The frieze, a mix of honey-coloured marble panels and glaring white plaster casts of pieces in the BM, shows a procession of worshippers carrying offerings to Athena, the temple goddess.

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With the temple to Goddess English, he hopes to attract the villagers to language and learning.

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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.

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They named their enterprise after a local temple dedicated to the goddess Renuka, who is much venerated in the area.

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She would work on their imagination so that the lecture room became a stage in the temple and she was Artemis, the goddess of hunting.

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Local residents built a temple in her honour and began to venerate her as a goddess.

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