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unusual facts about The Goddess



Séance on a Wet Afternoon

Forbes and Attenborough then contacted Kim Stanley, an American theatre and television actress whose previous film work was limited to starring in the 1958 feature The Goddess and providing the uncredited opening and closing narration for the 1962 adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird.


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Annapoorneshwari Temple

The single image is of the Goddess Annapoorneshwari standing on a peeta with Shanku, Chakra, Sri Chakra and Devi Gayathri in her four hands.

Astarte Horn

The feature was mapped from trimetrogon air photography taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, and from survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1948–50, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in association with nearby Venus Glacier; the goddess Venus being identified with the Phoenician goddess Astarte in mythology.

Awilix

The modern descendents of the Nija'ib' in Momostenango revere rival syncretised forms of the goddess, who are said to be the lovers of the town's patron saint Santiago (St. James).

Bastet

Herodotus also relates that of the many solemn festivals held in Egypt, the most important and most popular one was that celebrated in Bubastis in honour of the goddess, whom he calls Bubastis and equates with the Greek goddess Artemis.

Bhabanipur, Rajshahi Division

The Bhabanipur Shaktipeeth is a place of worship consecrated to the Goddess Ma Bhabani.

Carians

It is possible that the goddess Hecate, the patron of pathways and crossroads, originated among the Carians.

Chandi Mandir

Chandi Mandir (Hindu, Mandir: "Temple") is a Hindu temple near Chandigarh, India, dedicated to Chandi, the goddess of power.

Château de Malle

The statues were done by Italian artists brought there for that purpose in the early part of the 18th century, and represent figures from Greek mythology: Cephalus, Aurora, Cupid, Aphrodite (Venus), Adonis, and Flora, the goddess of flowers and gardens.

Chatteshwari Temple

Located in the centre of Chittagong city in Bangladesh, this Hindu temple is dedicated to the Goddess Kali.

Clementine Chapel

The area was once called Vatican Hill in honor of the ancient Etruscan worship of the pagan deity Vatica, the goddess of the dead, as the area was once used as a Roman cemetery.

Did God Have a Wife?

The core of the book lies in chapters 5, Archaeological Evidence for Folk Religions in Ancient Israel, 6 The Goddess Asherah and Her Cult, and 7 Asherah, Women’s Cults, and ‘Official Yahwism’.

Dragon King

Chaotian Palace (朝天宮) of Beigang, Yunlin County in Taiwan, is devoted to the goddess Mazu, also has human-shaped statues for the four Dragon Kings, each riding on a dragon.

Ellinais

The priests celebrated the nuptials of Zeus with Hera, the goddess of love and marriage, below the imposing Corinthian-style columns in the city centre.

Emygdius

Polymius, the local governor, attempted to convince Emygdius to worship Jupiter and the goddess Angaria, the patroness of Ascoli.

Ergane

the goddess Athena was called Athena Ergane as the patron of craftsmen and artisans.

Eurynome

The goddess Pheme paid a visit to her in the guise of her friend Neaera to inform her that Eurynome's husband Codrus was being unfaithful to her with a Thracian woman.

Èze

An Egyptian cross inside the church suggests the village's ancient roots, when the Phoenicians erected a temple there to honour the goddess Isis.

Foundry Painter

For example, there is a vase by him that depicts a sculptor at work, watched by the goddess Athena, shown at Olive and Oil Museum in Torgiano.

Fricka

A character in the Ring cycle of Richard Wagner; the goddess of marriage, herself married to the chief of the Gods, Wotan.

Gayatri

In illustrations, the goddess often sits on a lotus flower and appears with five heads and five pairs of hands, representing the incarnations of the goddess as Parvati, Saraswati etc.

Goddess of the West

Imentet, the "Goddess of the West" in Egyptian mythology, who may have simply been an attribute of Hathor or Isis

Hypatopa cotytto

The specific name refers to Cotytto, the goddess of unchastity, originally worshipped in Thrace.

Invisible Pink Unicorn

The Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) is the goddess of a parody religion used to satirize theistic beliefs, taking the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink.

Jacawitz

Jacawitz was one of a triad of K'iche' deities, the other two being Tohil and the goddess Awilix, all three were sometimes collectively referred to as Tohil, the principal member of the triad.

John Colicos

He also gave memorable performances in 1966 in The Secret Storm, as the unscrupulous Thomas Cromwell in the 1969 film version of Anne of the Thousand Days and as the governor of Umakran in the episode "The Goddess Calabra" from the 1973 TV show The Starlost.

Juliet Dove, Queen of Love

With the help of two rats that can talk, who are friends of the shop owner, she finds out the amulet was given to her by Eris, the goddess of chaos and discord.

