For Slavic Goddesses, Olowska uses Stryjeńska's 1918 series Bożki słowiańskie (or "Slavic Deities"), turning six of the illustrations into costumes portraying specific Slavic goddesses.
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We see nothing but #strong #Goddesses & #queens thank you.
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Joyne's massage practice has around 30 clients — or "goddesses" as the 54-year-old describes them – and charges around $350 a session which helps his "goddesses" release energy and balance their chakras.
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"I'm not interested in the motherly goddesses," Allahyari told me.
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The goddesses he manufactures are powerful but they're not human.
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We believe in your power as sex goddesses (and gods).
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In Hinduism, gods transform into goddesses and men bear children.
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Instead, the domestic goddesses of Calabasas reign atop the platform.
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If pro wrestling is myth reassembled, these were your goddesses.
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The Goddesses made as much as $5,000 to $8,000 a month.
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To me, they're just goddesses, just amazing women and amazing athletes.
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Both ladies were golden goddesses for the annual star-studded event.
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I was like, Let's look at some goddesses from my ancestry.
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Both Beyoncé and Palmer's looked like golden goddesses in Aljasmi's garment.
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Modern goddesses ruled the Grammys: Adele and Beyoncé brought dramatic spectacles.
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Like the greatest screen goddesses, Scarlett Johansson rises above it all.
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They are like digital fertility goddesses of the crowdsourced feminine underworld.
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Click through to get to know these truly badass goddesses of old.
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Teens—those selfie taking, Kik loving, Snapchat gods and goddesses—contain multitudes.
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Our gods and goddesses are now living in a world of uncertainty.
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One theory suggests that sumo matches were originally put on to entertain the goddesses of the harvest, and farmers believed that women in the ring would invoke the jealousy and rage of the goddesses, who would spoil the harvest.
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Either that or we're dehumanized as scum or (just as bad) untouchable goddesses.
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For a Bollywood movie, Gaurav Dhingra's Angry Indian Goddesses was decidedly un-Bollywood.
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Hamilton took the stage, flanked by thirty-foot-tall statues of Greek goddesses.
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I thought of Kristen and Melissa as these goddesses who exist in the stars.
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But Gaiman's use of gods and goddesses is just one level of the story.
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There were originally six gods and goddesses, and now there's only one dominant religion.
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For many goddesses, sensual touching and wrestling is as far as it ever goes.
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Her entirely toy-free presentation showcased a selection of darkly doe-eyed demi-goddesses.
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There was a point where I was painting these 10-foot-tall female goddesses.
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And the goddess religions were subverted, with the goddesses themselves turned into sex idols.
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I had never seen anything more dominant and graceful than those four teenage goddesses.
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Toyber casts the women in her photographs as goddesses communing with water and nature.
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She wore this look for the show's final portion, "Winter Wonderland of Glacial Goddesses."
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Nymphs and goddesses assemble, but the revelry's hardly begun when Prospero's mood changes abruptly.
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As Picasso told Gilot, there are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.
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We went to annual Hindu festivals to offer prayers to various gods and goddesses.
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In Hinduism, the country's predominant religion, gods transform into goddesses and men become pregnant.
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An amalgamation of Indian classical and tribal images, Rodwittiya's asexual goddesses evade easy categorization.
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The Hindu goddesses of wealth, power and learning are all women, Mr Dutta points out.
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Ahead, we've rounded up eight ancient goddesses whose mythical reputations are more than well-deserved.
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Teenage boys huddled in corners, faces lit by cellphones, oblivious to the goddesses standing sentinel.
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We are either called "angels" or "goddesses," and I guess that's how we're looked at.
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And a woman named Gill, who had built a secluded area celebrating Celtic fire goddesses.
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And that the artists who create this feeling are nothing short of gods and goddesses.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I have often searched for images of ancient goddesses.
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What was left out of Olowska's project was how the Slavic people interacted with these goddesses.
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The local goddesses are dressed, by contrast, in eastern Greek garb (called a chiton and himation).
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Just seeing these beautiful and sacred Black gods and goddesses, I thought, this is so magical.
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In ancient literature, goddesses sometimes couldn't get over stuff, and everyone rolled their eyes at them.
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Mythological armies march across ceilings, goddesses perch on the walls, and elephants dance in the corners.
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Netflix wanted to buy global streaming rights to the uncensored "international version" of Angry Indian Goddesses.
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She is one of the many dual-faced goddesses, both fair and ugly, dark and light.
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Lourd called them "goddesses" and said it's been difficult to express her feelings since they passed.
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Her brown skin drew similarities to Tonantzin, one of many goddesses worshipped by the Aztec people.
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"He wanted to depict the stories about gods and goddesses, kings and fairies," said Mr. Wattas.
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Broadly traveled to Nepal to see what life is like for young girls who become living goddesses.
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Whether the Slavic goddesses will continue to inspire the work of future artists remains to be seen.
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So, to honor the Gilmore goddesses properly, we need to have the perfect refreshments for the reboot.
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He is going to continue to make dresses for goddesses and Angels up in the sky now.
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"The Goddesses represent Mother Earth and you honoring her to get food and get nurtured," Fini explains.
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But that's exactly what one Malaysian artist is fighting against through a photo series depicting Hindu Goddesses.
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Classical Indian dance tells stories of gods and goddesses, bringing ancient myths to life through intricate gestures.
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Yet these goddesses of fecundity fill their frames without the prurience of Manet's Olympia or even Titian's Urbino.
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We're told he's quietly selling the Bev Hills mansion where he hosted various "goddesses" over the last decade.
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Last weekend, the Kitchen presented a three-performance run of Paulina Olowska: Slavic Goddesses — A Wreath of Ceremonies.
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In the Afro-Indigenous traditions of my people, the Taíno and Yoruba goddesses of storms also bring opportunities.
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Beautiful, strong, smart, and kind — to me — is the epitome of a goddess, and these women are goddesses.
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The ocean is often cast as female in stories, with tales of sirens and goddesses controlling the tides.
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For the most part the frescos tell glorious tales of the gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon.
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And as a couple, pleasuring someone else together can make you feel like total sex goddesses (and gods).
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The poem explicitly references Yoruba goddesses Oshun and Yemoja (also called Yemaya), a deity of oceans and motherhood.
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Throughout the year, Goddesses and Adoni will get keys as rewards for hitting certain sales and recruiting goals.
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It is important to recognize that Tonantzin was one of many Earth goddesses, which is typical of polytheism.
