Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the lord of the underworld snatched away her beloved daughter, Demeter was inconsolable. She wandered the world and in her misery allowed the fields to lie barren. In modern parlance, she was "in trauma." Today the Greek goddess of agriculture might have talked about her loss, vented her frustration and worked through her grief. Certainly, she would not have been left alone with her sorrow...
Olivia had always been stunningly beautiful, with a fantastic body and the face of a goddess. Boys flocked to her when we went clubbing, while I was nervously left picking at my nails. Fortunately, she was always ready to yell at me on the ride home to "shut up, you moron, because you are gorgeous and a wonderful person as well," practically smacking me up the head with her no-bullshit attitude while giving me the kind of honest, sincere praise that you can only believe from a true friend...
More than a Greek Goddess...
...acceptance, they must treat women not as chattel but as people." There's no religious justification for the behavior: the 55-country Organization of the Islamic Conference refused to admit the Taliban. At the party, two of the few reporters who have been in the country, Christiane Amanpour, the Goddess of War Reporting, and Diane Sawyer, sent tapes about the virtual house arrest of the female population...
...father, turned to his mother for help. Gaia, exhausted by repeated strenuous labor and angered by Uranus' tyranny, supplied her son a sickle with which to castrate his father, her husband. Mother Earth proceeded to devour Uranus's dismembered parts. The blood pouring from this violent deed fertilized the goddess, impregnating her with the Furies and the Giants. Gaia's story continues, recounting fertile "unions" with other deities, another son among them. A fruitful, polygamous man-eater, the original Gaia would have Dr. Lovelock's fruity, peaceful nurturer for breakfast...