Sentences with phrase «worshipped goddesses are»

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Anyone who think that these women are delving into goddess worship is either delusional or a liar.

Hindus often worship many gods and goddesses and some are eager to include Jesus in their list of deities.

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.

As for the first pagans (sumerians), they worshiped the fallen angels that come in form of aliens, gods and goddesses, enchanted beasts, and serpent weilders, and shouldn't be taken lightly, these witches, wizards.

As Ruether and others have observed, whatever may be said of the goddess worship of antiquity, or medieval witchcraft, contemporary revolutionary feminist religion has, by its own admission, created itself as a new entity.

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.

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.

By worshipping the fertility sex goddess in these ways, the people were welcoming the longer days of spring, and were praying for fertile flocks and fertile fields.

A paper that thinks hermaphrodite rights one of the important questions of our time, a paper that editorially endorses the worship of the great nature goddess Gaia, a paper that advocates the demonstration of condoms to fourth graders in public school, a paper that condemns as religious fanatics those who favor the protection of the unborn, a paper that derides as extremist the views of a majority of Americans and of two Presidents they elected, this is simply not a serious paper.

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.

My own personal beliefs are a reflection of the balance I see between Lady and Lord, but there are a lot of Pagans who worship a Goddess (or goddesses) exclusively.

It is also helpful to learn that Ephesus was a city known for its worship of the fertility goddess Artemis, who promised women safety in childbearing.

The worship of Sakti, divine female power, addressed also as Kali, Durga, Radha, Sarasvati, Laksmi, Ganga and Parvati, is still widespread, although often during periods of male domination, the goddess was made subject to a male god.

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.

He goes on to identify Ellaiyamman as «the goddess of the boundary [who is] worshipped by Tamil and Telugu 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.

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.

Muslims worship Allah, which is the Arabic version of the name Jesus used on the cross for God, «Eli» Originally the gods worshipped in Mecca and Medina were the Babylonian god and goddess of the moon.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.

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!»).

They all worshiped very powerful beings — that, after all, is what gods and goddesses are — and the more recently imported cults were very much concerned to offer salvation, including the promise of eternal life, to their adherents.

My wife is my goddess whom I worship and cherish as my full partner in life Equal in every way.

It is easy to caricature rival understandings: liberationists insist that realists are all closet neoconservatives, and traditionalists proclaim that feminists have all started down the slippery slope that leads to goddess worship.

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 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.

The creation of a feminist goddess - centered religion need not be dependent on whether the worship of Ishtar or the practice of witchcraft was such a religion in the past.

It is doubtful that the goddess worship of antiquity was such a religion.

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

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

This is a way for him to worship you as a sex goddess and to acknowledge your vagina as a place of shared spirituality.

The Ayurvedic ashram is situated at the foothills of the Himalayas and along the banks of the Ganga River: the sacred river of India that is worshiped as a goddess.

I envisioned This Land Is Mine as the last scene of my potential - possible - maybe - feature film, Seder - Masochism, but it's the first (and so far only Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती, Sarasvatī) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom, and learning worshipped throughout NepIs Mine as the last scene of my potential - possible - maybe - feature film, Seder - Masochism, but it's the first (and so far only Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती, Sarasvatī) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom, and learning worshipped throughout Nepis the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom, and learning worshipped throughout Nepal

I search for the goddesses who ste proud and strong and allow this pagan to worship a fine female body... To take orgasms in the valley that manifest life energy... Sex energy is the strongest energy humans share...

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Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and used as symbols of peace.

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

In Bengal, the colour red is used to worship the goddess Kali (also called Durga), one of the most well - known Hindu goddesses.

The Sacred Mayan Journey is an event that brings to present one of the oldest traditions of the Mayan culture; the pilgrimage which, year after year, was performed by the Mayan canoeist paddling towards the island of Cozumel to worship the goddess Ixchel with offerings and in search of the divine message from the goddess for the maya people.

The temple was built in 1926 and is dedicated to the worship of the goddess of lakes and rivers, Dewi Batari Ulun Danu.

Travelers won't want to miss the spectacular ocean views from the cliffs of Punta Sur (the southernmost point of the island) where there is also an ancient Mayan structure that was used to worship the goddess of fertility, Ixchel.

The temple has a significant importance for the rice farmers in Bali, as the temple is dedicated to the worship of the goddess of lakes and rivers.

The four goddesses, also known as the Console Patron Units (CPU), are worshiped at their personal Basilicom located within their separate kingdoms.