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...The dragon is not regarded as a creature of fear, but as a rain deity, a symbol of prosperity, fertility and good fortune – and an emblem of imperial authority....
...Nymphs, shepherds and passing deities have been food for narrative ballet since the 17th century....
...In March, an entirely new body of sculptures was shown in Paris as part of LVMH’s Métiers d’Art series, in which she created a number of characters which blended African deities, creatures from the natural...
...Monday’s ceremony Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, author of a biography of Modi and an expert on Hindu nationalist politics, said: “Essentially this is all about crowning one person today and that person is not the deity...
...“It’s a dispute for the restoration of our heritage, of our glorious cultural past, and for the restoration of the rights of our deities.”...
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...About 4,500 workers have been toiling day and night for months to complete the first stage of the three-storey Ram Mandir shrine, dedicated to one of Hinduism’s most revered deities Lord Ram, in time for...
...Unlike today’s more personal resolutions, those early commitments were made as promises to deities and were about paying off debts and returning borrowed items to their rightful owners....
...“I like painting and admiring thangkas [paintings on cotton or silk depicting subjects, including Buddhist deities and mandalas] because the different geometric proportions and colour combinations are very...
...Acosta first performed Apollo with the Royal Ballet in 2003 and he retains the silky pirouettes and pussy-footed landings of the newborn deity....
...It was a stylised, cinematic performance that evoked a more glamorous age, Del Rey presiding over the crowd like a deity....
...In the opening space, in which Grandmother Mago rides a haetae — half-lion, half-goat — modelled on the artist’s Pekingese dog, Xa reimagines an “east Asian deity who created the Earth with her excrement...
...There is no overarching deity at work here, but rather “a crack in the dark” through which Atkinson’s unremarkable, even helplessly ordinary characters — and a menagerie of animals, too — escape into their...
...It’s the perspective of a wheelchair-user, a deity — or a proper novelist....
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...Bodies in shrouds are being carried on stretchers through the alleys as people chant the name of the Hindu deity, Lord Ram....
...Crucially, you’re not giving these commands from above, like an omnipotent deity....
...Yet he tempered idealism with aestheticism; his photo of the barefooted farmer Floyd Burroughs and his daughter Lucille makes them look like Nordic deities disguised in tattered clothing and slumming in...
...Festival The island of Ap Lei Chau will be filled with Chinese opera performances, parades and dragon and lion dances during this religious festival in honour of Hung Shing, a fishermen and maritime traders’ deity...
...A white radiating orb sits at the centre of the work, holding court like a deity....
...contemporary readers with an insight into a pre-modern, pre-Enlightenment world where natural phenomena coexisted with the angels, jinns and demons that were believed to frame reality under an all-encompassing deity...
...The prime minister responded by saying that the snake in question was a garland around the neck of Shiva, one of the principal Hindu deities, and adding that he was happy to be “the snake that adorns the...
...You can’t help but marvel at Enheduana’s gift with words, her ability to invoke the force and majesty of this long-gone deity, but what makes her such a striking authorial figure is the fact that her humanity...
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