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The most significant members of the thiasus were the human female devotees, the maenads, who gradually replaced immortal nymphs. In Greek vase-paintings or bas-reliefs , lone female figures can be recognized as belonging to the thiasus by their brandishing the thyrsos , the distinctive staff or rod of the devotee.
Jane Austen teapot cookies. The term Janeite has been both embraced by devotees of the works of Jane Austen and used as a term of opprobrium. According to Austen scholar Claudia Johnson Janeitism is "the self-consciously idolatrous enthusiasm for 'Jane' and every detail relative to her".
Molla is the second female Telugu poet of note, after Tallapaka Timmakka, wife of Tallapaka Annamayya ("Annamacharya"). She translated the Sanskrit Ramayana into Telugu. [1] Her father Atukuri Kesanna was a potter of Gopavaram, a village in Gopavaram Mandal near Badvel town, fifty miles north of Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh state.
Akka Mahadevi (c. 1130–1160) was an early poet of Kannada literature [1] and a prominent member of the Lingayatism founded in the 12th century. [2] Her 430 vachanas (a form of spontaneous mystical poems), and the two short writings called Mantrogopya and the Yogangatrividh are considered her known contributions to Kannada literature. [3]
The Felix Castor series (2006) by Mike Carey, features a succubus who takes the name Juliet, gives up feeding on men and enters into a lesbian relationship while working as an exorcist. 2007's Hell on Earth , a dark paranormal series by Jackie Kessler , stars the succubus Jezebel , who runs away from Hell, hides on Earth as an exotic dancer ...
Compare shinzennyo 近善女 "near goodness female" translating upāsikā "female disciple; female devotee". Zennyo 善如 was also the name of a Jōdo Shinshū priest (1333–1389) who was a grandson of Kakunyo and the fourth chief priest of the Hongan-ji. Some legends give the name of Zennyo as Zentatsu 善達 "goodness penetration" with ...
The devotees of this tradition primarily worship Lakshmi-Narayana as the ultimate duality, though they also revere their incarnations in the Dashavatara, including Sita-Rama and Rukmini-Krishna. [16] The Urdhva Pundra , the sacred mark they wear on their bodies, is conceived to be a combination of the white feet of Vishnu, and the red streak in ...
Bhringi, however, was so focused on Shiva that he had no desire to go around Parvati. Observing this, Parvati sat on Shiva's lap, making it difficult for Bhringi to go around Shiva alone. Undeterred, Bhringi assumed the form of a female beetle (Bhṛṅgī) and attempted to fly between the two.