this image is prevalent. It is well known‚ yet many may not know the meaning behind it. This is an image of the nine forms of the goddess Durga‚ often called Nav Durga‚ with ‘nav’ being the word for nine. Together‚ the symbols and emblems show Nav Durga is a very significant group of goddesses for Hindus. This image shows the goddess Durga in nine of her forms. The goddess in the middle is the main form‚ Durga. This is evident because she is in the center and is largest‚ suggesting that she is more
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In his “Venus at a Mirror” Paul Rubens presents the nude beauty of the goddess of Love‚ Venus. The artist portrays the goddess of love from a back view‚ seated in the center of his composition. An adolescent cupid is presented in the left foreground‚ holding a mirror with the reflection of Venus’ face on its surface‚ while a dark-skinned‚ exotic handmaid fills the upper right of the painting fondling the golden hair of the Venus. The three figures form a lunette that emphasizes the mirror that frames
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Gender Bias in Hindu Myths The concept of the Goddess‚ myth and dance is truly a tool which empowers for women of our culture. Although women are at times portrayed as inferior‚ they possess many strong qualities which break this stereotype. Women are beautiful‚ strong‚ and courageous‚ they are mothers and sisters and daughters‚ and without them this world would not exist. Women‚ since the time of the Vedas and Upanishads have been looked to carry their traditional heritage from generation to
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and put in a room where Goddess Durga’s worship is commenced. Seeds of corn and barley are planted in a large planter of leaves and kept in dark in the worship room. These seeds would have grown to be yellow seedlings (Jamara) by the ninth day‚ when they are offered to Vishwa Karma and to all worshippers on the tenth day. * Day 2-7: Dwitia to Saptami: Represent the continuation of the battle. * Day 8: Ashtami: Animals are sacrificed in the temples of Goddess Durga asking for her help
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two. "Cupid and Psyche" is an old Greek love tale‚ while "Beauty and the Beast" is a Disney tale with a moral story. The female hero in both stories is Psyche and Beauty. They suffer the wrath by no fault but their own. In Cupid and Psyche‚ the goddess Venus is jealous of the mortal Psyche’s beauty‚ and essentially dooms her to marry a beast. In Beauty and the Beast‚ Beauty is doomed to live in the beast’s castle forever because her father took one of his roses. In these two stories the woman’s
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Nyx and Aphrodite disagreed on everything. Aphrodite wanted everything to be beautiful; because she was the goddess of beauty. Nyx loved the night and she was the goddess of darkness and night time. Aphrodite wanted it to be day time all year round because it was golden and beautiful. She wanted to be able to see her friend Hemera more because she was the goddess of daylight. Nyx disagreed and said there should be darkness. They got into an argument on whether it should be night all the time or day
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Kevin Asubonteng 04/15/2014 Short Objective Response Paper The marble statue of Aphrodite‚ which is also known as Venus Genetrix‚ is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is a Roman copy‚ which was created in the Imperial period‚ approximately between the first and the second century A.D. The original sculpture was Greek‚ made of bronze and is dated to the late fifth century B.C.E.‚ which is the Late Classical period. The museum approximates that its creator is Kallimachos
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Venus and Cupid by Lorenzo Lotto is definitely one of the most unusual paintings when viewed through 21st century eyes. The painting depicts Venus lying on her left side‚ naked‚ and Cupid standing about a foot behind her. Inspired by ancient marriage poems‚ known as “epithalamia‚” the painting was apparently painted to celebrate a wedding and Venus’s body type and facial features were taken from that of the bride to be’s. The painter included a few items in the picture that relate to Venus and to
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Christine de Pizan: c.1365-c.1430 1. Christine’s life shows a glimpse into the changing worldview in numerous ways. For one‚ she became educated as a child and continued her education throughout her life‚ she also was able to support her family as a single mother on her own by working independently‚ and he writings were symbolically revolved around women in such a way that they rebuked the negative teachings by most scholars. 2. As a girl‚ Christine had an unusual life because her father‚ who was
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For example‚ Artemis took very well care of nature and animals‚ since she was the goddess of hunt and animals. Both wild and tame animals were under her protection. If any animal was in need she would help them. She would stay in the wild with young maidens. “Artemis was the protector of young animals and had the gift to tame wild animals”
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