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Here are hammer-handed Thor and one-eyed Odin, tricky Loki, and the mighty goddesses Freya and Idunn.
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She outfitted eyeshadow palettes in Afro-inspired art, and named shades after African goddesses, like Yemoja and Oya.
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In that school's Mastery course ($4,950), participants call each other "Sister Goddesses" and examine their vaginas with mirrors.
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Elise argued that some Seekers took advantage of her Goddesses by indulging themselves in treatments without leaving an offering.
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Crossroads of Canopy by Thoraiya Dyer In the fantasy city of Canopy, gods and goddesses rule in reincarnated bodies.
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Thanks to U.K.'s Lakeland stores, domestic goddesses and amateur bakers alike can impress guests without logging into Pinterest.
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Supporters wore "Namo Again" t-shirts or masks with Modi's photograph, while others dressed as Hindu gods and goddesses.
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Some interpretations classify her as a "mountain goddess," and others consider her to be combinations of earlier appearing goddesses.
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This I swear to Odin, Kali, Bastet, and all other Pagan Gods and Goddesses in my Aryan Theosophical Nucleus.
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Nevertheless, and despite a brief visit from two goddesses, "Cemetery of Splendor" is more matter-of-fact than visionary.
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They walk naked into the field with the pride of goddesses, bare to the sun and to our eyes.
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Both were proud goddesses, each with a chaotic love life, artistic supremacy in their home countries and international fame.
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Knowing how vain the other goddesses were, she crashed the wedding and tossed a gold apple into the crowd.
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There were dancers and charmers, magicians and tree goddesses, and D.J.s at the decks long into the witching hours.
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Sheeba recommends cinnamon oil, which creates a burning sensation and holds an association with the goddesses Venus and Aphrodite.
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" Women lucky enough to already be employed in major companies like Baidu and Tencent are used as lures for male applicants: these "goddesses" are presented as potential matches, as in this Alibaba ad: "They are the goddesses in Alibaba employees' heart—smart and competent at work and charming and alluring in life.
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Olson was one of Charlie Sheen's live-in "goddesses" who shared his home with other women during his 2011 meltdown.
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"The names were actually inspired by my girlfriends and all the goddesses in my life," she explained on Facebook Live.
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Gone are the entertaining themes like "gods and goddesses" that mixed figures from different periods in a pantheon of superheroes.
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Fulfilling your "biological duty" renders you a goddess — but even goddesses are servants to mortal men in a patriarchal society.
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The company is now valued at $0003 million with 1,200 active Goddesses and Adoni (that's the men) in 44 states.
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In the new telling, Wonder Woman's powers don't come from goddesses or other Amazons, but rather from Zeus and Ares.
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The practices typically involve cleansing, ancestor worship, lighting candles, and honoring the earth (through goddesses Oshun and Elegua, for instance).
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I went into it thinking I was going to call it Goddesses, because that's what my community calls trans women.
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"Studying goddesses and female deities, how could I not see women as being sacred, just as men are?" she said.
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It shows images of the owner of the burial room, Tutu, giving and receiving gifts before different gods and goddesses.
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Alibaba has recently posted job ads that boasted about the "beautiful girls" or "goddesses" at the company, according to the report.
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The Neon Demon actress looks like she's channeling the grunge goddesses of the '90s on the set of her latest film.
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Women were sacrificed at feasts and festivals where they were chosen to represent goddesses—on occasion by decapitation followed by flaying.
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Snapchat changed the game with its playful Lenses, which let anyone puke rainbows or transform themselves into Coachella-ready flower goddesses.
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It's on the Saradas forum where schmoes can freely engage with other muscle enthusiasts and share photos of their favorite goddesses.
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Even better, she's making strides for her fellow melanin goddesses all over the world with her passionate Instagram posts and interviews.
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Noisey: What about the idea of the Furies, these vengeful Greek goddesses, reappearing in the modern day was fascinating to you?
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In Tokin' Women, I start in the 3rd millennium BC—a time when both goddesses and plants were revered as healers.
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They routinely interact with more opaquely colored humans; touchingly, we see ethereal goddesses sadly cradling their more embodied-looking adult sons.
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" Infertile from an adolescent bout of mumps, he was often impotent except with prostitutes, whom, for their detachment, he termed "goddesses.
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This training included areas such as plant lore, herbalism, history of the gods and goddesses, rites and rituals, and the like.
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These women are like Greek goddesses, not physically unique, but each one subtly signaling her story with a pose or tool.
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The "unbound" spirit carries through to other works in the show, including several frieze-like images of goddesses and beseeching women.
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It's also a cosmic symbol fit for the goddesses among us, appearing in mythological legends about deities like Hekate and Luna.
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Bacon, in turn, was obsessed with the Greek myth of the Furies, the underworld goddesses of vengeance who pursue the living.
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The highest peaks on each island are considered sacred in Hawaiian culture because they represent the realms of the gods and goddesses.
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I come from a part of the world where this debate is so heated, especially because we're a country that has goddesses.
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She had the classical beauty one saw in the faces of the goddesses in the vivid calendars that hang in Indian stores.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads there are no Hindu deities in this poem / no goddesses that slay / stay within this poem.
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The photo series, titled "This Body Is Mine", attempts to fight body-policing by giving a contemporary art spin to Hindu Goddesses.
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Even before Monday's show, Slashed by Tia was worn and hyped by style goddesses like SZA, Kali Uchis, Gigi Hadid, and KittyCash.
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Some marched in political processions, costumed as goddesses, others flirted at midnight rallies, most devoured the fiery partisan newspapers of the era.
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Creators of the universe, bearers of children, providers of culture, valiant warriors, and wise counsellors, these goddesses were anything but an afterthought.
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But the work keeps shifting into frenzied outbursts delivered in wordless vocalise, in which the soprano "becomes" various Nordic goddesses and spirits.
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"It's not just what they looked like," says Halpern, 29, who, in contrast with his sequined goddesses, is dressed entirely in black.
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"When standing in the center of this chamber, the traveller is surrounded by an assembly of Egyptian gods and goddesses," he wrote.
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Tonight's parades include the Krewe of Muses, an all-female organization named after the goddesses of arts and sciences in Greek mythology.
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Years later, in 2006, Husain exiled himself from India as his paintings of Hindu goddesses in erotic poses earned him much notoriety.
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Goddesses, seeds, pentagrams, virgins, harvests, and juice—plop all of that together and lo, centuries of female-centric apple play is born.
