Sentences with phrase «goddesses were well»

Cult temple prostitution, castration, and same - sex sex rites in honor of popular goddesses were well - known practices at the time.»

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chris «Personal experience» has been used over the centuries as evidence for lots of things including fairies, UFO aliens, leprechauns, mermaids, ghosts, and... yes... all of the other gods and goddesses we've worshipped as well.

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.

The best way to meet Boswell's argument is to grant for a moment that the O.T. prohibitions reflect idolatrous worship practices, that homosexual acts are wrong because they are used liturgically in false worship of false gods and goddesses.

Well, people argue over it, but wherever «Easter» (the name) really came from, there definitely seems to be numerous connections between the spring equinox, sunrise, new life, spring, bunnies, eggs, fertility rites, and a sex goddess.

Radha is certainly no paragon of the womanly virtues detailed in Hindu texts; nor does she come close to any of the «good» or «bad» mother - goddesses of Indian mythology and religion.

God created his world to be «very good,» but we corrupted his creation by attempting to be our own gods and goddesses and by trying to shape...

Thus the Canaanites threw children into fiery furnaces to please Moloch; the Egyptians worshiped the sun and the goddess Hathor «who in the darkness crushes blood as if it were mash»; the Assyrians and Babylonians built the first cities around enormous slaughterhouses where priests sang praise to the stars before they cut the throats of well - built young men.

But if the best be bad, then the ruthlessness of god can be personified as Ate, the goddess of mischief.

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!»).

The story had its dim beginnings and it betrays its distant involvement in an ancient myth of creation out of the Near and Middle East which survived in various forms but best and most fully in the Babylonian Enuma Elish (a title derived from its opening words, «When on high»).4 Here chaos is represented in the goddess Tiamat, a name perhaps echoed in the Hebrew word for «deep» tehom (1:2).

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.

In a sense, her reconstituted woman is the image of a New Age goddess, a creator and a destroyer whose actions are good even when destructive.

God created his world to be «very good,» but we corrupted his creation by attempting to be our own gods and goddesses and by trying to shape our own futures apart from him.

We're green goddesses and deserve nature's best, so let me show you how to take trail mix to a higher level.

But the BEST is to finish tacos off with your favorite green or red salsa or a tangy green goddess dressing!

You probably know about her, she's the queen of gluten - free baking, a cocktail goddess, and arbiter of good taste and I couldn't be more thrilled that she invited me back for a visit.

From skillet bruschettas to green goddess Cobb salad, here are the best ways to cook with spring greens like arugula and watercress.

Old - fashioned green goddess dressing tastes as good today as it did back in the twenties, when it was invented.

The goddess of plant based cooking, Deliciously Ella, has totally nailed the SPB as I like to call them: there's seriously no better recipe out there.

He was pretty good, too: so good that that the goddess Artemis took him as her protector; so good that he boasted that «There is no beast I can not beat.»

Moms are not superheroes or goddesses, though either title is well - deserved.

No one knows the origin of this divine name, but it may well be a reference to an earlier fertility goddess.

Like many - handed Hindu goddesses, women are better jugglers (in my experience), sweeping through their lives performing several tasks at once, while men seemingly do things sequentially — a division of labor that certainly prevails in our household.

The story of the «Iliad» is well known, full of characters like Helen of Troy, Achilles, Paris, Agamemnon and a slew of gods and goddesses behaving badly.

Lauren and Katie are probably the best form of advertising for this place — they're both beautiful unicorn goddesses with sun - kissed skin that appears to have been stolen straight from a toddler's face.

The best part is that to get this look, you don't have to spend hours baking in the sun — just access your inner sun goddess with a bit of fruit pigmented bronzer!

Well, already told, this is true, you are simply a goddess!!

While admittedly I'm not the most dedicated green goddess ever, green beauty is just one of the ways we can be good to the earth and ourselves.

Here's our take on modern, warrior goddess hair for battling the day with ease and confidence — and best of all, no heat appliances are necessary.

