Her signature "serpent cuffs" resemble reptile scales, referring to a deity from southeastern Native American spirituality.
Japanese folk faith holds that, in times of change, a deity visits our world to bring blessings.
And in time, I came to see that I did not believe in a deity that choreographs crashes.
One report talks of 450 golden pots, 2, 000 rubies and jewel-studded crowns, 400 gold chairs and the statue of a deity studded with 1, 000 diamonds.
And if he can't pitch this year, he plans to be a unifying force, a father figure, a clubhouse mascot, a deity on crutches giving the team something to rally around.
Hayachine as a deity, they began a tradition of folk performance that continues to enliven the Great Festival of the Hayachine Shrine held in Hanamaki City on the first day of August.
Each of four local communities Kita-machi, Higashi-machi, Nishi-machi and Hom-machi creates a parade float that serves at once as a space to worship a deity and as a multi-level puppet theatre.
The tribe, not a deity, was the supreme value, and each member had to subordinate his or her personal needs and desires to the well-being of the group, and fight to the death, if necessary, to ensure its survival.
Yes, there was evidence for the worship of a female deity by the ancient Israelites.
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Last year another department store had to apologise for selling toilet seats with images of a Hindu deity.
But in the game of playing God, Dr Bodenschatz is bidding fair to achieve the status of a minor deity.
But gradually, as we move down the church, the old insistence on a solitary deity is replaced by the Christian Trinity.
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Whether you blame George Osborne, the eurozone or a vengeful deity, the fact is that many Tory backbenchers are getting twitchy.
The Paternos may find it hard to swallow because they can't reconcile it to the man they knew, the man who over the years became a near deity in State College.
All this pedestal rattling made it easier to go after a figure who by this time had become a virtual secular deity--William Shakespeare.
All this pedestal rattling made it easier to go after a figure who by this time had become a virtual secular deity: William Shakespeare.
It has the reek of the black-frocked missionary sniffing down his nose at the primitives animism without ever wondering if his own wine-and-a-cracker deity might not be just as phony as the numinous spirits of the riverbeds and pine forests.
Dance also plays a central role in formal ceremonies such as "Iyomante, " in which participants send the deity embodied in a bear they have eaten back to heaven by mimicking the movements of a living bear.
In December, to express gratitude for the harvest, the farmer draws a bath and begins to prepare a meal, summoning the deity from the field with the sound of pounding rice cakes.
Over the next several months, my certainty of a sentient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity faded steadily.
This one, called Camulka, is designed around a pivotal square center, a raised platform with quadruple images of the deity.
For one, though the presiding deity of the Juna Order for men is Dattatreya, (a three-faced minor god) we are thinking of incorporating Dattatreya's mother Anusuya as our presiding deity.
The local young men's group, which plays a key role at festivals by carrying the mikoshi (portable Shinto deity's house), has all but disappeared.
During an elaborate purification ceremony before the game, she poured libations of gin, danced with a boa constrictor on the 45-yard line and prayed to every deity from Jesus to Oya.
The Hayachine Kagura is a series of masked dances accompanied by drum, cymbals and flute: six ritual dances begin the performance, five dances recount stories of the deities and medieval Japanese history, and a final dance features a performer dressed as a "shishi, " an imaginary lion-like creature representing the Hayachine deity himself.
The news of the two consultations has been welcomed by the British Humanist Association (BHA), a charity which campaigns for an end to any mandatory promise to God or another deity or religion.
They presented the hymnwriter as a fragile and precarious being, often poised on the brink of desolation and desperate for the deity's comforting hand.
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