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If it's part of your spiritual practice, Herstik recommends "working with dark goddesses," such as Kali, Hecate, Lilith, Morrigan, or La Santa Muerte.
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"Women are considered goddesses in our household," he added, standing in the Supreme Court's lush lawns, just a few yards away from Rajawat.
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Reclaiming lore of old, she sees them as "mermaid goddesses" who take moonlit swims and use the cold to come back to life.
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She includes underworld deities, such as Persephone, Ereshkigall, and Hekate, as well as goddesses associated with destruction, such as Kali or the Morrigan.
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Of how the setting obviously played a part in evoking the right sensation—certainly the right proximity—for communing with gods and goddesses.
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Angry Indian Goddesses made its "fuck"-free debut on Indian Netflix in April even as the rest of the world saw it uncut.
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Before modern celebrities, there were fables, fairy tales, and myths—gods cheating on goddesses, stepparents casting their stepchildren out into a magical forest.
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That most endlessly analyzed of Hollywood sex goddesses is now being subjected to an especially rigorous process of deconstruction — or is it evaporation?
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Step One is to dig deep inside yourself and channel the wisdom of Maya Angelou, Eleanor Roosevelt and the wise goddesses of old.
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Unlike the pre-Code goddesses, vamps, and bad girls, who crooned or spoke in snarls and wisecracks, the post-Code women could talk.
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Some of the most commonly worshipped goddesses are Parvati, a primary form of Shakti; Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom; and Lakshmi, goddess of prosperity.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When we think of powerful goddesses, the names of Athena, Artemis, Isis, or Kali may come to mind.
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Finally, on Sunday night, you'll get to see for yourself that the rock and country goddesses were far more dynamic duo than odd couple.
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The old Bonwit Teller building featured art deco bas relief sculptures of semi-nude goddesses that were widely seen as offering considerable artistic value.
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In honor of International Women's Day, we're taking a closer look at some of the most interesting goddesses from ancient cultures around the world.
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Jaime Reyes, a teenager from El Paso, TX, shows that DC can make characters human—they're not all multimillionaires or aliens or ancient goddesses.
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Glowing in a gold outfit that paid homage to African, Hindu, and Roman goddesses, she performed Lemonade's "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles" with stunning grace.
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The duo looked like literal goddesses, and not only did we love their style, we appreciated how lovingly they embraced each other on stage.
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I'm sorry that you seem to be confused, but for some reason, some idiot thought they could play goddesses Brandy and Monica for fools.
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Both the day and the number were associated with the Great Goddesses, and therefore, regarded as the sacred essence of luck and good fortune.
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Related: Artist Uses Watercolors to Spotlight Black Femininity Artist Depicts Black Female Nudes as Ancient Egyptian Goddesses Imagining the Inner Lives of Black Girls
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"Goddesses were believed to be protective vessels," Kara Cooney, a professor of Egyptian art and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, said.
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Library of Congress Before the 1850s, there were celebrations of mothers, including ancient rituals for goddesses like the Greek Rhea and the Roman Cybele.
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Performances of Paulina Olowska: Slavic Goddesses — A Wreath of Ceremonies took place at the Kitchen (512 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) from January 26–28.
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In other words, Goop got one thing right: "Yoni" doesn't solely apply to goddesses anymore — anyone can get in touch with their divine feminine side.
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There is a sly political statement embedded in these funny, stiff depictions of the British, set against the elegance of the Indian gods and goddesses.
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As a man who loves his daughters, Trump can think of no greater way to express his affection than to praise them as sex goddesses.
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CreditCreditCandace Feit DEVANAMPATTINAM, India — The transformation of transgender women into goddesses for an annual Hindu festival takes place in an atmosphere of reverent, somber concentration.
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With Mayan pyramids projected onto a screen behind him, goddesses dressed in Santeria garb floated through the crowd, drawing white triangles on the audience's foreheads.
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At the Moulin Rouge, one tableau ostensibly set in Indonesia brings together performers dressed as panthers, masked goddesses, warriors and even a Medusa of sorts.
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They suggested the Greek goddesses found on a 1930s Hollywood studio lot, the plissé gowns of Madame Grès, or the Dionysian revels of Studio 54.
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Instead she took Surrealism to a place that was centred on women, not as muses or femmes enfants, but as domestic goddesses, cooks, sorceresses, witches.
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At the booth for Artyrama, a Lagos gallery, Ayobola Kekere-Ekun showed paper and textile portraits of Yoruba goddesses as googly-eyed reality-TV stars.
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He doesn't have official plans to star, but we'll pray to the water goddesses or whatever and see what happens as the adaptation takes shape.
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Related: Intricate Colored Pencil Works Explode with Texture Artist Depicts Black Female Nudes as Ancient Egyptian Goddesses Hot, We Walked in on Paint Tubes Having Sex
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For the performance at the Kitchen, each of these six goddesses appeared onstage — after a voiceover reading of a statement by Stryjeńska — and danced a solo.
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Related Meet the Female Street Artist Painting Larger-Than-Life Feminist Goddesses Scratching The Surface Of Vhils' Explosive Graffiti Work Invader Invaded Tanzania with Street Art
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Will she appear, as she did at the Wearable Art Gala last month and at the 2017 Grammys, as one of the above gold-robed goddesses?
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Popular plus-size outfits over the years have included Egyptian goddesses, witches, and black cats, which more or less mirror the top-selling straight sizes. HalloweenCostumes.
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Naming planets and moons after gods and goddesses has long been a celestial tradition, but it's admittedly cooler when those deities are hellish and terrifying.[NASA]
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The tech gods and goddesses must adore procrastinators, because we were suddenly compelled to extend our early-bird pricing on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2018.
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Using ancient illustrations of Middle Eastern dark goddesses as her source material, Allahyari is producing 12 sculptures through a process of 3D modeling, scanning, and printing.
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Because if there's anyone who's terrified at the prospect of "goddesses" like McCready and Black joining the Amazons and Valkyries, it's the men who worship them.
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The series of nine photos focuses on women reclaiming and embracing their inner Goddesses, according to the self-taught artist, who prefers to be called Ruby.
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The Furies (which was another term for Erinyes, the Greek goddesses of vengeance and retribution) is appropriately all about female anger as it pertains to politics.
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Read more: The cofounder of Warby Parker and Harry's reveals how he decides which industry to disrupt next"They were portraying women like goddesses," he said.
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As you're doing this, call out to Aphrodite and Venus (goddesses of love and beauty), asking them to send you a partner who's [insert list here].
