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...Pele, goddess of volcanoes, was on a house-hunting expedition when she hovered one day over the Hawaiian archipelago. There, according to legend, she found her fancy, settled in the fiery crater of Kilauea, near mighty Mauna...
...London's Windmill Theatre featured "The Platinum Goddess," a pretty dancer whose brassiere and skirt were torn off by a male dancer...
Psousennes' pink granite funerary chamber is rectangular, 23 by 10 ft. The big granite sarcophagus, carved on the sides in bas-relief, has a cover depicting the king as the god Osiris, supine, with a goddess kneeling behind him and stretching protective arms over his head. The sarcophagus contained a silver mummy case. Before opening this, the professor decided to await the arrival of King Farouk, an enthusiastic amateur...
Lending color, if not substance, to this theory was an announcement from the Japanese Imperial Household of the establishment of a "grand national shrine'' to the Sun Goddess on Carooca, southernmost of the Japanese-owned Palau Islands. "The islands have come to occupy a very important position as an advance outpost of Japanese development southward in industry, economy and culture," read the announcement...
...Emperor of Japan is not a man. He is 39 years old, has six human children, weighs about 135 pounds, eats, sleeps and fans himself; but he is not a man. Hirohito, Son of the Sun Goddess, is a lot of things. He is fierce samurai battles, snowcapped volcanoes, the flowering mimosa, fat carp in mountain pools. He is exaggerated politeness, intense ambition, orchidaceous sensitivity. He is the rising sun. He is also a big navy, and a crying need for cheap rice and living space. He embraces Japan. He is Japan...