Sentences with phrase «mother goddess was»

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The official Instagram account for Italian museums is sharing art by women of all walks of life, as «saints and prostitutes, goddesses and commoners, intellectuals and artists, actresses and martyrs, writers and poets, mothers, Madonnas and revolutionaries.»

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.

«The Earth itself is alive,» it declares, echoing the «Gaia» hypothesis that Earth is in effect a single organism deserving of the name of a goddess, here «Mother Earth,» a name deliberately chosen for such symbolism.

she is our mother, goddess of the earth, she supplies food in the desert to the wild beasts, and causes them to live.

To the Mother of Gods, Teotenantzin, a divinity much adored by the Aztecs long before the coming of the Europeans, obviously a goddess of fertility who dwelt of old on the precise hill where the Virgin of Guadalupe later appeared to Juan Diego, is addressed the following hymn:

In the words of a song of praise sung by the Paraiyar Pucari Subramani, «O Mother Goddess Ellaiyamman, grant us the service of your true blessing, for you are the goddess who protects our religion.»

The notion that this goddess is the axis of the Paraiyars» religion can be inferred from Oppert's etymological explanation: he claims that the name Ellamma is derived from the Tamil ellaam (all or everything) making her «Mother of All».13 In the colony of Malaipallaiyam the predominance of Ellaiyamman is preserved by referring to her both as the «Mother of all beings» and as the eldest sister of all the manifestations of Sakti14 The other common interpretation for the name Ellaiyamman stems from the Tamil word for boundary ellai, making her the Mother / Goddess of the boundaries.15 This is the most prevalent interpretation among the Paraiyars of Malaipallaiyam.

Nature is not another commodity to be used, let alone bought and sold; rather, she is a mother, a goddess, whom one must learn no serve properly and on her own terms (Wordsworth?)

Earth, the great mother goddess, is a cannibal goddess.

The beauty of the Mediterranean is the beauty of Earth, the great mother goddess who gives birth to her children, allows them their moment in which to be fruitful and beautiful, in order that she may in her own time consume them.

I think a lot of it seems to be some type of Mother Earth worshiping thing — the fertility goddess with her massive mams.

No doubt it's not convenient for birth goddess / natural mother cred among your crunchy peers, but it's damn convenient for a lot of other things.

The older ones are still nursing so they are probably on the other side until 7 or so, after that they just stare in wonder at their wombyn goddess mother.

The goddess Isis was worshipped as the «patroness of nature and magic,» and known for being a mother and a wife.

Historically, Thea is the Anglicized spelling of the name Theia, who was the goddess of sight and shining light, the mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos.

He thought the sacrifices were over until the goddess asked him to bring his mother for the rituals.

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.»

Traditionally, archaeological discoveries in Malta have been interpreted — or perhaps we should say misinterpreted — against a backdrop of broad conjecture about the significance of mother goddesses.

The context of their discovery suggests that the shrine objects were the paraphernalia employed by the ritual specialists or priests and that their symbolism was meant to evoke much more than just a mother goddess.

A collaborative project between British and Maltese archaeologists, of which we are the directors, has made spectacular discoveries about the artistic representations of the so - called mother goddesses.

Some archaeologists have hypothesized that Maltese society may have been a powerful matriarchy dominated by priestesses, female leaders and mother goddesses.

These deities conferred their protection upon the newborn child, says Wegner, and because turquoise hair was reserved for divine beings, the brick suggests that Egyptian mothers identified themselves with the goddess.

And without warning, we'll be connecting with our inner earth mother goddesses.

Goddesses have been linked with virtues such as beauty, love, motherhood and fertility (Mother - goddess cult in prehistoric times).

Fortunately for her, she was lucky enough to have Psycho goddess Janet Leigh as her mother.

The writing is the first problem with «Huff», leaning hard as it does on the Dr. Phil Handbook for Fake Shrinks in its therapy sessions (leave out the dead gay kid, incidentally, and until episode four's guy - who - refuses - to - shit Huff's patients all appear to be beautiful women) and making the bad mistake of thinking that castrating bitch goddess mothers (Blythe Danner, playing Estelle Getty), nymphomaniac wives (Paget Brewster), and precious / precocious kids (Anton Yelchin) will write themselves out of narrative Bermuda Triangles.

