribe believed in Goddesses that were in Mecca and that is also one of the reason why Mohammed uttered the famous Satanic Verses to try to appease his tribe.
When you filter out all of the people that claim to believe in gods, goddesses and fairies purely for political, business or social reasons that number is more like 40 % — 50 %, if not higher.
If Christ did exist — and I believe He did, and I do follow his teachings — we can look at the different representations of Gods and Goddesses as referring to actual beings.
What if you are a pious individual who believes in God (or gods, goddesses, etc.) but believes in the wrong one?
Questions of Gender Roles Site discoverer James Mellaart and other archaeologists believed that Çatalhöyük was a matriarchal society — these early theories were based in part on clay figurines found in the settlement and believed to represent a «mother goddess.»
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Transcribed directly from the archived field notes and journals of explorer M.G. Hawking's sixty - two months in remote regions of Nepal and Tibet, this book contains detailed accounts of three remarkable encounters he and his companions experienced with what they believe were the fabled «mountain goddesses» of Himalayan legend.
she does help them and remembers her past and finds out that she is a daughter of the moon.she needs to live the life of a goddess believe the truth.
Although on record since the 16th century, it's believed that Mothering Sunday dates back much earlier, and was probably adapted from a Roman festival of spring celebrating Cybele the «Great Mother» goddess.
The Hebrews, who were slaves of the Egyptians, began to believe in only one god, rather than many, and no goddesses were followed.
Take a look around the site and learn about the history of the temples, which many researchers believe were dedicated to the Great Earth Mother, a goddess of fertility.
The Maya believed the island to be was the home of Ixchel, the goddess of love and fertility, and Mayan women from the mainland pilgrimaged to the island to pay tribute to her at the temples.
The Maya believed this was the home of Ixchel, the goddess of love and fertility, and Mayan women from the mainland pilgrimaged to the island to pay tribute to her at the temples.
Balinese believe that Dewi Sri is the goddess of rice and she stays as a protector of the rice field.
Hela is not the goddess that Senua believes she is, but a manifestation of the core of her own psychosis.
The exhibition features eight mixed media collage drawings and two large - scale assemblages inspired by Kilauea Volcano — believed to be the home of Pele, the Hawaiian fire and volcano goddess — which the artist visited in 1992 while in Hawaii for the opening of her last traveling retrospective at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu.