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...eautiful, wise, deadly, compassionate, seductive. Women in Buddhist story and image are all these things and more. She takes the signs of the ancient goddess – the lotus, the sacred grove, the serpent, the sacrifice – and uses them in astonishing new ways. Her story is one of suffering and great trials, and through it all an unquenchable longing to be free. This beautifull...

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...1 The Lady & the Tree 2 A Myth of Origins 3 The Death of the Goddess 4 The Little Stick Collector 5 A Magic Birth 6 How Māyā Became a Goddess 7 She Who Ate the Children 8 The King Sacrificed 9 The Real Māyā 10 Let’s Play 11 Perception, Symbol, Myth 12 On Using Jung 13 The Dha...

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...ard the fields where my spirit burns at its fullest. 8 By the root of all Goddesses where the fountain of grace serves a worldly purpose and delivers... ...t legends. She is the third entity in a trinity and will be worshiped as a Goddess of love. Where the firmaments leave me sweetly embraced by her heav... ...s and the form of a mortal, she who is seen proceeds from the stars, sweet Goddess whose flesh sends forth such light. 23 Journey VI Praise shall be ... ...to the temple of the cloth. Courts of eternal life are in her following. A Goddess who shall unfold the portals of name and body. She has fashioned di... ...as born a man into love, a man taken sweet by the unfaltering rapture of a Goddess. A man strong that if I shall fall I shall rise again to her scarle... ... a tireless sun, every new moon and the brightest stars. Standing before a Goddess’s temple made of heaven and earth; the world shall be governed by t... ...ourney forth in shadows and light where a mortal woman held the sun like a Goddess and linked my heart with her spirit. The Fourth Path Daughter of he...

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...praises, acted out his exploits. The other arts were also linked to gods and goddesses as well. The art of Science flourished because people believed ...

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...at it stands for right?” Vincent asked. Lexi looked up, “Yeah, Hera was a Goddess in Greek mythol- ogy.” “Not just any Goddess, she was the wife of Z... ...- ogy.” “Not just any Goddess, she was the wife of Zeus. She was also the Goddess of Marriage and Childbirth. Now think about that for a moment. Tha...

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...ary woman. Black as sin hair swept up in a mass of curls, she was an Amazon Goddess in fiery red satin. Cade wanted to shake her and kiss her in th...

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...derstand,” Anna said. Susan walked down the staircase, to Brand she was the picture of a goddess. “She’s very beautiful,” Anna said. “That’s wha...

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...O Goddess sing of how the Pink House went From being fairly clean to state unkempt. A tale of debauchery, lies and television. A story about booze, drugs, sex, war, money, and burger boxes. A novel about a house. A Pink Hou...

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...wkward when one wants to say something…but I smile and bask in this glorious Goddess and her Messenger. Debbie Freeman “Holy the Love”: Your writing i... ...54 55 56 57 58 59 63 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 My Divine Goddess Immortal Beloved She Is My Fortune Bright Angel Eyes Garden of Sw... ...with brilliancy and transforms into a single entity of beauty, an unchanging Goddess of paradise.” Brought to life to the reader through his words of ... ... foaming sea, released from her mortal state of being, and transforms into a Goddess. 22 A Messenger from Eros By many candle I have penned many vers... ...worthy writings, blissful beginnings call me from the chambers of her spirit Goddess. Her soul commits to the enterprise of angels. 24 Breath She cre... ...esplendence without a final destination. 26 Birth She is the fairest of all Goddesses, an angel in the image of God. Where the commandments are engra... ...with brilliancy and transforms into a single entity of beauty, an unchanging Goddess of paradise. For she is everywhere, in every time and place, invo... ...ly words. Her ways are sublime and she invites all things of being. She as a Goddess has made a tabernacle of the world. Where the winds are her chari... ... command the Lord’s day to rise with the moon. Her beauty is the beauty of a Goddess. To see as mortal men see one could die of pleasure by gazing upo...

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...d were often protected by local rulers who shared their profits. The THUGS, whose worship of the Goddess Kali was the basis for their ritual murder... ...lay bowls surrounding the base of the idol. The figure of a man lay prostrate at the foot of the Goddess, his fingers clutching at her feet, the knu... ...oncern, only the stealthy shadows of vengeance which he knew must come. His eyes looked up at the Goddess, her blackness towered above him, her bulg... ...lankenhagen 14 work with the Thuggee & Dacoity Department 1 and the black marble statue of the Goddess Kali, now in the family vault at Charnwood ... ...urderous organization existing since the 14th century who under the guise of their worship of the Goddess Kali, robbed and murdered travellers by st... ...lls the victory of the God Rama over the evil demon, Ravana. In this fight, Rama was aided by the Goddess Durga, another name for the black goddess,... ...ld first THE CURSE OF KALI 89 ring the bell hanging above the door. A marigold-garlanded Hindu goddess, sitting in the lotus position, watched he... ...peeches - that it was not her, but someone else seated next to Gavin and she recalled the painted Goddess, Sati, in that little Hindu chapel in the ... ... her. The temple was deserted except for a young woman performing some puja rite in front of the goddess. Helen remembered reading that this partic...

