Three hundred and sixty-five feet above the heated asphalt the tiptoeing symbolic deity on Manhattan pointed her vacillating arrow straight, for the time, in the direction of her exalted sister on Liberty Island.
Regarded as the goddess of love, beauty and prosperity, Lakshmi, Kamla or Padma (Sanskrit words for lotus), the beloved consort of Vishnu, along with the dearly loved pot-bellied, elephant headed, auspicious god of the Hindu theogony, Siri Ganesha, is a presiding deity of the festival of lights.
He became a popular deity and cultural hero to the Chinese, and even the Qing court honoured him as a paragon of loyalty.
The gloomy family of care and distrust shall be banished from our dwelling, guarded by the kind and tutelary deity.
I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal;and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.
You were enshrined with our household deity, in his worship I worshipped you.
: Little New Year, which falls the 23rd day of the 12th month in the Lunar calendar, is also known as the Festival of the Kitchen God, the deity who oversees the moral character of each household.
It is estimated that it took 30 years to build the temple dedicated to the Hindu deity, Vishnu, at the behest of King Suryavarman II, the ruler of the Khmer Empire ,12.
June Having conceded one month to a Greek deity, we're now back with the Romans: June is named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and goddess of marriage and childbirth.
As he was born in the year of zi, and the rat was considered the deity of zi, he' especially shielded it.
The River deity Hebo was therefore immensely proud and considered himself the greatest in the world.
They're sticking with the trend of underworld creatures and gods -- Pluto, after all, was the Roman god of the underworld -- and have tentatively named a previously observed dark, whale-shaped splotch (just to the left of the broken heart) after "Cthulhu," the dark deity invented by author H.
He wanted to offer sacrifices to the mountain deity to pray for rain.
The gloomy family of care and distrust shall be banished from our dwelling, guarded by the kind and tutelary deity.
"At the last day," thought he, "the earth will unfold its great wings, and soar upwards to the skies, there to burst like a soap-bubble in the radiant glance of the Deity.
Above all the rest stood Fo, the chief deity, clad in a garment of yellow silk, for yellow is here the sacred colour.
The gloomy family of care and distrust shall be banished from our dwelling, guarded by the kind and tutelary deity.
