Bona Dea: The Festival of the Good Goddess The Good Goddess was one of many female deities‚ and stood for chastity and fertility‚ in addition to healing and protection. She also went by Feminea Dea (The Women’s Goddess)‚ Laudanda Dea (The Goddess to the Praised) and Sancta (The Holy One). Although somewhat shrouded in mystery‚ scholars now and the men of ancient Rome hypothesized that she was a version of an agricultural goddess‚ the most recognizable being Damia‚ the Rome version of Demeter. However
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Kali the Dark Mother Hindu Goddess One of the popular female goddess I researched was Kali. Kali is a goddess that plays a mother roll and also a warrior. She’s a ferocious mother that is sent to free gods from demonic forces. She has four arms‚ Their is a sword in one hand‚ and a head of a demon in the other. She has two dead heads for earrings‚ along with a string of 50 skulls around her necklace. She wears a girdle made of human hands. The necklace of 50 human heads is suppose to represent
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The goddess of Radiance and Beauty: Shri as a positive embodiment In the Vedic religion‚ women and various objects highlights the basic structures of the Hindu culture. One of the most conspicuous belief in the Vedic religion is the belief in goddesses‚ specifically of the goddess Lakshmi who is respectfully called by her sacred name Shri. Shri is believed to bring positivity in every aspect of life‚ economically‚ socially‚ and health wise. She is valued by many people including kings in
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A higher power’s divinity‚ as exemplified in "The Tyger" by William Blake and "The Goddess Who Created this Passing World" by Alice Notley‚ is seen as astonishing‚ and both speakers are full of amazement for the creation. The images used throughout the poems display the Creators’ divinity because they highlight how intricately everything is made. Although Notley’s feministic view of God sets the two poems apart‚ Blake and Notley’s poems perspectives can still be compared. In "The Tyger‚" the speaker
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The Goddess Movement When in 1974 respected archaeologist Marija Gimbutas published The Goddess and Gods of Old Europe (Berkeley: University of California Press)‚ little did she know the effect it would have on feminism‚ religion and society. Her book was about the spiritual practices of people living in southeastern Europe 6000 to 8000 years ago. Her book presented a theory of matriarchal and matrilineal societies that in many ways were ideal. Men and women lived in harmony‚ women ran the temples
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known as the god Apsu‚ and salty bitter water‚ the goddess Tiamat. Tiamat and Apsu filled the cosmic abyss with the primeval waters. Once these two differentiated‚ they created the gods Lahmu and Lahamu‚ who rose from the silt at the edge of the water. When Lahmu and Lahamu joined‚ they created the great gods Anshar‚ Kishar and Anu. From this generation of gods there arose mighty Ea and his many brothers. Ea‚ who was the god of rivers and was Tiamat and Apsu ’s great-grandson‚ was born. Ea was the
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Enuma Elish Summary Tablet I The stage is set for the story. The various gods represent aspects of the physical world. Apsu is the god of fresh water and male fertility. Tiamat‚ wife of Apsu‚ is the goddess of the sea and chaos and threat. Tiamat gives birth to Anshar and Kishar‚ gods who represented the boundary between the earth and sky (the horizon). To Anshar and Kishar is born Anu‚ god of sky‚ who in turn bears Ea. These "sons of the gods" make so much commotion and are so ill-behaved that
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account. The account is written in epic form and describes how Tiamat and Apsu‚ who are both bodies of water and their children‚ Lahmu and Lahamu are engaged in a very bloody battle (along with other gods) that ends in death of both parents. Apsu is murdered in his sleep by another god‚ while Tiamat is later slain by the god of Babylon‚ Marduk. After Apsu is murdered Tiamat attempts to avenge her husband’s death‚ but the account claims‚ “Tiamat did even more evil for posterity than Apsu.”1 (Dalley‚ 239)
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ENUMA ELISH: THE BABYLONIAN CREATION EPIC Introduction Enuma Elish is a major seven tablet Babylonian myth relating the beginning of gods‚ the rise of the god Marduk‚ the battle of between Marduk and Tiamat‚ and the creation of the universe and of humankind. It was one of the earliest mesapotamian literary creations discovered and found during the excavation at Nineveh(1848-76). In this paper‚ we shall highlight the account of this myth with its possible interpretation. We shall also compare
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water) and the goddess Tiamat (= salt water) commingled resulting in the birth of gods Lahmu and Lahamu‚ followed by the the gods Anshar‚ Kishar‚ Ea/Nidimmud (the earth/ water god)‚ and others. The children proved to be too noisy for Apsu‚ so he planned to kill them (Tablet I‚ lines 38-52) to resore quiet in the heavens. But before the father could destroy the kids‚ Ea killed Apsu his father. The victorious Ea then fathered Marduk‚ and Marduk in time killed Grandmother Tiamat (Tablet IV‚ lines
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