Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place to die in-and to ward off death when possible. Mother Teresa and 62 sisters of the six-year-old Roman Catholic Order of the Missionaries of Charity are running one of Asia's most remarkable missions at the very gate of the temple of Kali, Hindu goddess of destruction...
...jingoism centered around the strident, state-supported cult of Shinto. The big holiday for nationalist noisemaking was Feb. 11, known as kigensetsu (Foundation Day), solemnly determined by later scholars as the day in 660 B.C. when Japan's founder, Emperor Jimmu, great-great-great-grandson of the Sun Goddess, ascended the throne with the divinely sanctioned mission of making Japan "the center of the world...
Fellow-Poet Robert Graves can only worship before eternal woman, "The Goddess" of whom he often writes. But a visionary woman like Poet Raine, conscious of her mortality, can herself become the Goddess when she declaims...
...Waltari (381 pp.; Pufnam; $4.50), takes its readers on a Cook's tour of the Mediterranean world of 500 B.C. The voluble guide is a young superman called Turms, who clobbers men, conquers women and seeks his ease in the lap of the gods ("I saw her, the goddess, taking shape and resting lightly on the couch, lovelier than all earthly women . . ."). Turms is also busy making history. He contributes to the death struggle between Greece and Persia by setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage and Sicily, insults...
BULU ZUBU, the Goddess of Fertility (on left) stands expectantly in the hand of her propagator, LOUES KANE (on right), owner of the College Shop, where Bulu is the hottest thing on the market...