developed into an agricultural and pastoral society, revered both the earth and cattle. More importantly, significant agricultural goddesses such as Gaja-Lakshmi...

lunar months of pregnancy and the nine-month agricultural and monsoonal cycles. In: p. 116 David Kinsley in: Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine...

water-spirits; and the quadriviae, who were goddesses of the cross-roads. The early Greeks, as everyone knows, had multitudes of subordinate gods and goddesses who...

afterlife, agriculture, the dead, fertility, life, the netherworld, resurrection, and vegetation. The god who is the most powerful of all the great gods, the...

Inanna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Look up Ishtar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses: Inana/Ištar (goddess)...

standard of article quality. Demeter, the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth...

propagation of Hinduism occurs in approximately the following way. ... Native deities are rebaptized with the names of Hindu gods and goddesses. ... Some...

not necessarily up to date. (p. 324) You're no kind of goddess. I ain't against gods and goddesses, in their place. But they've got to be the ones we make...

god of agriculture, founder of civilizations and of social order, and conformity. It is the ruling planet of Capricorn and traditionally Aquarius, and is...

Sumerian scribes. She is considered the patroness of mortal scribes as well as the scribe of the gods. In the Babylonian period, her worship was mainly...

Religious pictures, pagan revels, gods and goddesses, nudity and raiment, kings and queens, children and old men, landscapes and battle scenes all poured from...

images of gods and goddesses have also left. Hindu Presidents of Union Boards have been replaced by Muslims by coercive measures with the active help and connivance...

with a sword-stroke of song out of the tangle of the mythologies, the motley mob of gods and goddesses sank suddenly out of sight and the Sky-Father was...

find there the divinely naked Aphrodite of Praxiteles — but otherwise one must look for force to the goddesses of Indian mythology. All the steam in the...

fairies and elves, about goddesses and spirits; she told me stories about the land and the sky, about cats and dogs, about snakes and spiders; she told me...

covered with buildings and sculptures dedicated to gods and goddesses revered by the Ancient Greeks. But the Persians destroyed much of the Acropolis over...