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Hathorian Symbols Integrated into The Depiction of the Goddess Khenest in Ancient Egypt [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Tourism, Hotels and Heritage, 2023
: The research discuss the relationship between the goddess Hathor and one of the secondary deities, the goddess xnst, through the study of the symbols of the goddess Hathor, which integrated in the iconographic of the goddess xnst.
Abdallah Rabea   +2 more
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Sprouts of the Body, Sprouts of the Field: Identification of the Goddess with Poxes in South India

open access: yesReligions, 2019
In south India, when a person is afflicted with poxes of any variety, it is believed that the goddess Mariyamman has “arrived„ in the person. The Tamil term “ammai„ means pustules or “pearls„ of poxes as well as mother/
Perundevi Srinivasan
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Sumerlilerde Din Anlayışı ve Tanrı Algısı

open access: yesGaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2023
İnsan, yaratılışı gereği inanmaya meyilli bir canlıdır. Bu inanma eyleminin kendisini gösterdiği en önemli yer dinî inançlardır. İnsanlık tarihinin ilk dönemlerinden itibaren doğada gördüğü ve karşısında çaresiz hissettiği olaylara insanüstü bir güç ...
Yıldız Tilbe Etgü, Okay Pekşen
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A goddess for the Greeks

open access: yes, 2020
Within the Persian Wars narrative, Herodotus makes allusions to Demeter. One reference is presented in the context of the Persian occupation of Attica. In other passages, Herodotus writes that the battle of Plataia was near the sanctuary of Demeter, just
Rodrigues, Nuno Simões   +1 more
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Conceiving the Goddess [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Conceiving the Goddess is an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia that embodies research on South Asian goddesses in various disciplines. The theme running through all the contributions, with their multiple approaches and points of view, is the ...
Bapat, Jayant Bhalchandra, Mabbett, Ian
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Feeding the Enemy to the Goddess: War Magic in Śaiva Tantric Texts

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This article deals with the war magic as described in Sanskrit Śaiva tantric texts written between the 5th and the 12th Century A.D. This period marks a shift from the invocation of Aghora/Bhairava as the main war-helping god to the rituals invoking ...
Olga Serbaeva
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Membra disjecta ? Réflexions sur la matérialité des coiffes divines de Mésopotamie archaïque

open access: yesCahiers Mondes Anciens, 2022
In the long history of the Ancient Near East, deities wore horned headgear, diadems, haircuts, helmets, tiaras with one or more rows of horns. The purpose of this paper is to study the headdresses of the first known images of Mesopotamian deities, during
Catherine Breniquet
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Feeling like a domestic goddess: postfeminism and cooking

open access: yes, 2003
This article examines the significance of cookery writer and television cook Nigella Lawson in relation to debates about postfeminism, arguing that her work negotiates a form of feminine identity between the frequently polarized figures of `the feminist'
Hollows, J
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Iconology of the Goddess and Ibex Motifs on the Round Hairpins of the Lorestan Civilization [PDF]

open access: yesپیکره
Introduction: The subject of «mother» has consistently been one of the oldest artistic themes, prominently present in the works left behind by human civilizations.
Tajaldin Gilani, Azghar Javani
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Did the Storm God of Zippalanda have a Mother or a Wife? Remarks about the Cults of Kata??a and the Sun Goddess of the Earth in Zippalanda and Ankuwa

open access: yesAsia Anteriore Antica, 2019
Two important female deities of the Hittite Pantheon are related to the Storm God of Zippalanda: the Sun Goddess of the Earth, surely worshipped in the same city, and the Hattian Kata??a “The Queen”, whose cult flourished in the nearby town Ankuwa ...
Giulia Torri
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