developed into an agricultural and pastoral society, revered both the earth and cattle. More importantly, significant agricultural goddesses such as Gaja-Lakshmi...
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Durga (category Hindu goddesses) 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...
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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...
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Osiris (category Egyptian gods) afterlife, agriculture, the dead, fertility, life, the netherworld, resurrection, and vegetation. The god who is the most powerful of all the great gods, the...
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Inanna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Look up Ishtar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses: Inana/Ištar (goddess)...
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standard of article quality. Demeter, the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth...
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propagation of Hinduism occurs in approximately the following way. ... Native deities are rebaptized with the names of Hindu gods and goddesses. ... Some...
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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...
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god of agriculture, founder of civilizations and of social order, and conformity. It is the ruling planet of Capricorn and traditionally Aquarius, and is...
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Nisaba (category Agricultural deities) 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...
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Religious pictures, pagan revels, gods and goddesses, nudity and raiment, kings and queens, children and old men, landscapes and battle scenes all poured from...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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covered with buildings and sculptures dedicated to gods and goddesses revered by the Ancient Greeks. But the Persians destroyed much of the Acropolis over...
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