Ganges is revered as a goddess, and it is often called maiya or mother.
Local residents built a temple in her honour and began to venerate her as a goddess.
And they're working with a goddess or goddesses who are just as powerful as gods, if not more so.
When Clara made her entrance, it was like the apparition of a goddess.
These scenes, telling of battles between gods and giants, with appearances by Vishnu and a goddess named Mohini, took about 30 minutes.
She can take consolation in the fact that millions of younger moviegoers grew up on her movies, and for them she will forever be a goddess.
Capture the spirit of kitschy Vegas at Caesars Palace as you sit by the Garden of the Gods pool oasis, surrounded by Greco-Roman statuary, while being offered frozen grapes by a goddess in a skimpy toga.
The statue of her carved by Antonio Canova, in which she insisted on being depicted naked as a goddess of love, caused the cardinal so much embarrassment that he not only refused to allow it to be displayed in public, but would only show it to close acquaintances by torchlight.
Heidi Klum sizzled in a turquoise goddess dress with a very high slit by relative newcomer Alexandre Vauthier.
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The London-born actress was a star at age 12, a bride and a divorcee at 18, a screen goddess at 19 and a widow at 26.
Justice traditionally was depicted as a blindfolded goddess balancing truth and fairness in a scales and wielding a double-edge sword.
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Here, Raphael painted a beautiful goddess - Galatea, triumphant, driving a team of dolphins through the waves - and designed the amorous adventures of Psyche.
Recently right wing campaigners were furious over some nude paintings of a Hindu goddess by prominent Indian painter, MF Hussain.
There's a grim precedent: one of India's greatest painters, MF Husain, was literally hounded into exile for drawing a Hindu goddess naked.
Since then she worn everything from a red asymmetrical goddess dress from Lanvin (BAFTAs), a short frilly lace number from Bottega Veneta (MTV Movie Awards), a challenging floral print column gown from Lanvin (Alexander McQueen Costume Institute Gala), and a collage-like short frock with a train from Chanel (Vanity Fair Oscar Party).
Inspired by the Venus of Willendorf, a tiny fertility goddess discovered in Austria and dating from around 23, 000BC, Mr Koons's sculpture proposes a new kind of idol a high-tech grande dame whose untouchable polished surfaces reflect the viewer.
Collecting the rags from his studio, he heaped them in front of a statue of Venus, recasting the Roman goddess as a common washer-woman.
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Erecting a hydroelectric dam, which tends to put the river goddess into a vile mood, requires more elaborate trickery.
Ashlee Simpson looked like a Hollywood glamour goddess in her glittery black column dress also from Jenny Packham.
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She is married and lives in London and she loves cooking and baking in an effort to be a "domestic goddess".
Mudiyettu is a ritual dance drama from Kerala based on the mythological tale of a battle between the goddess Kali and the demon Darika.
Yet, many other women complained such thinking was demeaning and kept them on a "mother-goddess" pedestal, with their virginity as the touchstone of family honour.
Mudiyettu performers purify themselves through fasting and prayer, then draw a huge image of goddess Kali, called as kalam, on the temple floor with coloured powders, wherein the spirit of the goddess is invoked.
The 5-foot-tall Mehta painting, "Mahisasura, " inspired by a 5th-century Hindu myth, was at once violent and sexual, divine and mortal, vividly depicting an orange-and-black warrior goddess wrapping a red-and-gray buffalo demon in her lethal embrace.
The hype about his soul-baring confessional journey, which ends with a face-to-face with the goddess of forgiveness, Oprah Winfrey, is a veritable emotional tsunami.
It became easy to dupe him with a fake gold ring or an ivory statuette of a bare-breasted Minoan goddess.
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