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The men acted out the violence which had allowed the Morning Star to mate with the Evening Star ( by breaking her vaginal teeth ) in their creation story, with a “ meteor stone .” During the Morning Star ceremony, the captive was shot in the heart and a “ man struck her on the head with the war club from the Morning Star bundle .” By having all the men in the village shoot arrows into her body, the village men, embodiments of Morning Star, were symbolically mating with her.
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Three of these men discussed major theories of the universe while the other acted as a moderator.
Following the destruction of Jerusalem and the expulsion of the Jews, Jewish worship stopped being centrally organized around the Temple, prayer took the place of sacrifice, and worship was rebuilt around the community ( represented by a minimum of ten adult men ) and the establishment of the authority of rabbis who acted as teachers and leaders of individual communities ( see Jewish diaspora ).
Late in the summer of 388 he was back in Israel, and spent the remainder of his life in a hermit's cell near Bethlehem, surrounded by a few friends, both men and women ( including Paula and Eustochium ), to whom he acted as priestly guide and teacher.
Male intervention into relationships between women was necessary only when women acted as men and demanded the same social privileges.
Under the reign of Augustus, when the capital had grown to almost one million inhabitants, 14 wards were created ; the wards were protected by seven squads of 1, 000 men called " vigiles ", who acted as firemen and nightwatchmen.
A complaint of 1492, brought to the Star Chamber, accuses men of acting riotously by coming to a fair as Robin Hood and his men ; the accused defended themselves on the grounds that the practice was a long-standing custom to raise money for churches, and they had not acted riotously but peaceably.
He had many things about him which served to allure men to the gratification of their passions ; he had also many things which acted as incentives to industry and toil.
They consider whether Byrhtnoth and his men acted nobly or failed in their mission to protect the land and people from the Viking invaders.
The Etruscan religion was an immanent polytheism, in which all visible phenomena were considered to be a manifestation of divine power, and deities continually acted in the world of men and could, by human action or inaction, be dissuaded against or persuaded in favor of human affairs.
When realization of paternity occurred, according to the hypothesis, men acted to claim a power to monopolize women and claim their offspring as possessions and patriarchy began.
The Etruscan system of belief was an immanent polytheism ; that is, all visible phenomena were considered to be manifestations of divine power, and that power was embodied in deities who acted continually on the world but could be dissuaded or persuaded by mortal men.
Irving claimed that the Holocaust was not the work of Nazi leaders, but rather of " nameless criminals ", and furthermore claimed that " these men killed the Jews acted on their own impulse, their own initiative, within the general atmosphere of brutality created by the Second World War, in which of course Allied bombings played a part.
She also acted as a religious minister, which was unusual at the time ; the Foundation Deed of the Christian Mission states that women had the same rights to preach as men.
Others were gained by men who acted as privateers during the War of 1812.
Inderwick later writing " I confess to a feeling of pain at finding in October 1660, sitting as a judge at the Old Bailey, trying and condemning to death batches of the regicides, men under whose orders he had himself acted, who had been his colleagues in Parliament, with whom he had sat on committees to alter the law ".
The Parisian St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre resulted from this conjunction of interests, and this offers a much better explanation as to why the men of the Duke of Anjou acted in the name of the lieutenant general of the kingdom, consistent with the thinking of the time, rather than in the name of the King.
The jury was entirely composed of Aguinaldo's men ; Bonifacio's defense lawyer acted more like a prosecutor as he himself declared Bonifacio's guilt and instead appealed for less punishment ; and Bonifacio was not allowed to confront the state witness for the charge of conspiracy on the grounds that the latter had been killed in battle, but later the witness was seen with the prosecutors.
A short experience convinced him that this was not for him the ideal Christian life (" amisi monachum, inveni Christianum " — " I have lost the monk ; I have found the Christian "), and in February 1522 he made his way to Ebernburg, near Creuznach, where he acted as chaplain to a little group of men holding the new opinions who had settled there under the leadership of Franz von Sickingen.
The charges related to allegations from the state prosecutor that Banana had misused his power while he was president to coerce numerous men in positions of service ( ranging from domestic staff to security guards, and even members of sports teams for whom he had acted as referee ) into accepting sexual advances.
Then during the thirty years he acted as secretary of the Royal Society he exercised an enormous if inconspicuous influence on the advancement of mathematical and physical science, not only directly by his own investigations, but indirectly by suggesting problems for inquiry and inciting men to attack them, and by his readiness to give encouragement and help.
In each of his reforms, he personally oversaw each new institution, selected the 300 equestrian men to serve on the juries and acted as director for each new project with such skill that even his opponents were stunned at his efficiency.
men and out
Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.
When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.
He sold out to Kruger's men.
It brought men out of bed and sent them into hurried conferences.
The three men stepped out to the side to wait for Captain Clemens' signal.
At any rate, three men out of a six-man B-52 crew are required to copy down Wisman's go-to-war message.
He tells of three men who started out on a trip across a single paddock, a ten-by-ten-mile square owned by a sheep grazer.
The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.
The company grew out of efforts by two completely inexperienced men in their late twenties, neither having a formal education applicable to, or experience in, manufacturing or selling our type of articles.
others were of men doffing their hats to each other, carrying umbrellas with pomp, reading newspapers, or simply showing loaves of bread spread out.
When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.
They kicked their horses through the deep water with their bare heels, drove the Rebels out of their rifle pits and captured four men.
He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.
Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.
There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.
Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
Tonight a group of men, tomorrow night he himself, would go out there somewhere and wait.
There were ten men on the patrol which Sergeant Prevot led out that next night.
Because they were new men and to be sure that they didn't get lost, Prevot had placed Warren and White in the center of the patrol as it filed out.
Warren thought of all the men out that night who, like himself, had left their protective ridge and -- fear working at their guts -- picked their way into the area beyond.
While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.
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