Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture was on the cover. And her latest release, Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits, follows this marketing device to the letter. The casual album browser is treated to a fantastic picture of the beautiful Olivia, complete with her dreamy green eyes, red lips, blond hair, and goddess-like face...
Native Hawaiians have long attempted to placate the fire goddess Pele by dropping offerings-ohelo berries, liquor and, once upon a time, an occasional human-into the crater of the 4,090-ft. volcano Kilauea. Legend says the fire goddess lives within Kilauea, and it is her outbursts that have made the volcano, located on the big island of Hawaii, the world's most active, erupting on the average of once every 2½ years. But even longtime Kilauea watchers were concerned about the magnitude of the latest demonstration of Pele's power. In mid-September the volcano...
...faith proved well founded. Army engineers attempted to control the lava by exploding water bombs designed to cool the molten rock and dam its flow, but found their efforts ineffective. Hawaiians tried more traditional means. Flying over the crater, they sacrificed three bottles of gin to the angry goddess. Last week Kilauea gave a final mighty burp and dozed off. The lava flow topped and began to cool into black rock -only some 400 yds. from Kalapana...
...meters south of the temple of Amon, and has hit archaeological pay dirt. The new site, which was used continuously from around 1400 B.C. until as late as Roman times, not only links many of Egypt's most illustrious pharaohs, but casts new light on the little-known goddess they honored. "This site is a gold mine," says James Manning of the Brooklyn Museum. "It could give us an entirely new view of a large portion of ancient Egypt and its religion...
...statues of Mut-she is sometimes unflatteringly if elegantly depicted as a vulture -have yet been found in the temple that is dedicated to her or on the surrounding grounds. But the site abounds with statues of Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess whose association with fire, war and pestilence made her one of the most powerful in the Egyptian pantheon...