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By her early 20s, she was in Rome covering Hollywood on the Tiber, honing her craft on fizzy stories about European royals and Italian movie goddesses.
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Ms. Allahyari researches female monsters and dark goddesses from Middle Eastern cultures and recasts their supposedly negative powers as sources of strength in poetic, multimedia artworks.
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In the final play, Orestes is pursued to the temple of Athena by the Furies, ancient goddesses who want him to pay for his mother's murder.
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Two works to seek out: the exuberant bee-rider by Mimmi Andersson and Merete Lassen at Kungsgatan 65, and Ebba Chambert's mystical goddesses at Vallgatan 21.
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Art Reviews Alina Szapocznikow's bits of body; Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg's triggering Claymation; Sonya Kelliher-Combs's poignant picturing of abuse; and Amy Brener's urethane goddesses.
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He spruced up the roles of the goddesses, who are traditionally poorly treated by the sexist gods but who stand up for themselves in his telling.
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In this stylish evening-length production, the performers dig deep to locate their inner goddesses and demons while embodying the oppositional forces of chaos and harmony.
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The ruling said the rivers, both of which are considered sacred to Hindus and personified as goddesses, were crucial in providing "physical and spiritual sustenance" to locals.
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Picasso once said that women were "goddesses and doormats," which, as Gadsby points out, echoes art history's lose-lose dichotomy of women represented as virgins or whores.
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In 2017, the company offered viewers "Angry Indian Goddesses," a movie that had been released in Indian theaters in a censored form to avoid offending religious sensibilities.
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Up until then, I thought of celebrities as a pantheon of gods and goddesses, only Mount Olympus was Hollywood and the gods starred in movies, not myths.
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Women in the West Midlands want to get their pecs to get big, big, and bigger—and these muscle goddesses will stop at nothing to achieve it.
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The first is that the star of "Big Busted Goddesses of Las Vegas" appears, through no plan of hers, to have put the president in serious jeopardy.
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And then there are the Goddesses: decked out in the artist's signature plexiglass wearables, they feed attendees raw vegan food prepared by Daniele Watts and Chef Belive.
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The Triforce isn't composed of Zelda, Ganon, and Link; it's a representation of three traits — wisdom, power, and courage — left behind by the goddesses who created Hyrule.
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Meanwhile, the ancient Phoenicians actually had two female goddesses of equal status: Anat, the fertility goddess, and Astarte, the Mother goddess considered to be the planet Venus.
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Her art is "hieroglyphic in character, combining a cast of figurative characters from Amazonians to fertility goddesses," Ms. Stella-Sawicka said, and explores female sexuality and suffering.
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"For me there are only two kinds of women, goddesses and doormats," he told Françoise Gilot, a 21-year-old lover when he was 61 years old.
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" This sparked Chiuri's memories of Italian statues in Rome: On Instagram, the brand shared that the collection drew "inspiration from classical representations of goddesses, such as Athena.
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For cultures around the world, the stories of gods and goddesses allowed humans to conceptualize justice, demonstrate the folly of arrogance, and make sense of unexplained phenomenon.
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While there are only five historic women among the city's numerous monuments, other anonymous women are immortalized in bronze, granite, and marble as allegorical figures, goddesses, and angels.
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With this in mind, the moms of Chocolate Milk Mommies, led by Angel Warren, decided to pose for a nursing photoshoot as breastfeeding "goddesses" for Black Breastfeeding Week.
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Its white peaks said to be shaped by Poliʻahu, the goddess of snow, and her sisters, the goddesses of fresh water, hail, and chilling frost who dwell there.
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Related: Kabul's Female Graffiti Master on the Power of Art Finally: A Documentary on Female Graffiti Artists Meet the Female Street Artist Painting Larger-Than-Life Feminist Goddesses
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Mystical goddesses and warnings of the end times are reimagined with digital technologies in the new work by Iranian-American artist Morehshin Allahyari, She Who Sees the Unknown.
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It even includes the often-cut Act IV masque, in which goddesses arriving to bless the marriage of Miranda and Ferdinand wear what look like organza parade floats.
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I abandoned the dance floor and lighthearted Terpsichore and became like one of the lesser Greek goddesses who tends the hearth and no one knows her name. Hestia?
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Join The Tampon Tax Protest Online Through the power of technology — thank you, internet goddesses — period-havers can participate in the country-wide protest simply by visiting Taxfreeperiod.
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Black Leopard is a dense fantasy epic set in an otherworldly, mythical Africa where shape-shifting leopards and water goddesses team up to find a mysterious, missing boy.
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PUNE, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After her son came out as gay, Sushma Samudra consulted astrologers, quizzed psychiatrists, performed prayers and implored gods and goddesses to cure his abnormality.
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When I first heard the rumors that Cardi B and Offset were dating last year, I said a prayer to the trap gods and goddesses to bless their union.
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She began studying Latin when she was 12, started on Greek a couple of years later, and seems to have near encyclopedic knowledge of ancient Western gods and goddesses.
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Work comes immediately after, and on Xabran's Rock, you live and die by the luck of the eight goddesses, their altars spread throughout the maze of shops and streetwalkers.
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That is, until you realize that rationality has nothing to do with it, set aside all pretense of ego, and bow down to the gods and goddesses of music.
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Work comes immediately after, and on Xabran's Rock, you live and die by the luck of the eight goddesses, their altars spread throughout the maze of shops and streetwalkers.
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Each type is believed to have unique connections with different gods or goddesses in the Hindu pantheon, and therefore each seed grants the wearer a different type of power.
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Come closer, and you see that images of French aristocrats have been replaced by images of black nuns and goddesses, and well-dressed white lynching victims hang from trees.
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Mason takes the memorable female characters of classical myth — goddesses, prophets, rape victims, noble heroines, killers of family members, witches, Amazons, adulteresses and athletes — and turns them into ciphers.
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To contemporary eyes, Ms. Jah's artificial figure doesn't look all that different from the bodies of celebrity goddesses who populate People and The Daily Mail wearing second-skin dresses.
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But the costumes have a starring role as well: Along with choreography, "Goddesses & Demonesses" also unveils original pieces by Sophie Theallet, Stella McCartney, Jean Paul Gaultier and Azzedine Alaïa.
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The three sisters, the "infernal goddesses" of ancient mythology born from the blood shed by Uranus when he was castrated by his son, were known for relentlessly hounding men.
