Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goddess. Paddy Chayefsky's ferocious satirade against the American Way of Life is crude, unfair, sometimes simply dull, but it has the power of righteous anger and the services of a richly gifted actress, Kim Stanley (TIME, July...
According to native Maori legend, an ancient chief named Ngatoro-i-rangi got caught in a mountain blizzard near Waira-kei and had the presence of mind to call for divine help. Down from the Maoris' ancestral (and warmer) homeland, Ha-waiki, came the fire goddess. Wherever she stepped, a volcano bloomed. She warmed Ngatoro-i-rangi so bounteously that the whole region where the blizzard was blowing is still boiling over...
...Diana that apparently flourished for more than a thousand years near ancient Vravron, a fertile place on the east coast of Attica about 24 miles east of Athens. Herodotus mentioned the temple. So did Aristophanes, who hinted at orgies there. In Euripides' play Iphigenia in Tauris, the goddess Minerva tells Iphigenia and Orestes to take the statue of Diana that they had snatched from a temple in Tauris on the Black Sea and set it up at Vravron...
Among the ruins Dr. Papadimitriou found many clues to the curious practices associated with the worship of the goddess. Though best known to the Greeks as the virgin huntress, she was from earliest times the patroness of pregnant women. Husbands made appropriate contributions, and Diana's priestesses inherited the jewelry, clothing and other possessions of women who died in childbirth. Many of these offerings were found in the silty soil of Vraona...
...anomalies, such as the story of Eve's creation from Adam's rib-"equaled in perversity only by the post-Homeric Greek legends of Athene's birth from the head of Zeus, and Dionysus' birth from his thigh." For in all primitive myth, says the Goddess' Graves, "the female, not the male, gives life, even if she is no more than a primordial Scandinavian cow licking stones into human shape...