Count The Last Kiss as a film that treats its women characters as the entire Greek pantheon of hysterical goddesses, from a flat - crazy mother (Blythe Danner in a series of ironed housecoats) pining after an old flame to our collegiate temptress (who, for no earthly reason, is mightily attracted to thirtysomething milquetoast Michael), to finally our damsel in distress Jenna, three months pregnant (her hormones blamed more than once for her behaviour — and she agrees!)

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.

After all, their parents loathe each other because the citizens of Athens chose Annabeth's mother to be the patron goddess of the city, but let's face it, she undoubtedly had the nominal advantage there.

Our conversation ranged from the pros and cons of moving from in front of the camera to behind it, the delights of making his debut feature with his mother looking on, and why the film's leading lady, Patricia Clarkson, is a goddess.

Warner cunningly parses the undercurrents of hate and fear in today's multicultural metropolises by interleaving the spellbinding, time - warping tale of a seemingly mythological figure, Leto, a self - sacrificing mother and unwanted refugee, into a wickedly incisive contemporary plot involving a young man who claims to be in contact with the goddess of the displaced and disenfranchised whose name is, of course, Leto.

In the beginning of the book, Paula states that her mother Kai, often told her she was named after the mother goddess who brings hope (and springtime).

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 pool of inspiration may be the same — primarily Homer's epics — but whereas Achilles was very much a book about mortal men coming to grips with their own version of masculinity, Circe is about a divine woman trying to consolidate her myriad feminine identities as daughter, sister, lover, mother, witch, and goddess.

A set of Ida's narrative poems is titled «Mnemosyne,» whom Paul quickly recognizes as «the Titaness Mnemosyne, goddess of memory and mother of the Muses.»

On the day of the new president's inauguration, when we worried that he might be murdered as he walked hand in hand with his exceptional wife among the cheering crowds, and when so many of us were close to economic ruin in the aftermath of the bursting of the mortgage bubble, and when Isis was still an Egyptian mother - goddess, an uncrowned seventy - something king from a faraway country arrived in New York City with his three motherless sons to take possession of the palace of his exile, behaving as if nothing was wrong with the country or the world or his own story.

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.

This evening you will be escorted to the Ghats to witness the spectacular Aarti ceremony; a spiritual ritual involving lights and incense in which residents make offerings to the river goddess - Mother Ganga.

The other reason Horizon: Zero Dawn still holds some allure to me after so many blandly satisfactory hours is that it is unquestionably the most woke game released by a major studio in years, a «core gamer» game in which women and mothers are revered as righteous warrior goddesses and in which almost every single dude is either a maundering sad boy or an emasculated angry boy or simply a concerned bystander boy, waiting for your help.

So this «Earth mother» archetype, while at times reinforced by men, was created by women in order to keep the goddess mystique and keep their power in pre-historic societies.

Who (or, more likely, what) is the goddess of the mountain, the one to whom the Nora refer as the All Mother?

She is an Orisha and the mother of all Orishas, having given birth to the 14 Yoruba gods and goddesses.

The last part of the show, which starts off with Louise Bourgeois, looks at how feminist art has both embraced and criticized certain representations of motherhood, and how it's often gone back to myths of goddesses and mother figures to reappropriate power.

A favorite subject of many photographers, including Nan Goldin, Mueller was, according to Waters, «a writer, a mother, an outlaw, a fashion designer, a go - go dancer, a witch - doctor, an art - hag and above all, a goddess.»

3 Initially, this interactive project was conceived as a series of essay - letters written (and then read aloud) by one of Baggesen's artistic alter egos, Queen Leeba — an amalgam of «Donna Summer and a proto - feminist, Scandinavian love goddess» 4 — and addressed to her children, sister, and mother.

These early words for earth, in turn, are references to the Norse goddess Jörð, mother to Thor.

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Although the modern Mother's Day was invented and trademarked in the early 20th century in the USA, celebrations of mothers and motherhood throughout the world have their roots in ancient festivals held to celebrate goddesses, fertility and the changing seasons.

In the locally known Hawaiian song, «Moloka'i Nui a Hina,» (Great Moloka'i of Hina), references are made to Moloka'i's mythical mother of the island, the goddess Hina.