Likewise the ivory Chinese female figure known as a `` doctor lady '' ( provenance Honan ) ; ;

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

File: ChokweWoman. jpg | Sculpture representing a female figure.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

The beast then takes the form of a female figure and disappears through the door without opening it.

Ancient Gallifreyans are all telepathic and were ruled by a female cult centred on a figure called the Pythia, who controlled the population through mysticism and prophecies.

Apollo, the god of music and poetry, also appears, along with a female figure tentatively identified as Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses.

The Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, preserved in two manuscripts from the 11th century, contains a female figure referred to as Seo hell who engages in flyting with Satan and tells him to leave her dwelling ( Old English ut of mynre onwununge ).

John Francis Wilson thinks it possible to have been a pagan bronze statue whose true identity had been forgotten ; some have thought it to be Aesculapius, the God of healing, but the description of the standing figure and the woman kneeling in supplication is precisely that found on coins depicting the bearded emperor Hadrian reaching out to a female figure symbolizing a province kneeling before him.

Greek stories of the heavens often included a female figure whose virtue and virginity were unspoiled, who pursued more masculine interests, and who was followed by a dedicated group of maidens.

Above the rider on the Tjängvide image stone is a horizontal figure holding a spear, which may be a valkyrie, and a female figure greets the rider with a cup.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata ( a tablet evoking the law ) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

Bartholdi's early models were all similar in concept: a female figure in neoclassical style representing liberty, wearing a stola and pella ( gown and cloak, common in depictions of Roman goddesses ) and holding a torch aloft.

The bottom portion of the west side of the cross features a depiction of a long-haired female, kneeling figure holding an object above another prostrate, bound figure.

A horse or bull figure on the same stand, topped by a solar disk, may represent either Yahweh or Baal, and a stylised tree and female figures are testimony to the presence of goddesses ( possibly Asherah ) in the pantheon.

* August 13 – Aradia di Toscano, female messianic figure in Italian witchcraft

How to understand the will of deities and how to behave had been " revealed " to the Etruscans by two " initiators ", Tages, a childlike figure born from tilled land and immediately gifted with prescience, and Vegoia, a female figure.

If a female figure is depicted holding these objects, she is seen as his consort, Lakshmi.

" Whedon openly wonders why his identification figure is a woman, but describes it as " a real autobiographical kind of therapy for me " to be writing a strong female character like Buffy.

In particular it attacks the use of sharp binary classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial ; it holds realities to be plural and relative, and to be dependent on who the interested parties are and the nature of these interests.

Another, more recently developed, theory, the Handicap principle of Amotz Zahavi, Russell Lande and W. D. Hamilton, holds that the fact that the male of the species is able to survive until and through the age of reproduction with such a seemingly maladaptive trait is effectively considered by the female to be a testament to his overall fitness.

Also during mating, the male Gammarus lacustris clamps down on the female and holds on for days.

The female holds the embryos in the womb without a placenta.

Peach also holds a very special title that no other female video game character has: she has starred in the most video games, appearing in over 70 games.

Barzee is currently serving her 15-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Texas, which holds female inmates in need of special medical and mental health services ; she is scheduled for release in 2016.

In this experience, the female does not eat, drinks lots of water, and holds its wings droopingly.

In addition it holds one of the nation's largest independent insurance agencies: The Reschini Group-which was started by the nation's first female insurance agent Rose Reschini in 1938.

She holds the distinction of being the first female Ph. D. recipient in the United States.

Among active players, male or female, she holds the most Major titles amid singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.

The first professional player was a placekick holder ( a traditionally trivial position usually occupied by a person who holds another position on the team ), while the best known female college football players were all placekickers, with all having primarily played women's soccer prior to converting.

Dulwich College holds a painting of a female head in a roughly similar style that was generally regarded as his work until it was found out in 1987 that it was probably misattributed to him and that it is a work by a North Italian painter.

She still holds more distance and speed records than any pilot living or dead, male or female.

A central female figure holds an hourglass, symbolising the critical nature of time to industry, while an ironworker stands at his anvil and a potter and weaver offer their wares.

The Sooglossidae show inguinal amplexus where the male holds the female at the waist just anterior to her hind legs.

A female Bar-tailed Godwit holds the record for the longest non-stop flight for a land bird.

This conception of female virtue no longer holds true in many modern societies ( see also cultural relativism ).

She currently holds the third position for most United Kingdom number-ones by a female artist.

They arrange objects in the bower's court area from smallest to largest, creating a forced perspective which holds the attention of the female for longer.

It is one of the most universally well-known plants and holds three botanical records ; the largest fruit so far recorded weighed 42 kg ; the mature seeds weighing up to 17. 6 kg are the world's heaviest ; and the female flowers are the largest of any palm.

She is a female allegorical figure whose right hand holds the hilt of a sheathed sword while a laurel wreath of victory and the Shield of the United States are clasped in her left hand.

During birth, the female holds her hind legs close to her body, as when moving through grass, giving single births about every 30 minutes during which she moves around.

The pair of hands at the back is also bejeweled ; the right hand of the male holds a serpent, while the left hand of the female holds a mirror.