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She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women ; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.
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She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.
She and Hellenic
She was also honored as Soror of the Year in May 2004 by the National Pan Hellenic Council of Greater New York City for her extensive community service and commitment to the Council.
She served in the Second World War, was loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1943 and renamed Apostolis.
She currently serves as an independent member of the Hellenic Parliament representing unofficially Democratic Alliance, the political party she founded in 2010, having been expelled from the opposition New Democracy party.
She also retained the position after the 2007 election, managing to be elected as a member of the Hellenic Parliament first among all the candidates in the Athens A ' constituency once more.
She also promoted the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon by the Hellenic Parliament and supported Nicolas Sarkozy's plan about the Union for the Mediterranean, but did not reach a conciliation with Turkey and the Republic of Macedonia over the Cyprus dispute and the Macedonia naming dispute respectively.
She was a professor of Modern Greek literature at New York University ( NYU ), where a prize is offered in her name by the A. S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies.
She and goddess
She thereby unites the warlike Akkadian Ishtar's qualities to those of the gentler Sumerian goddess of love and fecundity.
She argues that slavery allowed white society to stereotype white women as the pure goddess virgin and move black women to the seductive whore stereotype formerly placed on all women.
She is the Goddess of Disorder and Being, whereas her sister Aneris ( called the equivalent of Harmonia by the Mythics of Harmonia ) is the goddess of Order and Non-Being.
She appears to have been particularly associated with being ' between ' and hence is frequently characterized as a " liminal " goddess.
She is similar to John Keats's Indian woman in Endymion who is revealed to be the moon goddess, but in Kubla Khan she is also related to the sun and the sun as an image of divine truth.
Stemming from an Italic moon goddess * Meneswā ' She who measures ', the Etruscans adopted the inherited Old Latin name, * Menerwā, thereby calling her Menrva.
She can be interpreted as providing political or military aid, or protection to the king — acting as a goddess of sovereignty, not necessarily a war goddess.
She is called on by the goddess Diana to avenge the death of the Amazon-like female warrior Camilla.
She has a large stylized flower turned over her head, and the resemblance with the flower picking Persephone and her companions is compelling The depiction of the goddess is similar with later images of " Anodos of Pherephata ".
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