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...My cousins joked that I was there as the control — if I (someone without any faith, practically a pagan) were to see the statue move, we would all know it was fake....
...Mary is collapsing, the Magdalene rushes forward with raised arms and dishevelled hair, St John withdraws in silent grief....
...Shellwork stretches back to antiquity, when it was used to decorate Greek and Roman pagan temples....
...Set among 34 acres of parkland and surrounded by ancient cedar trees, the Grade I-listed Jacobean mansion was originally built in 1623 for Lady Mary Reade, a young widow who would go on to marry Sir Edward...
...“For Hepworth, who called herself ‘a pagan at heart’, these neolithic stones show that sculpture can have a communal importance,” says Clayton....
...Latham met Mary Moore, whose cabins in the woods are filled with ephemera documenting her years of protest against the warmongers and arch-capitalists of the Grove....
...Like the mosque, it sits on the site of a much earlier pagan holy place, the Temple of the Sun....
...The apostle John supports Christ’s fallen body, the Madonna holds an arm, Mary Magdalene, hands clasped to her face, kneels at his feet....
...The Testament of Mary (2012) did something similar, but it connected back easily to Tóibín’s Irish Catholic home territory, being an iconoclastic depiction of an angry and non-virginal mother of Jesus....
...The Holly King and his pagan ways still lurk in the wings, but the sad message about the status of women is overlaid by the towering maternal figure of Mary, fertility goddess of Christianity....
...Bartolomeo, who was probably in Padua with his brother, borrows Mantegna’s custom of framing Mary with a garland of beribboned flowers....
...He expounds the influence of a pantheistic philosopher, the pagan Plotinus....
...At Easter he is said to have looked sufficiently like a gardener for Mary to have mistaken him for one....
...In Carlo Crivelli’s “The Annunciation” the Archangel Gabriel, watched by onlookers peering from archways and staircases, alights in the street outside Mary’s splendidly ornate Renaissance town house, its...
...Some honour ancestors and, despite their “Christianised form”, hark back to a pagan and Zoroastrian past. At funerals, wine is a “mediator between the living and the dead”....
...Yet the classicism remains; his cherubs are from a pagan era; his figures enjoy Hellenistic substance....
...Things were a little more frivolous at Mary Katrantzou....
...Such reaction said more about the position of women – how far we have or haven’t come in 1,000 years of history – than any of the rousing speeches about Mary Magdalene....
...Of late, the clamour around the rescue of “Diana and Actaeon” for Britain’s National Galleries has emphasised his genius for pagan storytelling....
...The play is set on Assumption Day, August 15, which started as a pagan celebration at the beginning of harvest....
...The English have been on a 450-year-long journey of slowly getting less and less concerned about who believes what, dating back to the post-Bloody Mary air of calm spread by Elizabeth I....
...Ephesus was once home to the virgin goddess Artemis and Mary was being intimately linked to that pagan power. Theodora exploited this connection mercilessly....
...Such intimate, pagan intensity makes a fascinating contrast to the monumental spirituality of Caravaggio’s later religious works....
...The redoubtable moral philosopher Mary Midgley put it succinctly. “Myths”, she wrote, “are not lies. Nor are they detached stories....
...“The pagan philosophers were as anti-rationalistic as the Christians. But it doesn’t matter....
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