BURKS 210 Deep in the Gnome-infested Tunnels of the Moon, Sarka and Jaska Are Brought to Luar the Radiant Goddess Against Whose Minions the Marauding Earth Had Struck in Vain.
Sidenote: Deep in the gnome-infested tunnels of the Moon, Sarka and Jaska are brought to Luar, the radiant goddess against whose minions the marauding Earth had struck in vain.
Within was the colossal statue of the goddess wrought in ivory and gold.
He invoked the inspiration of the Goddess of Song, and waited for, no doubt believed in, some "deific impulse" descending on him.
Hekt, goddess of birth, was a pal of his, in spite of her appalling ugliness; and she used to kneel by his potter's wheel.
Hathor, goddess of Love, bewitched us into doing queer things which we should not have dreamed of doing if we hadn't drunk "Nile champagne.
Her friend had written down for her in verse such a sweet legend about the Nile rising every spring from a single tear shed by Isis, a much more powerful goddess than Hathor, because she was the goddess of goodness as well as love.
Become My Wife (and) Goddess (for) Eternity.
The wall on which they were carved rose behind the Holy of Holies, where the golden statue of the Goddess had been kept; but alas, the figures themselves!
This last would be an adventure; for Mût, goddess of matter, the Mother goddess, has apparently not taken kindly to Moslem rule.
Women were great musicians, playing on many instruments, especially the sistrum, sacred to the goddess Hathor.
There the image of the goddess is duly worshipped, and a quantity of raw rice is tied round it with a cloth.
Meanwhile, the groom, and those who have remained at home, have been worshipping the goddess Sunkalamma.
Bana Sankari, the goddess of forests, is also worshipped, and they pay homage to Basava on grounds dissimilar to those professed by the Lingayets.
Within the Kuruba quarter of the town, the shrine of Anthargattamma is a regular dolmen beneath a margosa (Melia Azadirachta) tree, in which the goddess is represented by rounded stones imbedded in a mound of earth.
This rite is supposed to mean that the goddess is the daughter of the caste, that she has lived with them six months, and that they are now sending her back with suitable gifts (the rice, etc.
Gloyer as carrying their principal goddess "Bonjairini Mata," on the horns of their cattle (leitochsen).
These pots are supposed to represent Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, and, as they are being carried to the house, no pregnant woman or mother with small children should meet them, or they will have trouble.
This name is given in the hope of persuading the goddess that she is receiving a human sacrifice.
We were standing before the shrine of the seven mothers when the drummer invoked the goddess by chanting a Telugu hymn, keeping time on his drum.
The scene of the ceremonial was in a neighbouring sacred grove of lofty forest trees, wherein were two hut temples, of which one contained images of the goddess Draupadi and eight minor deities, the other images of Perumal and his wife.
One of the Malas, called the Asadi, chants the praises of the goddess during the ceremony.
They then bring forward a chicken and try to persuade it to eat some of the grains they have thrown down before the image, requesting the goddess to inform them whether she will leave their village or not.
The sacrifice being over, the head and leg of one of the slaughtered buffaloes are severed from its body, and placed before the goddess with the leg inserted into the mouth of the head.
Their ancestors were servants of Kannyakammavaru (or Kannika Amma, the virgin goddess of the Komatis), who burnt herself to avoid falling into the hands of Raja Vishnu Vardhana.
She is the goddess for all, and is present in the tongues of all except dumb people, because they have to pronounce the syllable elli (where) whenever they ask a question containing the word where.
In May the women of India worship a goddess friendly to little babies, named Shus-ty.
It commemorates a visit made by the goddess to her parents.
With them belonged the goddess Mut[193] (the mother) and Khonso.
Another colossal statue of the great goddess stood on the summit of the Acropolis, and her polished brazen helmet and shield, flashing in the sun, could be seen far out at sea by vessels approaching Athens.
Artemis and Dêmêtêr came from the woods and fields to unite in the high assembly, and war was suspended while Arês made love to the goddess of Beauty.
