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...victorious King from the Trojan War, and while he is in his bath she stabs him to death. Aided by his sister Electra, Agamemnon's son Orestes in turn murders both his mother and her lover Aegisthus. Pursued by the Furies, Orestes is tried before the goddess of Athens and acquitted at Apollo's intercession. But for the future, the goddess makes a compact "between the light of the mind and the voices of the blood...
...series of tiny chambers that the Harvard diggers uncovered behind the wall they found a slightly damaged ten-inch statue of a fertility goddess, which Lamberg-Karlovsky predicts will be considered in five years "as a prize example of primitive sculpture...
Bowls of Croesus. The search for Croesus' refinery began when Andrew Ramage, one of the Harvardmen on the expedition, noticed some oddly similar circular depressions in a clay floor near the site of a shrine built to Cybele, the goddess who protected ores and metals. Not far off was the Pactolus Torrent, which once was noted for its gold-rich sands. Moreover, slag similar to that produced in metal smelting rimmed the edges of the depressions. Ramage and his colleagues soon realized that they had stumbled on an ore refinery...
...rooms the researchers discovered a slightly damaged 10-in. statue of a fertility goddess lying face down near some primitive sculptor's tools. Carved from soft stone and rich in detail, the statuette is long and slender, in contrast to the crude neolithic sculpture thought to be typical of this early period. "In five years," says Peabody Anthropologist C. C. Lemberg-Karlovsky, "this piece will be lectured in all coffee-table art books as a prize example of primitive sculpture...
...power to change human destiny. Their sacred chants had to be intoned just so; a mistake could ruin everything. Thus, if Vocalist Jitendra Abhisheki seemed ner vous as he came out for a selection of Vedic chants, it was understandable. But his nasal, three-note invocation to Saraswati, goddess of learning and music, was flawless...