Diwali is also a time to pray to the goddess of wealth, Laxmi, for good fortune.
That would put the Commonwealth, whose flag depicts the Goddess of Virtue, in extremely virtuous national company.
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Village shamans perform a series of rituals to the goddess of the winds (Grandmother Yeondeung), the Dragon King Yongwang and mountain gods.
In particular Venus, the goddess of love, has cast her spell over Vegas where mixologists demonstrate their inventiveness inspired by this holiday of love.
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.
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.
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.
Thalia, as the goddess of fruitfulness, he says, represents commerce.
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.
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.
There is no statue of the deity here since the last one was stolen some decades ago, but you can see barn owls flying around, which are coincidentally the mount of Laxmi, the goddess of wealth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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).
Mooncakes have been the dessert of choice for Chinese families gathering together during the Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate the Moon Goddess of immortality.
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 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.
Shiva instead commands that Darika will die at the hand of the goddess Kali.
And the Norse goddess of fertility, Freyja, had a carriage that was pulled by two cats.
Venus was the Roman goddess of prosperity and victory as well as love.
Until now she has been all mystique: bride in a family of martyrs, patroness of the disadvantaged, goddess of Indian secularism.
Turin had great fun penning his reviews, giving raves to fragrances he liked ("Thanks to Rive Gauche, mortals can at last know the scent of the goddess Diana's bath soap") and slamming those he hated ("57 for Her is a sad little thing, an incongruous dried-prunes note with a metallic edge that manages the rare feat of being at once cloying and harsh").
The Romans celebrated Flora, the flower goddess around the first of May.
Dewi Sri is the Balinese Hindu goddess of fertility and prosperity, and it is to her that the rice farmers so carefully present offerings in the simple bamboo shrines at the edge of each field, just as we had witnessed earlier.
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