Word: pantheonic
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Venezuela: Rheumy, blue-spectacled Dictator Juan Vincente Gomez puppet President Juan Bautista Perez dedicated a white marble pantheon over the ashes of El Libertador. Dictator Gomez remained prudently on his heavily guarded model farm. Oldsters mourned the fact that Cenizo was no longer living to take part in the ceremony. Cenizo, as all Caracans remember, was a dog of uncertain parentage who for nearly ten years slept on the base of the Bolivar statue in the Plaza Bolivar, appointed himself its official guardian, grew fat and imperious on the bounty of cafe proprietors, was the only dog ever...
Among the more prominent speakers will be Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who will speak on Early Indian Architecture; Baron A. Von Stael Holstein of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will describe, with illustrations, the Lamaistic Pantheon of 800 Buddhists statuettes which he discovered in the Forbidden City of Pekin: Professor William Hung, also of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will discuss the finding of the Nestorian Tablet; Professor Louis Hodous, of the Hartford Seminary Foundation; Dr. Berthold Laufer, of the Field Museum, Chicago; and Professor K.S. Latourette, of Yale University...
Cause. The carnage seemed to .have started when some Hindus became convinced that a group of Pathans-Moham-medans of Afghan extraction-had kidnapped two or three Hindu babes and were going to sacrifice them to Allah. Therefore, in the name of the whole Pantheon of Hindu Gods, stones flew and knives flashed...
...many instances the missionaries resorted to a compromise; they declared the most beloved native gods as nothing but incarnations of certain accepted members of the Indian Buddhist pantheon. This method was most successfully carried through in Japan where the first Buddhist missionaries arrived in the sixth century A. D. They were confronted by a firmly established native pantheon in that country and succeeded in identifying almost all Japanese gods with their own, imported divinities. As a result of that procedure, Shintoism, the national religion of Japan, was all but absorbed by the new faith, and most Shinto temples were administered...
...arbitrary." The report of the Student Council's committee will be closely watched for recommendations on this problem. From the plan's present artificial cross-sectioning Harvard can afford to sacrifice a good deal of the appearance of democracy. The House must never become a temple to a new pantheon of Balanced Forces...