Introduction The purpose of this brief paper is to identify and summarize a scholarly article which discusses some aspect of the female divine in today’s contemporary culture. The article chosen for this purpose is entitled Embracing Women’s Inner Goddess‚ written by Andrew Adam Newman‚ and focuses on a popular use of goddesses in modern advertising. Summary Newman’s article discusses the advertising and marketing angles taken by Gillette‚ the razor company. In 2001‚ Gillette launched their three-blade
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Inanna is a goddess from the Mesopotamian culture. She is the goddess of love‚ welfare‚ and fertility. There are various art pieces the depict different gods or goddesses but one piece I found that involves Inanna is a cylinder seal called the Assur cylinder (Sumerian). This clay art was created in 3500 BC and was made in Susa in south-western Iran. These were normally located in various countries where cuneiform writing was used. Cylinder seals are usually made out of stone and have engraved designs
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Phaethon‚ to drive his chariot across the sky. Phaeton had lost control of the horses‚ and Zeus finally struck him dead. Helios was the sun of Hyperion and Theia. He had two siblings that also spent their days in the sky; Selene‚ the goddess of the moon‚ and Eos‚ the goddess of dawn. Helios also had four children. His children were Phaetes‚ Circe‚ Aeetes‚ and Pasiphae. Phaetes was involved in a chariot accident and was eventually killed by Zeus. Circe appears many times in The Odyssey as one of Odysseus’
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Kamala Surayya / Suraiyya formerly known as Kamala Das ‚ (also known as Kamala Madhavikutty‚ pen name was Madhavikutty) was a major Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala‚ India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography‚ while her oeuvre in English‚ written under the nameHer open and honest treatment of female sexuality‚ free from any sense of guilt‚ infused her writing with power‚ but also marked her
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Project of Mythological Characters: IRIS Iris is a goddess of sea and sky‚ whose work is as the messenger of the gods and her representation is the rainbow. She takes the messages from the gods‚ especially from Hera and Zeus‚ to the Earth and to the deep ocean and the underworld. So she connects the mortal world to the god`s and immortal’s world. She is always carrying a caduceus‚ that is like a scepter or a magic wand which it`s related with Apollo; who gave it to Iris to link or connect the mortal
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gods and spirits which represented abstract ideas‚ human emotions and conditions. The main gods in Greek myths were known as The Olympians which headed by god Zeus. The chart of Greek gods and goddess can be seen as in following figure; Chart of Greek god and goddess The Greeks believed that every
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divorce is around forty to fifty percent. For those who decide to remarry the divorce rate is at sixty percent. Not only does marriage seem like a struggle for some Americans‚ but marriage was also a struggle for the Greek god Zeus and the Greek goddess Hera. Before Zeus married Hera he had six previous wives before her. Just like the sixty percent of people whose second marriage will end in divorce‚ Zeus’ second marriage (and third‚ fourth‚ fifth‚ and sixth!) marriage did not work out either
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ones below. How come a goddess could just talk to him‚ a lowly giant? Should he answer it? Wouldn’t it be offensive to the gods? But curiosity got into him and when he opened his mouth to talk‚ nothing came out and he ended up coughing. The goddess‚ laughed. He was mesmerised. How could someone have a voice as beautiful as that? From there they started talking for a long time‚ and every day the giant would go to the same place‚ hoping to get a chance to talk to the goddess. Each day he would come
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the Roman goddess of wisdom‚ trade‚ the arts‚ medicine‚ and war. She most likely originated from the Etruscans‚ to whom she is known as Menvra and eventually was equated with the Greek goddess Athena. According to myths her birth was quite strange and unusual and although there is some speculation about exactly how she was born it is consistently told that she was born well‚ more like sprung out of Jupiter’s head. Jupiter the god the sky and lightning had mated with Metis a Titan goddess. However
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standing nude on a seashell. Knowing that Venus was born out of the sea‚ her standing on a seashell symbolizes that she has just emerged from the water. Some may think that Venus is the goddess of the sea because she was born in the sea; this is false. Venus standing naked actually indicates that Venus is the goddess of beauty; this is evident through the perfection of her features. By being naked‚ we see her elongated neck‚ curved body‚ and smooth‚ delicate skin. When The Birth of Venus was painted
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