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By centering gender, race, sexuality, femininity, and beauty in her work, Thomas's Black women are goddesses made flesh and restore their rightful place in the pantheon of Western art.
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So, for the next five days, Waypoint will be constructing its own loose mythology of gods and goddesses, avatars and heroines, twisting labyrinths and dark passageways to the underworld.
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Just as her ceramic goddesses are born into the world lacking a full complement of limbs and features, one senses in Dalessandro's writings an unmet desire for her fullest expression.
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But others, say, sculptors in the late Hellenistic Period, had their own goddesses to sculpt, including this highly recognisable armless statue thought to represent Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.
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It's a very good thing that I'm not a teenager on the verge of ruling Hollywood, and the following 29 future heroines, activists, writers, soul-searchers, and downright goddesses are.
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For instance, the team behind the all-girls film Angry Indian Goddesses had shared a video of the censored parts of the film as a form of protest last year.
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Allahyari is researching these goddesses while in residency at Eyebeam, and a solo exhibition at TRANSFER gallery in Brooklyn offers a glimpse of her progress and what is to come.
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Related: Dada Icon Francis Picabia Gets His First Full U.S. Retrospective Modern Figure-Drawings Highlight the Beauty of the Human Form Artist Depicts Black Female Nudes as Ancient Egyptian Goddesses
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It's a strange logic, but it works perfectly inside the matrix of gendered power, in which women are supposed to be empowered by passivity, ruling the domestic sphere like goddesses.
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Its subject: The dance genius Vaslav Nijinsky and his ballet "L'Après-Midi d'un Faune," which shocked Paris in 1912 with its amorous goat-man deity and all those woodland goddesses.
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But Veidt, who knows her better than anyone, points out that people who want to be gods and goddesses can't ever have that power, because it will inevitably be corrupted.
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Her name is Mafdet (meaning, "she who runs") and she was the first of the Egyptian cat goddesses, long before the more modish Bastet and Sekhmet appeared on the scene.
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There are re-creations here of costumes worn by queens and mythical goddesses in masterpieces by Botticelli and other painters, and of fashion designs by Paul Poiret and Jeanne Lanvin.
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After 1974, her depictions of women ranged from the primordial — with women opening their vulvas to the viewer (a suitably "unsuitable" image, perhaps) — to Greco-Roman (elegant warriors and goddesses).
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The images, whose bright pigments have been preserved after all this time, also depict religious figures such as the ancient goddesses Isis and Nephtys and the four sons of Horus.
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As the artist/model daughter of grunge legends Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain probably isn't the first name that comes to mind when you think of domestic goddesses.
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While the Oscars is flying solo this year without a host, the ceremony opened with three comedy goddesses who made us realize how great they would have been at the job.
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Anointed "Our Lady of the Sports," the ivory and gold statuette of a bare-chested Minoan goddess raises her arms skyward, recalling the poses of the Snake Goddesses excavated at Knossos.
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Our foreign correspondents wrote about dozens of captivating people and places in 2016, from pirates in the Amazon to tourists in the nomad lands of Tibet to transgender goddesses in India.
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The Spanish choreographer Blanca Li teams up with the Bolshoi principal Maria Alexandrova in "Goddesses & Demonesses," a work set in a fantastical, dreamlike world — an appropriate setting to explore feminine myths.
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The faces of both mother and child are crudely rendered with only the most basic details, creating an aura of sanctity and distance, like ancient statues of fertility figures or goddesses.
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Related: Meet the Female Street Artist Painting Larger-Than-Life Feminist Goddesses Watch an Old School Train Graffiti Mural Come to Life A New Graffiti Exhibition Proves Bristol Isn't Just for Banksy
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Working in collaboration with the Ballez dancers, each of the solos Pyle created for the goddesses was distinctive, catering to both the needs of the character and the talents of the dancer.
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An Australian man wants to start a yoga movement that is about the mindset and regular people, rather than goddesses standing on mountains doing insane poses in the latest designer yoga pants.
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Bernardo's other work includes similar Photoshopping endeavors like mash-ups of celebrity magazine covers with famous art and an entire deck of Beyonce as the muses and goddesses of museum-worthy paintings.
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Related: These Naked Couples Really Don't Give a F*ck If You Stare [NSFW] Voluptuous 'Thicc' Goddesses Get Their Due in REEG's Illustrations Magical Drawings Put Women in Conversation With Their Demons
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Related: Meet the Female Street Artist Painting Larger-Than-Life Feminist Goddesses Artists Dedicate a Show to Germany's "Most Notorious" College Dorm Meet France's Best Tattoo Artists in a Short Documentary Series
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During a preview of the show, the decorative arts curator Charlotte Vignon and the conservator Joseph Godla explained how Mr. Gouthière's workshop molded foliage, fruit, animals, gods and goddesses in high relief.
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Two goddesses — Jen prays to their statues — show up, as real people, and they tell Jen that the sleeping soldiers will never get better because the hospital sits on an ancient cemetery.
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Like most people who existed in the 90s, I had grown up thinking the Spice Girls were five Goddesses who had transformed into humans for the purpose of forming a pop band.
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In the same way that Beyoncé takes an omnivorous approach to, say, mythological goddesses, sampling broadly and absorbing it all into her own personal iconography, she ranges widely across the fashion landscape.
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A group of Hindu protesters reportedly spread over the Bhajanpur area of the nation's capital, shouting praises for gods and goddesses while throwing stones at mainly Muslim groups that oppose the law.
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In her new work "Slavic Goddesses — A Wreath of Ceremonies," Ms. Olowska, a Polish artist, teams up with Katy Pyle, an American choreographer who smartly interrogates the gender codes of classical ballet.
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For instance, the religious figures may be different — a Christian would see Christian figures, a Buddhist would see Buddhist figures, Hindu gods and goddesses would appear in a Hindu's N.D.E., and so forth.
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The two pop goddesses are up against each other in four of the evening's biggest awards: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance.
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Over the weekend on Noisey Beats 1, we premiered a new track called "Goddesses" from rapper Azad, the VP of the label Mind of a Genius, the folks that have brought you They.
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I honestly can't believe I'm finally going to see Derketa—the original American goddesses of death—play live this weekend, after years of worshipping them from afar and covering their skull-crushing music.
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Trilobites Adorned with hand-carved sculptures of Hindu gods and goddesses, the seventh-century stone and wooden temples scattered across northwestern India are marvels from an era when ancient kings ruled the Himalayas.
