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...first, second, seventh and 15th sons, at the very least, were buried in Tomb 5. Many of the engravings show Ramesses presenting one or another of the newly deceased young men to Re-Harakhty, the god of the sun; Horus, the falcon-headed god of the sky; or Hathor, goddess of motherhood, who is often depicted as a cow. These scenes reflect the belief that pharaohs were demigods while alive and that life was merely a short-term way station on the road to full deity...
...MUDDY TRACK 25 MILES OUTSIDE Hanoi lies the Ba Chua Khoa Pagoda. There, one recent afternoon, stood a taxi driver imploring the goddess of the treasury to ward off bribe-hungry police; a woman who had ridden 120 miles on her motorcycle to get the goddess's blessing for a new karaoke bar; and Hoang Ngoc Dung, a budding real estate magnate. "I came here at the beginning of the year so I'd make a lot of money," said Dung, a former schoolteacher. Afterward "I invested $40,000 in a piece of land outside Hanoi and sold...
...cults, it was based on traditions. The 20th century Emperors, in their role as commander of the Imperial Japanese Army, cut Napoleonic figures, riding white horses in splendid military uniforms, but they were also the high priests of State Shinto, donning traditional ceremonial garb and communing with the Sun Goddess in ancient shrines. If the forms were sometimes very old, the idea of the Emperor as the apex of a modern state religion...
...time, and it is especially hard for girls. The depiction of females in movies, on television and especially in advertising ranges from the unattainable to the disgusting. It is frustrating for the average young woman to be told that she should grow up to be like a society's goddess like Cindy Crawford, and it is insulting and dangerous to say she should desire to look like Kate Moss. In addition to this pressure, girls often become victims of the bitter social rivalries that pervade young female social circles and are subjected to the unwanted attention of hormonally-challenged young...
Volatile alterna-goddess COURTNEY LOVE has found a new outlet for all of her raw emotion. The widow of Kurt Cobain and lead singer of the ever more successful rock band Hole will make her film debut opposite surfer dude-action hero-Hamlet Keanu Reeves in the dark comedy Feeling Minnesota...