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...Artemis rescued Iphigenia from being sacrificed by her father Agamemnon, and how later, at the behest of Athena, Iphigenia became Artemis' priestess at Vravron. She dwelt near some "holy stairs." and when she died, her grave was adorned "with braided gowns of softest weave" left to the shrine "by women dead with child...
Stadium is a monument to optimism (its seating capacity is unlikely to be taxed), Los Angeles' $18 million Dodger Stadium is a shrine of success: since they moved to Los Angeles and its 95,000-seat Coliseum in 1958, the onetime Brooklyn Bums have smashed every attendance record in the National League. A seven-level pleasure dome of concrete, steel, aluminum, glass, plastic and brick, their new stadium is situated in Chavez Ravine, just five minutes from downtown Los Angeles, holds only 56,000 fans. But canny Dodger President Walter O'Malley expects no decline in revenues. Ticket...
...thousands of Shinto shrines across Japan last week, sober-faced girls in white robes and vermilion skirts practiced the stately postures of the ritualistic Kagura dance. Musicians wearing eboshi (ceremonial headgear) thumped out an accompaniment on wooden drums, played the ancient ceremonial songs on reedy bamboo flutes. At Tokyo's huge Meiji shrine, the 190 fulltime staff members and 100 temporary helpers put in twelve-hour days cleaning up the building and consecrating tiny religious symbols for sale to worshipers. The week-long New Year's festival-Japan's most important religious event-was coming, and Shinto...
This New Year an estimated 45 million Japanese will flock to Shinto shrines to watch the Kagura dancing. As they approach the altars, worshipers will clap their hands (a sign of rejoicing), silently pray for divine protection, and drop some coins into the waiting coffers as they leave. Meiji shrine alone expects a minimum of 2.000,000 visitors-which is also "the physical maximum we can accommodate." says Hiroshi Taniguchi. the shrine's leading ritualist...
...Billy Mitchell's effort to show that a plane could sink a ship, and it is in Chesapeake Bay that she still lies. The third Texas, a veteran of World Wars I and II, was towed from Norfolk to Texas in 1948, where she has become a historical shrine near Houston...