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On the same night in Sirajganj, in northern Bangladesh, "unidentified miscreants" broke the heads off statues of goddesses from a temple, said Basudeb Sinha, the head investigatory officer at the Sirajganj police station.
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Rasplyn's strength lies in her ability to conjure transcendent atmospheres in songs like "Circle Round" and "Priestesses and Goddesses" by pairing sparse yet impactful vocals with the swell of horns, drums, and chants.
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COROT: WOMEN Muses, goddesses, book lovers and nudes, 423 in all, with luminous presence and glowing, painterly flesh, by the 413th-century French master of landscape Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Sept. 403-Dec.
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They are a throwback to an era of embellishment — scores of exuberant faces positioned cheek by jowl, sometimes literally; angels and sea monsters; griffins and goddesses; smiling cherubs and stern knights in helmets.
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Dance In her new work "Slavic Goddesses — A Wreath of Ceremonies," Ms. Olowska, a Polish artist, teams up with Katy Pyle, an American choreographer who smartly interrogates the gender codes of classical ballet.
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It's a story about an imagined pantheon of American-bred gods and goddesses, who soak up our admiration and feed off our obsessions, and who find themselves obsolete as the world around them changes.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese retailers are cashing in on International Women's Day, offering coupons and discounts on sportswear, cosmetics and healthcare to get women to spend more, dubbing the day "Queens' Day" and "Goddesses' Day".
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Moore followed by offering a mesmeric lyric to the goddesses—"peyote walker, sweet talker, soul stalker, spell weaver…my opium girl"—and the guitarists capped the song by trickling high notes like wind chimes.
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My family's own practice tends to lean more towards devotion to Krishna and other masculine deities, but I have also felt a deep attachment to the goddesses, of which Hinduism has many, specifically Durga.
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And the works' sentiments, like "Sleep with your future and fuck your past" and "I only fuck with Goddesses," speak so strongly to people that they want to proudly wear them on their sleeves.
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Stripped-down white cube galleries have conditioned us to look with dispassion upon paintings like the large-scale ones here, which depict goddesses and nymphs, heroines and victims, with full breasts and bountiful thighs.
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The general public was far more familiar with works like his "Virgin and Child" series, which had more appeal to an observant Roman Catholic population than his sexualized portrayals of Greek or Roman goddesses.
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When the entrance to the chamber was sealed, some thirty-five hundred years ago, the baboons, along with the gods and goddesses depicted in other panels, were expected to maintain their poses for eternity.
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"Our culture and religion is based on a plethora of these fables and these stories of our gods and goddesses, or even just regular people, that have been passed down for generations," Pawar said.
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On Fifth Avenue, where the hand that guides the elevator wears a white glove, there is a car painted with Renaissance-style angels and gods and goddesses; it's like riding in a king's coffin.
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If this were any other celebrity, we might second-guess their decision to depict themselves as multiple gods and goddesses — crossing the boundaries between gender and multiple religious traditions — but this is Our Lady Beyoncé.
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Tides of the Titans by Thoraiya Dyer Thoraiya Dyer's Titan's Forest series is set in a fantastical world populated by massive trees, ruled by 13 Gods and Goddesses who sometimes are reincarnated into human bodies.
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The camera then surveys the other guests in attendance — who, despite appearing to be lovely people, are NOT Instagram record-breaking goddesses pregnant with twins — before panning back to Bey in the last couple seconds.
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Yet look into the faces of some of its allegorical figures — its angels, goddesses, and symbols of victory — and there are other real women embodied in these statues, even if their names are often lost.
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Candice's flawless statement lipstick, Kate's casually tucked curls, Chetna's mixed prints and bold accessories, Lucy's flawlessly crafted bed head: These goddesses manage to look constantly, seemingly effortlessly perfect, however tense it gets in the tent.
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The apple, which bore the inscription "kallisti," meaning "for the fairest," was fought over by the goddesses, who turned to Zeus for judgment on who deserved the golden apple and the title of fairest goddess.
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" Mr. Wiles, in the interview, said that he had been unfairly attacked by "the self-appointed gods and goddesses of the news media, who do not think we should be permitted to attend any event.
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Next to the pop goddesses who shuffle through songwriting teams and the hip-hop and E.D.M. that dominates streaming services like Spotify, the group's organic guitar-bass-drums-keys sound is anachronistic, and proudly so.
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It's all to make sure that you know, and know that the movie knows, how silly this entire story about goddesses of death, lightning bolts, eye patches, horns, and the pronunciation of Asgard really is.
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But as the years passed following my grandpa's death, this Queen Levine emerged with uninterruptible fire, all this opinion fueled in part by the daytime wisdom of her goddesses: Oprah, Tyra, Ellen, and Judge Judy.
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Other notable objects include disembodied terra-cotta feet with wrinkly toes and pulsing veins, a sarcophagus for a toddler, flasks shaped like ducks and birds, and vessels depicting gods, goddesses, satyrs, nudes and breast-plated warriors.
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New York (Reuters) - The 17th annual New York Pet Fashion Show, the world's largest pet fashion and animal rescue benefit, was held in Manhattan with other-worldly beings such as goddesses, space creatures and mermaids represented.
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As Eilish sings "you should see me in a crown," each user transforms from looking bedraggled in their PJs to fully decked-out goddesses, devils ready for a Halloween party, or emperors in full Chinese regalia.
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With a single performance during the show, Lopez reminded viewers she has been one of music's greatest living goddesses — not a queen, but a gold-dipped goddess who demands the appropriate level of worship — since 1999.
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Profile On a cold, sunny afternoon in March, the novelist Madeline Miller wandered through the Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, swooning over ancient amphoras and ethereal statues of gods and goddesses.
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The right dress can turn a gorgeous women into a goddesses, and designer Peter Dundas has made a career out of this transformation, creating high-drama pieces for some of the biggest labels in the industry.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The practice of keeping young girls in village temples to be worshipped as goddesses as part of rituals in south India amounts to abuse and slavery, the national rights commission said.
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It's in the 2nd arrondissement near the tree-lined alleys of Palais Royal, inside Galerie Vivienne, a Belle Époque, glass-roofed, covered passageway with preserved mosaic floors, half-moon windows and moldings of goddesses and nymphs.
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Together, Chicago and Chiuri brought to life what was meant to be a public sculpture from 1977 — a birth canal, according to Vogue, where a group of models-as-goddesses descended down a womb-shaped runway.
