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...Madonna was an almond-eyed lady in a flowing kimono. A Maori artist decked her in a long grass skirt. African carvers made her a Negro, often barebreasted, sometimes put heavy coils of beads round her neck. Indo-Chinese versions of the Madonna were apt to resemble the Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan...
...Monsignor Costantini, all that seems right and proper. European artists, too, had often represented the saints as being of their own race, place and period. The Buddhist goddess Kuan Yin, he explains, had many of the same virtues that Christians revere in the Madonna: purity, motherhood and the understanding of sorrows. He also approved of Hindu representations of Christ that looked like the god Siva, "because Siva is a highly spirtualized deity. But we do object to Christ being represented in the guise of Buddha, since Buddha is worshiped...
Individualism, according to Niebuhr, is a false and pagan goddess. "The individual is not an end in himself, and cannot live within himself. Love is the law of his existence. The community is as primordial as the individual. Both Nazi and Communist forms of collectivism are inevitable reactions to the individualism of the bourgeois age. They are just as much in error as the individualism; but hardly more...
...natives built their temples encircling wells and pools, filled them with carvings of marble and later with bronzes. One of the earliest and largest works in the show, 17 inches tall, looked like a cross between a double-bladed ax-head and a woman, probably represented the mother goddess whose cult once encompassed the Mediterranean world. Later representations kept the same silhouette but added more human details: a huge head balanced on a towering neck and a cloak spread to resemble wings...
Every day, crowds of devout waded into the water, shouting: "O Goddess Ganges, holiest of rivers, lead me to salvation!" Children screamed as they were dragged into the icy water. Barren couples bathed hand-in-hand, hoping the holy water would make them fertile. Pregnant women came seeking the blessing of the Ganges for their unborn babies; 28 of the babies were born during the festival...