Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works of art, and allusions of old chroniclers and dramatists it appears that the mystae or votaries made annual pilgrimages from Athens, watched some sort of passion play, witnessed a parade of holy objects, heard a discourse by a hierophant. The cult was centred around a legend of the Goddess Demeter, who sorrowed for her abducted daughter, searched for her, sat by a sacred well...
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Long Beach, Calif, advertised its choice of float queen for Pasadena's Rose Tournament parade on New Year's Day by: 1) popping svelte Virginia Johnson inside a crown of roses (see cut); 2) redundantly dubbing her "Goddess of Venus...
...image of a woman; she ranks high but not highest in his holy hierarchy. In practice, however, the private shrines of even heterodox moderns are as apt to contain less as a god. In The Dark Island Author Sackville-West has enshrined such a figure. To masculine readers her goddess will seem a human but incomprehensible creature; women will recognize in her a gynecomorphic ideal...
Proof that Veronese intended to paint Venus as a half naked lady rather than as a nude Renaissance goddess has been, supplied by workers at the Fogg Art Museum who have been using the X-ray to test the authenticity of masterpieces. The rays have uncovered the first version of the Italian artist's "Mars and Venus" where the figure of Venus was half draped...