Revolving around an Englishman living in 1930s London named Robert Denvers who has recollections of a previous life as a Bronze Age Cypriot – an allusion to Gardner himself – the primary plot of A Goddess Arrives is set in ancient Cyprus and featured a queen, Dayonis, who practices sorcery in an attempt to help her people defend themselves from invading Egyptians.

The western traditions acknowledging the natural elements, the seasons, and the practitioner's relationship with the Earth, Gaia, or a primary Goddess have derived at least in part from these magical groups, as found in Neopagan religions and various forms of contemporary paganism.

The consensus among scholars is that the primary deity of Teotihuacan was the Great Goddess of Teotihuacan.

* In " The Olmec Mountain and Tree Creation in Mesoamerican Cosmology ", Linda Schele states that the primary mural represents " either a Teotihuacan ruler or the Great Goddess ".

The Triple Goddess is the subject of much of the writing of Robert Graves, and has been adopted by many neopagans ( notably Wiccans ) as one of their primary deities.

* The Goddess or the Great Goddess is a female deity that is regarded as primary.

Zee is considered by her sect to be the honoured Mother of the American Dianic Craft and a primary proponent of modern separtist Goddess theology.

Bast the Panther Goddess is the primary deity of Wakanda.

Tripurasundari is the primary goddess associated with the Shakta Tantric tradition known as Sri Vidya. The Goddess Who is " Beautiful in the Three Worlds " ( Supreme Deity of Srikula systems ); the " Moksha Mukuta ".

The designation of Chandi or Chandika is used twenty-nine times in the Devi Mahatmya, which is agreed by many scholars to have had originated in Bengal, the primary seat of the Shakta or Goddess tradition and tantric sadhana since ancient times.

Nemesis, named after the Goddess of Vengeance from Greek mythology, first appears in the 1999 PlayStation game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis as the game's title character and primary antagonist.

The primary leader of this movement, Jacques Hebert, held such a festival in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, with an actress playing the Goddess of Reason.

Most prominent and common to all such Gohonzons is the phrase Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō — the primary Mantra in Nichiren Buddhism — written down the center.

In practice, some alloys are used so predominantly with respect to their base metals that the name of the primary constituent is also used as the name of the alloy.

This represented a radical change from late medieval practice — whereby the primary focus of congregational worship was taken to be attendance at the consecration, and adoration of the elevated Consecrated Host.

In practice, the primary foundation and function of Confucianism is as an ethical philosophy to be practiced by all the members of a society.

The Oral Torah is the primary guide for Jews to abide by these terms, as expressed in tractate Gittin 60b, " the Holy One, Blessed be He, did not make His covenant with Israel except by virtue of the Oral Law " to help them learn how to live a holy life, and to bring holiness, peace and love into the world and into every part of life, so that life may be elevated to a high level of kedushah, originally through study and practice of the Torah, and since the destruction of the Second Temple, through prayer as expressed in tractate Sotah 49a " Since the destruction of the Temple, every day is more cursed than the preceding one ; and the existence of the world is assured only by the kedusha ... and the words spoken after the study of Torah.

In practice, LORAN is implemented in integrated regional arrays, or chains, consisting of one primary station and at least two ( but often more ) secondary stations, with a uniform group repetition interval ( GRI ) defined in microseconds.

The primary paradigm of contemporary mainstream Western psychiatry is said to be the biopsychosocial model which incorporates biological, psychological and social factors, although this may not always be applied in practice.

From the original ' alternative ' style of midwifery in the 1960s and 1970s, midwifery practice is offered in a variety of ways within regulated provinces: midwives offer continuity of care within small group practices, choice of birthplace, and a focus on the woman as the primary decision-maker in her maternity care.

Nurse practitioners are not considered Physicians but may practice many of the same specialties as physicians with an emphasis on primary care.

In the United States, a pediatrician ( US spelling ) is often a primary care physician who specializes in children, whereas in the Commonwealth a paediatrician ( British spelling ) generally is a medical specialist not in primary general practice.

In either field, the primary contrast between the two are their distinctions between direct-patient care, for pharmacy practice, and the science-oriented research field, driven by pharmacology.

If a load is connected to the secondary winding, the load current and voltage will be in the directions indicated, given the primary current and voltage in the directions indicated ( each will be alternating current in practice ).

Ukraine considers Euro-Atlantic integration its primary foreign policy objective, but in practice balances its relationship with Europe and the United States with strong ties to Russia.

Fishing became a widespread practice along the coast which helped to establish fish as a primary source of food.

Many state supreme courts are the primary regulatory body for lawyers in their state and determine who can practice law and when lawyers are sanctioned for violations of professional ethical rules, which are generally also put in place as state court rules.

In the United States, states take primary responsibility for regulating lawyers, while specific federal courts generally allow almost anyone admitted to the practice of law in the state in their jurisdiction to practice law before them if the attorney is in good standing with all state courts to which the attorney is admitted.

A popular definition includes that circulation must be 1, 000 or less, although in practice the significant majority are produced in editions of less than 100, and profit is not the primary intent of publication.

K. C. Atwood writes, in the journal Medscape General Medicine, " Naturopathic physicians now claim to be primary care physicians proficient in the practice of both " conventional " and " natural " medicine.

Their training, however, amounts to a small fraction of that of medical doctors who practice primary care.

The Faculty of Health offers degree programmes in nursing, midwifery and paramedic practice ; social policy, social science, social work and health promotion ; medicine and primary care ; and occupational therapy, physiotherapy and podiatry.

According to its supporters, Livets Ord's primary goal is to help believers put into practice what the Bible says.

Osteopaths are primary contact health professionals who, in their own practice, make independent judgments in the examination, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and care of conditions of the human body to the extent of their individual competence.

A new and evolving role for paramedics involves the expansion of their practice into the provision of relatively basic primary health care and assessment services.

The primary concept underlying Dōgen's Zen practice is " oneness of practice-enlightenment " ( 修證一如 shushō-ittō / shushō-ichinyo ).

Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.

The principal defender of this view of primary experience as `` causal efficacy '' is Alfred North Whitehead.

Speaking as a non-Jew I believe that its primary contribution is in the realm of future policy.

The natural and primary aesthetic attitude is to enjoy contemporary art, to despise and dislike the art of the recent past, and wholly to ignore everything else ''.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

But competent observers believe he is making progress, particularly toward what Sen. Jackson lists as the primary need -- `` a clearer understanding of where our vital national interests lie and what we must do to promote them ''.

Its primary advantage is that it is a moral choice ; ;

A primary function is the operation of a Government Bid Center, which receives bids daily from the Federal Government's principal purchasing agencies.

If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.

For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

As mentioned, the primary allocation objective to be followed in the allocation of stations on clear channels is the provision of widespread service, free from destructive interference.

The result is a color picture of the specimen where the primary colors correspond to the three different ultraviolet wavelengths.

A primary ingredient in these fields is imagination, and Tri-State Pipeline Corporation deserves a very good mark.

The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.

If Af are the projections associated with the primary decomposition of T, then each Af is a polynomial in T, and accordingly if a linear operator U commutes with T then U commutes with each of the Af, i.e., each subspace Af is invariant under U.

In the primary decomposition theorem, it is not necessary that the vector space V be finite dimensional, nor is it necessary for parts ( A ) and ( B ) that P be the minimal polynomial for T.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.