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There are a wide range of theories, seeing them as everything from fertility goddesses, to "evil eyes" warning against the sin of lust, to talismans protecting from evil, to manifestations of the Sídhe, or Irish faeries.
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The exhibition reveals the drawings of the gods and goddesses she made while looking after her ailing mother, the portraits she drew of herself over the years, her sketches, her etchings, her lino cuts, and her watercolors.
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Pop goddesses like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Jennifer Lopez gave us some of their greatest hits, while bands like the Backstreet Boys and Destiny's Child blessed us with songs that continue to have serious staying power.
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Words like "medicated" and "consumption" are used liberally by the goddesses, many of whom come from cannabis-industry backgrounds ranging from High Times Cup–winning edible companies to the founders of Los Angeles's first weed-delivery service.
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Images of lusty shepherds and goddesses set the sexual tone of "Casanova's Europe," but decorative arts matter even more: velvet suits and beaver-trimmed hats, keyboards and poker tables, porcelain statues, gilded candelabras and silver soup tureens.
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Created by artist Jamie McKelvie and writer Kieron Gillen, the story is a mashup of pop music mythology: Gods and goddesses are reincarnated every 90 years, at which point they have two years to live among mortals.
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In James Joyce's Ulysses' (1922) Laestrygonians episode (Episode 8), the protagonist of the tome, Bloom, is curious to know whether the plaster cast sculptures of Greek goddesses in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin have anuses.
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"All The Stars," the recently released music video from Kendrick Lamar and SZA, is as unapologetically African as the film, bringing Lamar face to face with gilded Nubian goddesses arriving like alien messengers within a luminous floating temple.
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Over the last several years, her work evolved into depictions of more universal mythologies and populated landscapes: tree spirits; goddesses; lilting, attenuated flora and fauna – first in oil paint, and now with a combination of enamel and oil.
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He lamented the victory of an Indian woman in the Miss World contest of 1997 who, he suggested, failed to match classical ideals of feminine beauty as represented by Laxmi and Saraswati—the goddesses of wealth and wisdom.
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Today, the organization's vision, according to its website, "is to build a world-class museum at the National Mall in Washington D.C." It's worth considering the word museum once implied a temple to the Muses — who are goddesses.
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Though it's far from a concept album, the story of the Furies, a trio of Greek goddesses that patrolled the land and doled out retribution when needed, inspired some of the record's themes as well as its title.
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The three goddesses who remained at the end of the first battle of the apple were Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty; Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war; and Hera, Zeus's wife, the goddess of women and marriage.
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The next stab I took was GODDESSES for "Venus and others;" I usually shy away from guessing longer words without a little hint on either end, but that seemed like a sure bet as "planets" wasn't long enough.
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Exploring how Possession itself might feel in its binding and opening of the soul, we've taken our view of the world and married it with how the Spirits, Gods and Goddesses might entangle themselves in our own lives.
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These speeches make clear that Hela wants to take over the universe, but we're given little motivation for that desire beyond the fact that she's the goddess of death and this is apparently what goddesses of death do.
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After we were satisfied, I untangled from the two other women and we all swam over to the bar like old friends, each of us giggling and nuzzling our partners—turning back from exhibitionist goddesses to doting wives.
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Mr. Nicholson was a born scavenger, ferreting out unusual items in unusual places, like the marble countertop he bought from a sanitation worker off the truck, or the marble goddesses he chanced upon in a warehouse in Puerto Rico.
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For more than 20 years, Eveline Beuman has worked as a professional living statue, namely one of those motionless street artists you've seen "floating" in London's Covent Garden or perhaps dressed as bronze Greek goddesses in New York's Times Square.
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The late Marija Gimbutas takes credit for her identification of similar figures found throughout Western Asia, Anatolia and southeast Europe — published in The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, but rarely do archaeologists know the detailed context of these objects.
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I found less provocative but more erotic Françoise Vergier's heads of women in the image of Neolithic fertility goddesses and Guido Geelen's "Anatomy Lesson 1" (2006), a laid out St. Sebastian figure pierced not by arrows, but by red roses.
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This was where I could find precious artifacts like old "Sandman" comics and bootleg CDs of my musical holy trinity, Tori Amos, Björk, and PJ Harvey — artists who wove references to goddesses and Pagan rites throughout howling hymns to female sexuality.
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Thus the prom was born out of a desire to create a safe space for goddesses to bring their male partners and friends to a Ganja Goddess event, which up until now have been exclusively limited to women-identifying guests.
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Just beyond the Imser Clock is a riot of silver — the Judgment of Paris desk, which Prince Paul Esterházy I probably acquired from Emperor Leopold I. It shows a mythological scene in which a young prince decides between three goddesses.
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A story weaving empires, kings and queens, gods and goddesses into its telling, it's as epic as fantasy gets, a 560-page behemoth that takes me back to my teenage reading, when I measured my fantasyland sojourns in mass-market inches.
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She Who Sees the Unknown will feature Allahyari's latest body of work, focused on the histories of dark goddesses and female figures of Middle Eastern origin, and representing the start of a new project developed during her residency at Eyebeam.
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While Western art history presents empowered, sexually liberated, and creative women as an anomaly, Eastern religions based in India, Nepal, and Tibet have long recognized the obvious dynamism of women as multi-faceted and contradictory goddesses and depicted them as such.
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Gamora, Drax, and the other Guardians aren't technically Avengers, but that's just because they operate in Marvel's cosmic universe, which we found out in Thor: Ragnarok is connected to Thor's Asgard, a recently destroyed world populated by Norse gods and goddesses.
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For example, Polish-born sculptor Elie Nadelman created a series of plaster figurines and statues that, at first glance, resemble the portly Greek goddesses from the Archaic period — but in truth, their bodies subtly sway in dance moves: his inspiration was vaudeville.
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After the spring/summer collection was presented on models including Gigi and Bella Hadid and Kaia Gerber, the show stopped to reveal the five legendary models, draped in the "dazzling metal mesh" Gianna Versace was known for, posing like goddesses against the backdrop.
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Ever since Moon Juice founder Amanda Chantal Bacon's eccentric but oddly compelling food diary went viral — and people finally started taking Goop seriously — health editors, herbalists, and Instagram "Earth goddesses" everywhere have been waxing poetic about adaptogenic mushrooms Chaga, Cordyceps, and Reishi.
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The rest of the video — directed by Quinn Wilson and Asha Maura — is set in a sort of paradise featuring Lizzo and a tribe of "curvy goddesses," as she describes them, like inspiration-cum-friend GabiFresh, the body-positive designer and blogger.
