Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like many another civilization before it, the U.S. is acquiring its goddess. Writing in the current issue of the Protestant biweekly, Christianity and Crisis, Harvey Cox of the Division of Evangelism of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies identifies her as The Girl...
...Girl functions in the U.S. as a kind of goddess, Cox reasons, then Protestant theologians should be on their guard against this new idolatry. "Why has Protestantism kept its attention obsessively fastened on the development of Mariolatry in Catholicism and not noticed the sinister rise of this vampirelike cult of The Girl in our society...
...Mercury, who, aside from being the messenger of the gods, is also god of commerce, the deity of thieves and conductor of the dead to the underworld. The A.M.A. prefers its own fellow, Aesculapius, who restored a dead man to life and had a daughter, Hygeia, the goddess of health. Why the serpent in either case? Because the snake in mythology was the symbol of renewal and regeneration, probably because it shed its skin each year...
Merely by being herself, Jacqueline Kennedy had sailed across thresholds that would have tripped most women. But, armed with her femininity and bold fashion instinct, she did not miss a step. Paris and Vienna had a new goddess. The U.S. had a queen, and not from Hollywood. And Jackie proved once more that, in any language, there is nothing like a dame?especially Jackie...
After the rooms were cleared and the plaster carefully cleaned, the ancient frescoes stood out almost as fresh as when they were first painted. In one room the walls are painted to represent yellow columns linked with festoons of green pine branches sacred to the goddess Cybele, whose temple stood near...