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Great Mother with Navel. Life in Çatal Hiiyiik centered around religious ceremonials. The largest rooms in the city were windowless shrines furnished with a wide assortment of idols and symbols. The center of attraction was usually a chunky goddess modeled of clay in a spread-legged attitude that Dr. Mellaart calls the "giving birth" position. She is, he thinks, an early representative of the Great Mother cult that dominated the Mediterranean world for many thousand years...
...Taylor. "I don't think I want to be one. Sex symbol kind of suggests bathrooms in hotels or something. I do know I'm a movie star and I like being a woman, and I think sex is absolutely gorgeous. But as far as a sex goddess, I don't worry myself that way . . . Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense . . . When we look at each other, it's like our eyes have fingers and they grab ahold ... I think I ended...
Both Norman and Buff Chandler were painted from life by Henry Koerner, who saw Buff as "a goddess hovering over the city" of Los Angeles. He posed her with a model of the new Los Angeles Music Center, used a rich blue cloth to hang in for the city's sky, and added his impressionistic view of Los Angeles at night from the window of his hotel room. When the portrait was nearly complete, Mr. Chandler took a look and found it a good likeness of Mrs. Chandler. Then, possibly thinking also of his own portrait, he told...
While a ceremonial fusillade of firecrackers sounded outside, a black-capped Brahmin pandit recited Sanskrit prayers last week in a factory conference hall at Poona, outside Bombay. It was the time of year for worshiping Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, to whom all wise Indian businessmen annually offer their order books for a blessing. With his workers during the ceremony, his feet bare and his forehead glowing with a dot of vermilion, sat Shantanu Laxman Kirloskar, the U.S.-educated head of India's Kirloskar group, a seven-company combine that sells $46 million worth of farm...
...mythic level, the play is more opaque. Two characters seem more like gods than people, gods of the modern mind. Palmer, the psychoanalyst, is the contemporary god of reason, restoring order amid emotional chaos. Honor Klein, the anthropologist, is the primordial goddess of instinct, violence, and what D. H. Lawrence called "the blood consciousness." These occult beings appear in rooms whose doors have not been opened, but a more tangible proof of godhood is their incestuous relationship, which sets them apart from the others and constitutes normal behavior only among gods. By making Honor the more powerful...