Now with a career orientated around looking good, she knows exactly what it takes to be a resort goddess!

No, I'm not a goddess, but I do take care of myself by exercising and eating well, and I wear clothing from this decade.

i am romantic... passionate... with a good sence of humor that admires beautiful attractive women and love to make them feel what they are... a true goddess!!!

Nice guy, looking much younger, clever, very fit, curly dark blond hair is looking for his better half: a strong, clever, beautiful and tall woman who loves to be treated as a goddess...

Her namesake is the heroine of a 1970's pulp fantasy series who was raised to think she was a goddess and eventually becomes the Empress, quite a bit to live up to, but Cija does her best.

* The dilemma of the career - oriented woman * How to embrace your inner goddess * Why men are so damn horny * Why you need to kill the prince * The perfect guy vs. the perfect guy for you * The big secret about how men relate to female beauty * Your secret gift as a woman * Why good women get involved (and stay) in bad relationships * How to spot bad boys * How to love your body now * Thirteen places to meet great men * Why long - distance relationships suck * Internet dating: perils and opportunities * Meeting men: should you initiate or not?

I have a 9 year old son who is my world, I come with a package he is a car fanatic that's his thing, my thing is a good man that will respect me treat me like the goddess that I am.

Fiona is a goddess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this album is amazing:) not as good as Tidal but better than Extraordinary Machine

Fiona is a goddess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this album is amazing:) not as good as Tidal but better than Extraordinary Machine (even tho its also really good)

But the truth is that the film is beautifully shot, making good use of location shooting in Houston and capturing Winona Ryder's Gen - X goddess status better than any film ever would.

On the contrary, Stardust is extremely well - made despite an opening half - hour that boasts of a few too many long establishing shots, directed with real snap by Guy Ritchie's former producer Matthew Vaughn (who did the same with Layer Cake) and executed by a stellar cast that includes a literally incandescent Claire Danes as a fallen star named Yvaine and Michelle Pfeiffer as a hideous bitch goddess, which, given that Stardust follows on the heels of Hairspray, appears to be the vehicle of her late - career comeback.

Elizabeth Banks is better than good, Isla Fisher is better than funny, and Rachel Weisz, who hasn't been treated well by Hollywood (yikes, Eragon and Fred Claus ) since she won an Oscar for The Constant Gardener , is a constant goddess.

Even if the setup of these two losers pitted over one goddess is a bit rote, when Reilly is given space (and the Duplass Brothers are good at giving their actors space), he's capable of exuding an abject sweetness that carries a scene.

Short form: Pilgrim falls in love with a girl in what he thinks is a dream, meets her at a party and stalks her until they fall in love, then has to deal with her baggage [seven evil exes] as well as his own [the girl who dumped him went on to become a rock & roll goddess].

Add to the weirdness an underused bitch - goddess villain, Foxy Loxy (Amy Sedaris), who's transformed into a Southern Belle by the alien's obliterating death ray, as well as a sidekick pig, Runt (Steve Zahn), who speaks in Air Supply lyrics, is inspired by an invocation of Gloria Gaynor's fag anthem «I Will Survive,» is caught in the act of Spice Girls and Captain and Tennille karaoke, and is threatened with a grounding from his Streisand records for his bad behaviour.

Despite a Best Director snub, Gerwig thanked the two women at Lady Bird's heart: «Thank you to my cast, the beautiful goddesses Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf are incredible.»

Steve Kloves did a little better in letting off the «Hermione is my goddess» campaign in this one, too.

Beowulf eventually consents, taking on the vicious attacker with an impressive display, but discovers that Grendel is only the warrior and not the one truly in charge, as his mother (Jolie, The Good Shepherd) is a powerful goddess of magic who has the power to seduce Beowulf in ways that sheer brute force has never quite been able.

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They share background information with their students on the geography, leadership, and income of Dasteinia, and through the roles of summarizer, challenger, and clarifier, they discuss which god or goddess would be the best fit.