If it be true, as is asserted by Nævius and Plautus, that she was the goddess of gardens, as Venus Hortensis and Venus Fruti, then she may have been originally the female Vertumnus.
In others the statues of the gods were carried, and arks like those of the Jews, overshadowed by the wings of the goddess of truth spread above the sacred beetle.
Afterward, when all Rome became one vast family, Vesta became the goddess of this public home, and her temple was the fireside of the city, in which burned always the sacred fire, watched by the vestal virgins.
The Etruscans worshipped a goddess named Menerfa or Menfra.
She was an original goddess of Italy, presiding over flowers and blossoms.
Feast of Carna, goddess of the internal organs of the body, and of Juno Moneta.
The encounter with the Goddess Athena occupied his mind.
Perhaps the pleas of Mut, Goddess Mother, perhaps but a whim, yet the winds died and dark clouds gathered, poured briefly their life giving waters on the scene below.
To win the hand of a Goddess is not an easy chore.
And how was I to know she would be the Goddess of Justice and Law!
The mouth of the hippopotamus-goddess was almost shut, but the teeth of the lower jaw were visible, and it was upon their making, as well as upon that of the wide nostrils, that the young man was expending his skill.
The son worked on a larger idol, the goddess Apet, or Thoueris, in the shape of a hippopotamus walking upright on hind feet.
Women will worship that hippopotamus-goddess and think themselves safe!
After giving him the good advice to submit to his fate and be satisfied with the glory of his name, the papal goddess vanishes 'like a bird.
It need hardly be added that the goddess and the genius did not suffer the Duke to pass by without an address.
I have moulded thee as Goddess of flowers," he answered.
As the moon-goddess she was also identified with Hecate, and invoked as "three-formed" in reference to the phases of the moon.
As the goddess of childbirth, she was known, like Juno, by the name of Lucina, the "bringer to light.
Dido was worshipped at Carthage as a divinity under the name of Caelestis, the Roman counterpart of Tanit, the tutelary goddess of Carthage.
She is essentially the goddess of the moon and light generally, and presides over wood, plain and water, the chase and war.
The festival of the goddesswas on the ides (13th) of August, the full moon of the hot season.
He enjoyed the same degree of luxury; and upon the completion and adornment of the heroum of Sabina he gave it a brilliant dedication, taking care to have inscribed upon it: "The Women have built This to Sabina, the Goddess Venus.
Most of his life he passed in the service of beneficence, and therefore he erected on the Capitol a temple to that goddess and called her by a most peculiar name, which had never before been current.
The statue of Juno, which had formerly adorned the temple of the goddess at Samos, was of so colossal a size, that when it was destroyed by the Crusaders, eight harnessed oxen were required to drag the gigantic head to the palace of Bucoleon.
In those days I had small learning (I have little enough, even now), or I might have fancied her some goddess awaiting me between the night and the dawn.
My object in writing is to tell you that my birthday falls on Wednesday next (May 1st, dedicated by the Ancient Romans to the Goddess of Flowers, as I was yearly reminded in my happy youth.
The goddess was inconsolable, and Thor sought the insolent offender, intending to crush him with his redoubtable hammer.
She was the goddess of the morning and sister of the sun and moon.
This goddesswas determined to revenge the slight; she entered secretly, when all were assembled, and threw among them a golden apple on which was written: "For the fairest.
When Titho'nus could no longer move his aged limbs, and his feeble voice was scarcely heard, the goddess was moved with compassion, and changed him into a grasshopper.
Bellona, the goddess of war, was, according to some, the sister of Mars.
When the Trojans were building the temple and castle of Minerva in Troy, a statue of the goddess fell from heaven into the castle, which was still unroofed.
This goddess entertained Ulys'ses with much kindness, and even offered to share her immortality with the hero, if he would consent to forget Ithaca and dwell forever in her happy island.
She was the daughter of Night, and the goddess of just vengeance.
The goddesssuspected the deceit, and begged the beautiful heifer as a gift.
On earth she was called Diana, and was honored as the goddess of woods and hunting; in heaven she was called Luna, and was identified with the moon, as her brother Apollo was with the sun.
