The Abyss returned the flaming gleam of war, darted from the bright glittering concave shields of the Goddesses of battle.
Goddesses of Fate, or Valkyriæ, to whom armour was supposed sacred.
The other lioness goddesses are probably likewise destructive or hunting deities.
Figures of foreign goddesses are often found in Egypt; they are of pottery, coarsely made, nude, and with the breasts held in the hands.
These appear in all ages as the emblems of the two kingdoms, frequently as supporters on either side of the royal names; in later times they appear as human goddesses crowning the king.
The lioness appears in the compound figures of the goddesses Sekhet, Bast, Mahes, and Tefnut.
The goddesses of Babylonia were thus like the colours of a kaleidoscope, constantly shifting and passing one into another.
The gods and goddesses of Babylonia were Sumerian before they were Semitic; though they wear a Semitic dress, we have to seek their ancestry outside the Semitic world of ideas.
The goddesses passed one into the other even more readily than the gods.
The goddesses owed their existence to a grammatical necessity, and their unsubstantial and colourless character justified their origin.
Here and there the primitive triads survived into historical times, like that of Khnum and the two goddesses of the Cataract.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the goddesses or female spirits of Sumerian faith faded away as the Semitic element in Babylonian religion became stronger.
As Bel attracted to himself the other gods, appropriating their names and therewith their essence and attributes, so Istar attracted the unsubstantial goddesses of the Babylonian pantheon.
Istar, it must not be forgotten, was primarily the evening star; and Istar was not only supreme among the goddesses of Babylonia, she was the type and representative of them all.
Henceforward Egyptian religion was permeated by the ideas and beliefs which flowed from it, and the gods and goddesses of the land assumed a solar dress.
As we have seen, the majority of the Babylonian goddesses followed the usual Semitic type, and were little else than reflections of the male divinity.
Their attributes had been taken from them, and they had been transformed into goddesses whose sole end was to complete the family of the culture-god.
The spread of the solar cult of Heliopolis had introduced the name and worship of Ra into all the temples of Egypt; the local gods had, as it were, been incorporated into him, and even the goddesses forced to become his wives or his daughters.
This influence of the Moon over the female portion of the human race has led to a class of plants being associated either directly with the luminary or with the goddesses who were formerly thought to impersonate or embody it.
The ancients evidently regarded their gods and goddesses as very human, and therefore it would seem unnecessary and unjust so to alter their tales about them as to explain away their obvious meaning.
Carried away by the goddesses in a whirlwind, which kept revolving them in endless circles, they were at length precipitated into a pond, upon which Gaea took compassion on the young girls, and changed them into Cypress-trees.
The Romans decorated with Laurel the gods Apollo and Bacchus, the goddesses Libertas and Salus, AEsculapius, Hercules, &c.
They deal largely with goddesses and airy shepherd folk; they contain many references to classic characters and scenes, to Venus, Olympus and the rest; they are nearly all characterized by extravagance of language.
It visits by preference those who sleep on well-curbs, and the kisses of queens and goddesses often descend upon closed eyes.
Of the goddesses Sunna is said to be the sister of Sinthgunt, and Volla the sister of Fria.
In the poem Lokasenna he charges most of the chief goddesses with unfaithfulness or unchastity, while at the same time he reproaches the gods with unseemly conduct or with being involved in humiliating positions.
Lokasenna is occupied with a number of scandalous charges brought by Loki against various gods and goddesses who have been invited to a feast by Aegir.
The process started really with Bankim Chandra,[82] who interpreted the most popular of the Hindu goddesses as symbolic of the different stages of national evolution.
This wonderful transfiguration of the old gods and goddesses is carrying the message of new nationalism to the women and the masses of the country.
In the valley below this spot are two goddesses boiling kaile, and when the Shade reaches the spot it calls to them for kaile.
And two goddesses at Naulunisanka on the road shake out their nets in readiness, for they are set to net the Shades as they pass.
These goddesses are called Tinaiulundungu and Muloathangi, and they make a sweep with their net.
But the real dwelling of these goddesses is Ulunisanka, a peak on the road.
The goddesses are looping up their nets, They are listening to the sound of weeping, From what village does this weeper come?
These goddesses are terrible on account of their teeth; and as the Shade limps along the path they peer at it, creeping towards it, and gnashing their teeth.
Straight he bade The flying hours to yoke the steeds: his words The nimble goddesses obey, and lead The steeds fire-breathing from their lofty stalls, Ambrosia fed, and fix the sounding reins.
Homer had no such misty fancy; he believed the two goddesses were there in true bodies, with true weapons, on the true earth; and still I ask, what should Juno have done?
Nor you would not have suspected me to have such a great acquaintance among the goddesses neither, would you, my lord?
Both Goddesses let fall their chins upon their ivory breasts, Set next to Jove, contriving still afflicted Troy's unrests.
The lay is sung in an assembly attended by men only: and it purports also to describe a scene, from which the goddessesintentionally kept away.
This association is to be observed in another passage, where these goddesses jointly communicate courage to a warrior.
Twice the two goddessesdescend together from Olympus to the field of battle.
We may find, if it be needed, some further evidence of the high position of woman upon earth in the relation subsisting between the Homeric gods and goddesses respectively.
In a curious passage of the Odyssey, Homer tells us how the daughters of Pandarus were supplied by various goddesses with various qualities and gifts.
It is sufficiently indicated for the goddesses by their habitual epithets.
It is plain that the goddesses of Olympus had vied with one another, after an unprecedented and abnormal manner, in loading these damsels with an extraordinary accumulation of gifts.
The Hellenic goddesses generally do not, however, like the more Pelasgian Venus, Ceres, and probably Aurora, debase themselves by intrigues with mortal men.
The god Igi-du of Kes is identified with Ninurta as were most of the male satellites of the mother goddesses in various cities.
The various mother goddesses of Eridu, Kullab, Kesi, Lagas and Suruppak are invoked in an incantation, CT.
Nintud as the goddess of this city, but the list of mother goddesses in PSBA.
She had been one of those Sumerian goddesses who, in accordance with the Sumerian system, which placed the mother at the head of the family, were on an equal footing with the gods.
The worship of Ashtoreth absorbed that of the othergoddesses of Canaan.
He looked back upon an ideal vision of the golden morning of the world, when men were so stately and noble, and women so fair and true, that even the blessed Gods and Goddesses deigned to visit them, and to unite with them in marriage.
The 'Diana' of Catullus is not a vague abstraction or conventional figure, as the Gods and Goddesses in the Odes of Horace are apt to be.
Such are cult-statues of gods and goddesses from temple and shrine, honorary portraits of rulers or of athletes, dedicated groups and the like.
In place of Dorian draped goddesses and female figures, we find nude male forms.
The piety of the Roman women added many to the great number of temples erected for the worship of the gods, and sacred edifices consecrated to goddesses were numerous.
Her husband was very far from the opinion that the gods and goddesseswere more easily propitiated by devotions paid before beautiful Grecian statuary than when represented by the ill-shaped images of Roman creation.
The acts of the gods and goddesses were a part of the lives of the people.
Calypso regretfully and well-nigh rebelliously receives the command of Zeus, and complains of the jealousy of the gods, who forbid goddesses openly to mate with men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goddesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
