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Always and almost everywhere, dancing has accompanied religion. The Egyptians danced for their sacred bull, and the Babylonians danced in their temples and processions. King David "danced before the Lord with all his might" (11 Samuel 6:14), and the Old Testament Hebrews danced in their vineyards on the Day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: DANCING FOR THE GODS | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Forester's ship is the 5,000-ton light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kinds of Fighting | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Algeria. A group of French diggers directed by the Rev. Father Lapeyre this summer probed the temple of Tanit, on the site of ancient Carthage. Virgin Queen of the moon and heavens. Tanit was the goddess who was elsewhere known as Artemis, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Demeter, Diana. The Carthaginian Tanit was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

Four of the best U. S. miniaturists showed their year's work. Outstanding was a clear, shining portrait of a cameo-featured young woman in a ruff collar, by last year's medal winner, Artemis Tavshanjian, 29-year-old U. S.-born Armenian. Last week's winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paintings in Little | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

Retorts Mrs. Russell: "Artemis is slim and bold; Athene is stately. We have done well to worship at their shrines. But the call of Demeter the Fruitful is insistent." And she continues, surely to the surprise of her opponent, to endorse, not only free love and polyandry (in theory), but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex War | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

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