After performing the appropriate ritual, Brutus falls asleep in front of the goddess's statue and is given a vision of the land where he is destined to settle, an island in the western ocean inhabited only by a few giants.

Bede notes that the native Old English month Ēostur-monath ( Old English " Ēostre-month ") was equivalent to the month of April, yet that feasts held in the goddess's honor during Ēostur-monath had gone out of use by the time of his writing and had been replaced with the Christian custom of the " Paschal season ".

And it was the goddess's aim and cherished hope that here should be the capital of all nations — should the fates perchance allow that.

The sculpture was assembled on a wooden core, covered with shaped bronze plates covered in turn with removable gold plates, save for the ivory surfaces of the goddess's face and arms ; the gold weighed 44 talents, the equivalent of about ; the Athena Parthenos embodied a sizeable part of the treasury of Athens.

The goddess's purpose was to safeguard the stonework from fire damage.

When Mahishasur had half emerged into his buffalo form, he was paralyzed by the extreme light emitting from the goddess's body.

As soon as she entered the atrium of Vesta's temple, she was under the goddess's service and protection.

This was a cult from which men were excluded, so completely that they were not permitted to know or even speak the goddess's name, and hence used the euphemism " Good Goddess ".

Its theme was inspired by the goddess's origin-story in the Kalevala and similar Finnish folk-lore and magic.

A woven peplum, laid upon the knees of the goddess's iconic image, was central to festivals honoring both Athena at Athens, and Hera.

In his view Pygmalion, the consort of the goddess's priestess at Paphos, kept the cult image of Aphrodite as a means of retaining power during his term, after which, Graves speculates, he refused to give up the goddess's image " and that he prolonged this by marriage with another of Aphrodite's priestesses — technically his daughter, since she was heiress to the throne — who is called Metharme (" change "), to mark the innovation.

In Greek mythology, Calliope ( ; Kalliopē " beautiful-voiced ") was the muse of epic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and is believed to be Homer's muse, the inspiration for the Odyssey and the Iliad .< ref > This belief in the goddess's identify, however, really cannot be proved from the text of the < i > Iliad </ i >, because there is no evidence as to the referent of θεά ( goddess ).

However, the simplicity with which Velázquez displays the female nude — without jewellery or any of the goddess's usual accessories — was echoed in later nude studies by Ingres, Manet, and Baudry, among others.

She became a priestess at the goddess's temple in the land of the Tauri, where she was forced by King Thoas to sacrifice any foreigners who came ashore.

Laura Slatkin explores the apparent contradiction, in that the immediate presentation of Thetis in the Iliad is as a helpless minor goddess overcome by grief and lamenting to her Nereid sisters, and links the goddess's present and past through her grief.

Odysseus, unsuccessfully, tried to persuade the Greek leaders to put Ajax to death, by stoning the Locrian leader ( to divert the goddess's anger ).

After Cotta paved it, so the stones wouldn't be damaged by fire, which occurred there at night quite frequently, a large segment of the population transmitted the goddess's cult into their own neighborhoods " ( Statae Matris simulacrum in Foro colebatur ; postquam id Cotta stravit, ne lapides igne corrumperentur, qui † plurimis † ibi fiebat nocturno tempore, magna pars populi in suos quique u < i > cos rettulerunt ei < i > us deae cultum ).</ ref >

The Athenian archons, led by Megacles, took this as the goddess's repudiation of her suppliants and proceeded to stone them to death ( on the other hand, Herodotus, 5. 71, and Thucydides, 1. 126, do not mention this aspect of the story, stating that Cylon's followers were simply killed after being convinced that they would not be harmed ).

Robert Graves cited a reference to her by the Tudor poet Skelton ( following Ovid's Metamorphoses ) as an example of the triple goddess's continued relevance to poets ( see below ).

Virgil imagines the Cyclopes in Hephaestus ' forge, who " busily burnished the aegis Athene wears in her angry moods — a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and he linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess's breast — a severed head rolling its eyes.

Hera hated Pelias because he had killed Sidero, his step-grandmother, in one of the goddess's temples.

In the Aeneid, Neptune is still resentful of the wandering Trojans, but is not as vindictive as Juno, and in Book I he rescues the Trojan fleet from the goddess's attempts to wreck it, although his primary motivation for doing this is his annoyance at Juno's having intruded into his domain.

* In the anime series, Sailor Moon, the moon goddess's story is used as a theme and basis of the storyline.

Locks of hair trail onto the goddess's breastplate.

" Varro, however, offers a Latin etymology from lubere, " to be pleasing ," related to libido, that attempts to explain the goddess's connection to Venus.

Women of the Imperial family might be portrayed in art in the goddess's guise.

Large round tassels fell from the goddess's headdress.

Because the Afro-American religions were transmitted as part of a long oral tradition, there are many regional variations on the goddess's name.

Then he changed forms and became an elephant that tied up the goddess's lion and began to pull it towards him.

He did, so she cut her hair and placed it in the goddess's temple.

Giambologna's several depictions of Venus established a canon of proportions and set models for the goddess's representation that were influential for two generations of sculptors, in Italy and in the North.

Sometimes, Shiva – the goddess's consort – is depicted lying beneath Chhinnamasta, who is seated squatting on him and copulating with him.

The goddess's sacred number is the special number of the underworld: ' 3 ' dominates the chthonic cults of antiquity.

It was a pity because she had planned to lay a wreath at the foot of the Garibaldi statue, towering over Rome in spectacular benediction from the highpoint of the Gianicolo.

One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.

Spokesmen for the nation's tradition-minded sculptors promptly claimed that Udall was exiling the statue because of his own hostility to this art form.

In the case of the Borglum statue an Interior aide was obliged to announce that there had been a misunderstanding and that the Secretary had no desire to `` hustle '' it out of Washington.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

A fine example is the statue of the Sacred gate Kouros which was found at the cemetery of Dipylon in Athens ( Dipylon Kouros ).

Jean Boucher's statue of the seated skeptical thinker Ernest Renan, shown to the left, caused great controversy when it was installed in Tréguier, Brittany in 1902.

The statue was placed in the square fronted by the cathedral.

In an embroidered extension of the myth, the hounds were so upset with their master's death, that Chiron made a statue so lifelike that the hounds thought it was Actaeon.

Her life was spared by Artemis, who transformed the maiden into a statue of pure crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws.

In 1891, a statue was erected to his memory in Königsberg.

They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

Pausanias, also refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese.

Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.

Also, there was an ancient statue, representing the god in chains, to indicate that the martial spirit and victory were never to leave the city of Sparta.

Just east of Sparta stood an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.

In his native village he began to make preparations for erecting a temple which was to contain, not only the above statue, but other works of his own ; within its precincts were to repose also the ashes of the founder.