Word: godhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexican government, as despatches announced that poison gas would be used, God Mexitl must have ruefully reflected that his own symbolic arms are a shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down, and a handful of spears, each with an eagle's tuft. The peculiar insignia of his godhead, the so-called "stellar mask" resembles only incidentally that worn by burglars, and its purpose is not to conceal but to exalt...
What Mary Means to Catholics: As Mary-veneration grew, from the 6th Century on, Roman Catholics felt more and more that her peculiar relation to the Godhead fitted her especially as a sort of kindly mother before whom unworthy sinners might lay their prayers with the best hopes of a successful intervention with the "remote and awful Godhead." In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man." Even John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary...
...Manhattan have read his daily stint, most of which has been criticism of art, music, books. The more literate magazines have welcomed his contributions in verse and prose. Last year he published Godhead, a powerful story of a "superman" whose original he discovered while covering a strike on the Gogebic iron range, northern Michigan. The contrasting humor and whimsy of his new novel is as astonishing as it is joyous...
...Paul of Tarsus was only one of the Apostles. He was not, like Paul von Hindenburg, of the divine lineage itself. . . . This old soldier, too illiterate to even educate himself by reading . . . rises in the glory of his godhead . . . President of the German Republic . . . and is surrounded by a swarm of blissful slaves...
...ripe and ecstatic ex-servant, followed by a teeming succession of pregnancies among the other women (of equally mysterious causation), calms all and gives rise to a salutary myth about Mukalinda, deity of fertilization, who appears as a brightly burning youth; and to a satisfying religion under a female godhead, Bona...