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While images from domestic goddesses like Reese Witherspoon may cause an undue amount of holiday stress (or inspiration, depending on how you look at it), postcard-ready snaps from Alessandra Ambrosio, Jeremy Renner, and Mandy Moore are more likely to instill some wanderlust.
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Who we call St. Brigid today is likely the result of several other, lesser known Pagan goddesses who were collapsed into a single figure as time went on, says Jennifer Paxton, PhD, clinical assistant professor of history at the Catholic University of America.
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" And you certainly wouldn't hear the goddesses of ancient Greece or Rome singing songs like Inanna's to her lover Dumuzi: "peg my vulva / my star-sketched horn of the dipper / moor my slender boat of heaven / my new moon crescent cunt beauty.
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Gerstein creates a cinematic scope for Pan's story before the title page has even appeared, as we're introduced to the ancient Greek setting and cast of characters — Zeus and Hera along with a handful of the more charismatic gods and goddesses of Olympus.
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Always deserved, bringing a guilty pleasure catharsis to the viewers as we watch these low-tier gods and goddesses tear each other down, vying for some sun they'll never reach — and even now, as they do become more famous, it only gets worse.
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But perhaps even more importantly, everyone involved — from the stars to the makeup artists to the brands — has a vested interest in maintaining the illusion that celebs appear on red carpets as exquisite, fully formed goddesses, without the taint of commercial gain.
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Citing her affiliations with the controversial Oklevueha Native American Church, which is based in Utah and mainly famous for using peyote in religious ceremonies, she argued during her trial that the acts of "sacred sexual healing'' performed by her "goddesses'' were expressions of her religion.
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Painted in 1865, at the end of the civil war, by Constantino Brumidi, "The Apotheosis of Washington" (pictured) depicts the first president as a god in modern dress, flanked by 13 goddesses representing the colonies that would become the first states of the union.
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Wicca, a modernized version of Paganism characterized by a higher belief in Earth's natural elements and one or more gods or goddesses, often draws female worshippers with its family-friendly themes and the promise of often equal roles between women and men within temple communities.
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Edelson's black and white nude self-portrait photos from the 1970s, painted with spirals and other symbols, or masks covering her face, align her with goddesses and tricksters, and situate her body in a sphere of ritual and mythology far from modern, heteronormative sexuality.
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"While most designers presented their collections on sullen, haughty goddesses who posed in a spotlight at the end of the catwalk, Rykiel sent her models down the runway in groups, chatting and laughing, like friends having fun," Holly Brubach wrote in W magazine in 21995.
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Ms. Adeyemi, 24, whose parents moved to the United States from Nigeria, said she wanted to write a fantasy series that drew on her cultural heritage, particularly the gods and goddesses of the Yoruba religion, but that also explored themes like racial and social injustice.
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Hinduism, with its colorful gods and goddesses, permeates everyday life, so dive in with a visit to Birla Temple, a domed, white-marble building with an airy main hall, stained-glass windows and a shrine to the uber god Vishnu, and Lakshmi, goddess of wealth.
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These photos of South Florida include snaps of a nondescript man working the box office of an adult movie theater, wild flirtations on South Beach, beautiful, aging burlesque stars who reminded Freedman of Greek goddesses, and a gospel pastor bleeding songs into a microphone.
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Her establishment is populated by a collection of depraved-looking baby dolls, costumed love goddesses, Egyptian mummies, men with deep red lipstick and glitter-encrusted beards (members of the Cockettes, an anarchic troupe of acid-head drag queens), and mainly lots of entangled naked bodies.
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Reverend William, whose real name I will withhold out of basic kindness, and who revealed to me he has not yet gotten any dates from any prospective Republican Goddesses, wandered the Conscious Life halls wearing dual Trump pins and a wide straw bowler hat.
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At Via Garibaldi 12, the city's pre-eminent design store, Michela and I fantasized about what it might feel like to toast the sunset with Murano glasses bubbling with prosecco, while sitting on Gio Ponti chairs under a fresco of buxom goddesses floating on clouds.
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" Vogue reports that during a six-month period, the designer's conversations with the artist brought about the idea of "pagan worship of goddesses and the struggle of women artists to find their own means of expression within the female-excluding patriarchal system of western art.
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In an ode to Blingee, digital archivist and curator at Rhizome Dragan Espenschied noted that Blingee was popular with Russian grandmothers—which was true at least for the most popular Blingee artist, a Russian grandmother with an affinity for partially-clad goddesses in glittering mists.
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We also love that this announcement is so simple and easy to replicate, because let's be real, while we wish we could all show off our inner goddesses in Vanity Fair or burst onto the Grammys stage like MIA, our chances of achieving either are slim.
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Then the police pressed further, Mr. Satyanarayana said, accosting the couple for hanging up photographs of Indian social reformers but not of Hindu gods and goddesses, and berating his wife, an upper-caste Brahmin, for not wearing red vermilion, a symbol of piety, on her forehead.
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" Exquisitely lit and predicated on cryptic rituals, "Duelle" — which features Bulle Ogier and Juliet Berto as rival goddesses, the sun and the moon, waging war in contemporary Paris — is of a piece with the preceding Rivette fantasies, "Out 1: Spectre" and "Celine and Julie Go Boating.
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I could have studied the intricately detailed gopuram for hours, which has vivid depictions of different Hindu gods and goddesses (it is commonly said there are theoretically millions of Hindu deities in the pantheon) and is repainted every dozen years or so to maintain its bright colors.
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For those of you out there that like to get high and ask your cheesemonger for mad cheese samples (PSA: We know you're high and have no intention of purchasing), these individually wrapped goat goddesses can be a little intimidating, since you often can't try them before committing.
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It includes scores of busts and a veritable who's who of classical mythology, dating from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Eventually the collection would swell to 620 statues depicting Greek and Roman gods, goddesses and mythical heroes, as well as portraits of Roman emperors.
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For Okuda's latest exhibition, Lost Olympus, now on at StolenSpace in London, the street artist recasts the legendary figures of Greek myths as contemporary icons pertaining to current events, as he does with the Trump presidency in Trump's Angel Reflections and with the refugee crisis in Refugee Goddesses.
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" From Durga, the fearless goddess who vanquished her foes atop a tiger, to Saraswati, the four-armed guardian deity of knowledge, the vast spectrum of venerated Hindu goddesses highlight the power of the feminine principle, none more so than Shakti, the divine force sometimes called "The Great Mother.
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