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...A pale young woman wearing a sheer blue dress is kneeling before a massive rock, upon which lies a golden chest....
...It’s the perspective of a wheelchair-user, a deity — or a proper novelist....
...Rock musicians never had it this good. On the surface, this all looked unstoppable. The founders and chief executives seemed to wield power in the style of autocrats or cult leaders....
...The simple childhood pursuit of piling up twigs and rocks may also help to explain the appeal....
...In this way, “lay lamas” might be found in every house, overseeing (among other things) the community’s encounters with wild animals, which are said to be the livestock of the deities....
...Soft rocks are tipped with holy chortens. Rock faces are honeycombed with caves. The further north we fly, the more the landscape expands....
...Priests chose to convert the malign deities by baptising their volcanoes....
...Sequana is named after the Gallo-Roman deity of water and water springs, in particular the Seine: it is an expression of concern and support for children facing the modern world....
...Layers and layers of Sicilian history are revealed through the shifting architectural styles, religious artefacts, Greek and Roman deities and contrasting environs....
...And each person who visits in some way remakes the pieces, whether by crafting their own little tower of rocks or simply by making a new reflection in the balls....
...10 Akagi Motomachi, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 162-0817 Shinto shrines vary in style, size and structure, yet it is rare to come across a contemporary reinterpretation of the places where Japanese pray to kami deities...
...The abstract work “Loaves and Fishes” (2015) is by 77-year-old Texan blues musician and artist Rock Romano....
...So they set off: confident older twin Racine (Tamara Lawrance) carries a rock in a sock while Anaia (Adelayo Adedayo) hangs back a little, daunted by the epic task ahead....
...Hume ends his article with the Apache leader, Wendsler Nosie Senior’s simple message for Rio: “Don’t kill our religion, don’t kill the deities, don’t murder this place....
...Sitting on a rock underneath a cascading waterfall, a canny bear waits for prey....
...These are not wonders unique to a nation that makes a deity of the customer....
...Oak Flat is not only home to burial sites and ancient rock carvings: it is also a dwelling place of the Ga’an — spiritual beings comparable to angels in Christianity....
...With salt rocks extracted from the lakes, Barthélemy created a monumental table, as well as candle holders and a collection of beads and amulets....
...The Nido de Quetzalcóatl (Quetzalcóatl’s Nest, 2007) is a horizontal apartment block in the shape of a snake’s body — a nod to the pre-Hispanic plumed serpent deity....
...Before a chortling crowd at a leftwing university he cracks a series of irreverent, potty-mouthed gags about the poor state of political freedom in India, all while in character as the deity....
...Irini Amargianaki’s Eumenides, alone of the 10 to feature a singer, summons the Greek deities of vengeance with an ancient, feral wailing....
...In November last year, India’s supreme court gave the go-ahead to build a temple on the mosque’s ruins to Lord Ram, the Hindu deity whose birthplace they claim it was....
...Venus was Pompeii’s underwhelming protecting deity, perhaps painted outside the sign of Verecundus the draper’s shop to bring the good business and longevity that presumably eluded him....
...It seemed the Rapa Nui, sometime in the 18th century, had turned on the ancestral deities that they had spent generations creating — an extraordinary act of religious rebellion....
...Like the Damascus mosque, this functioned as a church before Islam, as a Roman temple before Christianity and no doubt as a spot sacred to some nature deity long before the legions arrived....
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