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...ave not invented a special god for HIV/AIDS who can cure it. She compared the goddesses. Mariamma who was a sole goddess to cure smallpox. She only ...

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...of this collection. 3 Dedication For two special women: Joyce Glory Mpulula. Mother, father, best friend, goddess. My gratitu...

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... became known as the Beltane (or Belltane) festival. The Romans honored the spring goddess Flora on May Day. May 1 is still celebrated throughout...

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... women all who crave me. See all these are queens no less Make them willing maids to thee. Served as thus by all of them Won’t thou look a goddess then? In the Pushpak that I won Come to live like favoured one. If ever thy man regains crown Would he make a patch on me? So that I add honey as well Know thy buttered side of bread. Lovebirds li...

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...ons and distortions that are taught in grade schools around the world. The issue presents a major feature on Navaratri, that grand festival to the Goddess, and explores the subtle differences in how She is honored differently in different parts of the world. Other articles cover the fascinating history of the sari, how a sacred view of the cosmos is saving forests, a da...

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...of the A., or the A. family, x (ii), 8, 69, 93, 174, 210. Aditi, n. of a goddess. (a) Who she i~ Identifications. (6) Relations to other deities. ... ...237; the Infinite, 32, 241-3; a name for the distant East, 32, 242 sq.; goddess of freedom, 32, 255 ; identified with other deities, 32, 25+ sq.,... ...i invoked to release from sin before A., 46, 354. (e) WORSHIP OF A. The goddess invoked, 46, 110, II5, 127, 186, 647; invoked when sprinkling wat...

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...of the rift. One step more, he thought. One step, and I will be home. By the Goddess, give me strength. I must get to Regan. Darkness surrounded him. ... ...into the brush, followed by the other unicorns. Regan suddenly gasped. “Oh, Goddess, thank you,” she choked out as tears rolled down her cheeks. Kel... ...son.” She whirled to face him. “It’s Zara’s young that was killed. She’s the Goddess’s avatar.” “And you are my wife and mother of my children. Do we ... ...ttoo for all of the use it’d been put to lately. She was Thea, Chosen of the Goddess, with healing magic in her hands for the forest animals. When was... ...by and watched as he changed Catherine’s swaddling with loving skill. By the Goddess, Barbara M. Hodges 79 what was wrong with her? She was so lucky ... ...ew the purple gourd onto the ground at his feet. She’d changed from a loving goddess into an ebony statue as he’d watched. With stiff lips and a voice... ...em. Thea promises.” But Zara was gone. Regan fell back upon the bed. “By the Goddess, no. She can’t do this.” Trembling shook her body. “Regan, tell m... ...held her to her Barbara M. Hodges 87 breast. Mother first. Thea second. The Goddess will understand. Regan sought Zara’s daughter, Lilith, with her m... ...s.” “No. She can’t do that.” Lilith’s mind-voice was sad. “We can.” “But the Goddess...” “It is our choice. Will you release us?” Regan inhaled a deep...

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...ing the necessitie of it, Plato hath reason to name it a great and mighty goddesse). In my countrie, if a man will imply that one hath no sense, he w... ...m est dea nescia nostri Quæ dulcem curis miscat amaritiem.) (Nor is that Goddesse ignorant of me, Whose bitter-sweets with my cares mixed be.) to b... ...est, or mounted but by Cæsar, who when he died dedicated his image to the Goddesse Venus. If I be once on horse-backe, I alight very unwillingly; fo... ... Epist. xvi. 59. When he alowd hath said, Apollo heare, Loth to be heard, Goddesse of theeves, said he, Grant me to cousen, and yet just appeare, M... ...e experience speak of it, and I have not found Venus to be so imperious a Goddesse as many, and more reformed than my selfe, witnesse her to be. I th... ...t onely for strength of body, but of minds,' saith Vegetius: And that the Goddesse, foundresse of the Citie of Athens, chose a temperature of a count... ...bis and Biton, Trophonius and Agamedes, the two first having besought the Goddesse, the two latter their God, of some recompence worthy their pietie... ... And the same authority which Numa gave his lawes under the title of this Goddesses patronage, Zoroaster, Law-giver to the Bactrians and Persians, g... ...s it cost him little, so gets he not much by it. Those which made Venus a goddesse, have respected that her principall beautie was incorporeall and ...

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...ess, my one and only love ... in this life and beyond..." He slid a silver Goddess ring onto Kelly's bare right index finger, leaned forward and kisse...

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...oned apartment in New York City’s Bowery District. There I paint- ed Cascading Orchids as a still life practice exercise in preparation for Butterfly Goddess - a much larger, more complex work. I soon after completed Unicorn Purifying Water, an accomplished work in my estimation, one inspired by an exhibition of unicorn imagery at the Cloisters in northern Manhattan. Af...

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... Politics 5 The Al Fresco Option 6 Stopping Traffic 7 Blessings Wrapped in Bubonic Rags 8 The Authentic & the Aesthetic 9 Dystopian Horizons 11 Goddess to Green Cheese: The Moon 12 In the Buff: On Nudity 13 The Pleasures of Picnicking 14 What’s Cooking in Literature? 15 La Fête Nationale: Revolution 101 17 Zoom Zoom: The Automobile in Literature 18 Songs Inspir...