Sentences with phrase «various goddesses were»

Actual liturgies from the days when temples to various goddesses were still in business have been lost; ancient devotees took their secrets into the grave.

Not exact matches

Also, based on my research, our modern celebration of Easter appears to be a conglomeration of various parts and pieces of all three sex goddesses listed above.

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.

Because of her transformed nature the goddess is able to assume various forms.

Although Dalit Christians joined their neighbors in various symbolic ways to indicate their unity in invoking the protection of the colony goddess for their community, they were reluctant to admit to their pastor that they played any significant role in the celebration of their Dalit religious heritage.

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).

According to the tenets of Hinduism, the Supreme Being takes on the form of various gods and goddesses each worshipped for a special reason.

Located below a vast overhanging rock, the ceilings of the caves are painted beautifully with murals of various Hindu gods and goddesses.

The series is a parody of the actual video game industry, and each goddess, totaling four, represents the various consoles that have appeared in the market.