Keshava Namas

#Madhava - One who is the Husband (Dhava) of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity.

Lauren Raine

In 2011 she was a presenter at the Goddess Conference in Glastonbury, England, and in 2007 and 2008 she was on the faculty of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in .

Leftovers

Though leftover or partially eaten food (Ucchishta) is never offered to a Hindu deity, the goddess Matangi is prescribed to be offered this taboo oblation to gain her grace to achieve Supreme knowledge and supernatural powers.

Maa Tarini

In this form she is very similar to the conception of the Goddess Kali at Kalighat.

Man in the Moon

In Chinese mythology, the goddess Chang'e is stranded upon the moon after foolishly consuming a double dose of an immortality potion.

Minakshi

There are several other great hymns on the goddess, composed in the later centuries by many saints and scholars including the famous Neelakanta Dikshitar.

Pittville Pump Room

Above the colonnade are three statues, by Lucius Gahagen, erected in 1827, of the goddess Hygieia, Aesculapius and Hippocrates.

Playing Gods

A sticker sheet is provided with the game to allow for other gods and religions, including Scientology (represented by Tom Cruise with a UFO over his head), Zeus, Jehovah’s Witnesses, beer, the Cult of Oprah, the Almighty Dollar, war, Islam, J.R. “Bob” Dobbs (of the Church of the Subgenius), the Flying Spaghetti Monster, death, Satan, television, the Goddess, atheism, the Magic 8 Ball, McWorld (American consumerism), and others.

Priyanath Bose

Very few written records remain of Dr. Bose, but he was mentioned in Satyajit Ray's novel Chhinnamastar Abhishap (Trans: The Curse of the Goddess), featuring the famous fictional detective, Feluda.

Rajarajeshwari Nagar

The Brahmotsavam is held for a total of 9 days when the processional image of the Goddess is decorated in various forms of Shakti and mounted on different Vahanas and is brought out in procession around the temple corridors accompanied by music.

Sakartvelos Gogona Skautebis Asociacia 'Dia'

Dia itself is an ancient Georgian feminine name, referring to the goddess associated in Georgian pre-Christian mythology with the planet Jupiter.

Sandokan

In subsequent novels they battle against James Brooke, the Raja of Sarawak and also travel to India to measure themselves against the Thugs, a notorious band of stranglers devoted to the goddess Kali.

Santoshi Mata

However, it was the 1975 Bollywood film Jai Santoshi Maa ("Hail to Santoshi Maa")—narrating the story of the goddess and her ardent devotee Satyavati—which propelled this then little-known "new" goddess to the heights of devotional fervour.

Sarala Temple

It is well documented that Sidheshwar Parida - a small time farmer and part-time Oriya Paika - was an ardent follower of the Goddess and it was after her blessings that Sidheshwar Parida became Sarala Das, the author of the Oriya Mahabharata.

Saraswati Sabatham

Narada (Sivaji Ganesan), a sage and celestial troublemaker, begins the fight by visiting Saraswati (Savitri), the Goddess of knowledge, and purposely annoys Her by saying that wealth is more important and abundant.

Sarpanit

By a play on words her name was interpreted as zēr-bānītu, or "creatress of seed", and is thereby associated with the goddess Aruru, who, according to Babylonian myth, created mankind.

Sigyn

In the prose, Loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son Nari, his son Váli is described as having been turned into a wolf, and the goddess Skaði fastens a venomous snake over Loki's face, from which venom drips.

Sofia Constantinas

When Steve broke away from his captors, Sofia chased him into an underground cavern where they discovered the bones of Artemis, the first Wonder Woman, as well as a scepter belonging to the goddess Athena.

Sri Palee College

Inspired by Guru Dev Rabindranath Tagore a great writer, artist and an educationist of India, and his famous university at Shanthi Niketan later called Visva Bharathi University, Mr. Wilmot A. Perera, a prominent revolutionary educationist and a politician of Sri Lanka, decided to establish a similar institution in Ceylon, and invited Gurudev Tagore to lay the foundation stone for this institution, which Tagore named Sri Palee (place where the goddess of fine arts lives).

Svaðilfari

In chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells a story set "right at the beginning of the gods' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall" about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.

The Martian General's Daughter

Pan-Polarian society is based on that of Imperial Rome, including an imperial cult and a variety of polytheistic and monolatric religions that have largely replaced the major religions of our time, including the cults of "El Bis" and the goddess Marilyn.

Weighing of souls

In Egyptian mythology, where Duat is the Underworld, there would take place the Weighing of the Heart, in which the dead were judged by Anubis, using a feather, representing Ma'at, the goddess of truth and justice responsible for maintaining order in the universe.