The goddess reluctantly obeyed; a raft was constructed and furnished, and Ulys'ses departed from the island.
The goddess was so much incensed, that she changed the cruel rustics into frogs, and condemned them to dwell forever in the muddy pool.
Tiberius caused the images of the goddess to be thrown into the Tiber; her worship was, however, afterwards revived.
He kissed the quivering lips she raised without words, and thereafter there fell a silence between them while the mystery of the night seemed to press closer upon them, and the veiled goddess turned in her sleep and subtly smiled.
Perhaps he was too engrossed with the service of his goddess to care that he and his wife should drift asunder.
She is either a goddess in her own right or the most treacherous old she-devil who ever sat in a heathen temple.
The victim is an acceptable sacrifice to the goddess Davee, who by some classes is supposed to eat the lifeless body, and thus save her votaries the necessity of concealing it.
But even now the Argus-slayer of the Golden Wand hath ravished me away from the choir of Artemis, the Goddess of the Golden Distaff, who loves the noise of the chase.
Then the most dread and terrible of years did the Goddess bring for mortals upon the fruitful earth, nor did the earth send up the seed, for Demeter of the goodly garland concealed it.
So spake she, wailing, and the lady Goddess heard her.
Then through the Gods' will and design, by the immortal Goddess lay the mortal man, not wotting what he did.
They found the glorious Goddess at the wayside, even where they had left her, and anon they led her to their father's house.
Now in the hour when herdsmen drive back the kine and sturdy sheep to the steading from the flowery pastures, even then the Goddess poured sweet sleep into Anchises, and clad herself in her goodly raiment.
Thus he spake, and the Goddess disobeyed not the commands of Zeus.
Strangely enough, along with the Snake Goddess of Knossos there was found in the Temple Repositories a cross of veined marble, with limbs of equal length, which Dr.
The great goddessof Knossos, in one aspect of her nature, was the same whom the Greeks knew later as Aphrodite, the foam-born Goddess of Love.
Professor Hempl maintains that the disk is the record of a dedication of oxen at a shrine in Phæstos, in atonement of a robbery perpetrated by Cretan sea-rovers on some shrine of the great goddess in Asia Minor.
Most interesting, however, were the figures of the Snake Goddess and her votaresses.
The suggestion of the association of Zeus with the Minoan goddess may have been given to the Northern conquerors by a feature of the Cretan religion which they found already in existence.
On certain seal impressions and engraved gems there are indications that the great Nature Goddess was sometimes associated with a male divinity.
Sometimes, as in the case of the Lion Gate at Mycenæ, and other representations, we have the pillar with the two supporting lions, an anticipation of the anthropomorphic figure of the goddess on the rock.
All ran in time to see a tall young lady come up the wide path at a good pace, looking as fresh and blithe as the goddess of health, as she smiled and nodded at them, so like a girl that all returned her salute with equal cordiality.
Up flew the bright little coin, and down it came with the goddess of liberty uppermost.
Involving Darkness did our Language shrowd, Nor could we view the Goddess thro' the Cloud.
But when He yielded to deluding Charms, Th'Harmonious Goddess shun'd His empty Arms.
Vera was no longer to him the goddess of his imagination; the one pure and peerless woman, above all other women, such as he had once fancied her to be.
We call on Fortune, and her aid implore, While Prudence is the goddess to adore.
What is more sublime than the image of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, formed in the head of the master of the gods?
What is more true and agreeable than the goddess of beauty, always accompanied by the graces?
When near the latter village, the procession is met by the goddess of Cheenee, with her retinue, and an exchange of courtesies takes place.
Ablutions are ignored by the villagers in their own case, but they will have their goddess washed and dressed daily.
Next morning, thegoddess of Kothi, or Coatee, returns to her own charge.
When they have expended all their energies the revellers bring the festival to a close, and each village-company bears back its patron-goddess to her own little sanctuary.
And if an unmarried man venture on the journey, a goddess called the Great Woman, throws herself in his way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goddess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deity; demigod; divinity; goddess; hero; heroine; idol; immortal
