Mother goddess

During the early years of civilization, women have been portrayed in many different ways from the statues in the Paleolithic period to the Goddess in Mesopotamian, plus the Queens of ancient Egypt. One thing all these cultures have in common is woman was always being a sign of fertility which makes sense being that they have the ability to carry children. Even though there has been a few women represented in these times for the most part it was a man 's world. Females did not have the same…

In her myth, Inanna, the goddess of love, fertility, and war, she thinks that she can get whatever she wants after her marriage with Dumuzi. Therefore, she has the desire to conquer the underworld which her sister, Ereshkigal, reigns. Her confidence that she can usurp the underworld…

West in the year 1768. He spent most of his time designing paintings such as this while in London. Description Venus Lamenting, the death of Adonis, is a drawing about Adonis, a mortal youth, as from the Ovid Metamorphoses. Venus was a mythological goddess who fell in love with him. They used to spend most of their time together hunting wild animals. He was slain while hunting and lay down on the ground until Venus descended from the sky to moan over the body. Historical Context Benjamin West…

Nupinder Panesar 7855421 Aphrodite The True Mysterious Beauty Aphrodite, also known as Venus in the Roman myths, is the goddess of Love, Sex, and Beauty. Other than these titles, Aphrodite is the goddess of the sea and fertility. The birth of Aphrodite is separated into three different myths. The three myths are: 1) Born of the sea-form through the castrated genitals of the sky-god Ouranos, illustrated by Hesiodic; 2) Daughter of Zeus & Dione, told by homer ; 3) Hatched from an egg (Syrian…

The Hope Athena is an ideal representation of the goddess of wisdom and war. All it takes is one glance at this statue to notice the subtle clues that undoubtedly pin the identity of this woman as Athena. The most blatant clue to her identity is the aegis placed directly in the middle of her garment, which is a trademark symbols worn by both Athena and Zeus and typically characterized by the Gorgon Medusa. Being the goddess of war, it is fitting that she is wearing a helmet topped with a sphinx…

The ten days of Dashain represents the days of war against demons and each day represents the victory of avatar of goddesses over the demons. First nine days of Dashain symbolizes the fight which took place between the different manifestations of goddess Durga and the Mahishasura and his followers and those first nine nights are called Navratri. Finally, in the tenth day of the fight, Durga defeated Mahishasura. Remaining five days are celebrated returning of the war heroes to their…

“As It Was in The Beginning” and “the lion’s hair” both the stories are portrayed very different from each other. As we see in “As It Was in The Beginning” it is the story about the red girl ‘Esther’. Esther belonged from a Pagan Indian family. Her mother was a Pagan and her father was a French Indian. Esther used to always go to the border of the village to watch the sun set in the foothills where his childhood friend Laurence would come and always ask, “Can’t we make you happy?” But on one…

she whispered and the pathetic moan she heard was in response to his upset as well. A month later found the Goddess fighting a battle of survival. It had been through pure luck that she found herself a healer. A child of the village knocked over by a cart with blood upon his brow and sadness in his eyes. She found her own blood tears flow and with the drops he was so healed. She was a Goddess and her tears were more powerful than she anticipated. In each drop her essence fell and she collected…

poetry becoming known was through her high social standing. She was the daughter of Akkad king Sargon which inherently made her a high priestess, eventually of Ur (Black 37). This advantage allowed her to write poetry honoring her personal goddess Inanna, the goddess of love, fertility and warfare and ultimately making Enheduanna the first named historical author (Binkley 47). Enheduanna’s respect for Inanna was shown throughout three of her poems, her most famous one being The Exhalation of…

The Renaissance, which began in the 1300’s and lasted up until around the 1600’s, was a movement which sparked an enormous increase in artistic experimentation and emphasis on the human figure. During this time, many paintings contained Christian imagery and connotations, whether outright or implied. Two paintings during this time that illustrate several concepts and depictions are Sacred and Profane Love by Titian (or Tiziano in Italian) and Velazquez’s Venus with Her Mirror. These two…