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Word: dea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ecstatic ex-servant, followed by a teeming succession of pregnancies among the other women (of equally mysterious causation), calms all and gives rise to a salutary myth about Mukalinda, deity of fertilization, who appears as a brightly burning youth; and to a satisfying religion under a female godhead, Bona Dea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parthenogenesis * | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

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