Today, great interest in the Ancient Goddess cult is still being revived. With the way the Goddess manifests herself as symbolizing an earthly and cosmic source to the universe, some women have found refuge in the symbolical image of the Mother Goddess. The impetus towards the Goddess movement came from an archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas. With the return of the Goddess, the new power of the femi...

1. Kali: This "Devourer of Time" is worshipped as the very essence of the Brahman or the Supreme Self. Kali is regarded as the Supreme Deity of Kalikula systems 2. Tara: The Goddess who Saves, Guides and Protects. She offers the ultimate knowledge necessary for salvation. This Mahavidya is also known as Neel Saraswati 3. Lalita Tripura-Sundari: The Goddess, also known as Shodashi, is the One Wh...

see how the fate of the goddess had evolved following the eradication of her raison d’etre. Attendants at the shrine informed me that she continues to function, but as the goddess of chickenpox. In Bengali, the word for smallpox is also used for the spring season—boshonto, pronounced “bawshontaw”—an association that arises from the seasonality of smallpox epidemics in Bengal prior to the eradic...

The said " return of the religious, ". .. is not a simple return, for its globality and its figures (tele-techno-media-scientific, capitalistic and politico-economic) remain original and unprecedented. Jacques Derrida, " Faith and Knowledge " T his essay examines complex interactions among the nation-state, popular religion , media capitalism, and gendered territorialization as these are inflec...

bahram beizaie has a special attention to iran’s honorable old ages. he chooses one feature of the golden age “matriarchy” period and shows that in some of his plays. the purpose of this research is to talk about the dependence of heroines and iranian goddess, and to analyze this dependence in some of beyzaeis’ works. plays and screenplays that are considered in this study include: “saljuk istg...

Description The Goddess is all around us: Her face is reflected in the burgeoning new growth of every ensuing spring; her power is evident in the miracle of conception and childbirth and in the newborn's cry as it searches for the nurturing breast; we glimpse her in the alluring beauty of youth, in the incredible power of sexual attraction, in the affection of family gatherings, and in the gent...