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The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük) is a baked-clay, nude female form seated between feline-headed arm-rests. It is generally thought [ 2 ] to depict a corpulent and fertile Mother goddess [ 3 ] in the process of giving birth while seated on her throne, which has two hand rests in the form of feline (lioness, leopard, or ...
The goddess had an annual festival at Olympia and a temple at Letrinoi near the river Alpheus. [70] At the festival of Letrinoi, the girls were dancing wearing masks. In the legend, Alphaea and her nymphs covered their faces with mud and the river god Alpheus, who was in love with her, could not distinguish her from the others.
A number of Hellenized depictions of Nanaya are known from the Parthian period, one possible example being the figure of a naked goddess discovered as a tomb deposit, [47] wearing a crescent-shaped diadem. [41] Late depictions also often show her with a bow, but it is uncertain if it was a part of her iconography before the Hellenistic period. [48]
An 18th-century painting from Rajasthan depicts Chhinnamasta as black, as described in the Pranatoshini Tantra legend. She is seated on a copulating couple. Chhinnamasta is often named as the fifth [24] [25] [26] or sixth [1] [27] [20] Mahavidya (Mahavidyas are a group of ten fearsome goddesses from the Hindu esoteric tradition of Tantra), with hymns identifying her as a fierce aspect of Devi ...
The Buddhist concept of non-duality applies here. The Vimalakirti Sutra ' s "Goddess" chapter clearly illustrates an enlightened being who is also a female and deity. In the Lotus Sutra, a maiden became enlightened in a very short time span. The view that Avalokiteśvara is also the goddess Guanyin does not seem contradictory to Buddhist beliefs.
Flambe Seated Polar Bear 1912 1936 HN122 Fantail Pigeons Unknown ~1920's HN123 Pelican, Beak up 1920s 1930s HN124 HN125 Flambe Guinea Hen Charles J Noke 1912 HN126 HN127 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel HN128 Puppy sitting with head down looking left at tail HN129 HN130 Flambe Fox (Seated, brown, 8.75" tall, LG) Charles J Noke 1913 1946 HN131 HN132
Sitting with your legs nicely crossed is one thing, but this woman somehow managed to twist her legs around each other nearly three times! Photo of woman crossing her legs on a subway is baffling ...
Cybele enthroned, with lion, cornucopia, and mural crown.Roman marble, c. 50 AD.Getty Museum. Cybele (/ ˈ s ɪ b əl iː / SIB-ə-lee; [1] Phrygian: Matar Kubileya, Kubeleya "Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; [2] Lydian: Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybélē, Κυβήβη Kybēbē, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the ...