Village shamans perform a series of rituals to the goddess of the winds (Grandmother Yeondeung), the Dragon King Yongwang and mountain gods.
The primeval object of "veneration" was the goddess with the power to call forth desire from men, and to make barren women fertile.
Near the beginning of the lunar year, silkworm farmers invite artisans into their homes to perform the story of the Goddess of the Silkworm, to ward off evil and ensure a bountiful harvest.
It is said that the Romans often cut down a fir tree to keep in their houses during the sparse winter months as a form of appeasement to the goddess Ceres (originally Demeter, Greek goddess of the hearth).
The Romans celebrated Flora, the flower goddess around the first of May.
The program, code named Gaia for the Greek goddess of the earth, was attacked in a lightning raid taking less than two days last December, the person said.
It was a voice so sonorously deep, yet so delicately controlled, that it seemed to issue forth from the Pachamama herself, the earth goddess of the Quechua-speaking people of the Inca empire from whom Ms Sosa partially descended.
This holistic view of the planet he named Gaia after the Greek goddess of the Earth on the suggestion of his neighbor at the time in the English county of Wiltshire, William Golding, the author Lord of the Flies.
As the most influential goddess of the sea in China, Mazu is at the centre of a host of beliefs and customs, including oral traditions, religious ceremonies and folk practices, throughout the country s coastal areas.
Mudiyettu is a ritual dance drama from Kerala based on the mythological tale of a battle between the goddess Kali and the demon Darika.
As the goddess Yeondeung departs on the fifteenth day, marking the arrival of spring, she sows seeds and calms the troubled waters.
In the section called Aglaea, for the goddess of beauty, the author champions the essential, intrinsic value of art a subject he addresses with passion.
But this week, the parade action was centered on the 100th anniversary of the Spirit of the Ecstasy, the goddess that has adorned the hood of Rolls-Royce automobiles for 100 years.
The Greek word for star, aster, is derived from Ishtar, the Babylonian fertility goddess, whom the Greeks identified with the planet Venus.
About 500 miles away from the cornfields of southern Illinois, in Chicago, Ceres, the goddess of agriculture stands atop the city's board of trade, the place that claims to have invented futures trading in in the 19th Century.
Fire brigade crews used their ventilation systems and were first into the building to douse the flames before Green Goddess crews aided the evacuation.
Dedicated to Ma Cho Po, goddess of the sea, it was built in the 1840s by early Hokkien immigrants from China in gratitude for safe passage to Singapore.
They later realized that the morning and evening stars were the same celestial body, which they called Aphrodite, the goddess of love, thus perpetuating the cult of Babylonian Ishtar.
Indeed, spirituality lies at the heart of Diwali, with devotees specifically seeking blessings from two prominent Hindu deities: Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and Ganesh, the elephant-headed god of good fortune and auspicious beginnings.
The ancient artefact is also inset with an image of the goddess Venus, and lay forgotten in the library of the National Trust property for several years.
They named their enterprise after a local temple dedicated to the goddess Renuka, who is much venerated in the area.
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.
And that the goddess Fortuna has reserved a possible place for him in the company of the Greats?
Many of the show's terra-cotta heads and smaller statues are of Demeter, the goddess of good harvests, or of her daughter Proserpine, forced to become the queen of the underworld when she was abducted by Hades, its king.
In Greek mythology, the goddess Artemis is said to have turned herself into a cat in order to take refuge in the moon.
The name of the task force comes from an Inuit word describing the spirit goddess that looks after souls, according to the RCMP website.
It features an image of the Greek goddess Europa, which comes from a vase in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Japan's original fiction, according to legend, involved the sun goddess, Amaterasu, retreating into a cave and plunging the world into darkness.
With the temple to Goddess English, he hopes to attract the villagers to language and learning.
Some scholars claim it was here Odysseus dallied for seven years with the goddess Calypso.
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