Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emperor Hirohito sat gloomily in the Imperial Palace at Tokyo thinking of a name for his new baby girl. Imperial priests from the Imperial Sanctuary awaited in the Imperial Palace for the Imperial word; for they were to go to the Imperial Shrine of Ife at Yamada, 200 miles from Tokyo, and report her name to the Imperial Ancestors...
...France, near Treves, a shrine built by Gauls to Mithras, god of light, was found. Mithras was a Persian deity, a strong rival of Christianity during the first three centuries...
Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
...stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral leadership of Karl Elmendorf, Karl Muck and Anton Witek. Tristan und Isolde was the first production. It will be followed by Parsifal and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Critics announced the productions were brilliant-worthy candles for the shrine...
...latest exploit of ancient and medieval virtues and vices cannot begin to approach. For Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, sorceress of the Nile, is as distinctive because of her wickedness as Galahad is because of his virture. Erskine shoved Galahad from his pedestral and shook the temple of his shrine to its very foundation. Thomas knocked Cleopatra from an equal height and a sickening thud is the result. Erskine maintains the integrity and complexity of his character, and the reader is impressed even if he is disillusioned and mortified. Thomas makes the serpentine Cleopatra a naughty high school girl magnifying...